Coming Up in Affiliateland in March 2018
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Affiliate participants in the Will to Adorn project from the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco) and the Institute of Texan Cultures (San Antonio) will discuss their work with students as part of the Youth Access Grant Forum in Washington on 3.1.
Curator Leslie Przybylek from the Heinz History Center (Pittsburgh) will be a panelist in the program Innovative Lives: How Women Shaped the Alcohol Industry at the National Museum of American History, 3.16.
PENNSYLVANIA
The African American Museum in Philadelphia will screen the Smithsonian Channel program The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X in Philadelphia, 3.1.
FLORIDA
The Polk Museum of Art will exhibit Jasper Cropsey’s The Coast of Genoa, a painting on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Lakeland, starting 3.3.
CONNECTICUT
The Connecticut Historical Society will host a lecture and book signing by Dr. Richard Kurin on The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects in Hartford, 3.5.
KENTUCKY
The Frazier History Museum will host an exhibition on The Magnificent Mona Bismarck, who donated fashion collections to the National Museum of American History, opening in Louisville, 3.15.
NEW YORK
The Rockwell Museum will host a talk by curator Matilda McQuaid of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum as part of their Art + Science lecture series in Corning, 3.22.
WASHINGTON
The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience will host a workshop entitled Teacher Creativity Studios: APA Cultural Presence in the Classroom in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s Center for Learning and Digital Access in Seattle, 3.24.