Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 13-079
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central
Exhibition Records, circa 1988-2012
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting the development of exhibitions for the Arts and Industries Building, the Smithsonian Institution Building, and the International Gallery. The Arts and Industries Building, Office of Exhibitions was formed when Ellen Dorn was appointed as Director of Exhibitions for the Arts and Industries Building in November 1998. Betsy Burstein Robinson joined the office in 1999 and Seth Waite in 2001. The Arts and Industries Building closed to the public in 2004 and, in late 2005, the staff was transferred under the Office of Exhibits Central as the Special Exhibitions Division where they continued to develop and manage exhibitions in both public and office spaces in the Smithsonian Institution Building (otherwise known as the Castle) as well as in the International Gallery.
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, agreements, checklists, exhibition drawings, floor plans, scripts, object lists, budgets, reports, publicity materials, press releases, exhibition catalogs, images, clippings, books, videos, audiotapes, brochures, pamphlets, and related materials. Some materials are in electronic format.
Materials dated prior to 1998 were created by Dorn while she was project manager for the traveling exhibition, America's Smithsonian, or by Anne R. Gassett, Associate Director, International Gallery.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Dorn, Ellen
- Robinson, Betsy Burstein
- Waite, Seth
- Gassett, Anne R.
- Arts and Industries Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian International Gallery
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central. Special Exhibitions Division
- Arts and Industries Building. Office of Exhibitions
- American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Close Up in Black: African American Film Posters (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.)
- Corridos Sin Fronteras: A New World Ballad Tradition (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? (Exhibition) (2001-2002: Washington, D.C.)
- The Healing Power of Art: Works of Art by Haitian Children after the Earthquake (Exhibition) (2010-2011: Washington, D.C.)
- In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.)
- Latin Jazz: La Combinacion Perfecta (Exhibition) (2002-2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits (Exhibition) (2005-2006: Washington, D.C.)
- Santos: Substance and Soul (Exhibition) (2000-2001: Washington, D.C.)
- America's Smithsonian (Traveling exhibition) (1995-1998)
- The AIDS Memorial Quilt - The Names Project Foundation (Exhibition) (2012: Washington, D.C.)
- Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches (Exhibition) (2006: Washington, D.C.)
- American Heroes of the Olympic Spirit (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Artists at Work (Exhibition) (2011: Washington, D.C.)
- The Beatles: Backstage and Behind the Scenes (Exhibition) (2004-2005: Washington, D.C.)
- The Brain: The World Inside Your Head (Exhibition) (2001-2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Käsebier (Exhibition) (2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Camelot at Dawn: Jacqueline and John Kennedy in Georgetown, May 1954 (Exhibition) (2003-2004: Washington, D.C.)
- Celebrating Scotland's Crafts (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Cherokee Nation: A Portrait of a People (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Chinese Script from Oracle Bones to Computer Bytes (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.)
- Clash of Empires: The British, French and Indian Wars, 1754-1763 (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Classically Greek: Coins and Bank Notes from Antiquity to Today (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Colombia at the Smithsonian: Colombian Presence in the Collections of the Smithsonian Institution (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Contemporary Argentinean Art (Exhibition) (2010-2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilization (Exhibition) (2010-2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Dreams and Reality: Korean American Contemporary Art Celebrating 100 Years of Korean Immigration to America (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Driven: A National Juried Exhibit for Young Artists with Disabilities, Age 16-25 (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- The Egypt Story: Photographs by Fred J. Maroon (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Eight Wonders from the Salvador Dali Museum (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.)
- El Rio: Culture and Environment in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Basin (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon: Vietnamese America Since 1975 (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Eyes on the World: Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.)
- Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz (Exhibition) (2011-2012: Washington, D.C.)
- Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? (Exhibition) (2001-2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Genome: The Secret of How Life Works (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Golden Threads: A Tapestry of Sephardic Experience (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- The Healer Within (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Heart and Hands: Musical Instrument Makers of America (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- History Through Deaf Eyes (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- International Joyce (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.)
- In the Russian Tradition: A Historic Collection of 20th-Century Russian Paintings (Exhibition) (2004-2005: Washington, D.C.)
- In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- The Invisible Industry: Journey Down the Upper Mississippi (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings (Exhibition) (2009: Washington, D.C.)
- Jim Henson's Fantastic World (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Journeys of the Spirit (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Juke Joint (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Kaho'olawe: Rebirth of a Sacred Hawaiian Island (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Legendary Coins and Currency (Exhibition) (2005-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Let Your Motto Be RESISTANCE: African American Portraits (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Lola Alvarez Bravo (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- The Lost World of James Smithson (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Made in Northern Ireland: A Dynamic of Change (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Main Event: The Ali/Foreman Extravaganza Through the Lens of Howard L. Bingham (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- MathAlive (Exhibition) (2012: Washington, D.C.)
- Mexican Treasures of the Smithsonian (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Miracles Under the Waves: Photographic Art of Akiyoshi Ito (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.)
- Momentum: A National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities, Ages 16-25 (2011-2012: Washington, D.C.)
- My Story… Gordon Snidow Retrospective Exhibition (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- Myth, Mortals, and Immortality: Works from Museo Soumaya de Mexico (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.)
- New York, September 11 by Magnum Photographers (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Exhibition) (2009: Washington, D.C.)
- On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience (Exhibition) (2001: Washington, D.C.)
- Our Priceless Heritage: Snapshots in Time From America's Public Lands (Exhibition) (2006: Washington, D.C.)
- Panamanian Passages (Exhibition) (2010: Washington, D.C.)
- The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World (Exhibition) (2012: Washington, D.C.)
- Photo du Jour: David Hume Kennerly's Picture-a-Day Journey Through the First Year of the Millennium (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Porcelains from the Collections of the Correale Museum of Sorento, Italy (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.)
- Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico, 1949-1989 (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.)
- Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection (Exhibition) (2010: Washington, D.C.)
- Revealing Culture (Exhibition) (2010: Washington, D.C.)
- Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.)
- The Silk Road Ensemble: Portraits and Places (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Singgalot: Ties that Bind - From Colonial Subjects and 'National' to Citizens, A Century of Filipino (Exhibition) (2006: Washington, D.C.)
- Southern Identity: Contemporary Argentine Art (Exhibition) (2010-2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Spiritual Visions: The Religious Images of Borikén, Puerto Rico (Proposed exhibition)
- Stamps of Approval (Exhibition) (2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Theatre in Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde Stage Design, 1913-1935 (Proposed exhibition)
- The Third Worldwide Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature of the World Federation of Miniatures (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.)
- Time Magazine: Person of the Year at 75 (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Walter Inglis Anderson: Everything I See is New and Strange (Exhibition) (2003-2004: Washington, D.C.)
- The Welsh Table (Exhibition) (2009: Washington, D.C.)
- Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America (Exhibition) (2010: Washington, D.C.)
- Within the Emperor's Garden, the Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.)
- Worthy of the Nation: Planning America's Capital (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.)
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 13-079, Smithsonian Institution, Office of Exhibits Central, Exhibition Records