Finding Aids to Official Records of the
Smithsonian Institution
Accession 96-093
Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities,
Records, 1989-1995
This accession is restricted for 15 years from the latest date of records (1995). Restrictions will be lifted at the beginning of the calendar year 2011. Access to restricted collections requires explicit permission from the transferring office or donor. Contact the SIA Reference Staff for further information (call 202-633-5870, or email OSIAREF@osia.si.edu).
DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY
The Office of Assistant Secretary for Museums was created in February 1986, then renamed the Assistant Secretary for Arts and Humanities in fiscal year 1992, and became the Assistant Provost for Arts and Humanities in October 1994. In early 1996 the Office was absorbed by the Office of the Provost, and the position of Assistant Provost was eliminated. Tom L. Freudenheim served in the position from its inception in 1986 to its elimination in 1996.
These records document the official functions of the Office of the Assistant Provost for Arts and Humanities (OAP-A/H) and its predecessors from 1989 through 1995, although the bulk of the records date from 1993 to 1995. They consist mostly of memoranda, correspondence, and reports generated both within and outside of the Institution, which reflect the operations of bureaus and offices over which the Assistant Provost had oversight. The records also document Smithsonian-wide issues and initiatives that the Assistant Provost was involved with or had interest in.
In addition, the OAP-A/H administered the Special Exhibition Fund (SEF), which was established in October 1984 to fund significant exhibitions beyond the normal financial capabilities of SI bureaus. These records include SEF application files for fiscal years 1993-1995, which contain funding proposals, reviewer ratings and comments, internal memoranda and correspondence about the proposals, and background information about the exhibitions.
Box 1 of 9
- Accessibility Council, 1994-95
- America's Endeavor
- Archives of American Art, 1994
- Basora, Amb. Adrian, 1994-95
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/NGA, 1993
- Capital Planning Board, 1994-95
- Collection Management Policy, 1994-95
- Council of Bureau Directors (COBD), 1995
- "D"
- Disney's America, 1993-94
- Experimental Gallery (ExGal), 1993-94
- Friends of the Art Museum, 1994
- Freer/Sackler, 1992-94
- Germany/American Academy in Berlin, 1994
- Hirshhorn Museum, 1994-95
- Istanbul, 1993
- Israel, 1993-94
- Inspector General, 1994
- International Gallery, 1994-95
- Topkapi Ceramics
- German Exhibition
- Institutional Initiatives, 1994
Box 2 of 9
- MSC-House/Senate Hearing materials (missing)
- Metrics
- National Air and Space Museum, 1994-95 - Enola Gay
- National Museum of African Art - Legislative History
- National Museum of American Art, 1994 - NMAA, Marcia Battle hiring
- National Endowment for the Arts, 1994
- National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994
- National Museum of Natural History, 1994
- Sponsored Projects
- Partners for Liveable Communities, 1994
- Research Equipment Pool
- Forum on Material Culture
- PAEC
- Photo Commission
- National Portrait Gallery - Collection Management Policy
- National Postal Museum, 1993-94
- Resumes, 1995
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Secretary's Correspondence from OAS-A/H, 1994
- SITES, 1994
- SI Libraries, 1994-5
- SI Year, 1994
- Thank-you notes, 1993-94
- Undersecretary's Office, 1994-95
- Visitors, foreign, 1994-95
- White House Historical Association, 1994-95
Box 3 of 9
- Archives of American Art, 1995
- Accessibility, 1995
- Anacostia Museum, 1995
- Cooper-Hewitt, 1995
- Hirshhorn Museum, 1995
- International Gallery, 1995
- National Museum of African Art, 1995
- National Air and Space Museum, 1995 - Enola Gay
- National Museum of American Art, 1995
- National Portrait Gallery, 1994-95 - Hall of Presidents
- National Postal Museum, 1995
- Office of Exhibits Central, 1995
- Institutional Studies Office, 1995
- Center for Museum Studies/Office of Museum Programs, 1994-95
- Sackler Gallery, 1995
- Secretary's Correspondence - Asst. Secy., 1994-95
- SITES, 1995
- College Art Assn.
- Institute of Museum Service, 1994-95
- Pennsylvania Development Corp., 1994
- Projects
- Louisiana State Museum, 1995
- FDR History Month, 1995
- Lampadia Foundation, 1995
- National Medical Science Museum, 1993
- Grossman/Murphy TV Proposal
Box 4 of 9
- Projects, cont'd
- Independent Curators, Inc.
