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-52- collections which are of direct relevance to the Afro-American heritage. The collections, while not great in number, include everything from sheet music, advertisements, and first editions of novels by Blacks to photographs, recordings, and numerous artifacts of daily life among Afro-Americans. Additional collecting must await the development of a Collections Management Policy. Based in large measure on its major exhibitions, the Museum's public programming has produced several catalogs and a number of video tapes which have both circulated through the National Audiovisual Center and been used in exhibitions in the Mall museums. Additionally, the Museum has developed six traveling exhibitions which have circulated to seventeen local government agencies, organizations, and schools in 1987 and 1988 and has organized nearly three dozen lectures, concerts, performances, symposia, courses and workshops. More programming of this sort is being developed along with the Museum's next major exhibition, "Afro-American Inventions, 1619-1930." Archives of American Art The Archives of American Art counts among its holdings the collections of more than thirty Afro-American artists, which collections range in size from a few documents or single oral history to more than several thousand documents, and the Archives continues to build upon these collections with periodic additions. In the last two years the Archives began to document self-taught artists in the South, many of whom are Black, and has acquired papers, photographs, and oral histories for at least five significant artists. In the next two years the Archives will augment these efforts with a potentially important collecting project which has identified Afro-American artists in Chicago as a largely undocumented group. The Archives does only very limited public programming, including its scholarly journal (of which a recent issue contains the article "Jacob Lawrence and the Legacy of Harlem") and one or two symposia and lectures annually, and none has been specifically developed to relate to the Afro-American community. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art The Sackler Gallery, which is devoted to the arts of Asia, and the Freer Gallery, which includes very limited programs in American art alongside a primary interest in Asia, are not programmatically able to respond to the need for development of greater responsiveness to the Afro-American community. Both galleries are extremely concerned with the establishment and maintenance of ties with a widely-based Asian-American community, however, and are evolving programs to attract a new audience to their exhibitions and other public programming. Cooper-Hewitt Museum The Cooper-Hewitt's collections contain only a handful of specific items which would be of obvious interest to the Afro-American community; these include some works of Winslow Homer depicting Blacks in the nineteenth century, two nineteenth-century samplers crafted by Blacks, and textiles and related designs by Nancy Carter of a Bedford-Stuyvesant design/industry group. While the Cooper-Hewitt has traditionally not targeted particular groups in its acquisitions, recent increased
