Description: As head of the Center for African American Media Arts, National Museum of African American History and Culture, curator Dr. Rhea Combs leads effort to collect, preserve, and make accessible an extensive collection of films, photographs, and recordings documenting African American history. #Groundbreaker
Description: Dr. Tuliza Fleming, Curator of American Art at the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2007, worked to build the museum's foundational American art collection, served as the lead curator for the inaugural exhibition Visual Art and the American Experience, curated Clementine Hunter: Life on Melrose Plantation, and co-curated the traveling exhibition
Description: Who knew beetle feet could be so beautiful? [via Colossal]The Cooper Hewitt's immersive wallpaper room was featured at the London Biennale! [via Cooper Hewitt Labs]Obselete art pigments...and their strange sources. [via Hyperallergic]NASA-funded research is open to the public! [via Futurism]Newberry Library acquires the world's largest postcard collection, 2.5 million of them.
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: Virginia Beets was instrumental in the early years of the National Museum of American History as an Administrative Officer, 1963–73, and Registrar, 1973–83. She initially joined the Smithsonian as a secretary in the Division of Insects at the National Museum of Natural History in 1949. #Groundbreaker
Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.
Description: Deputy Chair of political history at the National Museum of American History, Lisa Kathleen Graddy, chooses artifacts to represent the American political landscape, and has curated popular exhibits on the first ladies and the women's suffrage movement. #Groundbreaker
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13754,size=400,center]When people think of a Smithsonian exhibit, they probably don’t think of one filled with documents from an archives! A piece of paper doesn’t grab your attention from across the room, as the Fénykövi elephant or Chuck Berry’s car do. But on closer inspection, handwritten scraps have fascinating stories to tell. They can be