Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 96-093
Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities
Records, 1989-1995
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
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| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities |
| Title: | Records |
| Dates: | 1989-1995 |
| Quantity: | 9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes) |
| Collection: | Accession 96-093 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | The Office of Assistant Secretary for Museums was created in February 1986, then renamed the Assistant Secretary for Arts and Humanities in fiscal year 1992, and became the Assistant Provost for Arts and Humanities in October 1994. In early 1996 the Office was absorbed by the Office of the Provost, and the position of Assistant Provost was eliminated. Tom L. Freudenheim served in the position from its inception in 1986 to its elimination in 1996. This accession consists of records that document the official functions of the Office of the Assistant Provost for Arts and Humanities (OAP-A/H) and its predecessors from 1989 through 1995, although the bulk of the records date from 1993 to 1995. They consist mostly of memoranda, correspondence, and reports generated both within and outside of the Institution, which reflect the operations of bureaus and offices over which the Assistant Provost had oversight. The records also document Smithsonian-wide issues and initiatives that the Assistant Provost was involved with or had interest in. In addition, the OAP-A/H administered the Special Exhibition Fund (SEF), which was established in October 1984 to fund significant exhibitions beyond the normal financial capabilities of SI bureaus. These records include SEF application files for fiscal years 1993-1995, which contain funding proposals, reviewer ratings and comments, internal memoranda and correspondence about the proposals, and background information about the exhibitions. |
Historical Note
The Office of Assistant Secretary for Museums was created in February 1986, then renamed the Assistant Secretary for Arts and Humanities in fiscal year 1992, and became the Assistant Provost for Arts and Humanities in October 1994. In early 1996 the Office was absorbed by the Office of the Provost, and the position of Assistant Provost was eliminated. Tom L. Freudenheim served in the position from its inception in 1986 to its elimination in 1996.
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records which document the official functions of the Office of the Assistant Provost for Arts and Humanities (OAP-A/H) and its predecessors from 1989 through 1995, although the bulk of the records date from 1993 to 1995. They consist mostly of memoranda, correspondence, and reports generated both within and outside of the Institution, which reflect the operations of bureaus and offices over which the Assistant Provost had oversight. The records also document Smithsonian-wide issues and initiatives that the Assistant Provost was involved with or had interest in.
In addition, the OAP-A/H administered the Special Exhibition Fund (SEF), which was established in October 1984 to fund significant exhibitions beyond the normal financial capabilities of Smithsonian Institution (SI) bureaus. These records include SEF application files for fiscal years 1993-1995, which contain funding proposals, reviewer ratings and comments, internal memoranda and correspondence about the proposals, and background information about the exhibitions.
Index Terms
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Name
- Freudenheim, Tom L.
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities. Special Exhibition Fund
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 96-093, Smithsonian Institution, Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities, Records
Container List
Box 1
Accessibility Council, 1994-1995 (2 folders)
America's Endeavor
Archives of American Art, 1994
Basora, Ambassador Adrian, 1994-1995
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/National Gallery of Art, 1993
Capital Planning Board, 1994-1995 (2 folders)
Collections Management Policy, 1994-1995 (2 folders)
Council of Bureau Directors (COBD), 1995
"D"
Disney's America, 1993-1994
Experimental Gallery (ExGal) and Mirror of Martyrs, 1993-1994 (4 folders)
Friends of the Art Museum, 1994
Freer/Sackler, 1992-1994 (2 folders)
Germany/American Academy in Berlin, 1994
Hirshhorn Museum, 1994-1995 (2 folders)
Istanbul, 1993
Israel, 1993-1994 (2 folders)
Inspector General, 1994
International Gallery, 1994-1995
International Gallery - Topkapi Ceramics
International Gallery - German Exhibition
Institutional Initiatives, 1994
Box 2
Metrics
National Air and Space Museum, 1994-1995 (2 folders)
National Air and Space Museum - Enola Gay (2 folders)
National Museum of African Art - Legislative History
National Museum of American Art (NMAA), 1994
NMAA - Marcia Battle hiring
National Endowment for the Arts, 1994
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994
National Museum of Natural History, 1994
Sponsored Projects
Partners for Liveable Communities, 1994
Research Equipment Pool
Forum on Material Culture
Professional Accomplishment Evaluation Committee (PAEC)
Photography Commission
National Portrait Gallery - Collection Management Policy
National Postal Museum, 1993-1994
Resumes, 1995
Rockefeller Foundation
Secretary's Correspondence from Assistant Secretary for Arts and Humanities, 1994
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), 1994
SI Libraries, 1994-1995
SI Year, 1994
Thank-you notes, 1993-1994
Undersecretary's Office, 1994-1995 (2 folders)
Visitors, foreign, 1994-1995
White House Historical Association, 1994-1995
Box 3
Archives of American Art, 1995
Accessibility, 1995
Anacostia Museum, 1995
Cooper-Hewitt, 1995
Hirshhorn Museum, 1995
International Gallery, 1995
International Gallery - Topkapi
International Gallery - Tibetan Art
National Museum of African Art, 1995
National Air and Space Museum, 1995
National Air and Space Museum - Enola Gay (2 folders)
National Museum of American Art, 1995
National Portrait Gallery, 1994-1995
National Portrait Gallery Commission
National Portrait Gallery, Hall of Presidents
National Postal Museum, 1995
Office of Exhibits Central, 1995
Institutional Studies Office, 1995
Center for Museum Studies/Office of Museum Programs, 1994-1995
Sackler Gallery, 1995
Secretary's Correspondence - Assistant Secretary, 1994-1995
SITES, 1995
College Art Asssociation
Institute of Museum Service, 1994-1995
Pennsylvania Development Corp., 1994
Louisiana State Museum, 1995
Franklin Delano Roosevelt History Month, 1995
Lampadia Foundation, 1995
National Medical Science Museum, 1993
Grossman/Murphy Television Proposal
Box 4
Independent Curators, Inc.
