The Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion Highlights the Best of Affiliate – Smithsonian collaboration
/in 25th Anniversary, enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageDuring 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 […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland in April 2021
/in Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageHappy 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 […]
Kudos Affiliates!! March 2021
/in Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have kudos to share? Please send potential entries to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. FUNDING The Friends of the Oklahoma History Center (Oklahoma City, OK) received a $35,000 grant from Inasmuch Foundation for the digitization of its scholarly journal, The Chronicles of Oklahoma. The funding will pay staff […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland in March 2021
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageIs 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! […]
Kudos Affiliates!! January 2021
/in Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have kudos to share? Please send potential entries to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. FUNDING The Abbe Museum (Bar Harbor, ME) and the California African American Museum (Los Angeles, CA) are recipients of an Art Museum Futures Fund grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The emergency COVID-19 […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland in February 2021
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageWelcome 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 […]
Kudos Affiliates!! December 2020
/in Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have kudos to share? Please send potential entries to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. FUNDING The International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS in McAllen, TX) was awarded two grants to support future programs. IMAS received a $5,500 grant from BBVA Compass Bank for “Afterschool Adventures with […]
Kudos Affiliates!! November 2020
/in Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have kudos to share? Please send potential entries to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. FUNDING Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic, CT) received a $1,572 grant from Connecticut Humanities to hold a free online lecture series related to its new exhibition, Sailor Made: Folk Art of the Sea. Framingham […]
Coming up in Affiliateland in Fall 2020
/in enewsletter feature /by Jennifer BrundageWe’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 […]
Kudos Affiliates!! October 2020
/in Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have kudos to share? Please send potential entries to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. FUNDING The Durham Museum (Omaha, NE) received a $25,000 grant from The Iowa West Foundation to develop resources, programs, and projects that focus on economic development, education, place making, and healthy families. The […]
Pandemic Perspectives
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageThe National Museum of American History is launching an engaging series of free virtual colloquium presentations that combine questions raised by the current pandemic with explorations of historic objects in the national collections. Topics to be explored include Voting During a Pandemic and How Your Ancestors Had Fun at Home While Quarantining. Curators and historians […]
Kudos Affiliates!! September 2020
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments during some very trying times! Do you have kudos to share? Please send potential entries to Aaron Glavas. FUNDING The Durham Museum (Omaha, NE) received a $5,000 grant from Cooper Foundation as part of a cycle of Rapid Response COVID-19 grants. Humanities Nebraska awarded grants to 73 organizations […]
Thanks in part to Affiliates, the Smithsonian is on a Summer Road Trip
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageSummer vacations may look differently this year, but families can still have fun no matter where they spend the summer. With its new 40-page activity booklet, Summer Road Trip, the Smithsonian invites kids and their families to follow their curiosity through a variety of activities that can be done at home, on the road, at […]
New Benefit: Smithsonian Voices
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeWe want to help share your story! Smithsonian Voices is a blog on Smithsonianmag.com, the online version of Smithsonian magazine. Millions of visitors browse the content online per month and learn about science, history, art, popular culture, and innovation. The blog shares the unique voices that make up the Institution and now will include our […]
Affiliates Shine During the Pandemic
/in Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasThe world we knew two months ago has changed because of COVID-19 but our Affiliates continue to exemplify their purposes during unprecedented times. HEEDING THE CALL As the need for more personal protective equipment (PPE) has increased, Affiliates have stepped to the front to create equipment and supplies for the medical profession: The Pinhead Institute […]
Kudos Affiliates!! March 2020
/in Kudos, Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! Do you have kudos to share? Please send potential entries to Aaron Glavas, GlavasC@si.edu. FUNDING Springfield Museum of Art (Springfield, OH) received a $500,000 pledge from Speedway LLC to open its Art Invites capital campaign. The museum is now reaching out to the public to help bring […]
