Smithsonian Institution

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560

Phone, 202-357-1300; or 202-357-2700 (Smithsonian Information Center). Internet, http://www.si.edu/.

Board of Regents:

The Chief Justice of the United States William H. Rehnquist

(Chancellor)

The Vice President of the United States Al Gore

Members of the Senate Thad Cochran, William Frist, Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Members of the House of Representatives Samuel Johnson, Robert Livingston, (1 vacancy)

Citizen Members Howard H. Baker, Jr., Barber B. Conable, Anne d'Harnoncourt, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Hanna Holborn Gray, Manuel L. Ibanez, Homer A. Neal, Frank A. Shrontz, Wesley Samuel Williams, Jr.

Officials:

The Secretary I. Michael Heyman

The Inspector General Thomas D. Blair

Director, Office of Planning, L. Carole Wharton

Management and Budget

Counselor to the Secretary for Thomas E. Lovejoy

Biodiversity and Environmental Affairs

Counselor to the Secretary for Marc Pachter

Electronic Communications and Special Projects

Counselor to the Secretary for Miguel Bretos

Community Affairs and Special Projects

Executive Assistant to the Secretary James M. Hobbins

Executive Secretary to the Secretary Barbara Cederborg

Under Secretary Constance Newman

General Counsel John E. Huerta

Director, Office of Government Donald L. Hardy

Relations

Director, Office of Communications David J. Umansky

Director, Office of Information Vincent Marcalus

Technology

Senior Information Officer Jim Conklin, Acting

Senior Business Officer Roland Banscher, Acting

Ombudsman Chandra Heilman

Executive Director, Office of Robert V. Hanle

Membership and Development

Director, Office of Special Events Nicole L. Krakora

and Conference Services

Chief Financial Officer Rick Johnson

Director, Office of Sponsored Ardelle Foss

Projects

Director, Office of Equal Employment Era Marshall

and Minority Affairs

Director, Office of Human Resources Carolyn Jones

Director, Office of Imaging, James H. Wallace, Jr.

Printing, and Photographic Services

Director, Office of Contracting John W. Cobert

Director, Office of Physical Plant Michael Sofield

Director, Office of Protection David F. Morrell

Services

Director, Office of Environmental William F. Billingsley

Management and Safety

Treasurer Sudeep Anand

Comptroller M. Leslie Casson

Provost J. Dennis O'Connor

Director, Anacostia Museum and Steven Newsome

Center for African American History and Culture

Director, Archives of American Art Richard Wattenmaker

Building Director, Arts and James Hobbins

Industries Building

Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Dianne Pilgrim

Design Museum

Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Milo C. Beach

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Director, Hirshhorn Museum and James T. Demetrion

Sculpture Garden

Director, National Air and Space Donald D. Engen

Museum

Director, National Museum of African Roslyn A. Walker

Art

Director, National Museum of Elizabeth Broun

American Art

Curator in Charge, Renwick Gallery Kenneth R. Trapp

Director, National Museum of Spencer Crew

American History

Director, National Museum of the W. Richard West, Jr.

American Indian

Director, National Campaign for NMAI John L. Colonghi

Director, National Museum of Natural Robert W. Fri

History

Director, National Portrait Gallery Alan M. Fern

Director, National Postal Museum James Bruns

Director, National Zoological Park Michael Robinson

Director, Office of Exhibits Central Michael Headley

Director, Center for Museum Studies Rex Ellis

Director, Smithsonian Institution Anna R. Cohn

Traveling Exhibition Service

Director, Institutional Studies Zahava Doering

Office

Editor, Joseph Henry Papers Project Marc Rothenberg

Director, Office of Fellowships and Roberta Rubinoff

Grants

Senior Scientist, Smithsonian David L. Correll

Environmental Research

Director, Smithsonian Marine Mary Rice

Research Station

Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Irwin I. Shapiro

Observatory

Director, Smithsonian Tropical Ira Rubinoff

Research Institute

Director, Smithsonian Center for Lambertus Van Zelst

Materials Research and Education

Director, Smithsonian Institution Nancy E. Gwinn

Libraries

Director, Museum Support Center Catherine J. Kerby

Director, Smithsonian Institution Ethel W. Hedlin

Archives

Director, Smithsonian Office of Ann Bay

Education

Director, Center for Folklife Richard Kurin

Programs and Cultural Studies

Director, National Science Resources Douglas Lapp

Center

Director, Wider Audience Development Marshall Wong

Program

Director, Office of International Francine Berkowitz

Relations

Director, Smithsonian's Affiliates Michael Carrigan

Program

Director, Smithsonian Center for (vacancy)