- Museum Cost Study, 1995
- Jane Glaser's Projects, 1990-95
- Gender Issues
- Museum Careers
- Who Owns History Symposium, NEH, 1994
- 20th Century Consort, 1994-95
- Bureau of Museum Services, 1990-92
- National Museum of American History, 1994-95
- NMAH Collection Management
- NMAH Deaccessioning/Disposal
- National Museum of the American Indian, 1995
- NMAI Legislation, 1989
- NMAI Trustees Indemnification
- NMAI Repatriation
- NMAI 1994
- NMAI 1995
- NMAI Collections Committee, 1995
- Exhibit Process
Box 5 of 9
- Exhibit Process, 1993-94
- Marilyn Rothenberg
- Exhibition Planning Responses, 1994-95
- Exhibit Process
- Alphabetic Files, 1993 Correspondence, A-Z:
- Aagerstoun, Mary Jo
- Abdy, Valentine
- Adams, Celeste
- Allan, William & Wm. Wiley
- Amramowitz, Barbara
- Auping, Michael
- Baas, Jacquelynn
- Bailey, Clinton
- Baskin, Bonnie
- Basony, Caroline
- Beasley, Bruce
- Beck, James
- Benzoor, Nina
- Berenbaum, Michael
- Berman, Nancy
- Berry, Max
- Bloom, Joel
- Bloom, Margo
- Bloomfield, Sarah
- Boasberg, Tersh
- Braufman, Sheila
- Broad, Eli
- Brodie, M.J.
- Burnham, Irene
- Chanin, Clifford
- Christ, Carol
- Cobb, Nina
- Cole, Dollie
- Connington, Karen
- Course, Tim
- Cronin, Robert
- Crystal, Lester
- Cuno, James
- Darragh, Joan
- Dattner, Richard
- Davidson, Joan
- Decato, Carolyn
- Delehanty, Suzanne
- Depetrillo, David
- Dodd, James
- Donnelly, Maureen
- Duffey, Joseph
- Dyer, Emily
- Ebersole, Susan
- Edelberg, Edwin
- Edmister, Stan
- Eggert, Carolyn
- Ellsworth, Gretchen
- England, Richard
- Erskine, Peter
- Feld, Stuart
- Fishoff, Iris
- Frank, Sandy
- Frankel, Diane
- Fred, Morris
- Freeman, Barbara
- Frost, Pat
- Fuentes, Sonia
- Gerstenfeld, Jesse
- Gingold, Barbara
- Globus, Dorothy
- Goldstein, Judy
- Graham, Patricia
- Green, David
- Grunberger, Michael
- Gund, Graham
- Gundersheimer, Werner
- Hachlili, Rachel
- Halpern, Charles
- Hammond, G.A.
- Hanes, Philip
- Harriell, Byl
- Harris, Neil
- Haupt, Enid
- Hawley, Anne
- Hechinger, John
- Herko, Carl
- Hilzim, Mark
- Hirano, Irene
- Hochkofler, Annelie
- Hodes, Suzanne
- Hoffberger, Alban
- Holgate, Nicholas
- Hunter, Jack
- Indick, Janet
- Jeffrey, Graham
- Johnson, Peter
- Jones, Theresa
- Judelson, Paul
- Kainen, Jacob
- Karp, Ivan
- Katz, Elai
- Keck, Sheldon
- Khan, Hasan-Uddin
- Kidwell, Clara Sue
- Kissiloff, William
- Kogod, Robert
- Krainer, Josef
- Kurin, Richard
- Lader, Philip
- League, Mike
- Lerman, Miles
- Lerner, Abram
- Lesser, Laurence
- Levine, Renee
- Lieberman, William
- Lieberman, Roberta
- Luria, David
- Lyon, Marilyn
- Mandle, Roger
- Mansback, Steven
- Marzio, Peter
- Mayer-Meintschel, Annaliese
- McDonnell, Patricia
- Messer, Tom
- Millon, Henry
- Moffett, Charles
- Moore, G.P.
