Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 10-006
National Museum of African Art. Office of Education and Public Programs
Program Files, 1973-2007
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: | National Museum of African Art. Office of Education and Public Programs |
Title: | Program Files |
Dates: | 1973-2007 |
Quantity: | 13 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 10-006 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of files created and maintained primarily by Edward Lifschitz and Veronika Jenke. These records document public education programs in African art, history, and culture. Materials include correspondence and memoranda; workshop and program information; docent training information; docent newsletters; photographs, negatives, and slides; brochures; newspaper clippings; exhibition materials; and signed releases. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of files created and maintained primarily by Edward Lifschitz and Veronika Jenke. These records document public education programs in African art, history, and culture. Materials include correspondence and memoranda; workshop and program information; docent training information; docent newsletters; photographs, negatives, and slides; brochures; newspaper clippings; exhibition materials; and signed releases.
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 10-006, National Museum of African Art. Office of Education and Public Programs, Program Files
Container List
Box 1
Correspondence and Memoranda - A, 1976-1995 (2 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - B, 1976-1995 (2 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - C, 1976-1994 (2 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - D, 1976-1995 (3 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - E, 1974-1994
Correspondence and Memoranda - F, 1977-1992
Correspondence and Memoranda - G, 1977-1995 (2 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - H, 1976-1995 (2 folders)
Box 2
Correspondence and Memoranda - H, 1976-1995
Correspondence and Memoranda - I, 1976-1988
Correspondence and Memoranda - J, 1974-1995 (3 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - K, 1976-1995
Correspondence and Memoranda - L, 1975-1991 (2 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - M, 1976-1995 (3 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - N, 1977-1995 (2 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - O, 1976-1995 (3 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - P, 1978-1995 (2 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - Q, 1978-1988
Correspondence and Memoranda - R, 1976-1995
Box 3
Correspondence and Memoranda - R, 1976-1995
Correspondence and Memoranda - S, 1974-1994 (5 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - T, 1976-1995 (2 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - U, 1974-1984
Correspondence and Memoranda - V, 1977-1994
Correspondence and Memoranda - W, 1977-1992 (2 folders)
Correspondence and Memoranda - Y, 1979-1995
Correspondence and Memoranda - Z, 1976-1984
Correspondence and Memoranda, March 1987-March 1988
Correspondence and Memoranda, April-December 1988
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1988-1992 (2 folders)
Memoranda, 1991-1993
Education Department Staff Meeting Minutes, 1988-1991
Contents of File Cabinets
Guidelines for the Submission of Manuscripts, 1987
"Binary System" Codes
Institute for Learning in Retirement, American University
Smithsonian Institution Resident Associate Program - Planning for Course, Fall/Winter 1979
Box 4
Resident Associate Program Museum Tour, February 1980
Resident Associate Program - Art of Black Africa Course, Fall 1976
Resident Associate Program - Traditional African Art Course, Fall 1974
Resident Associate Program Course, Winter 1982
Resident Associate Program - African Art in the Cycle of Life Course, Fall 1987
Smithsonian Year, 1981
Resident Associate Program - The Language of African Art Course, Fall 1980
University of Virginia, Falls Church Extension
Student Papers, Georgetown University, Summer 1980
Student Papers, Georgetown University, Spring 1979
Lectures
Department of Higher Education - Correspondence and Miscellaneous
Department of Higher Education - 3rd and 4th Triennial Symposia
Department of Higher Education - Advisory Board Materials
Department of Higher Education - Course Offerings
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa, Spring 1984
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa Course, Fall 1979
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa Course, Fall 1977
George Washington University - General
George Washington University - Art of Black Africa Course, Spring 1976
George Washington University - Cancelled Course, Spring 1977
George Washington University - Museum Education Department
