There are art-filled sculpture gardens and art parks across the country, offering a great way to experience art in a beautiful setting.

Storm King Art Center

1 Museum Rd, New Windsor, New York, USA

PHONE 845 -534 -3115

With 500 acres of outdoor modern sculptural art, Storm King features rolling hills forests and streams with modern sculptures dotted across the landscape. Some works are built directly into the landscape, like Maya Lin’s “Wavefield”. Be prepared for a lot of walking owing to its size.

Glenstone Museum

12100 Glen Rd, Potomac, Maryland, USA

PHONE 301 -983 -5001

Beginning in 2006 with a single building of indoor art in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., it expands to 300 acres of a sculpture garden. Visitors are led along carefully-landscaped paths, with a selection of artworks strategically placed along the way. The massive flower-covered “Split-Rocker” by Jeff Koons is hard to miss. Making it indoors, you’ll catch pieces by modern sculptors.

Olympic Sculpture Park

2901 Western Ave, Seattle, Washington, USA

PHONE 206 -654 -3100

Opened by the Seattle Art Museum in 2007 at a former industrial site, this 9-acre park is now the largest green space in the city. Views of the Olympic Mountains provide background for the 20 artworks. Visitors can explore the path and see pieces by modern sculptors, and one of Jaume Plensa’s enormous heads, modeled on a 9-year-old girl.

Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery of Art

Constitution Ave NW &, 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC, USA

PHONE 202 -289 -3360

Though small, the sculpture garden belonging to the National Gallery of Art contains symbolic pieces by the world’s greatest sculptors, including Louise Bourgeois’s “Spider” and Marc Chagall’s “Orphee”, a 10 by 17 foot sculpture made out of glass and stone.

This year, we are once again bringing our annual Adopt-a-Book Evening online via two salons (沙龙). The program provides essential funding to support the conversation, acquisition, and digitization of books, manuscripts, and other materials held by the world’s largest museum complex and research institution.

September 20—Adopt-a-Book Salon: The Lived Experience

5: 30 to 6: 45 pm ET

Focusing on stories of life from across the Libraries and Archives (档案馆).

September 26—Adopt-a-Book Salon: Your Smithsonian: Past, Present, and Future

5: 30 to 6: 45 pm ET

Showing items celebrating the Smithsonian, past, present, and future.

$35 per person, per event. We’re offering a discount if you attend both salons: $ 60 for both.

FAQs.

How will the salons work?

The events will be held on Zoom, and each one will feature about 20 books presented by six of our librarians and archivists. After you buy your ticket, you’ll get the link to join. Right before 5: 30 pm ET on the day of the event, you’ll click on that link to join the Zoom. Then you’ll be rotated (轮换) through three “rooms”. While it would be great to see you during the event, you certainly don’t need to have your camera on if you don’t want to! However, we do recommend that you join by computer so that you can see the presentations.

How do I adopt during the event?   

This year, you’ll be able to bid on (竞标) your favorite items during and after the events. After you buy your tickets, you’ll receive the link to the online auction (拍卖) before the event, and you’ll have the chance to browse. Once the auction opens, you’ll be able to place the bid. You will have to set up an account and provide your credit card information to ensure that your bid is legal. If you have the winning bid, a member of our team will follow up to process your donation with you or provide our address for you to send a check.

Winners Club

You choose to be a winner!

The Winners Club is a bank account specially designed for teenagers. It has been made to help you better manage your money. The Winners Club is a transaction account(交易账户)where you receive a key-card so you can get to your money 24/7 – that’s 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

It’s a club with impressive features for teenagers:

·No account keeping fees!

You’re no millionaire so we don’t expect you to pay large fees. In fact, there are no account keeping or transaction fees!

·Excellent interest rates!

You want your money to grow. The Winners Club has a good rate of interest which gets even better if you make at least two deposits(储蓄)without taking them out in a month.

·Convenient

Teenagers are busy – we get that. You may never need to come to a bank at all. With the Winners Club you can choose to use handy tellers and to bank from home using the phone and the Internet•••You can have money directly deposited into your Winners Club account. This could be your pocket money or your pay from your part-time job!

·Mega magazine included

Along with your regular report, you will receive a FREE magazine full of good ideas to make even more of your money. There are also fantastic offers and competitions only for Winners Club members.

The Winners Club is a great choice for teenagers. And it is so easy to join. Simply fill in an application form. You will have to get permission from your parent or guardian (so we can organize that cool key-card) but it is easy. We can’t wait to hear from you. It’s the best way to choose to be a winner!