Exhibition Records, circa 1988-2012

Object Details

Notes: Electronic List in accession file.; Folder List in accession file.; For a description of the record series of which these materials form a part, refer to the "Forms part of" above.
Organization: Alphabetic
Summary: This accession consists of records documenting the development of exhibitions for the Arts and Industries Building, the Smithsonian Institution Building, and the International Gallery. The Arts and Industries Building, Office of Exhibitions was formed when Ellen Dorn was appointed as Director of Exhibitions for the Arts and Industries Building in November 1998. Betsy Burstein Robinson joined the office in 1999 and Seth Waite in 2001. The Arts and Industries Building closed to the public in 2004 and, in late 2005, the staff was transferred under the Office of Exhibits Central as the Special Exhibitions Division where they continued to develop and manage exhibitions in both public and office spaces in the Smithsonian Institution Building (otherwise known as the Castle) as well as in the International Gallery. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, agreements, checklists, exhibition drawings, floor plans, scripts, object lists, budgets, reports, publicity materials, press releases, exhibition catalogs, images, clippings, books, videos, audiotapes, brochures, pamphlets, and related materials. Some materials are in electronic format. Materials dated prior to 1998 were created by Dorn while she was project manager for the traveling exhibition, "America's Smithsonian," or by Anne R. Gassett, Associate Director, International Gallery.
Repository Loc.: Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Data Source: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Date: 1988; 1988-2012; circa 1988-2012

