Things Come Together for “Things Come Apart”
Special 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
Congratulations 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
Happy 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
Congratulations 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
Special 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
Congrats 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
Summer 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
Genomics, 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
Flowers (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
Special 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
Smithsonian 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 […]
Kudos Affiliates! April 2017 edition
Congrats to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments. Funding The Pinhead Institute won the first-ever Telluride Foundation Innovation Prize of $50,000 for its Climate Institute idea. The idea of the Climate Institute came about after Dr. Adam Chambers moved to Telluride and became involved with the organization as a consultant. The new institute will aim […]
Read all about it: Affiliates in the news!
Things have been busy in Affiliateland! If you have a clipping that highlights a collaboration with the Smithsonian or with a fellow Affiliate, or a clipping that demonstrates leadership in education, research, or innovation, please email Elizabeth Bugbee to see if it qualifies for listing. Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO) Can’t get to the museum? […]
affiliates in the news-march enews edition
Here’s a recap of our Affiliate news makers since January 30, 2017. If you have a clipping that highlights a collaboration with the Smithsonian or with a fellow Affiliate, or a clipping that demonstrates leadership in education, innovation, and arts/culture/history/science you would like to have considered for the Affiliate blog, please contact Elizabeth Bugbee “Destination Moon: […]
Kudos Affiliates! March 2017 edition
Congrats to these Affiliates on their recent accomplishments. FUNDING The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (Strasburg, PA) has met a $50,000 matching grant challenge by the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society, with funds designated for the preservation of five historic Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives. The National Park Service (NPS) announced funding for 39 projects in over […]
Coming up in Affiliateland in March 2017
Spring is stirring, and so are Affiliates with fresh activity! NEBRASKA National Museum of American History curator Shannon Perich will give a lecture on popular culture in the 1970s at the Durham Museum to complement the SITES exhibition currently on view, Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project, in Omaha, 3.21. […]
