Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 19-028
National Portrait Gallery. Office of Education and Visitor Experience
Program Records, circa 1980-2016
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | National Portrait Gallery. Office of Education and Visitor Experience |
| Title: | Program Records |
| Dates: | circa 1980-2016 |
| Quantity: | 4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes) |
| Collection: | Accession 19-028 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession consists of the records of Jewell Robinson, Public Program Coordinator, who was responsible for public programming at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). Documented in this collection is the series entitled "Cultures in Motion," which acquainted adult audiences with the NPG collection by bringing its sitters to life through professional actors appearing in one- and two-person shows, staged readings, and musical performances. Additional programs documented include Campus on the Mall programs, courtyard concerts, and "Living Self-Portraits" interviews. Campus on the Mall was run through the Smithsonian Associates and was a continuing education program that offered courses in the humanities, arts and sciences. NPG's "Living Self-Portraits" program is a series dedicated to capturing the personal narratives of influential figures in American history. Some materials date to when the office was known as the Department of Education and Office of Education. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, programs, contracts, scripts, images, contact sheets, audio recordings, publicity records, brochures, calendars, clippings, and other related records. Some materials are in electronic format. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the records of Jewell Robinson, Public Program Coordinator, who was responsible for public programming at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). Documented in this collection is the series entitled Cultures in Motion, which acquainted adult audiences with the NPG collection by bringing its sitters to life through professional actors appearing in one- and two-person shows, staged readings, and musical performances. Additional programs documented include Campus on the Mall programs, courtyard concerts, and Living Self-Portraits interviews. Campus on the Mall was run through the Smithsonian Associates and was a continuing education program that offered courses in the humanities, arts and sciences. NPG's Living Self-Portraits program is a series dedicated to capturing the personal narratives of influential figures in American history. Some materials date to when the office was known as the Department of Education and Office of Education. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, programs, contracts, scripts, images, contact sheets, audio recordings, publicity records, brochures, calendars, clippings, and other related records. Some materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
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Name
- National Portrait Gallery (U.S.). Cultures in Motion Program
- National Portrait Gallery (U.S.). Department of Education
- National Portrait Gallery (U.S.). Living Self-Portrait Series
- National Portrait Gallery (U.S.). Office of Education
- Robinson, Jewell
- Smithsonian Associates. Campus on the Mall
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 19-028, National Portrait Gallery. Office of Education and Visitor Experience, Program Records
Container List
Box 1
Cultures in Motion Programs
Cultures in Motion - Program overview
Cultures in Motion - Program list, 1992-2012
Cultures in Motion - Program subjects
Proposed Cultures in Motion programs, FY 2001
August Moon - Readings From the Works of Bette Bao Lord, August 6, 1989
Hesperus, October 8, 1992
La Musa Latinoamericana, September 15, 1992
Portrait of an Emerging Nation: Music and Dance from the Era of Rembrandt Peale, December 7, 1992
House on Fire: A Private Civil War - A Play by Kerry Thompson, 1992-1993
A Conversation with Thomas Jefferson and His Slave, Betty Hemings, January 11, 1993
Women at an Exposition: Chamber Music Composed and Performed by Women at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (Mary Cassatt), May 2, 1993
Coming into Passion: Song for a Sansei, May 24, 1993
Why the Colored Were Not Included: Ida B. Wells and the 1893 world's Columbian Exposition, June 24, 1993
An Evening at Monticello with The Jefferson Chamber Players, October 18, 1993
Breakfast in Harlem, December 6, 1993
Poetry in Black and White, March 7, 1994
Meet Mr. Dickens: A Reading by Mr. Charles Dickens From His Own Works, April 4, 1994
Churchill and Murrow: Their Finest Hour!, August 1, 1994
The Painted Gourd: Red and Black Voices, November 7, 1994
An Evening with Charlie Chin, 1994
Friends of Frederick Douglass: Sojourner Truth, March 13, 1995
Men Li-Jun: The Woman Prime Minister, May 22, 1995
Friends of Frederick Douglass: Harriet Beecher Stowe, June 12, 1995