- Morawinska, Agnieszka
- Mordes, Marvin
- Nadworny, Laura
- Nordeman, Jacques
- Okihiro, Gary
- Oldenburg, Richard
- Osuna, Ramon
- Palmgren, Mark
- Parenti, Nicholas
- Parisier, David
- Perrot, Paul
- Peter, Johnson
- Phillips, Julie
- Piasecki, Vivian
- Pierce, Robert
- Pitman, Bonnie
- Poole, Jillian
- Potamkin, Meyer
- Powell, Earl
- Pulitzer, Emily Rauh
- Rassweiler, Anne
- Rattazzi, Serena
- Raymond, Dana
- Reed, Eleanor
- Roosevelt, Curtis
- Rosenbaum, Joan
- Rosenberg, Eleanor
- Rosenthal, Mark
- Ross, Wilbur
- Rothschild, Baron Eric
- Rudenstine, Angelica
- Sackler, Arthur
- Salway, Harold
- Sarna, Jonathan
- Shimmel, Paul
- Schoener, Allon
- Senecal, Michelle
- Shamer, Margaret
- Shestack, Alan
- Siegesmund, Richard
- Sieradski, Philip
- Smith, Henry
- Snyder, James
- Sollod, Ellen
- Soltes, Ori
- Sorensen, Ruth Cummings
- Spanel, Donald
- Spiller, Harley
- Szeged, Jacobovits
- Taussig, Joseph
- Tharsing, Robert
- Tien, Chang-Lin
- Tinterow, Gary
- Tocci, Michelle
- Townsend, Anne Van Devanter
- Vance, Jim
- Varnedoe, Kirk
- Viken, Jeffrey
- Voelkel, David
- Wagner, Diana
- Weinberg, Jeshajahu
- Wellin, Nancy
- West, Dorothy
- Weyl, Martin
- Wolin, Penny
- Woolsey, James
- Wunder, Van
- Yates, Sidney
- Yehudit
- Yochelson, Bonnie
- Zegart, Shelly
- Ziolkowski, Ruth
- Zona, Louis
- Alphabetic Files, 1994 Correspondence, A-Y
- Abdy, Valentine
- Alapitvany, Karolyi
- Albahari, Miriam
- Allen, Jennifer
- Antaramian, John
- Asadorian, Diane
- Atagok, Tomur
- Axelrod, Herbert
- Barkan, Shlomit
- Batkin, Norton
- Beasley, Bruce
- Berenbaum, Michael
- Berman, Philip
- Berman, Samuel
- Berry, Max
- Bolger, Doreen
- Bolshaw, Cynthia
- Bowron, Peter
- Brodie, Jay
- Brown, Augustus
- Bullard, John
- Bury, Velma
- Cachin, Francoise
- Cahen, Joel
- Cantone, Victor
- Castelli, Leo
- Causey, Faya
- Cavalcanti, Dinah Guimaraens
- Cembalest, Robin
- Chatfield-Taylor, Adele
- Clulow, James
- Conforti, Michael
- Conticello, Baldsare
- Cook, John
- Corson, Christopher
- Crissman, James
- Cullinane, Joanne
- Cuno, James
- Dattner, Richard
- Davis, Sam
- Dekel, Tsophia
- Delehanty, Suzanne
- Deloria, Vine
- Desmarais, Charles
- Devanter, Ann
- England, Richard
- Erskine, Peter
- Farrington, Anne
- Feder, Ruth
- Fink, Eleanor
- Fishman, Bernard
- Fitzpatrick, Robert
- Fleming, Thomas
- Frank, Bernard
- Frankel, Diane
- Fraser, Julie
- Freeman, Kathryn
- French, Stephanie
- Fridman, Lin
- Fromer, Seymour
- Fuentes, Sonia
- Fullingim, John
- Galbraith, Erin
- Geber, David
- Gill, Norman
- Goldstein, David
- Golub, Judith
- Gonen, Rivka
- Gordon, Ted
- Gortzak, H.J.