Local number: SIA Acc. 13-079

Creator: Smithsonian Institution Office of Exhibits Central
Subject: Dorn, Ellen; Gassett, Anne R; Robinson, Betsy Burstein; Waite, Seth; Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.); Smithsonian International Gallery; Arts and Industries Building (Washington, D.C.); Arts and Industries Building Office of Exhibitions; Smithsonian Institution Office of Exhibits Central Special Exhibitions Division; Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches (Exhibition) (2006: Washington, D.C.); America's Smithsonian (Traveling exhibition) (1995-1998); American Heroes of the Olympic Spirit (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.); American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.); Artists at Work (Exhibition) (2011: Washington, D.C.); Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Käsebier (Exhibition) (2011: Washington, D.C.); Camelot at Dawn: Jacqueline and John Kennedy in Georgetown, May 1954 (Exhibition) (2003-2004: Washington, D.C.); Celebrating Scotland's Crafts (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); Cherokee Nation: A Portrait of a People (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); Chinese Script from Oracle Bones to Computer Bytes (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.); Clash of Empires: The British, French and Indian Wars, 1754-1763 (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.); Classically Greek: Coins and Bank Notes from Antiquity to Today (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.); Close Up in Black: African American Film Posters (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.); Colombia at the Smithsonian: Colombian Presence in the Collections of the Smithsonian Institution (Exhibition) (2006-2007: Washington, D.C.); Contemporary Argentinean Art (Exhibition) (2010-2011: Washington, D.C.); Corridos Sin Fronteras: A New World Ballad Tradition (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilization (Exhibition) (2010-2011: Washington, D.C.); Dreams and Reality: Korean American Contemporary Art Celebrating 100 Years of Korean Immigration to America (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); Driven: A National Juried Exhibit for Young Artists with Disabilities, Age 16-25 (2007: Washington, D.C.); Eight Wonders from the Salvador Dali Museum (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.); El Rio: Culture and Environment in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Basin (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon: Vietnamese America Since 1975 (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.); Eyes on the World: Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.); Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz (Exhibition) (2011-2012: Washington, D.C.); Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? (Exhibition) (2001-2002: Washington, D.C.); Genome: The Secret of How Life Works (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); Golden Threads: A Tapestry of Sephardic Experience (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.); Heart and Hands: Musical Instrument Makers of America (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); History Through Deaf Eyes (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.); In the Russian Tradition: A Historic Collection of 20th-Century Russian Paintings (Exhibition) (2004-2005: Washington, D.C.); In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); International Joyce (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.); Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings (Exhibition) (2009: Washington, D.C.); Jim Henson's Fantastic World (Exhibition) (2008: Washington, D.C.); Journeys of the Spirit (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); Juke Joint (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); Kaho'olawe: Rebirth of a Sacred Hawaiian Island (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); Latin Jazz: La Combinacion Perfecta (Exhibition) (2002-2003: Washington, D.C.); Legendary Coins and Currency (Exhibition) (2005-2008: Washington, D.C.); Let Your Motto Be RESISTANCE: African American Portraits (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.); Lola Alvarez Bravo (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.); Made in Northern Ireland: A Dynamic of Change (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.); Main Event: The Ali/Foreman Extravaganza Through the Lens of Howard L. Bingham (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); MathAlive (Exhibition) (2012: Washington, D.C.); Mexican Treasures of the Smithsonian (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.); Miracles Under the Waves: Photographic Art of Akiyoshi Ito (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.); Momentum: A National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities, Ages 16-25 (2011-2012: Washington, D.C.); My Story . . . Gordon Snidow Retrospective Exhibition (2003: Washington, D.C.); Myth, Mortals, and Immortality: Works from Museo Soumaya de Mexico (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); New York, September 11 by Magnum Photographers (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Exhibition) (2009: Washington, D.C.); On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience (Exhibition) (2001: Washington, D.C.); Our Priceless Heritage: Snapshots in Time From America's Public Lands (Exhibition) (2006: Washington, D.C.); Panamanian Passages (Exhibition) (2010: Washington, D.C.); Photo du Jour: David Hume Kennerly's Picture-a-Day Journey Through the First Year of the Millennium (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); Porcelains from the Collections of the Correale Museum of Sorento, Italy (Exhibition) (2005: Washington, D.C.); Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico, 1949-1989 (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.); Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection (Exhibition) (2010: Washington, D.C.); Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits (Exhibition) (2005-2006: Washington, D.C.); Revealing Culture (Exhibition) (2010: Washington, D.C.); Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 (Exhibition) (2008-2009: Washington, D.C.); Santos: Substance and Soul (Exhibition) (2000-2001: Washington, D.C.); Singgalot: Ties that Bind - From Colonial Subjects and 'National' to Citizens, A Century of Filipino (Exhibition) (2006: Washington, D.C.); Southern Identity: Contemporary Argentine Art (Exhibition) (2010-2011: Washington, D.C.); Spiritual Visions: The Religious Images of Borikň, Puerto Rico (Proposed exhibition); Stamps of Approval (Exhibition) (2011: Washington, D.C.); The AIDS Memorial Quilt - The Names Project Foundation (Exhibition) (2012: Washington, D.C.); The Beatles: Backstage and Behind the Scenes (Exhibition) (2004-2005: Washington, D.C.); The Brain: The World Inside Your Head (Exhibition) (2001-2002: Washington, D.C.); The Egypt Story: Photographs by Fred J. Maroon (Exhibition) (1993: Washington, D.C.); The Healer Within (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); The Healing Power of Art: Works of Art by Haitian Children after the Earthquake (Exhibition) (2010-2011: Washington, D.C.); The Invisible Industry: Journey Down the Upper Mississippi (Exhibition) (2003: Washington, D.C.); The Lost World of James Smithson (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.); The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World (Exhibition) (2012: Washington, D.C.); The Silk Road Ensemble: Portraits and Places (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); The Third Worldwide Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature of the World Federation of Miniatures (Exhibition) (2004: Washington, D.C.); The Welsh Table (Exhibition) (2009: Washington, D.C.); Theatre in Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde Stage Design, 1913-1935 (Proposed exhibition); Time Magazine: Person of the Year at 75 (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.); Walter Inglis Anderson: Everything I See is New and Strange (Exhibition) (2003-2004: Washington, D.C.); Within the Emperor's Garden, the Ten Thousand Springs Pavilion (Exhibition) (2007: Washington, D.C.); Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America (Exhibition) (2010: Washington, D.C.); Worthy of the Nation: Planning America's Capital (Exhibition) (2007-2008: Washington, D.C.)

Type: Books; Collection descriptions; Brochures; Clippings; Exhibition catalogs; Manuscripts; Pamphlets; Picture postcards; Compact discs; Digital versatile discs; Digital images; Electronic records; Floppy disks; Architectural drawings; Floor plans; Color photographs; Color transparencies; Audiotapes; Videotapes

Physical description: 11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes)

See more items in: Exhibition Records 1948-2016 [Smithsonian Exhibits]

Topic: Museum exhibits

Record ID: siris_arc_361545

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