A Woman Bold Enough, July 10, 1995
Blues Woman with Beverly Cosham, July 24, 1995
Latin Rhythms, September 25, 1995
Mrs. Fiske: Against the Wind, written and performed by Lynn Schrichte, December 11, 1995
Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, March 11, 1996
The Writers of 1846: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, May 15, 1996
Perspectives in Asian American Dance, May 20, 1996
The Writers of 1846: Edgar Allen Poe, June 12, 1996
A Visit to the Haunted Place with David Keltz, June 24, 1996
The Writers of 1846: Nathaniel Hawthorne, July 17, 1996
The Writers of 1846: Herman Melville, 1996
The Writers of 1846, 1996
Voces Del Exilio: Nuestra Herencia Judia/Our Jewish Voices, September 16, 1996
Rita McKenzie in Ethel Merman's Broadway, November 4, 1996
The Native American Way of Life and Death, November 25, 1996
Meet Mr. Dickens: A Reading by Mr. Charles Dickens From His Own Works, Assisted by Bert Hornback, April 4, 1997
The Berlin Legacy, April 7, 1997
Mahina! Mahina!, May 19, 1997
A Conversation with Carol Channing, June 23, 1997
Agnes: A Stage Adaptation of Dance to the Piper and And Promenade Home written by Agnes de Mille, Adapted for the Stage by Carole Schweid, July 1, 1997
Courtyard Concerts: A Burleigh Testimonial, July 31, August 7, 14, 21, and 28, 1997
Origem, October 6, 1997
Brady of Broadway, November 21-24, 1997 (2 folders)
Memory of Splendor and The Inner House, December 8, 1997
Franklin and His Friends: Portraiture and the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America, 1997-1999
Benchley Despite Himself, April 20, 1998
Wooden Fish Songs: A Concert Reading, May 18, 1998
H. L. Mencken, One More Time, June 6-8, 1998
Theodore Roosevelt: The Strenuous Years, December 4-7, 1998
A Conversation with George Washington and His Slave Neptune, February 22, 1999
Robeson's Music, April 11, 1999
"Sticky Rice" and "Inscrutably Obvious," Linda Fang, May 24, 1999
Benjamin Franklin: A Sunday with Ben, by Aaron Goldman, June 7, 1999
The Hemingway Reader, September 15, 22, and 29, 1999
Portrait of a Portraitist: The Story of Augustus Washington, October 20, 1999
Papa: A Play Based on the Legendary Lives of Ernest Hemingway, November 15, 1999
Reader's Theater: Southern Accents, November 22, December 20, 1999
Scenes from Arthur Miller, January 2000
What Made Sammy Run!, February 26-28, 2000
Did You Lie, Nellie Bly?, March 13, 2000
Rita Hayworth: Latin Love Goddess, October 15, 22, and 29, 2001
Unforgettable Nat "King" Cole: The Man and His Music, December 2, 2001
Box 2
Mulatto: A Play of the Deep South by Langston Hughes, February 25, 2002
I Love Myself When I'm Laughing: Zora on Zora, April 8, 2002 and Family Portraits: The World of Eugene O'Neill, May 20, 2002
Family Portraits: The World of Eugene O'Neill, May 20, 2002
Blonde Ambitions, October 21 and November 25, 2002
Margaret Sanger: Radiant Rebel, December 1, 2002
A Wilder Evening of Sin: Selected Reading from Thornton Wilder's The Seven Deadly Sins, February 10, 2003
Miss Anderson's Music, February 16, 2003
Life Drawing by Joan Kelley (Mary Cassatt/Edgar Degas), December 15, 2003
Sor Juana: A Portrait Story, November 7, 14, and December 5, 2005
A Staged Reading/Concert Performance of 1776, Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards, July 7-10, 2006
Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civil War, November 13, 2006 and March 5, 2007
Haunted Prince: The Ghosts of Edwin Booth, April 16, 2007 (2 folders)
King Lyndon Lear and His Year of Crisis, June 4 and 25, 2007
Proposed program - Portrait of Limon, June 2007
Looking Over the President's Shoulder, July 8-9, 2007
The Whole World in His Hands: The Life and Music of Paul Robeson, July 29-30, 2007
Return to Yesterday: Tribute to the Beatles, August 26, 2007
Domenico Scarlatti and His Circle, September 29, 2007
Miss Anderson's Music, December 17, 2007
Portraits of Lincoln, 2007-2008
The Lincoln Family Album, February 25, 2008
Hepburn Herself, March 10, 2008 (includes electronic records)
All That Sass: The Life and Music of Sarah Vaughan, April 21, 2008
'S Wonderful: The Life and Music of George Gershwin, July 6-7, 2008
A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni, October 7, 2008
Brando Himself, October 27, November 17, and December 1, 2008
Voila Julia: A Staged Reading by Clay Teunis (Julia Child), December 15, 2008
Tea at Five, 2008
A Portrait of Porgy, February 5-7, 2009
Battle Cry of Freedom: A Musical Tribute to Abraham Lincoln, March 15-16, 2009
Warhol Himself, August 2-3, 2009
Tom and Betty: A Conversation with Thomas Jefferson and His Slave, Betty Hemings, September 20-21, 2009
Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence, December 14, 2009
Words Between Two Reformers: Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt, February 22, 2010
Elvis Himself, Featuring Rick Foucheux and Jewell Robinson, August 9, 2010
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, November 21, 2010 (includes electronic records)
Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius, December 6, 2010
Elvis at 21: Live in Concert, January 20, 2011 (includes electronic records)
Box 3
Mrs. Graham Herself, May 16, 2011 (include electronic records)
Two Halves of a Circle: Ronald and Nancy Reagan, December 5, 2011
Amelia: A Story of Abiding Love in the Civil War, July 2, 2012
James Wong Howe Himself, October 1, 2012
Smoking Out the Beehive: African American Poets with "Poetic Likeness," February 2, 2013 (includes electronic records)
Common Threads: Mary Todd Lincoln, Varina Howell Davis, and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, March 25, 2013
A Civil War Double Feature: In Haste, Laura Keene and The Road from Appomattox, July 1, 2013
Singing Praises: Mahalia and Martin, September 16, 2013
Black Broadway, February 3-5
Portraits in American Diversity
The Last American Monarch: The Life of Liliuokalani
Words Between Two Reformers: The Writings of Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt
Other Public Programs
Future programming - Leads, 1983-2000
In Search of a Portrait, June 2, 1992
Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraits from the Hosokawa Family exhibition - Public programs, July 24-November 29, 1992
Poster Portraits - Exhibition film ideas, 1992
Ballet Folklorico de Universidad Veracruzana, September 13, 1993
Campus on the Mall - Jefferson Revisited: The Man and His Legacy, 1993
Campus on the Mall - Reporting the War: Upfront with Bill Mauldin, April 25, 1994
Campus on the Mall - Reporting the War: No Job for a Woman, May 2, 1994
Campus on the Mall - Reporting the War: Putting the War in Focus, May 9, 1994
Campus on the Mall - Reporting the War: The African American Press and the War, May 16, 1994
Campus on the Mall - Reporting the War - Lecture and tour of exhibition by Curator Frederick Voss, May 23, 1994
Campus on the Mall - Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II, 1994
American Song: Shooting the Works for Uncle Sam: The Songs of the World War II G.I., July 11, 1994
Excerpts of Latinhood, October 1994
In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler - Exhibition symposium, June 2-3, 1995
The Woman Artist in the Gilded Age: A Symposium Presented in Conjunction with the Exhibition, Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture, October 21, 1995
Men of Color! To Arms! To Arms!, November 11, 1995
Symposium - Rebel Voices Speak Again, April 27, 1996
A Conversation with Al Hirschfield, June 28, 1996
Retro Louis, August 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, 1996
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, August 5, 1996
Red, Hot, and Blue: A Salute to American Musicals - Exhibition programming, 1996-1997
American Song: The Streets of New York, January 10 and 13, 1997
The Berlin Legacy, April 4, 1997
Hooray for Hollywood: Songs from the American Movie Musical, May 12, 1997
George C. Marshall: Soldier of Peace - Exhibition programing, 1997
Hans Namuth Portraits - Exhibition programming, 1997
Courtyard Concert - The Beatles' Second Invasion - General, 1998
Courtyard Concert - The Beatles' Second Invasion: Imagine, July 2, 1998
Courtyard Concert - The Beatles' Second Invasion: Yesterday, July 9, 1998
Box 4
Courtyard Concert - The Beatles' Second Invasion: Shout!, July 16, 1998
Courtyard Concert - The Beatles' Second Invasion: Day Tripper, July 23, 1998
Courtyard Concert - The Beatles' Second Invasion: Fab Four, July 30, 1998
Retro-Louis, September 5, 1998
Latino Film Festival: September 15 to October 15, 1998
Caricature and Cartoon in Twentieth-Century America Symposium, 1998
Concert Series - The Age of Elvis: The Roots of Rock and Roll, July 1999
Latino Festival - Afro-Latino Culture, September 16-October 12, 1999
Jump for Joy - Duke Ellington, 1999
Will the Real Thomas Wiggins Please Stand Up!, 2000
Jose Limon: Mexican Roots/American Branches, October 13, 2003
Portraits in Jazz programs, 2004
School and teacher programs, 2006-2007
Living Self-Portrait: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, October 29, 2007
Living Self-Portrait: Marc Pachter, December 12, 2007
Battle Cry of Freedom: A Musical Tribute to Abraham Lincoln, March 15-16, 2009
Living Self-Portrait: Vernon Jordan, April 9, 2012 (includes electronic records)
Living Self-Portrait - List of interviews, 2012
Living Self-Portrait: Rita Moreno, July 9, 2014
Blues for a Royal Flush, September 22, 2014
Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival, October 6-8, 2016
In This Chamber - Slavery debates, researched and written by Leslie Jacobson
Calendars
Calendar of Events copy, 1991-1994
Calendar of Events copy, 1996
Calendar of Events copy, 1997
Calendar of Events copy, 1998
Calendar of Events copy, 1999-2000
Administrative
Correspondence, 1998-2009
Correspondence - Carolyn Carr, 1992-1995
Asian Pacific Heritage Month Committee, 1992-1999
Public service announcement project, 2006
Images, circa 1980s, 2008 (includes electronic records)
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