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    1. Color portrait photograph of National Museum of African Art curator, Dr. Karen Milbourne.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Karen Milbourne

      • Date: September 19, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Curator Dr. Karen Milbourne, National Museum of African Art, studies the arts of western Zambia and contemporary African art. Her exhibition "Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts" won an Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Excellence in Exhibitions award. #Groundbreaker

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    3. Close-up of a woman with short hair and wearing a scarf.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dorothy T. Van Arsdale

      • Date: December 4, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dorothy T. Van Arsdale, Chief, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1964–70, managed logistics for traveling exhibitions around the world. A major part of her role was negotiating with host countries about shipping, transportation, conservation, and more. #Groundbreaker

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    5. Portrait photograph of a woman, holding one hand to her chin.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anna R. Cohn

      • Date: April 3, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Anna R. Cohn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), 1988–2014, toured groundbreaking exhibitions across the United States. She joined the Smithsonian in 1983 as director of the international exhibition “The Precious Legacy” and later organized “Generations” for the S. Dillon Ripley Center’s International Gallery. #Groundbreaker

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      • Date: November 19, 2020
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity, was one of the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. The exhibition was a collaboration of fifteen Native American painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and dancers. The exhibition featured sculpture, performance, poetry,

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    9. A woman stands next to a man who is speaking at a podium.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kimberly Camp

      • Date: August 21, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Kimberly Camp, Founding Director, Smithsonian Experimental Gallery, 1989-94, managed the opening of eighteen exhibitions focused on experimentation in presentation, design, and interpretation in the Arts and Industries Building. Camp is also a professional artist. #Groundbreaker

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    11. A woman in the forefront vacuums a costume. Another woman stands in the background.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Polly Willman

      • Date: May 13, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Polly Willman, Conservator of Costumes, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1988–99, supervised staff and treated costume and textile objects for the museum’s major exhibitions, including for the redesign of the First Ladies Hall. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Portia James

      • Date: August 15, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Senior Curator and Historian Portia James (1953-2015) pioneered a community-based approach at the Anacostia Community Museum and led the exhibitions, publications and collections programs. She researched African American material culture. #Groundbreaker

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    15. Portrait of woman in glasses with head turned to the side.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Massumeh Farhad

      • Date: October 25, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, has created numerous exhibitions on the arts of the Islamic world, and twice received the Smithsonian Secretary's prestigious research prize. #Groundbreaker

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    17. A woman sits at a desk and holds up photographs of Native Americans. She is wearing white gloves. Archival boxes are in the background.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Paula Richardson Fleming

      • Date: November 27, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Paula Richardson Fleming, Photo Archivist, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1970–2003, organized exhibitions, authored numerous publications on Native American photography, and lectured around the world. #Groundbreaker

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      The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 9, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific

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    21. A woman smiles at the camera in an empty building.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Linda Edquist

      • Date: June 12, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Linda Edquist, Conservator and Head of Preservation, National Postal Museum, 1993–2018, managed conservation projects, staff, and exhibitions at the museum. Edquist first arrived at the Smithsonian as a Conservation Technician at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1990–92. #Groundbreaker

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    23. Black-and-white close-up photograph of Elizabeth Broun.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Elizabeth Broun

      • Date: December 18, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, 1989–2016, oversaw major renovations, welcomed groundbreaking exhibitions, and diversified the museum’s collections. She served as the museum’s Chief Curator and Assistant Director, 1983–88. #Groundbreaker

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