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  • Smithsonian Affiliate Nuclear Museum to Host Virtual Event of Asian Cultural Performances

    Smithsonian Affiliate Nuclear Museum to Host Virtual Event of Asian Cultural Performances

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    On Saturday, May 8, beginning at 10:00 am MT, the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History will treat guests to a free and virtual Asian cultural event filled with live and pre-recorded sessions including cultural dance performances, captivating activities such as origami and calligraphy, learning about beautiful Ikebana floral arrangements, delicious Asian food demonstrations, and more.

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    updated: Apr 29, 2021


    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 29, 2021 (Newswire.com)
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     New Mexico’s Asian communities will virtually provide cultural performances and music, bright Japanese floral arrangements, intricate Chinese art activities and much more beginning at 10:00 a.m. MT, Saturday, May 8. The Smithsonian Affiliated National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, partnered with the Sandia National Laboratories Asian Leadership Outreach Committee, will virtually host the 24th Annual Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Day, celebrating the cultural traditions, ancestry, native languages, and unique experiences represented among ethnic groups from Asia and the Pacific.

    Virtual guests will be treated to both live and pre-recorded sessions that include cultural dance performances, captivating activities such as origami and calligraphy, learning about beautiful Ikebana floral arrangements, delicious Asian food demonstrations and more.

    “We are very proud to once again host this inspirational day showcasing the many facets of Asian and Pacific Island cultures,” said Jim Walther, the Museum’s Director. “Though we must meet virtually during our 24th year celebrating Asian culture and heritage, we look forward to a day filled with inspiration and beauty.”

    Through the continuing support of the Chinese Cultural Center and Lin’s Martial Arts Academy, Talin Market, New Mexico School of Chinese Language and Arts, Ikebana International Chapter 41, BK Taiko, Association of Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists of New Mexico, and the New Mexico School of Chinese Language & Arts, virtual visitors will be treated to performances including Chinese martial arts, Chinese dancing, Polynesian dancing, Japanese Taiko drumming, Asian food demonstrations and much more.

    Pre-registration is required, and it is free to attend. Sponsorship for this event is from the City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund.  

    For more information about this event, please email info@nuclearmuseum.org or visit nuclearmuseum.org.

    The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History is located at 601 Eubank SE in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the entrance to the Sandia Science & Technology Park. Formerly the National Atomic Museum, which opened in 1969 and was chartered by Congress in 1991, the Museum serves as a repository and steward of nuclear-related historical items and is a nationally accredited, Smithsonian affiliate. The Museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 361 days a year. The Museum’s website is nuclearmuseum.org and the phone number is 505-245-2137.

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    Source: National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

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  • TMA Names Kristopher Driggers Assistant Curator, Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art

    TMA Names Kristopher Driggers Assistant Curator, Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art

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    updated: Jan 31, 2019


    TUCSON, Ariz., January 31, 2019 (Newswire.com)
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    The Tucson Museum of Art (TMA) announces the appointment of Kristopher Driggers as TMA’s Assistant Curator, Bernard and Jeanette Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art. Currently, a lecturer at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the nation’s second-largest Hispanic-serving Institution, Driggers will finish his semester of teaching and join TMA full time in early May to manage and develop TMA’s Latin American, Spanish Colonial, post-Colonial, and Latin American folk art collections, with emphasis on pre-Columbian art. Until then, he will be making visits to Tucson for collection research in preparation for the installation of the collection at TMA’s forthcoming Kasser Family Wing. 

    Driggers, who obtained his bachelor’s degree in History of Art from Yale University in 2011 and his master’s degree in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2014, expects to obtain his Ph.D. in Art History, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art from the University of Chicago in May. He participated in the Center for Curatorial Leadership Mellon Seminar in Curatorial Practice in New York in 2017.

    According to TMA CEO Jeremy Mikolajczak, “Kristopher’s range of study, international research and experience will provide the vision and practical skills to present, interpret and build TMA’s pre-Columbian collection, install the Kasser Family Wing, and produce insightful publications, public lectures, and symposia.”

    While at Yale, Driggers held multiple fellowships, including the Josef Albers Traveling Fellowship which allowed him to travel and study pre-Columbian objects in Mexico, Guatemala and Peru. He has worked as a development coordinator at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas; a curatorial employee in African Art at the Yale University Art Gallery; and an intern in the curatorial departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.

    Before beginning his teaching position in Texas last year, Driggers conducted fieldwork for three years in Mexico City and surrounding regions, as well as in Madrid and other European collections. His research has been supported by a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, among other awards.

    Driggers has written about his research for publication and has regularly presented his research at scholarly conferences. In 2017-18, he spoke at the Frick Collection in New York, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, and in conferences in Mexico and Colombia, where he lectured in Spanish. He is organizing a panel on pre-Columbian art for the 2019 College Art Association conference on the topic of “Indigenous Languages of the Americas and the Language of Art History.”

