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1,600 museums across the United States will waive admission for active members of the military and their families between Memorial Day and Labor Day under the Blue Stars Museums program.

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  • Ellen Tani

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    Ellen Tani, a graduate student at Stanford University, is the 2011 recipient of the inaugural ACAC Writing Fellowship. Her affiliation with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford has shaped her research significantly, which focuses on modern and contemporary art and race theory in postwar America. She was the 2008 Curatorial Initiative Fellow at D.C. Arts Center in Washington, D.C., and has held internships at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Ellen holds a BA from Dartmouth College and is pursuing her PhD in Art History from Stanford University.

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