Kudos Affiliates! for September 2017
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Aaron GlavasGreat job Affiliates! The National Endowment for the Humanities announced more than $39 million will be awarded to nonprofit organizations including the following Affiliate initiatives: Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Denver, CO) $300,000 To support a project to rehouse an archaeology collection of 72,000 objects that focuses on North America. The artifacts will be moved […]
Coming up in Affiliateland in September 2017
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Jennifer BrundageGreat stuff to see as we cruise through Affiliateland in September! GEORGIA The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra will be part of a family festival at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 9.8-10. Ann Caspari, an educator at the National Air and Space Museum, will lead a science educator workshop for teachers at the Georgia […]
Join the Universe of Learning
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeSmithsonian Affiliations, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and funded through NASA’s Universe of Learning, is launching a new, two-year science literacy pilot program and looking for participants. Funding is available–up to $2,000 per year– for seven Affiliate organizations to use resources from the Universe of Learning site to develop programs exploring art, history, […]
kudos Affiliates! for August 2017
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageCongrats to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! FUNDING The Smart Museum of Art and DuSable Museum of African American History (Chicago, IL) have been jointly awarded a $250,000 grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art in support of the special exhibition South Side Stories. The collaborative exhibition opens in September 2018 as part […]
Affiliates in the news! July edition
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeCongratulations to these Affiliates making headlines this month! Do you have a Smithsonian collaboration in the news? Email Elizabeth Bugbee, BugbeeE@si.edu, and submit your clipping for review. Each month we compile our newsmakers and distribute in our Affiliate eNewsletter. Birthplace of Country Music Museum (Bristol, VA) VIDEO- Birthplace of Country Music Museum hosting Smithsonian exhibit […]
Things Come Together for “Things Come Apart”
/in Affiliate Guest Authors, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpecial thanks to Rene Rodgers at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum for sharing this blog with us. Things Come Apart, organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, is on view at the museum through October 8, 2017. “Things Come Apart is not our “usual” type of exhibit, one where the focus is on the history of […]
kudos! for July 2017
/in enewsletter feature, You Heard It Here First /by Jennifer BrundageCongratulations to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments! FUNDING The Whatcom Museum has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Norcliffe Foundation in support of the upcoming exhibition, Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity. The grant will assist the Museum in funding exhibition design, related educational programming, and an exhibition catalogue. […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland in July 2017
/in enewsletter feature /by Jennifer BrundageHappy summer! NATIONWIDE Teen participants in the Smithsonian Latino Center’s Young Ambassador Program will be doing internships at nine Affiliates in July, including the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix; the California Science Center in Los Angeles; the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA; History Miami and the Frost Museum of Science, FL; […]
Affiliates in the news
/in Affiliates in the News /by Elizabeth BugbeeCongratulations to these Affiliates making headlines this month! Do you have a Smithsonian collaboration in the news? Email Elizabeth Bugbee, BugbeeE@si.edu, and submit your clipping for review. Each month we compile our newsmakers and distribute in our Affiliate eNewsletter. Birthplace of Country Music Museum (Bristol, VA) Bristol, Tenn. known as ‘Birthplace of Country Music’ The […]
Supersonic Challenges: The Installation of the F-5 Fighter Jet
/in Affiliate Guest Authors, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpecial thanks for this guest post to Dr. Jorge Perez-Gallego, Curator of Astronomy and Exhibition Developer, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. Riddle us this: what moves faster than the speed of sound and lives in a gallery? Give up? The answer: a Northrop F-5B Freedom Fighter, on loan to the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of […]
kudos Affiliates! for June 2017
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Jennifer BrundageCongrats to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments. FUNDING The Pinhead Institute (Telluride, CO) won the first-ever Telluride Foundation Innovation Prize of $50,000 for its Climate Institute idea. The new institute will aim to reduce the area’s carbon footprint by focusing on emissions from the Galloping Goose buses, and eventually, the Telluride Regional Airport. The Wisconsin […]
Coming up in Affiliateland in June 2017
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeSummer is heating up in Affiliateland! CALIFORNIA The board of the Smithsonian Latino Center will be meeting at the LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles, 6.4-5. The National Museum of American History will present Let’s Do History professional development workshop in collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, 6.9. […]
Read all about it! Affiliate’s making headlines this month
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature /by Elizabeth BugbeeGenomics, special Smithsonian speakers on the road, famous horse skeletons, and air mail…April was a busy month in Affiliateland! Check out the Affiliates making headlines across the network: Yankee Air Museum (Belleville, MI) Smithsonian’s Mail Call heading to Yankee Air Museum “We are very pleased to bring Mail Call to southeastern Michigan,’’ said Kevin Walsh, […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland in May 2017
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageFlowers (and programs) are sprouting up all over the Affiliate network in May. Welcome spring! CONNECTICUT The Decorative Arts Society of the Connecticut Historical Society will be touring The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s exhibition and touring behind the scenes at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, 5.2.17. Connecticut […]
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage wants your stories
/in enewsletter feature, Resources, Uncategorized, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth BugbeeSpecial thanks for this guest post to Angelica Aboulhosn, Public Affairs Specialist with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage invites partners, artists, and others from across the Smithsonian Affiliations network to showcase their work on the new CFCH digital magazine, Folklife. In doing so, contributors […]
Coming Up in Affiliateland in April 2017
/in enewsletter feature /by Jennifer BrundageSmithsonian activity is popping up across the country this spring! NEW YORK Director of the Smithsonian Latino Center Eduardo Diaz will present the final talk in the Diversity in America lecture series at the Rockwell Museum in Corning, 4.6. Susan Evans McClure, director of the Food program at the National Museum of American History, will […]
