Kudos Affiliates! for February 2018
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageCongratulations Affiliates on these recent accomplishments! FUNDING Citizens Bank and the African American Museum in Philadelphia (PA) have partnered for the 12th year to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Citizens Bank has contributed $25,000 to support the museum’s King Weekend Celebration. The celebration includes four days of events and special activities, […]
Coming up in Affiliateland in February 2018
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, You Heard It Here First /by Jennifer BrundageHappy new year! We may still feel cold, but events are heating up at Affiliates across the country. NATIONWIDE Five Affiliates will host (via videoconference) the Smithsonian Secretary’s Youth Advisory Council meeting. Thank you to the Arab American National Museum, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Upcountry History Museum […]
Kudos Affiliates! for November 2017
/in enewsletter feature /by Jennifer BrundageBravo Affiliates on these great accomplishments! Funding The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) recently announced $1,998,484 in funding for 28 training and professional development projects for museums across the country as part of its Museums for America grant program, including the following Affiliate projects: Abbe Museum (Bar Harbor, ME)-Award: $53,050.00 The Abbe Museum will invest in […]
Coming up in Affiliateland in November 2017
/in enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer BrundageWe’re thankful for all the activity in Affiliateland this month. Happy Thanksgiving Affiliates! D.C. Two Affiliates are loaning objects to The Sweat of their Face: Portraying American Workers exhibition at the Smithsonian. The Lowell National Historical Park has lent a wood engraving by Winslow Homer and the High Museum has lent a photograph by Peter Sekaer and an […]
Kudos Affiliates! for September 2017
/in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Elizabeth BugbeeGreat 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 to the […]
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 Aquarium in […]
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 of […]
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 “They […]
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 early […]
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. The National […]
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; Adler […]
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 Birthplace […]
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 Science from the […]
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 Maritime Museum (Manitowoc, […]
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. KANSAS National […]