Museum Cost Study, 1995
Jane Glaser's Projects, 1990-1995 (3 folders)
Gender Issues (2 folders)
Museum Careers
Who Owns History Symposium, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994
20th Century Consort, 1994-1995
Bureau of Museum Services, 1990-1992
National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1994-1995 (2 folders)
NMAH Collection Management
NMAH Deaccessioning/Disposal
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), 1995
NMAI Legislation, 1989
NMAI Trustees Indemnification
NMAI Repatriation
NMAI, 1994 (2 folders)
NMAI, 1995
NMAI Collections Committee, 1995
Exhibit Process
Box 5
Exhibit Process, 1993-1994
Marilyn Rothenberg
Exhibition Planning Responses, 1994-1995
Exhibit Process
ALPHABETIC FILES - 1993 CORRESPONDENCE, A-Z:
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ALPHABETIC FILES - 1994 CORRESPONDENCE, A-Y:
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Box 6
CHRONOLOGIC FILES
Correspondence & Memoranda, January - December, 1993 (12 folders)
Correspondence & Memoranda, January - December, 1994 (12 folders)
Correspondence & Memoranda, February - November, 1995
Box 7
SPECIAL EXHIBITION FUND
Exploration in Art Series, Experimental Gallery
Dancing with DuBuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Power of Maps, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon, Anacostia Museum
Art - Planning:
Orientation Program for the Freer Gallery of Art - Lucia Pierce, Freer Gallery of Art, $13,700 ($112, 111), 1/1993
Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley - Patrick Sears, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, $20,381 ($112,111), 2/1993
Art - Implementation:
Echoes of Ceremony and Pleasure: Korean Art of the Eighteenth Century - Patrick Sears, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, $119,722 ($783,863), 3/1993
The Arts and Cultures of the Islamic World - Milo Beach/Sylvia Williams, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery/National Museum of African Art, $500,000 ($7,475,000), 4/1993
Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office - Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt, $125,000 ($496,226), 5/1993
Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Amada Cruz Harman, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, $42,908 ($202, 381), 6/1993
The Collection Reviewed - Neal Benezra, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, $81,550 ($215,532), 7/1993
Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II - Beverly Cox, National Portrait Gallery, $42,775 ($511,775), 819/93
Jacob Kainen - Virginia Mecklenburg, National Museum of American Art, $22,500 ($298,000), 9/1993
Rhythm of Life: Roy Decarava Photographs - Merry Forresta, National Museum of American Art, $296,657 ($579,803), 10/1993
Explorations in Art - Kimberly Camp, Experimental Gallery, $179,800 ($420,224), 11/1993
History - Planning:
Making Freedom Pay - Sharon Reinckens, Anacostia Museum, $20,300 ($20,300), 12/1993
History of Radar - Bernard Finn, National Museum of American History, $7,800 ($7,800), 16/1993
Hall of Musical Instruments - James Weaver, National Museum of American History, $25,000 ($55,000), 17/1993
A Long Twilight Struggle - Tom Crouch/Art Molella, National Air and Space Museum/National Museum of American History, $25,000 ($148,250), 19/1993
Divided Skies - Nadya Makovenyi, National Air and Space Museum, $25,000 ($108,863), 20/1993
Understanding the Universe - Nadya Makovenyi, National Air and Space Museum, $25,000 ($240,604), 21/1993
Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Nadya Makovenyi, National Air and Space Museum, $25,000 ($103,142), 22/1993
History - Implementation:
Before Freedom Came - Cynthia Haley, Anacostia Museum/SITES, $246,050 ($496,291), 13/1993
The Black Mosaic - Sharon Reinckens, Anacostia Museum, $250,000 ($348,900), 14/1993
Science in American Life - Art Molella, National Museum of American History, $196,400 ($3,825,000), 15/1993
