June 14 



June 20-22 



■ Grant The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 

 received a five-year grant of $1.1 million from the John 

 D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation to support 

 the activities of the new Center for Tropical Forest Sci- 

 ence. 



June 14 



■ Broadcast "Cole Porter's 100th Birthday Gala Cele- 

 bration," coproduced by Radio Smithsonian and Wash- 

 ington, DC, radio station WETA-FM and recorded at 

 Carnegie Hall, was presented over member stations of 

 American Public Radio. 



June IS 



■ Collection Restoration was completed on a Rumley 

 tractor, owned since 1916 by an Indiana farm family. The 

 tractor arrived at its new home, the National Museum 

 of American History, in time to roll onto the National 

 Mall and entertain visitors at the 1991 Festival of Ameri- 

 can Folklife. 



June iS-July 16 



■ Public Programs A highlight of the summer educa- 

 tional programs at Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of 

 Design was "Ritual and Celebration: African Cultures 

 in the New World", a series of four lectures and con- 

 certs that explored the transference, adaptation, and 

 transformation of the Yoruba, Bakongo, and Ejagham- 

 Abakua civilizations to the Americas as a result of the 

 African slave trade. 



June ip 



m Special Event The Office of Development held a 

 donor cultivation event cooperatively with the Arthur 

 M. Sackler Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition 

 "Court Arts of Indonesia." 



June Ip 



m Conference The Woodrow Wilson Center held the 

 fifth in a series of conferences with the Atlantik-Brucke 

 of Bonn at Cape Elizabeth, Maine. "Europe and the 

 United States in the Post-Cold War Era" included ses- 

 sions on domestic political developments in Germany 

 and the United States; the German-American relation- 

 ship after the Gulf War, the break-up of the Soviet em- 

 pire and its implications for the Atlantic Community; 

 and new economic demands on Germany and the 

 United States. 



June 22 



■ Public Program More than 2,000 people attended the 

 Anacostia Museum's celebration, "Juneteenth '91: Free- 

 dom Revisited," part of the annual observance of the 

 emancipation of slaves in Texas in 1865. The holiday has 

 evolved into a major summer commemoration of Afri- 

 can American culture. More than 75 volunteers from 

 other bureaus of the Institution and the Washington, 

 D.C., community assisted the staff in program planning 

 and implementation. African dance, traditional and con- 

 temporary music, craft demonstrations, and a market- 

 place all attracted attention. 



June 22 



m Exhibition The Anacostia Museum opened a major 

 photographic exhibition, "Kaleidoscope: African Ameri- 

 can Photography in Washington." The 100 works by 35 

 local photographers provided a spectrum of photo- 

 graphic expression. The exhibition was curated by 

 Maricia Battle, assistant curator of photography, Na- 

 tional Museum of American Art. In conjunction with 

 the exhibition, a meeting of Exposures, the African 

 American photographers' group, was held at the mu- 

 seum on August 5. 



June 2$ 



m Conference The Office of Museum Programs hosted 

 "Purse Strings," a national conference on marketing and 

 development for museums. 



■ Planning The Office of Design and Construction se- 

 lected an architect/engineer firm to develop a master 

 plan for research, educational, and support facilities at 

 the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in 

 Edgewater, Maryland. 



June 2$ 



■ Public Program "An Evening with Gordon Parks," 

 the latest of the National Portrait Gallery's popular self- 

 portrait series, took place. Parks, a pioneer of contempo- 



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