Howard University - Teacher Training, June 1975
Trinity College - General
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus
University of Maryland
University of the District of Columbia
Prince George's Community College
Catholic University - Art of Black Africa Course, Fall 1973
Catholic University - Art of Subsaharan Africa Course, Fall 1974
American University - Continuing Education, African Art and the Rites of Passage Course, Spring 1979
American University - General
American University - Continuing Education, African Textiles and Decorative Arts, Spring 1980
American University - Continuing Education, African Art as Language Course, Fall 1978
American University - Continuing Education, Art of Black Africa Course, Spring 1978
American University - Continuing Education, Art of Black Africa Course, Fall 1977
American University - Continuing Education, African Art and Its Contexts Course (Douglas Fraser), Summer 1977
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Graduate School - African Art and Culture Course, Spring 1978
USDA Graduate School - African Art and Culture Course, Fall 1976
USDA Graduate School - Understanding Africa through Its Art, Summer 1980
USDA Graduate School - Understanding Africa through Its Art, Summer 1981
USDA Graduate School - Understanding Africa through Its Art Course, Fall 1978
Box 5
USDA Graduate School - Understanding Africa through Its Art Course, Summer 1979
Resident Associate Program - Icons: Themes in the Art of Africa Course
"Fakes, Fakers, and Fakery" Article for USDA Course
USDA Graduate School - Masks in African Art Course, Fall 1980
USDA Graduate School - Collecting African Art Course, Spring 1979
USDA Graduate School - Collecting African Art, Spring 1982
USDA Graduate School - Collecting African Art, Spring 1981
USDA Graduate School - African Art and the Rites of Passage Course, Fall 1979
USDA Graduate School - Collecting African Art Course, Spring 1980
USDA Graduate School - Collecting African Art, Spring 1984
USDA Graduate School - Understanding Africa through Its Art, Fall 1981
Course Planning - Seminar: African Art and the Collector
Georgetown University - Continuing Education, African Art and Culture Course, Spring 1980
Georgetown University - Fine Arts Tutorial, 1981
Georgetown University - Liberal Studies Degree Program, Images of Authority in African Art Course, Summer 1980
Georgetown University - Liberal Studies Degree Program, General
Georgetown University - General
Georgetown University - School for Summer and Continuing Education, General
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa Course, Spring 1981
Georgetown University - Liberal Studies Degree Program, Images of Authority in African Art, Summer 1982
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa, Spring 1985
Resident Associate Program - Museums, Collectors and Collections, Spring 1985
Student Papers, Georgetown University, Summer 1980
Georgetown University - African Studies Program
Georgetown University - School for Summer and Continuing Education, African Art and Culture, Fall 1979
Georgetown University - School for Summer and Continuing Education, Art in African Life, Fall 1987
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa Course, Fall 1976
Box 6
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa Course, Spring 1979
Copies of Articles
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa, Spring 1983
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa, Spring 1982
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa, Spring 1990
Georgetown University - Art of Black Africa, Spring 1986
Correspondence, 1997-2003
Exchange Visitor - Gilbert Bobbo, 1974-1975
Gilbert Bobbo Program, 1978
Gilbert Bobbo Program, 1979
"Suggestions for Studying Art History" Article
Scheduling Brochures, 1984-1986
"Art the Communicator" Elementary School Project Outreach, 1983-1986
Outreach Program, 1986-1987
Hair Seminar, August 1978
Listings of Services Rendered, 1976-August 1978
Annual Report, July 1977-June 1978
Tri-Museum Program, November-December 1979
Museum Interaction Progress Report, 1978
Programs for the Impaired (2 folders)
Television and Film Projects
Frank Speed/Ethnographic Film Project
Educational Outreach Programs
Music and Dance Programs
Collaborative Educational Outreach Program
Collaborative Educational Outreach Program, 1983-1984
Quentin Raspail - Films Dusabre
Music - Africa
Box 7
Prospective Music Performers
Ephat Mujuru Concert
South African Urban Music - David Coplan
Career Resource Centers - D.C. Schools
Careers in Museums, February 1980
Juneteenth Project, Winter 1981
Life of a Nigerian Child
Yoruba Village Project, 1980
Program Development
Planning and Development for the Education/Program Department, 1980
"Museums: Serving the Community" Panel Discussion, 1981