Appomattox Court House Furniture - James Hutchins, National Museum of American History, $42,870 ($77,134), 18/1993
Vietnam - Nadya Makovenyi, National Air and Space Museum, $250,000 ($1,928,055), 23/1993
Science - Implementation:
African Experiences - Ivan Karp, National Museum of Natural History, $300,300 ($654,700), 24/1993
More than Meets the Eye - Catherine Sterling, SITES, $85,000 ($184,887), 25/1993
Art and Interpretation in the Invertebrate Exhibit - Alan Peters, National Zoological Park, $74,712 ($108,571), 26/1993
Project 21 - Alfred Rosenberger, National Zoological Park, $183,000 ($227,500), 27/1993
Miscellaneous - Implementation:
A Rural Initiative: Reaching New Communities - Marty Sewell, SITES, $162,029 ($571,092), 28/1993
Culture of the Borderlands - Olivia Cadaval, Center for Folklife Programs, $48,850 ($495,770), 29/1993
Jerusalem/Al-Quds/Yerushalayim - Amy Horowitz, Center for Folklife Programs, $46,000 ($866,000), 30/1993
Workers at the White House - Marjorie Hunt, Center for Folklife Programs, $23,185 ($101,835), 31/1993
Box 8
SEF PROPOSALS, 1994:
Ainu
Segesser Hides
Artistic Impressions: Ellington
Crossroads
Reporting the War
Science in American Life
Kelley Collection
Benedictine Wrensted
Hirshhorn Sculpture
Fountains
North American City
Reinstallation
Ancient South Arabia
Artistic Heritage
Basketmaker from Japan
Along the Great Wall
Islamic World
Free Within Ourselves
Abbott Thayer
American Daguerreotype
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Singular Impressions
Kaleidoscope
Mixing Message
Henry Dreyfuss
Cecilia Beaux
Frederick Douglass
Red, Hot, & Blue
Imagining Families
Tuning into the 20th Century
How Do You Want to Communicate
Welcome Home
Work and Worth
Kidstuff
Ethnic Imagery
Barro Island
Insect Exhibit
Stormy Weather
Forces of Change
Ainu
Ocean Planet
Native American Culture
The Art of Discovery
Design/Text SEF Projects
Box 9
SEF PROPOSALS, 1995:
SEF - Office of Exhibits Central (OEC) copy
Fountains: Splash and Spectacle
The First Century of American Photography
From Arabia's Coast of Incense
North American Indian and Native Hawaiian Quiltmaking
Celebrity Caricatures in America
The Past in the Present: Seven Nigerian Contemporary Artists
Living with Gods
Designing the World: The Collections of the National Design Museum
East Coast/West Coast: Poet Rebels of the 1950's
Richard Lindner
Equal Rights and Justice
Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley
Signs of the Times: The Art of Robert Cottingham
Kaleidoscope: American Art for the Twenty-First Century
The Ashcan Artists
Paintings by Masami Teraoka
Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America
Directions - Cheri Samba
Woven From Life: Navaho Textiles
The African American Rural Experience
The Star Spangled Banner
Families Linked by Letters
The Dream to Fly: The Black Experience in Aviation
Space Race
Red, Hot, & Blue
You've Never Looked Smarter: Images of Women on Greeting Cards
Mapping Ethnic Imagery in the Landscape of Commerce
Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions
Rock 'n' Soul: Social Crossroads
Ainu: Lost Treasures
Looking Both Ways: The Rebirth of Alutiiq Identity
Chesapeake Discoveries: Interactive Ecosystems
Voyage: A Scale Model of the Solar System
Our Reefs/Caribbean Connections-Nuestros Arrecifes/Conexiones Caribes
The Forest Speaks: An Introduction to 70 Years of Animal Sound Research on Barro Colorado Island, Panama
Scientists at Work: Presenting Research in Action to the Public in the New Think Tank Exhibit
Smithsonian Elephant Field Station
Outdoor Exhibitry for Whipple Visitor Center
Exploring Marine Ecosystems
Rotten Truth (About Garbage)
Science and Art: 150 Years of Smithsonian Research
Speak to My Heart: African American Communities of Faith and Contemporary Life
Deaf: A Community of Signers
Barn Again! A Rural Initiative
Exotic Illusions: Art, Romance, and the Market Place
Los Insectos: Un Nuevo Enfoque
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