Join The National Postal Museum on December 8, 2022, at 5pm ET along with our colleagues from the National Portrait Gallery as we serve as co-hosts for the National Portrait Gallery's monthly virtual program “In Dialogue: Smithsonian Objects and Social Justice.” How do ongoing environmental efforts inspire us to engage and take action in our communities and beyond?  We will explore this key question in relationship to a 1934 stamp from the Federal Duck Stamp Program and a 2019 portrait of marine biologist Julie Packard by the artist Hope Gangloff.

Image Credit: LEFT: 1934 Form 3333 with first hunting permit stamp ever sold (detail), 1934. Gift of Jeanette Cantrell Rudy. National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution. RIGHT: Julie Packard (detail) by Hope Gangloff, 2019. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; funded by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Board of Trustees. © Hope Gangloff.