Prince George's County In-service - Astonishment and Power, May 6-7, 1993
Teacher Workshops, Fall 1987
Tales of Two African Cities, 1996
Teacher Workshop: Masks of Zaire, 1990-1991
New Dimensions, 1992
A Spiral of History: A Carved Tusk from the Loango Coast, Congo, 1998
Dreaming the Other World - Baule Exhibition, Point of View Gallery, 1993
Seydou Keita, 1996
Africa Illustrated
Nour and Khalil, 1994-1995
In and Out of Africa Program, 2000
Yoruba Art and Aesthetics, 1998
Buckner Dogbe, 1995
Carol Spindel - Pottery, 1992
William Marrocco, August 1995
Timothy Kendall, August 1995
Joseph Nevadomsky, September 1995
Lectures, 1988
Lectures, Fall 1987
Intimate Objects: Snuff, Tobacco, and Hemp Paraphernalia in Central and Southern Africa - Panel Discussion, 1987
Pottery Programming
Adorning the Head - Teacher Seminar, 1996
Elmina: Art and Trade on the West African Coast, 1992-1993
Baule
Moses Ajiboye
Teacher Workshop: Transatlantic Dial, July 2000
Mohammad Khalil, February 1995
Hands On! The Art of Daily Life
Furniture - Western/Asian
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Pottery Speakers, 1997
African Ceramics in Perspective, 1997
Pottery - Winnie Owens-Hart
Pottery - Labels/Didactics
Box 8
Pottery Resources
Ladi Kwali
Amidou Coulibaly - Weaver
Pottery, May 7, 1994
Bobbo/Kente
Pottery - Film/Video
Leland Ferguson, 6/14/1997
Winnie Owens-Hart, 6/14/1997
Adire - Sonya Clark, 1997
John Vlach, 1998
Teacher Workshop - Pots, Pipes and Other Paraphernalia
Docent Pottery Workshop, 1994
Pottery - Notes/Ideas
Kerna Pottery - P. Vandiver (Conservation Analytical Laboratory)
Odundo, 1996-1997
Charles Bonnet
Mailing for Bonnet
Pottery Film Panel, 1992
Hat Workshop - Sonya Clark, 1996
Foiled Art, 2000
Pressed in Foil, Summer 2000
Drawing Classes, Spring 1994
Pam Vandiver, February 1996
Crowning Achievements - C. M. Kreamer, Summer 1996
Mask Identification Program
Pressed in Foil - Judith Cotter, October 2000
Stamped and Stenciled - Anka Zaremba
Pottery Installation
Pottery - Bibliographic References
Nicholas David, 1992
What Makes It Good? Panel, February 3, 1996
Salah Hassan, February 25, 1995
Paul Lovejoy
Labelle Prussin
Pottery - Barbara Frank
Eugenia Herbert
Gilbert Bobbo Ahiagble
Magdalene Odundo
Cast, Hammered and Forged
Inaugural Events - Inclusion of Docents - Benefits, Requests, 1987
Theme Tours - Inaugural
Education Fact Sheet, 1987
October at the National Museum of African Art
Student Open House, 10/21/1987
South Quadrangle
South Quad Startup Procedures
African Art - A Collection on the Move
Annual Reports on Docent Program
Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA)
Between Object and Child, Baltimore, November 15-16, 1985
Poetics and Politics of Representation, September 26-28, 1988
Office of Museum Programs, 1987
Museums and Communities - Ivan Karp, March 21-24, 1990
Docent Coordinators Council
Box 9
Acoustiguide
African Emblems of Status, Fall 1982-Spring 1983
African Art in Color, May-October 1983
Adinkra Symbolism
Oral Narratives, October 1980
The Stranger Among Us
Traditional Costumery and Jewelry in Africa/Traditional Costumes and Jewelry of Egypt
Fon Applique
From the Earth: African Ceramic Art, May-October 1983
Life Afterlife: African Funerary Sculpture
Names from African, February 1981
Thinking with Animals
Treasures of Ancient Nigeria - Nigeria Show at the Corcoran Gallery, 1981
Treasures of Ancient Nigeria - Education Packet, 1981
Treasures of Ancient Nigeria
An African Experience - National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) and Kennedy Center Publication
Art to Zoo, February/March 1980
The Body Beautiful: Body Art in Africa, 1981
Face to Face with Africa: Traditional Masking Ceremonies, 1981
Symposium Publication Mailing List, 1977
African Studies Resources - Miscellaneous
5th Triennial Symposium on African Art
Revised Textile Outreach Program for Schools, 1983
Textile Outreach for Seniors
Textiles Tours and Workshops
Improvisational Techniques
Black History Month, 1979 (3 folders)
Black History Month, February 1980
Art of Being Tuareg
Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries, 2007 (2 folders)
African Gold from the Glassell Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2006
Beautiful Bodies
Constance Stuart Larrabee
Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History
Box 10
Astonishment and Power - Kongo/Stout Exhibition
In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 (2 folders)
Mami Wata
Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art, 2006-2007
Body of Evidence
First Look: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection, 2006
Sapi-Portuguese Hunting Horn
Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora, 2003
Olowe of Isle: A Yoruba Sculptor to Kings, 1998
Olowe of Isle - Sculptures for "Form"
Olowe of Isle - Comment Book
Art from the Forge - Tuareg
