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Substantial Planning Grant Received |
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Kitty Dubreuil's Exhibit Journal '98 |
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Fall 1997 - Summer 1998:
Two other great people have joined our exhibit production team: Sue Voss is our writer and Deborah Wood has come on board as our registrar. The other important piece of the project, the catalogue, is moving along at a fast pace. It will be published by Perpetua Press out of Los Angeles, and it's going to be the same highly successful format as "Crossroads of Continents". We are very excited to be able to produce what will be a beautiful and educational work. To keep everyone informed about what else is happening, we have a page for "Kamuy" on the ASC Web site entitled "Ainu: Anatomy of an Exhibition". We thought the general public might enjoy learning what it takes to produce a major exhibition, so we are writing it as a person would write a diary. So far we have received great comments and suggestions. - Chisato (Kitty) Dubreuil, Ainu Exhibit Coordinator |
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Comments? Please contact us. |
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Good News! In the Fall of 97, we received a substantial planning grant from the Nippon Foundation in Japan, and a smaller grant from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. Together these will allow the project to proceed. What a relief! We also have a firm opening date for the exhibition, April 29, 1999. That may seem like a long way off but in the museum world, 18 months to develop an exhibition of this size, almost 5,000 square feet, has us running. We have hired the services of an exhibition designer, Douglas/Gallagher's Rob Malootian and Leslie Geer, with whom we are very happy. They have worked on several major Smithsonian projects, and other exhibitions including Chiefly Feasts. 
Most recently, Ainu artist Masahiro (Hiro) Nomoto from Hokkaido has come to carve traditional wooden objects for use in the exhibit. His first project is a 12 foot model of an ocean-going dug out canoe. Because he carves using traditional methods, the log for the canoe first had to be blessed in a ceremony which many at the Smithsonian were very honored to have witnessed.