MALL ENTRANCE CLOSURE: Note: The museum’s Mall Entrance at Madison Drive, between 12th and 14th Streets, will remain closed due to building maintenance through Feb. 24. Visitors will be directed to the Constitution Ave. Entrance. For safety reasons, buses should still unload and pick up passengers on Madison Drive. Check the website for updates.

PORT TOWNSEND — A Port Townsend-based historian has been appointed to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History board. Public historian Susan Ferentinos, Ph.D., whose work has been nationally recognized, will travel to attend her first in-person board meetings next Thursday and Friday in Washington D.C.

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist Nick Cave collected thousands of objects to mount an exhibition on memory and history. His giant mammoth sculptures are potent, timely symbols of erasure and rediscovery.

A Smithsonian traveling exhibition maps the family ties and ingenuity behind lowriders—from post-World War II Chicano pride on boulevards to global car shows Valborg “Mama” Gravander helped build a community based on her heritage and skill. A piece of her legacy is now on display at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery