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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 01-206

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Associate Director, Exhibitions and Facilities

Freer/Sackler Files, 1987-1999

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Associate Director, Exhibitions and Facilities
Title:Freer/Sackler Files
Dates:1987-1999
Quantity:4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 01-206
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

These records consist of materials created and maintained by Patrick H. Sears, Associate Director, Exhibitions and Facilities, documenting individual departments within the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Materials include mission statements and strategic plans, memoranda, correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, newsletters, event programs, membership lists, calendars of upcoming events and public programs, lists of expenditures made by the Education Department, personnel files, visitor studies, research materials, Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary Celebration logo design contest entries, Presidential Design Awards entry, object lists with images of objects, priority lists for projects, newspaper clippings, brochures, and pamphlets.

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of records created and maintained by Patrick H. Sears, Associate Director, Exhibitions and Facilities, documenting individual departments within the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Materials include mission statements and strategic plans, memoranda, correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, newsletters, event programs, membership lists, calendars of upcoming events and public programs, lists of expenditures made by the Education Department, personnel files, visitor studies, research materials, Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary Celebration logo design contest entries, Presidential Design Awards entry, object lists with images of objects, priority lists for projects, newspaper clippings, brochures, and pamphlets.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-206, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Associate Director, Exhibitions and Facilities, Freer/Sackler Files

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Container List

Box 1

Strategic Planning Meetings, February 1997-July 1997

Box 1 of 4

[Strategic Planning Meetings, 1995-1996]

Box 1 of 4

[Strategic Planning, 1995]

Box 1 of 4

[Strategic Planning, 1996]

Box 1 of 4

Strategic Planning, 1995-1996

Box 1 of 4

Friends of Asian Art Dinner, 1992-1997

Box 1 of 4

Friends of Asian Art, 1991-1996

Box 1 of 4

Friends Trip, 1991-1996

Box 1 of 4

Getty Grant Program [1994]

Box 1 of 4

Education, 1995

Box 1 of 4

Education Budget, FY 1997

Box 1 of 4

Department of Education - Budget, FY 1998 [1997-1998]

Box 1 of 4

Education Department Budget - Trust Fund Accounts [1995]

Box 1 of 4

Education Budget, FY 1995

Box 1 of 4

Education, 1994

Box 1 of 4

Education Department, FY 1994 Budget

Box 1 of 4

Education Department, 1994 Programming

Box 1 of 4

Education General

Box 1 of 4

Education Department, 1993 Programming

Box 1 of 4

FY 1993 Budget Education

Box 1 of 4

Education Department/Minority Access to Museum Education, 1989

Box 1 of 4

Volunteer Recognition Events [1996-1997]

Box 1 of 4

Awards for Research in Museum Education [1994]

Box 1 of 4

Education - Personnel Issues [1995-1996]

Box 1 of 4

Education Department - Cooperative Programs [1995-1996]

Box 1 of 4

Education, 1997 [1995-1997]

Box 1 of 4

Education, 1996

Box 1 of 4

Education Department - Public Programs, FY 1996 [1996-1997]

Box 1 of 4

Education Budget, FY 1996 [1995-1996]

Box 1 of 4

Education - Grant Request (NOVARTIS) for Curriculum Development, 1996

Box 1 of 4

Education Department - Public Programs, 1995

Box 1 of 4

Lucia Pierce - Education [1991-1997]

Box 1 of 4

Docent Issues, 1988-1998

Box 1 of 4

Thomas Robson [1989-1990]

Box 1 of 4

Educational Outreach Fund, 1996-1997

Box 1 of 4

Smithsonian Society Grants [1993-1996]

Box 1 of 4

Box 2

Freer 75th Anniversary [1996; 1998-1999]

Box 2 of 4

Freer 75th Anniversary - Publication [1997]

Box 2 of 4

Freer 75th Anniversary - Exhibitions [1995-1998]

Box 2 of 4

Freer 75th Anniversary - Special Projects [1996-1998]

Box 2 of 4

Freer Commemorative CD [1998]

Box 2 of 4

Sackler 10th Anniversary - General Files [1996-1997]

Box 2 of 4

Audio Tour Systems [1991-1993]

Box 2 of 4

Articles: Exhibitions [1993]

Box 2 of 4

No-Year Funding for Exhibitions [1989]

