Descriptive Entry
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records documenting exhibitions produced by the Office of Exhibits Central (OEC) for various Smithsonian Institution units. Exhibitions documented in this accession include Speak to My Heart: Communities of Faith and Contemporary African American Life; Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture; In Search of Balance: The Artist Scholar; Life on the Road: The Photographs of Milt Hinton; Resonant Forms; Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox; Vision Journal: Harlem and D.C. in the Thirties and Forties; Art of Jack Delano; Jewels of Lalique; Microbes: Invisible Invaders' Amazing Allies; Picturing Natural History; Seeing Jazz; Strong Hearts: Native American Visions and Voices; Iznik and China: Porcelain From the Topkapi Saray Museum (cancelled); Voyages and Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum; American Legacies (cancelled); Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present; Land of Promise: America in the 19th Century; Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s; Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos; This Land is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie; Beyond the Maine; Emergence of Man; Feather Focus; Galapagos: A Living Laboratory; Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People; Crossroads Alaska; Mysterious Manatees: Photographs by Karen Glaser; North American Mammals; Seeds of Change; Audubon and the Smithsonian; Make the Dirt Fly!: Building the Panama Canal; Science and the Artist's Book; From Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of an Institution; Underwater Web: Cabling the Seas; Stories of the People; Pathways of Tradition: Indian Insights into Indian Worlds; and Who Stole the Tepee?. Some non-exhibition design projects are also documented in this accession, including projects related to the Smithsonian Institution 150th Birthday Party on the National Mall. Materials include scripts, design drawings, label text, budgets, correspondence, memoranda, brochures, images, graphics, clippings, floor plans, product design samples, and related materials.
Prefered Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 08-051, Smithsonian Institution, Office of Exhibits Central, Exhibition Records
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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