Results for "Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship"
- Blog Post
The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian
- Date: June 7, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian
Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr., and Joseph Hirshhorn
- Date: June 17, 2014
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: A new documentary on the artist Robert De Niro, Sr. and De Niro's connection with art collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn.
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: June 10, 2014
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018
- Date: December 27, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020
- Date: March 31, 2020
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some
Further Research in the Conservation and Preservation of Letterpress Copybooks
- Date: January 26, 2016
- Description: Postgraduate Fellow Laura Dellapiana presents new research outcomes for stabilization of letterpress copybooks with significant damage.
Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education
- Date: March 6, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science
Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research
- Date: July 6, 2021
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers
- Date: April 25, 2019
- Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.
- Blog Post
A Laboratory in the Jungle
- Date: September 9, 2010
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Now you see it, sometimes you don’t, but thank goodness for archives
- Date: May 13, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Churchill High School Pep Rally, 1978, Geoff Winningham, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1667."][/caption] Years ago, when the National Endowment for the Arts had a Visual Arts Program to give out individual artist grants, a week
An Artistic Composition
- Date: December 6, 2011
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research, including a rebus letter.