Box 2 of 4

Label Writing Rules [1990-1996]

Box 2 of 4

Object Handling [1995-1996]

Box 2 of 4

SI Exhibition Awards Program, 1993

Box 2 of 4

Smithsonian Exhibits Award, 1994

Box 2 of 4

Presidential Design Award, 1992

Box 2 of 4

1995 Presidential Design Awards Submissions [1992-1995]

Box 2 of 4

(S) General Business, 1990 & 1991

Box 2 of 4

(S) General Business, 1992 & 1993

Box 2 of 4

General Business, 1994

Box 2 of 4

General Business, 1995

Box 2 of 4

General Business, 1996

Box 2 of 4

General Freer Business, 1989-1993

Box 2 of 4

General Business, 1994

Box 2 of 4

General Business, 1995

Box 2 of 4

General Business, 1996

Box 2 of 4

Reimbursements - Patrick Sears [1990-1997]

Box 2 of 4

150th Logo [1993]

Box 2 of 4

150th General [1994-1996]

Box 2 of 4

Box 3

Nuckolls Fund [1993-1996]

Box 3 of 4

Nuckolls Fund, 1996 & 1997

Box 3 of 4

FGA Maps and Graphs [1992-1994]

Box 3 of 4

Freer Recorded Tour [1991-1995]

Box 3 of 4

Registrar [1987-1996]

Box 3 of 4

Quarterly Director's Meeting [1992]

Box 3 of 4

Design Department - Work Schedule per Nance Hacskaylo [1997]

Box 3 of 4

Design - Personnel Issues [1995-1997]

Box 3 of 4

Tech Lab/Conservation [1989-1998]

Box 3 of 4

Design Issues, Pre-1996 [1989-1995]

Box 3 of 4

Exhibition Planning, 1991

Box 3 of 4

Design Department Head [1995-1996]

Box 3 of 4

Exhibit Specialist Recruiting - Freer Reopening [1988-1991]

Box 3 of 4

Metric Conversion [1992-1993]

Box 3 of 4

Silkscreen Workshop Move to 2075 [1993]

Box 3 of 4

Non-Exhibits Work Cabinet Shop [1993-1994]

Box 3 of 4

Frames for Freer Paintings [1995]

Box 3 of 4

Design Department Budget, 1997

Box 3 of 4

Design Budget, FY 1996

Box 3 of 4

Design Budget, FY 1995

Box 3 of 4

Design Department, FY 1994 Budget

Box 3 of 4

FY 1993 Budget - Design/Production

Box 3 of 4

SEF, 1994-1996

Box 3 of 4

SEF, 1993

Box 3 of 4

SEF, 1987-1992

Box 3 of 4

Box 4

150th Community Committee [1993-1995]

Box 4 of 4

150th General [1994-1995]

Box 4 of 4

150th Commemoration Community Committee [1993-1997]

Box 4 of 4

150th Great Giveaway [1994-1996]

Box 4 of 4

150th Gallery Issues [1995-1996]

Box 4 of 4

150th Lecture Series [1995-1996]

Box 4 of 4

150th Open House Tour [1995-1996]

Box 4 of 4

Celebration on the Mall [1995-1996]

Box 4 of 4

SI 150th Calendar [1995-1996]

Box 4 of 4

America's Smithsonian, 1996-1997

Box 4 of 4

America's Smithsonian Abroad, 1997

Box 4 of 4

America's Smithsonian Abroad, 1998 - Ripley Center

Box 4 of 4

SITES/Sackler Exhibitions [1990-1993]

Box 4 of 4

AAM Reception [1992]

Box 4 of 4

NMAI Custom House [1994-1995]

Box 4 of 4

Asian/Pacific American Initiative [1994]

Box 4 of 4

Tours [1989-1997]

Box 4 of 4

Johns Hopkins Lecture [1993]

Box 4 of 4

Lectures, 1990

Box 4 of 4

Lectures, 1989

Box 4 of 4

Octagon Lecture [1920; 1976; 1995]

Box 4 of 4

Friends Dinner, 5/1998 [1998]

Box 4 of 4

Landscape as Culture - Visitor Study [1994-1995]

Box 4 of 4

A Basketmaker from Rural Japan - Visitor Survey [1995-1996]

Box 4 of 4

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