    Driggers’ knowledge and commitment to the highest standards of scholarship and interest in engaging diverse communities will advance TMA’s reputation as a leader in Latin American art and its service to our distinctive art and multicultural communities.

    Press Contact: Cami Cotton
    Phone: (520) 616-2689
    Email: ccotton@TucsonMuseumofArt.org

    About the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block

    The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block’s mission is “Connecting Art to Life.” The museum was founded in 1924 and is located in the El Presidio Historic District of downtown Tucson. It is Southern Arizona’s premier presenter of fine art and art education programs.

    The museum features permanent and traveling exhibitions of Modern and Contemporary, Native American, American West, Latin American, pre-Columbian, European, and Asian art. The 74,000 square foot museum offers guided tours, and education programs. The museum’s historic block of 19th and 20th C. adobe and Mission Revival-style buildings, encompassing a four-acre city block, includes the John K. Goodman Pavilion, the highly acclaimed museum restaurant Café a la C’Art, the Museum Store, and additional exhibition spaces.

    TMA is a private 501(c)(3) charitable arts and education organization. For Tucson Museum of Art hours, admission prices, membership opportunities, and exhibitions, please visit TucsonMuseumofArt.org or call (520) 624-2333.

    Source: Tucson Museum of Art

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  • Witte Museum Paleontologist Names New Species of Fossil Crocodile

    Witte Museum Paleontologist Names New Species of Fossil Crocodile

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    updated: Sep 14, 2017


    SAN ANTONIO, Texas, September 14, 2017 (Newswire.com)
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    Dr. Thomas Adams, Witte Museum Curator of Paleontology and Geology, has described and named a new species of fossil crocodile discovered in North Texas. Dr. Adams, the lead author of a paper outlining the find, describes Deltasuchus motherali as one of the “top predators in its ecosystem.”

    As Curator of Paleontology and Geology, Dr. Adams developed the content for the Naylor Family Dinosaur Gallery at the Witte Museum which includes Deinocuchus riograndensis, another prehistoric crocodile that lived in what we now call Texas. The giant prehistoric crocodile is one of the most popular ancient animals in the dinosaur gallery.

    Dr. Thomas Adams, Witte Museum Curator of Paleontology and Geology, has described and named a new species of fossil crocodile discovered in North Texas. Dr. Adams, the lead author of a paper outlining the find, describes Deltasuchus motherali as one of the ‘top predators in its ecosystem.’

    Dr. Thomas Adams, Curator of Paleontology and Geology

    Deltasuchus, a relative of modern crocodiles, lived around 95 million years ago, and ruled the coastlines and waterways of what would one day become north-central Texas. Adults of the newly discovered and described species Deltasuchus motherali grew up to 20 feet (6 meters) long, and left behind bite marks on the fossilized bones of prey animals, suggesting that it was an opportunistic animal, eating much of what was in its environment, from turtles to dinosaurs.

    Dr. Adams, along with co-authors Drs. Chris Noto, at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and Stephanie Drumheller-Horton, at the University of Tennessee, published the description of the new croc species in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. A unique aspect of the find is that it was discovered in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, a place that normally is not associated with ancient fossils.

    The site that produced the new species was discovered in Arlington, Texas, in 2003 by amateur fossil hunters Art Sahlstein, Bill Walker and Phil Kirchoff. Dubbed the Arlington Archosaur Site (AAS), the area is undergoing rapid residential development, and paleontologists have been working with local volunteers and fossil enthusiasts to excavate the site over the last decade. Deltasuchus motherali is named for one of those volunteers, Austin Motheral, who first uncovered the fossils of this particular croc with a small tractor when he was 15 years old. Work on the site is supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society, which is funding continued excavations and study of this unique fossil locality. Fossils from the site, including the Deltasuchus motherali bones, are part of the collections of the nearby Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas.

    Deltasuchus is the first of what may prove to be several new species described from this prolific fossil site. The locality preserves a surprisingly complete ancient ecosystem ranging from 95 million to 100 million years old, and its fossils are filling in an important gap in our understanding of ancient North American land and freshwater ecosystems. While most of Texas was covered by a shallow sea at this time, the Dallas-Fort Worth area was part of a large peninsula that jutted out into this sea from the northeast. This peninsula was a lush environment of river deltas and swamps that teemed with wildlife, including dinosaurs, crocodiles, turtles, mammals, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, as well as plants.

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    About the Witte Museum:

    Founded in 1926, the Witte Museum is where Science, Nature and Culture Meet, through the lens of Texas Deep Time, and the themes of Land, Water, Sky. Located on the banks of the San Antonio River in Brackenridge Park, the Witte Museum is San Antonio’s premier museum promoting lifelong learning through innovative exhibitions, programs and collections in natural history, science and South Texas heritage.

    Source: Witte Museum

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