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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dorothy Moss

      • Date: March 7, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Curator of painting & sculpture, Dr. Dorothy Moss, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, directs the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, and curates the museum’s first-ever performance art series, IDENTIFY. #Groundbreaker

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    3. Portrait of African American woman with head resting in hand and blue sleeveless dress.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece

      • Date: November 1, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Curator of Music and Performing Arts, Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece, National Museum of African American History and Culture, created their inaugural music exhibition, Musical Crossroads, and co-curated the grand opening music festival, Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration. #Groundbreaker

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      Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994

      • Date: July 5, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

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    7. | ˚-˚ | Listen In - Transporting You Back to 1994 | ˚-˚ |

      • 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. Freer Gallery of Art, by Richard Southall Grant, 1927. Accession 03-018: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Central Files, 1919-1986, Box 3, Folder: GRA, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Freer Gallery of Art - Moments in History

      • Date: November 9, 2017
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In honor of the reopening on the Freer Gallery of Art, here's a look at some records that illustrate moments from their history.

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    11. Link Love: 12/9/2016

      • Date: December 9, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: An Archivists' call-to-action, in song, from the Society of American Archivists, and Garrison Keeler. A new exhibit from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum examines clothing waste. [via Hyperallergic]The first curator of Media and Performance Art, Mark Beasely, was appointed at the Hirshhorn. [via Artnet]A new book is out about the team of Harvard female "computers"

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      Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: September 21, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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    15. Neither There nor There, 2005, by Siebren Versteeg, computer program output to 2 LCD screens, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 07.35.

      Handling Digital Assets in Time-Based Media Art

      • Date: February 20, 2014
      • Description: Handling Digital Assets in Time-Based Media Art at the Smithsonian Institution

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    17. Laboratory Interior, Beaufort, 1904, by Unknown photographer.

      The Broad Mission of the Division of Inquiry

      • Date: January 26, 2012
      • Description: An examination of logbooks in the Smithsonian Institution Archives reveals the multiple ways that the Division of Inquiry in the United States Commission of Fish performed scientific work at marine laboratories in the early 20th century to fulfill their expansive mission statement.

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    19. SERC blog post as appears online, with embedded YouTube video on river

      Fashion in Place of Fish: A Glimpse into Web Preservation

      • Date: August 13, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Why would a fashion video appear on an environmental blog? That’s the question I found myself asking while performing web quality assurance (aka web QA) on the blog for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), which has more to do with fish than it does with fashion. As an intern in the Digital Services Division at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, my work in

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      Looking Wayback on the Smithsonian’s Sesquicentennial

      • Date: August 10, 2020
      • Description: The Smithsonian marked its 150th birthday with a huge celebration and special website in 1996.

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      Spotlight: Carl William Schuermann, Jr., Property Clerk

      • Date: October 28, 2021
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: We're taking a closer look at Carl William Schuermann, Jr., a Smithsonian property clerk with an interest in ornithology.

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