Results for "Archives of American Art. Texas Project"
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Nancy Bercaw
- Date: December 27, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Nancy Bercaw, co-curator of the “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit, National Museum of African American History and Culture, oversaw a slave cabin's move from Edisto Island, South Carolina to the Smithsonian: “I have to see it where it was...I felt like I needed to meet people as well.” #Groundbreaker
Link Love: 12/16/2016
- Date: December 16, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Japanese are taking fall to a new level! [via Bored Panda]The 25 most instagrammed museums includes the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery. [via Hyperallergic] Ireland's National Web Archive in Ireland let the public choose 10 websites to preserve. [via Info Docket]There's a podcast for everyone, including research librarians...check out the episode on Global Web Preservation.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helena E. Wright
- Date: November 22, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Curator Helena E. Wright, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, researches the role of graphic media in expanding visual culture and won a 2017 Secretary's Research Prize. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: 4/6/2016
- Date: April 6, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: In Memorium: Curator & Scholar Mary Jane Lenz, National Museum of American Indian, specialized in the Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Subarctic peoples, and the cross-cultural study of dolls. She vastly improved collections documentation about these collections. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Maria del Carmen Cossu
- Date: October 26, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: As Director for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Maria del Carmen Cossu, seeks to provide all Americans a better understanding of the U.S. Latino experience, and to encourage Latinx museum professionals into the museum field. #Groundbreaker
Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Robin L. Davisson
- Date: October 28, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Robin L. Davisson, Professor of Molecular Physiology at Cornell University, won the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Award for excellence in cardiovascular research from the American Heart Association and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is now part of the Smithsonian family. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Catherine Eagleton
- Date: March 15, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret Collins
- Date: August 30, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The 1st African American female entomologist according to the Entomological Society of America, Dr. Margaret Collins, held professorships at Howard University, Florida A&M, and Federal City College, and was instrumental in building the termite collection at the National Museum of Natural History! #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Ellen Roney Hughes
- Date: April 26, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Cultural historian, Dr. Ellen Roney Hughes, National Museum of American History, was a nominating committee member for the Women's Sports Hall of Fame and procured Muhammad Ali's robe and gloves from his "Rumble in the Jungle" fight against George Foreman for the museum. #Groundbreaker
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Michèle Gates Moresi
- Date: June 6, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Michèle Gates Moresi, Supervisory Curator of Collections, Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, oversaw the acquisition of nearly 37,000 collection objects for the new museum. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kim Sajet
- Date: January 24, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery's director, Kim Sajet, has established more inclusive collecting and hiring practices at the museum including enabling the first long-running series on Latina activist, Dolores Huerta. #Groundbreaker
Link Love: 1/29/2016
- Date: January 29, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The original, well-loved stuffed animals the characters in Winnie the Pooh books are based upon, from NYPL. [via Open Culture]If you live in Wisconsin, you'd better return those overdue library books. [via Info Docket]Art Nouveau posters, interactive lessons on WWI, silver plate photography; some of the 48,796,394 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across