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October 12, 1987
Dr. David Driskell Chairman, Art Department North Administration Building The University of Maryland 20742
Dear Dr. Driskell:
My name is Karla Smith, a recent graduate from the School Without Walls, in Washington, D. C., and I plan a career as a costume designer.
I am writing to inform you of my intention to attend the University of Maryland, College Park, to receive a B.A., in Costume Design and a M.S. in Textile Economics and Marketing.
In the summer of 1986, I worked with the Co'san Arts Institute at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which gave me the desire to study drama, dance, and creative writing. At the 1986 Metropolitan Links' Young Black Writers Contest, I won first place in poetry and second place in prose.
During the 1987 Spring Semester, I was selected as a pariticipant in the Smithsonian Institution's Career Awareness Program ( CAP). During my CAP experience, I learned about and interned with the professionals who work in museums. As a part of the program, I worked at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with the exhibits designer and exhibition specialist.
Greatly influenced by the CAP, I applied for the Smithsonian Institution's Summer ' 87 internship program and was one of two District of Columbia students selected. I applied for and was placed as a museum aide in the Smithsonian' s Discovery Theatre. While there, I worked on designing covers for the upcoming season's educational packets, conducted a bibliographic search for each performance, and started the preliminary research for a Discovery Theatre original production to be based on the lives of Washington area immigrants. After gaining the respect and confidence of my supervisor, my internship was extended from five weeks to eleven weeks. Presently, I am working as a Box Office Assistant at the Shakespeare Theatre, at the Folger, in Washington, D. C.
I have read the Minority Presence brochure and am pleased to know that there is support for me at the University. I very much appreciate any assistance you can offer me.
Thank you for your consideration.
Respectfully submitted,
Karla M. Smith
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L La Salle University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141 215-951-1084 Academic Discovery Program October 13, 1987
Mr. Harold B. Nelson Exhibition Program Director The Art Museum Association of America 270 Sutter Street San Franiciso, California, 94108
Dear Mr. Nelson:
As of this writing, I have had the pleasure of viewing Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, three times here in Philadelphia, An extra pleasure was reading over and over David Driskell's book which must be read to fully appreciate the exhibit. I must say, I have enjoyed both exhibit and book beyond measure. It was a waming experience seeing Lois Mailou Jones' " Jennie" a painting I enjoyed on visiting the painter's home in Washington, D.C., on Quincy Street. Other paintings and sculpture in the exhibit, long familiar to me, were brought together in what will remain a historical and aesthetic milestone in the public showing of American Art.
I must say, however , I was disappointed on not seeing something of the work of Wheeler Waring and Henry B. Jones. I can't understand why Mrs. Waring's work was not shown, some of her finest work cetainly was and is available. She was certainly one of the most productive and "accomplished" (for lack of a better word) of painters in her time. Interesting enough, Mrs. Waring was a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from which she was awarded the prestigious Cresson Travel Scholarship. The scholarship funded her first travels to Western Europe just prior to World War I. She also studied at the Academic de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
I hope you will have the pleasure of seeing her "Portrait of Miss Evangeline R. Hall, " ( coll. of Cheyney University, Cheyney, Pa), and the portait of James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. DiBois in the National Portait Gallery. In my view, the portrait of Miss Hall would have been a magnificent addition to the show and should be in the exhibit.
Having been a friend of Mrs. Laura Wheeler Waring and Henry B. Jones, I felt compelled to pass on my thoughts to you.
Most Sincerely,
Milton Morris James Coodinator of Tutorial Services La Salle University
MMJ/je
cc: Mrs. Madeline Weeler Murphy Professor David C. Driskell Professor Jacqueline J. Bon,emps
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BRANDYWINE WORKSHOP
1520-22 Kater Street Philadelphia, PA 19146 215-546-3657
Offset Institute Visiting Artist/Intern Project Visual Artist in Public Service Program "Philly Panache"
October 21, 1987
Dear Artists: [David: hand-written]
I am happy to forward to you a copy of our catalogue, U.S.A. Printworks, which was published through the U.S. Information Agency's "Arts America" program.
This catalogue compliments the exhibition of 45 prints from our permanent collection of Visiting Artist prints which is now on exhibition in Mali, West Aftica and will continue on tour for two years to fourteen African nations under the auspices of "Arts America".
We hope you enjoy the catalogue and we appreciate your efforts and creativity in helping to bring this project to its realization.
Sincerely,
[Signature: Allan] Allan L. Edmunds President
ALE: emg enclosure
a tax-exempt cultural institution
Executive Committee: Allan Edmunds, President, Herb Showell, 1st Vive-President, Elaine Black, 2nd Vice-President, Melvin Hardy, Jr., Treasurer, Louise Stone, Secretary, Associates: Doris Burrell, John E. Dowell, Jr., Charles Fuller, Betty Lawrence, Charles A. Powell, Sr., Dr. J. Otis Smith, John L. Wade, Ronald White, Esq., Clarence Wood, Honorary Associates: Joe Baily, Robert Blackburn, Samuel J. Brown, John Cook, Sam Gilliam, Leon N. Hicks, Paul F. Keene, Jr., Elizabeth Catlett-Mora, Fransisco Mora, James L. Wells, Dr. Bernard Young.
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Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies FRANCIS SCOTT KEY HALL, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK, MD. 20742 (301) 454-2740
October 16, 1987
Dr. David A. Driskell Department of Art Art/Sociology Building CAMPUS
Dear Dr. Driskell: [David: handwritten]
Enclosed please find the agenda for the Advisory Board meeting on October 30. I am pleased you are able to attend and I look forward to seeing you.
Sincerely,
[Signature: Adele] Adele Seeff Exectutive Director
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Enclosure
ADVISORY BOARD
S. SCHOENBAUM Director
ADELE SEEFF Executive Director
DAVID ALAN BROWN National Gallery of Art
HOWARD MAYER BROWN The University of Chicago
ESTHER COOPERSMITH Potomac, Maryland
DAVID C. DRISKELL The University of Maryland
ELIZABETH EISENSTIEN The University of Michigan
ROBERT L. GLUCKSTERN The University of Maryland
O. B. HARDISON Georgetown University
SHIRLEY STRUM KENNY Queens College, C.U.N.Y
BERNARD M. K. KNOX Darnestown, Maryland
MAX PALEVSKY Los Angeles, California
J. G. A. POCOCK John Hopkins University
ELIAS L. RIVERS S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook
DAVID TRIMMER-SMITH Oxford University Press
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Agenda
CRBS Advisory Board Meeting
October 30, 1987
Dean's Conference Room Francis Scott Key Hall
I. Report on 1987 Spring Programs
A. Newton Symposium B. Follow-up Programs to Summer Institutes
II. 1987 Summer Programs
A. Shakespeare Institute B. Fine Arts Institute C. Follow-up Programs
III. 1987 Fall Programs
A. ACTER residency, October 19-24 B. Handel Festival
IV. Inauguration of new Washington Collegium for the Humanities lecture series
V. Report on Center Publications
VI. Life Cycle Symposium Update, April 20-22, 1988
VII. Proposal to NEH Funding Prospects
VIII.New Business
IX. Scheduling next meeting