- Grace, Gerd
- Gray, Hanna
- Greene, Eric
- Griffin, Randall
- Gross, Chaim
- Grossman, Grace
- Hackes, Jessie
- Hamacher, Silke
- Hanes, Philip
- Hardin, Tracy
- Harris, Robert
- Haupt, Enid
- Henderson, Marina
- Hoffmann, Ronald
- Humphrey, Heidi
- Igoe, Kim
- Judelson, Paul
- Kamm, James
- Kammen, Michael
- Katz, Karl
- Katz, Stanley
- Kemper, James
- Khan, Hasan-Uddin
- Kingsley, April
- Kocot, Marion
- Kowalczyk, Richard
- Krus, David
- Kuhlman, Tulip
- Kuhlman, Walter
- Lane, John
- LeBrun, Tim
- Leiber, Judith
- Lemelson, Jerome
- LeMoine, Jack
- Lesser, Laurence
- Levin, Dave
- Levy, David
- Lewin, Ann
- Lippincott, Kristen
- Lombardo, Peter
- Lowry, Glenn
- Luce, Henry
- Maas, Francis
- MacIntosh, Kerry
- Manea, Norman
- Marious, Richard
- Massey, Eric
- Maxon-Edgerton, Gayle
- McCarthy, Meg
- McKendric, Gigi
- McNulty, Robert
- Meltzer, Robert
- Mendiola, Anna
- Mennello, Marilyn
- Mersky, Marybeth
- Micozzi, Marc
- Mintz, Ward
- Morgan, Paul
- Musher, Joshua
- Naegele, Timothy
- Narkiss, Bezalel
- Nensel, Mark
- Ong, John
- Ornstein, Beverly
- Paris, Deborah
- Parker, Harry
- Parrott, Kristen
- Perl, Moshe
- Pieczenik, Roberta
- Pitcaithley, Dwight
- Polsky, Cynthia
- Potemkin, Alexander
- Powell, Earl
- Pulitzer, Emily
- Rachum, Ilan
- Rattazzi, Serena
- Richard, Chava
- Rogow, Yitzhak
- Rooney, William
- Rosenbaum, Joan
- Ross, Wilbur
- Salisbury, Harrison
- Sarmany-Parsons, Ilona
- Schepps, Marc
- Schermer, Lloyd
- Silier, OrhanSienkiewicz, Eleanor
- Simons, Patricia
- Spann, Katherine
- Stillman, Brandt
- Stouffer, Vicki
- Strickler, Susan
- Szeged, Adriaan Jacobovits
- Tigrid, Pavel
- Trapp, Frank
- Tressel, George
- Vadasz, Gaston
- Vikan, Gary
- Wellin, Nancy
- Welu, James
- Weyl, Martin
- Wilburn, Robert
- Williams, Gymeka
- Yelen, Alice
- Zegart, Shelly
Box 6 of 9
- Chronologic Files
- Correspondence & Memoranda, Jan - Dec 1993
- Correspondence & Memoranda, Jan - Dec 1994
- Correspondence & Memoranda, Feb - Nov 1995
Box 7 of 9
- Special Exhibition Fund
- Art - Planning:
- Orientation Program for the Freer Gallery of Art - Lucia Pierce, Freer Gallery of Art, $13, 700 ($112, 111), 1/93
- Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley - Patrick Sears, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, $20, 381 ($112,111), 2/93
- Art - Implementation:
- Echoes of Ceremony and Pleasure: Korean Art of the Eighteenth Century - Patrick Sears, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, $119,722 ($783,863), 3/93
- The Arts and Cultures of the Islamic World - Milo Beach/Sylvia Williams, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery/National Museum of African Art, $500,000 ($7,475,000), 4/93
- Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office - Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt, $125, 000 ($496,226), 5/93
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Amada Cruz Harman, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, $42,908 ($202, 381), 6/93
- The Collection Reviewed - Neal Benezra, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, $81,550 ($215,532), 7/93
- Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II - Beverly Cox, National Portrait Gallery, $42,775 ($511,775), 8/93
- Jacob Kainen - Virginia Mecklenburg, National Museum of American Art, $22,500 ($298,000), 9/93
- Rhythm of Life: Roy Decarava Photographs - Merry Forresta, National Museum of American Art, $296,657 ($579,803), 10/93
- Explorations in Art - Kimberly Camp, Experimental Gallery, $179,800 ($420,224), 11/93
- History - Planning:
- Making Freedom Pay - Sharon Reinckens, Anacostia Museum, $20,300 ($20,300), 12/93
- History of Radar - Bernard Finn, National Museum of American History, $7,800 ($7,800), 16/93
- Hall of Musical Instruments - James Weaver, National Museum of American History, $25,000 ($55,000), 17/93
- A Long Twilight Struggle - Tom Crouch/Art Molella, National Air and Space Museum/National Museum of American History, $25,000 ($148,250), 19/93
- Divided Skies - Nadya Makovenyi, National Air and Space Museum, $25,000 ($108,863), 20/93
- Understanding the Universe - Nadya Makovenyi, National Air and Space Museum, $25,000 ($240,604), 21/93
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Nadya Makovenyi, National Air and Space Museum, $25,000 ($103,142), 22/93
- History - Implementation:
