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Monumental Notes • SOS! project coordinators from the northeastern states gathered for a day-long brainstorming and information-sharing session in January at the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Garden in Lincoln, Mass. For more information, contact Abbe Levin, Maine SOS!, (207) 287-2724. Texas SOS! and Ohio SOS! also hold informal gatherings to share ideas and resources. Please inform the national staff of other comparable programs. • A three-day symposium, "Dialogue/94-Coatings for Outdoor Metals Used in Artistic and Historic Works," is set for July 12-14 in Baltimore, Md. Coatings technology needed in the treatment of outdoor metals employed in art and architecture will be discussed. The event is sponsored by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Public Affairs Subcommittee on Conservation & Historic Works, NIC and the National Park Service. For more information, contact NACE, (713) 492-0535. • A free public symposium, "The Samuel Dorsky Symposium on Public Monuments," will be held Friday, March 18 in New York, N.Y., and will feature a lecture by Donald Martin Reynolds, author of Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition from the American Renaissance to the Millennium (Abbeville Press, 1993, $67.50). For more information, contact Reynolds at (212) 643-8730. Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property (NIC) President: Lawrence L. Reger Save Outdoor Sculpture! Susan Nichols, Program Director Cathryn Kastriner, Program Assistant Lynn Clark, Program Assistant Karen Theimer, Program Assistant Jill Wiley, Program Assistant National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (NMAA) Director Elizabeth Broun Research and Scholars Center, Rachel Allen, Acting Chief Inventory of American Sculpture Christine Hennessey, Coordinator; Sarah Carter, Robin Dettre, Caryn Houghton, Nancy Paternotte, Margaret Reneke Save Outdoor Sculpture! is a joint project of the NMAA and NIC designed to establish a thorough base of information about and to focus attention on preservation of outdoor sculpture. Funding is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Getty Grant Program and the Henry Luce Foundation. Three times annually, SOS! Update reports on the project's progress and activities related to outdoor sculpture in the U.S. Readers are encouraged to reprint or duplicate SOS! Update. Credit should read: "Reprinted with permission of Save Outdoor Sculpture!" For more information, contact SOS!, NIC, 3299 K Street, NW, Suite 403, Washington, D.C. 20007; (800) 422-4612; (202) 625-1495. SOS! Update is printed on paper that meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION National Museum of American Art Room 250, MRC-210 Washington, DC 20560 Address Correction Requested Bulk Rate Postage & Fees Paid Smithsonian Institution G-94 Official Business Penalty for Private Use, $300 SOS! UPDATE FEBRUARY 1994
