Entries by Jennifer Brundage

Coming Up in Affiliateland in May 2021

Spring continues to bloom at Affiliates!  MISSOURI The American Jazz Museum will open the SITES’ exhibition Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill, in Kansas City, 5.8. MARYLANDDr. Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator at the National Air and Space Museum, will give a virtual lecture on her new book Operation Moonglow for Historic Annapolis, hosted in Annapolis, 5.4. MICHIGANDr. Muir-Harmony will also […]

The Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion Highlights the Best of Affiliate – Smithsonian collaboration

During the Affiliations annual conference in 2007, an Affiliate director marveled at a red sandalwood carving on display in the Ripley Center on the Smithsonian’s campus. The structure was one-fifth scale model of the celebrated and intricate classical Chinese pavilion that stands within the Forbidden City in the heart of Beijing, the Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion. […]

Coming Up in Affiliateland in April 2021

Happy Earth Month everyone! IOWA The Bias Inside Us exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service opens at the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids, 4.17. PUERTO RICO Puerto Rican Affiliates, the Museo de Arte and Museo y Centro de Estudios Humanísticos, offer a workshop on The Conservation of Caribbean Culture: […]

Coming Up in Affiliateland in March 2021

Is that spring we see coming?! NATIONWIDE Smithsonian Affiliations wraps up the collaboration with the National Museum of American History and its Pandemic Perspectives series with the talk, How the National Museum of American History is Collecting COVID-19, on 3.23. Thank you to all the Smithsonian Affiliates that helped us make the series a success! Previous […]

Coming Up in Affiliateland in February 2021

Welcome to a new year of collaboration! NATIONWIDE Eight Affiliates present two more opportunities to view the Pandemic Perspectives: Stories through Collections virtual programs in collaboration with the National Museum of American History: Race and Place: Yellow Fever and the Free African Society in Philadelphia on 2.2.21 Essential Workers: Prestige Versus Pay on 2.16.21 The eight participating […]

Coming up in Affiliateland in Fall 2020

We’ve made it to November! Affiliates continue to produce amazing events and we’re excited to share what is happening in Affiliate communities. Did we miss a Smithsonian collaboration in your community? Email affiliates@si.edu to let us know. North Carolina The Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington hosts a virtual talk with Dr. Krewasky A. Salter, former military subject […]