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services on an ongoing basis. We see no need to incorporate very specific language regarding the two year grants or the sit-out period at this time.

Addressing Issues of National Concern

What affect, if any, do your grants have on addressing issues of national concern?

Providing institutional support for all types of museums strengthens the Nation's educational infrastructure. IMS addresses this national concern in a unique way, building museums' stability, through general operating support, while allowing local communities to decide on programs and exhibition content. In addition, museum-school partnerships help teach students in every subject area from science and math to history and art.

Caring for collections ensures that future generations will have access to our nation's scientific, artistic, cultural and historic heritage. Though held locally, museums' collections are valued nationally. Our museums and the treasures they hold are part of a public trust.

IMS also strengthens private support for museums. Its grants for peer acknowledged excellence help spark important public private partnerships that are vital to the health of museums in small and large communities throughout the country.

IMS encourages museums to address issues of national concern as they affect local residents. The National Award for Museum Services applauds the efforts of museums that have become an integral part of their communities. These museums use their resources to affect change in a variety of areas: supporting at-risk youth, helping families, building strong communities, assisting in economic development, addressing environmental concerns and much more. Last year the following museums were recognized:

The Brooklyn Children's Museum, NY, for their work with young teens who are a part of the MUSEUM TEAM, a program that addresses the city-wide lack of adequate, supervised, educational activities for school-age children during their non-school hours.

The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL, for their success in creating a home for Mexican culture "sin fronteras" (without borders) and their work on issues of central concern to the Mexican people.

The Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, VT for galvanizing community support and spearheading a unique center for recycling and waste management for the entire state of Vermont.

The Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA, for their intergenerational exhibits that engender community pride and raise awareness about the contributions of Asian Pacific Americans in Seattle.

Cultural Tourism

You note that IMS has taken a central role in cultural tourism. What is IMS currently doing in this area?

In FY 96, IMS has announced that it will consider proposals that under its Professional Services Program that enhance the role of the nation's museums in promoting and benefiting from cultural tourism. IMS believes museums are important factors in cultural

tourism - travel directed toward experiencing the arts, heritage, and special character of a place or travel for personal enrichment - and should expand their role. IMS encourages projects to inform the museum community about the practices of the tourism industry and to inform the tourism industry of the services museums offer to attract tourists. Applicants are encouraged to explore the value of collaborative efforts among museums to promote themselves to tourism.

In addition, IMS plays a role in cultural tourism through supporting the general operations of museums. Eighty-eight percent of General Operating Support grantees say that the grant helped to improve or maintain visitor services. Grantees report that the grant is used to extend or maintain hours; provide new or enhanced printed materials - - such as brochures, guides, catalogues and maps; provide more docents or better trained docents and volunteers to assist with public activities; expand or improve both on-site and off-site exhibits and programs; improve labeling and signs; improve or maintain visitor areas and maintain low or no admissions fees.

IMS has participated in the White House Conference on Travel and
Tourism.

What are the results of this conference?

The Institute, together with the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and a group of more than 30 humanities, museum, arts, and historic preservation organizations convened a post-White House Conference, Partners in Tourism: Culture and Commerce, on November 1, 1995. More than 180 persons (more than half of whom were Conference delegates) participated with Administration officials and leaders from nationally recognized cultural organizations in discussing follow-up to the Conference's recommendations -- one of which specifically cites as a priority to: "Preserve our natural, historic and cultural resources for future generations and expand urban and rural economic development opportunities by fostering environmental and cultural tourism."

Participants in the Culture and Commerce meeting identified several specific ways in which cultural agencies and organizations can encourage cultural tourism development through expanded involvement with the travel and tourism industry. These included:

• Providing opportunities for education and training;
Fostering strategic partnerships;

• Identifying and disseminating models of collaborative projects and their products;
and

• Other ways of strengthening the ability of cultural organizations to participate as full partners in the U.S. travel and tourism industry.

In addition, the final report of the White House Conference directed that the National Council of State Travel Directors, part of the Travel Industry Association, convene a series of regional "Natural and Cultural Tourism Summits” to identify strategies to meet the unique needs of each region of the country.

IMS will encourage museums participation in these conferences.

What affect, if any, will this conference have on your present or future budget requests?

IMS anticipates encouraging museums to participate in local cultural tourism partnerships through its traditional support of museums' infrastructure. IMS will also encourage this activity through speeches, conferences and articles.

