A newly-funded UCLA project will create a digital archival presence documenting mass incarceration in Los Angeles. [via Los Angeles Times]
Artstor highlights nine of its digital collections spanning African American history from the 15th through 20th centuries. [via infoDOCKET]
![Preparator Norman Boss Mounting Skeleton of Extinct Lizard, 1922, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 12-492 [SIA2012-2790]. Preparator Norman Boss Mounting Skeleton of Extinct Lizard](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-SIA2012-2790-000001/full/450,/0/default.jpg)
A high school student and Smithsonian intern helped decode a lizard genome! [via Smithsonian Voices]
NASA engineer Chloe Sackier answers audience questions about landing a rover on Mars! [via NASA]
![Opening Ceremony for National Air and Space Museum, 1976, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA RU000371 [76-8428-15]. Opening Ceremony for National Air and Space Museum](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-76-8428-15/full/450,/0/default.jpg)
Once you're done with SLA's #ColorOurCollections coloring book, try your pencils on any of these other institutions' collections! [via Twitter]
The Washington Post explores the art of 19th-century Black landscape painter Robert Duncanson. [via Washington Post]
Some .gif art, commissioned by Hyperallergic, will soothe the soul. [via Hyperallergic]
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