Oshogbo Art: The Early Years, 2000
The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group
Claiming Art/Reclaiming Space: Post-Apartheid Art from South Africa
"Fools" Film
Pavilion Credits/Objects
Exhibit Schedule
Treasures Issues
Warren Robbins
Capers Outreach, 1983
Outreach Reports, 1983-1987
Artmobiles - Outreach
Capers with Kaboundi - Cart Contents
Prison Outreach
Outreach Program, pre-1986
Box 11
Capers with Kaboundi
Newsom and Silver, "The Art Museum as Educator"
NMAfA Internship Program
Tour Evaluation Report, 1978-1979
Africa Maps
Docent Training Program - 1st Semester Take-Home Test
Proper Names for Ethnic Groups; Corrections for Country Names
Docent Training - Bibliography
Glossaries of Terms
Definition of Culture - Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Lee, "Freedom and Culture"; Herskovits, "Cultural Relativism"
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
Kipling, "We and They"
Jennings - Culture and World View
Rites of Passage - Bibliography
Disabled Visitors (Turgel), 1989
Role and Responsibilities of Docents, 1989
Tests - Training Course, Spring 1987
Founding of Docent Training Programs, 1975-1976
Docent Council, 1988-1989
Docent Council
Docent Council Meetings, 1978-1979
Docent Meeting Minutes, 1977-1978
Docent Organization
Docent News, 1977
Docent Program Brochures, 1982-1989
By-Laws (Docent Program), 1987
Docent Program By-Laws
By-Laws Revisions (Docent Program), Winter 1989-1990
Docent Announcements and Memoranda, 1986
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 1987
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 1988
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 1989
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 1990
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 1991
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 1992
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 1993
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 1994
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 1995-1996
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 2004-2005
NMAfA Brochures, 2005-2006
Docent Training Program Tests, 1985-1986
Docent Training Program Course Outline, 1978-1979
Docent Training Program Course Outline, 1979-1980
Docent Training Resources, 1987-1989
Docent Appreciation Photographs, 1987
Story Tellers
Box 12
Docent Reading Group
Docent News, 1987-1989
Assisting Disabled Visitors, 1989
NMAfA Handbook
Ed Lifschitz Retirement, 2006
Music Program
Atta Kwami
Nsukka Teacher Workshop
Tale of Two Cities, April 1996
Kente Teachers Workshop, October 23, 1999
Kente Teachers Workshop, November 6, 1999
Kente Teachers Workshop, December 11, 1999
Wolfgang Laib Teacher Workshop (with Hirshhorn), 2000
Regarding Beauty (Hirshhorn), 1999
Church Ede
Adorned with Silver
Avedissian Teacher Workshop, 2001
Mastering the African Art Museum, 2000
Representing Africa Teacher Workshop (with National Museum of Natural History), 2001
Astonishment and Power - Kongo/Stout, 1993
Astonishment and Power - Kongo/Stout, October 23, 1993
Pottery, Spring 1997
Tales of Two African Cities Teacher Workshop, 1995
Kerma - Photography
Modern African Art (Nour) Teacher Workshop, December 1994
Gallery Questions for Kong/Stout
Astonishment and Power - Educators' Preview, 1993 (2 folders)
Kongo/Stout - Exhibition Overview
Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa - Teacher Workshop
Icons Film - Togu na and Cheko
Calligraphy
Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, 2001-2002
Collaborations - NMAfA/Sackler/Hirshhorn
D.C. Arts and Humanities Collaborative, 1999-2000
Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative - General Meeting, 2000-2001
Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative - Professional Development Institute, 2000-2001 (2 folders)
Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, 2002-2003
Arts for Every Student, 2002-2003
Box 13
Arts for Every Student, 2002-2003
D.C. Public Schools - Arts and Humanities Initiative, 1997
D.C. Public Schools - Arts and Humanities Initiative Investigations, 1998
Prince George's County - Art
Prince George's County - Art, 1998-1999
African Art in the Classroom, 1987
A Survey of African Art
Principles of African Storytelling, 1988
Formed by Hands: Pottery in Africa, 1992
George Washington University - Internship Contract
Indiana University - Internship Arrangement
NMAfA Brochures, 1993-2006
NMAfA 25th Anniversary Celebration, 2004
12th Triennial Symposium, 2001
Memoranda, 1998, 2001 (2 folders)
Announcements and Memoranda to Docents, 2000-2006
Treasures Exhibition, 2004
Docent Training, April 19, 2006
Resources
Signed Release Forms, 1998-2005
Slide Kit for the Exhibition "Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa" (Accession 10-226)
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