Latino Initiatives

Director, Institute of Conservation Ruth Stolk

Biology

Counselor to the Provost (Asian- Franklin Odo

Pacific-American Activities)

Director, Smithsonian Press/ Daniel Goodwin

Smithsonian Productions

Editor, Smithsonian Magazine Don Moser

Publisher, Smithsonian Magazine Ronald Walker

Director, The Smithsonian Associates Mara Mayor

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts \1\

Chairman James A. Johnson

President Lawrence J. Wilker

National Gallery of Art \1\

President Robert H. Smith

Director Earl A. Powell III

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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Director (vacancy)

Deputy Director Samuel Wells

Deputy Director for Planning and Dean W. Anderson

Management

Chairman, Board of Trustees Joseph H. Flom

\1\ Administered under a separate Board of Trustees.

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More than 150 years old, the Smithsonian Institution is an independent trust instrumentality of the United States that fosters the increase and diffusion of knowledge. The world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian includes 16 museums and galleries, the National Zoo, and research facilities in several States and the Republic of Panama. The Smithsonian holds more than 140 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for the American people. The Institution, a respected center

for research, is dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history.

The Smithsonian Institution was created by act of August 10, 1846 (20 U.S.C. 41 et seq.), to carry out the terms of the will of British scientist James Smithson (1765-1829), who in 1826 had bequeathed his entire estate to the United States ``to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.'' On July 1, 1836, Congress accepted the legacy and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust.

In September 1838, Smithson's legacy, which amounted to more than

100,000 gold sovereigns, was delivered to the mint at Philadelphia. Congress vested responsibility for administering the trust in the Smithsonian Board of Regents, composed of the Chief Justice, the Vice President, three Members of the Senate, three Members of the House of Representatives, and nine citizen members appointed by joint resolution of Congress.

To carry out Smithson's mandate, the Institution:

--performs basic research;

--publishes the results of studies, explorations, and investigations;

--preserves for study and reference more than 140 million artifacts, works of art, and scientific specimens;

--organizes exhibits representative of the arts, the sciences, and American history and culture; and

--engages in educational programming and national and international cooperative research.

Smithsonian activities are supported by its trust endowments; gifts, grants, and contracts; and funds appropriated to it by Congress.

Activities

Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture The Museum, located in the historic Fort Stanton neighborhood of southeast Washington, serves as a national resource for exhibitions, historical documentation, and interpretive and educational programs relating to African-American history and culture. The African-American church, the Harlem Renaissance, and jazz have been the subjects of recent exhibitions produced by the Museum.

The Center mounts exhibitions such as ``Jazz Age in Paris,'' a SITES exhibition that premiered at the Center; sponsors public programs; and collects material (approximately 7,000 objects) representative of the black experience in performing arts and art and culture.

For further information, contact the Anacostia Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE., Washington, DC 20020. Phone, 202-357-2700.

Archives of American Art The Archives contains the Nation's largest collection of documentary materials reflecting the history of visual arts in the United States. On the subject of art in America, it is the largest archives in the world, holding more than 12 million documents. The Archives gathers, preserves, and microfilms the papers of artists, craftsmen, collectors, dealers, critics, and art societies. These papers consist of manuscripts, letters, diaries, notebooks, sketchbooks, business records, clippings, exhibition catalogs, transcripts of tape-

recorded interviews, and photographs of artists and their work.

The Archives' chief processing and reference center is in the historic Old Patent Office Building in Washington, DC. The Archives has regional centers in California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New York.

For further information, contact the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202-357-2781.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum The Museum, located in New York City, is the only museum in the country devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design. Collections include nearly 250,000 objects in such areas as applied arts and industrial design, drawings and prints, glass, metalwork, wallcoverings, and textiles. A

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major renovation in 1997-1998 has produced a new two-story connecting structure linking the museum with its garden and with two townhouses currently known as the Design Resource Center. Changing exhibitions and public programs seek to educate by...