STATEMENT OF J. CARTER BROWN, CHAIRMAN, THE COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS, BEFORE THE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES,

27 MARCH 1996

The Commission of Fine Arts is requesting an appropriation for Fiscal year 1997 of $867,000, basically the same as our present appropriation except for nominal increases in salaries and space rental from GSA, two items over which we have no control: a combined $19,000 general pay raise for January '96 and '97 and $14,000 for space rental. Our program remains unchanged. I believe it's worth noting that the personnel level on our staff has remained at seven for the last thirty years or more and, of course, you know that our seven members serve without compensation except for reimbursement of travel expenses.

As has been our practice for the last several years, we would like to enter into the record highlights of the more significant projects that have come before us since we met last year. A complete list of principal projects is attached to this report for the Committee's information.

ANNUAL REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES

The design and siting for Congressionally authorized memorials continue to absorb a great deal of our time:

WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL

By far the most important matter to come before the Commission in recent years is the World War II Memorial. After a great deal of deliberation, we have helped bring consensus for a site that truly reflects the significance of this conflict in terms of our nation's history: the "Rainbow Pool", between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. It is the one place we looked at (and we looked at a great many) where we could finally say that the site was truly commensurate with the historic importance of the event. This axial location has to be one of the most beautiful spots in the city.

The challenge before us now will be to find a design that measures up to the significance of the site without detracting from it in any way, and at the same time expresses the extraordinary sacrifice made by Americans, both military and civilian, during the war.

The American Battle Monuments Commission, and particularly former Ambassador Haydn Williams, appears to be very much on track in handling the complex proceedings of obtaining the site and design, and we will be looking at the results of their efforts probably sometime later this summer or early fall.

AIR FORCE MEMORIAL

The Air Force Memorial will be located on the Virginia hillside next to Arlington Cemetery overlooking Washington. It is about half way between the Netherlands Carillon and the Marine Corps Memorial. The placement will be a complement to the existing memorials without appearing to be intrusive in the natural landscape.

James Freed, who designed the Holocaust Memorial and the yet-to-be-completed Ronald Reagan Building in the Federal Triangle, is the architect, and we are most excited by his progress so far. Based on the star insignia of military aircraft, it will celebrate the sky in a most moving way and should end up as one of our more dramatic military memorials.

WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE MEMORIAL

Equally dramatic, but in a much different way, will be the Women in Military Service Memorial, situated in the hemicycle at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery. The termination of Memorial Drive was never properly finished, so this is a great opportunity to complete a very important entrance to the cemetery and at the same time provide a most fitting tribute to the Women in Military Service. Most of the construction, which is just now getting under way, will be contained behind the existing walls, so there will be little significant change to the view of Arlington House and President Kennedy's grave.

BLACK REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOTS MEMORIAL

The sponsors of the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial have had an approved design for some time but until now have not had sufficient funding to start construction. However, on the last day of February, at a gathering here in the House, they happily announced a major gift from General Motors that will get them very close to proceeding with the memorial. It is to be located at lakeside in Constitution Gardens across the water from the Signers Memorial, a most appropriate and dignified site in terms of its historic context.

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL

Located in a small park and incorporating a Metro stop on Vermont Avenue and 'U' Street, the African American Civil War Memorial will feature a sculptural grouping and the names of the 185,000 participants in the War. Funding is in place and construction is to begin soon. This memorial and its

Revolutionary War counterpart will be the first such memorials in Washington Commemorating the participation of African-Americans in the nation's historic military conflicts. It is also significant that this site is located in the U Street corridor and will create an historic presence in a recently refurbished and revitalized area of the city.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL

We are in the final phase of review of several sculptural elements for the FDR memorial, which as you know has been under construction for over a year.

The larger-than-life portraits of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt by Neil Estern have been inspected and approved; the Funeral Cortege and the well-known view of FDR on the bridge of a naval vessel, both by Leonard Baskin, also have been approved; and finally the First Inaugural piece by Robert Graham is nearing approval.

As you might guess, producing a portrait that conveys the tragic as well as heroic aspects of historic figures can be illusive even for our very best sculptors. The process often involves adjustments to the actual forms in the final phase of development before casting.

KOREAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL

The nineteen heroic figure sculptures in the Korean War Memorial, completed and dedicated last July, are an excellent example of just how long a process it is to arrive at a successful outcome. There were many, many design iterations of the troops depicted, and other changes in which the Commission was intimately involved, before a final, balanced solution was

achieved.

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