- Before Freedom Came - Cynthia Haley, Anacostia Museum/SITES, $246,050 ($496,291), 13/93
- The Black Mosaic - Sharon Reinckens, Anacostia Museum, $250,000 ($348,900), 14/93
- Science in American Life - Art Molella, National Museum of American History, $196,400 ($3,825,000), 15/93
- Appomatox Court House Furniture - James Hutchins, National Museum of American History, $42,870 ($77,134), 18/93
- Vietnam - Nadya Makovenyi, National Air and Space Museum, $250,000 ($1,928,055), 23/93
- Science - Implementation:
- African Experiences - Ivan Karp, National Museum of Natural History, $300,300 ($654,700), 24/93
- More than Meets the Eye - Catherine Sterling, SITES, $85,000 ($184,887), 25/93
- Art and Interpretation in the Invertebrate Exhibit - Alan Peters, National Zoological Park, $74,712 ($108,571), 26/93
- Project 21 - Alfred Rosenberger, National Zoological Park, $183,000 ($227,500), 27/93
- Miscellaneous - Implementation:
- A Rural Initiative: Reaching New Communities - Marty Sewell, SITES, $162,029 ($571,092), 28/93
- Culture of the Borderlands - Olivia Cadaval, Center for Folklife Programs, $48,850 ($495,770), 29/93
- Jerusalem/Al-Quds/Yerushalayim - Amy Horowitz, Center for Folklife Programs, $46,000 ($866,000), 30/93
- Workers at the White House - Marjorie Hunt, Center for Folklife Programs, $23,185 ($101,835), 31/93
Box 8 of 9
- SEF Proposals, 1994:
- AINU
- Segesser Hides
- Artistic Impressions: Ellington
- Crossroads
- Reporting the War
- Science in American Life
- Kelley Collection
- Benedictine Wrensted
- Hirshhorn Sculpture
- Fountains
- North American City
- Reinstallation
- Ancient South Arabia
- Artistic Heritage
- Basketmaker from Japan
- Along the Great Wall
- Islamic World
- Free Within Ourselves
- American Daguerreotype
- Thomas Wilmer Dewing
- Singular Impressions
- Kaleidoscope
- Mixing Message
- Henry Dreyfuss
- Red, Hot, & Blue
- Imagining Families
- Tuning into the 20th Century
- How Do You Want to Communicate
- Welcome Home
- Work and Worth
- Kidstuff
- Ethnic Imagery
- Barro Island
- Insect Exhibit
- Stormy Weather
- Forces of Change
- AINU
- Ocean Planet
- Native American Culture
- The Art of Discovery
- Design/Text SEF Projects
Box 9 of 9
- SEF Proposals, 1995:
- Fountains: Splash and Spectacle
- The First Century of American Photography
- From Arabia's Coast of Incense
- North American Indian and Native Hawaiian Quiltmaking
- Celebrity Caricatures in America
- The Past in the Present: Seven Nigerian Contemporary Artists
- Living with Gods
- Designing the World: The Collections of the National Design Museum
- East Coast/West Coast: Poet Rebels of the 1950's
- Richard Lindner
- Equal Rights and Justice
- Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley
- Signs of the Times: The Art of Robert Cottingham
- Kaleidoscope: American Art for the Twenty-First Century
- Metropolitan Lives
- Paintings by Masami Teraoka
- Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America
- Directions - Cheri Samba
- Woven From Life: Navaho Textiles
- The African American Rural Experience
- The Star Spangled Banner
- Families Linked by Letters
- The Dream to Fly: The Black Experience in Aviation
- Space Race
- Red, Hot, & Blue
- You've Never Looked Smarter: Images of Women on Greeting Cards
- Ways of Seeing
- Mapping Ethnic Imagery in the Landscape of Commerce
- Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions
- Rock 'n' Soul: Social Crossroads
- AINU: Lost Treasures
- Looking Both Ways: The Rebirth of Alutiiq Identity
- Chesapeake Discoveries: Interactive Ecosystems
- Voyage: A Scale Model of the Solar System
- Our Reefs/Caribbean Connections-Nuestros Arrecifes/Conexiones Caribes
- The Forest Speaks: An Introduction to 70 Years of Animal Sound Research on Barro Colorado Island, Panama
- Scientists at Work: Presenting Research in Action to the Public in the New Think Tank Exhibit Smithsonian Elephant Field Station
- Outdoor Exhibitry for Whipple Visitor Center
- Exploring Marine Ecosystems
- Rotten Truth (About Garbage)
- Science and Art: 150 Years of Smithsonian Research
- Speak to My Heart: African American Communities of Faith and Contemporary Life
- Deaf: A Community of Signers
- Barn Again! A Rural Initiative
- Exotic Illusions: Art, Romance, and the Market Place
- Los Insectos: Un Nuevo Enfoque
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