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annual report 2015

2015 annual reporT a Message from the director and the president

New acquisitions to the Pappajohn Park. Unprecedented community outreach. Innovative and challenging classes. A year to remember.

2015 was another year to remember at the in the exhibition Selfie: Self Portraits From Des Moines Art Center. Major acquisitions the Permanent Collection. More than 7,000 from John and Mary Pappajohn completed votes were cast when we partnered with their extraordinary gift of important artworks The Des Moines Register for the exhibition creating the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in It’s Your Choice. We expanded our outreach . These included efforts to include partnerships with 20 social by , service organizations, and the fourth-grade Mark di Suvero, , Jaume tour program added another district to our list Plensa, Ugo Rondinone, Richard Serra, of participating schools. The studio program and Tony Smith, among others. Additional continued to offer innovative and challenging noteworthy gifts came from Stacy Polydoran, classes to the public, such as those offered including works by Jim Hodges, Josiah in our new technology lab. Member groups McElheny, and Robert Therrien. Purchases Art Noir, Print Club, and Salon 4700 grew include major artworks by Nick Cave and and expanded the Art Center’s reach into the Mickalene Thomas. Exhibition highlights community. In particular, Salon 4700 exceeded such as Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa; our expectations for member participation in Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – present; Laurel its inaugural year. left Nakadate: Strangers and Relations; and East We completed several capital improvement Shown here at twilight in the Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Mark di Suvero’s T8 is one of the many outstanding and Beyond: Helen Frankenthaler and Her projects, including the renovation of the gifts accessioned by the Art Center in 2015 from Contemporaries showcased new accessions landscape installation, Greenwood Pond: John and Mary Pappajohn. to the collections as well as contemporary Double Site, by Mary Miss, and several visitor Mark di Suvero (American, born China, 1933) T8, 1987 dialogues in the field. service enhancements. These included Painted steel art Center staff continued to develop renovations of existing restrooms on the lower Overall: 343 x 288 x 444 inches pathways for active participation in our level of the Saarinen building and the creation Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of John and Mary Pappajohn, 2015.12 exhibitions and educational programs. of a new, family and handicapped accessible Photo © Cameron Campbell The “knit bomb” project, in conjunction with restroom near the Information Desk. We also

below Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – present, drew concluded conservation work on eight major Docent Roy Nilsen sheds some light on Dan Flavin’s more than 400 participants; more than sculptures in the collections, including Carl Untitled (For Ellen) with a group of children from Hispanic Educational Resources’ early education center Conmigo. 270 members of the public saw themselves Milles’ Man and Pegasus, which graces the courtyard reflecting pool. We could not be the institution we are today without the support and participation of our members, our board of trustees, and the community at large. Through their ongoing financial assistance, we were able to create several art acquisition endowments, including the Kyle and Sharon Krause Art Acquisition Fund and the Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey Moving-Image and Time-Based Art Fund. Additional support was also provided for the Fingerman Lecture Series and the Toni and Tim Urban International Artist-in- Residence program. It takes a community to grow and flourish, and we find abundant assistance in the Des Moines metro and in the state of . Thank you all for your support.

Jeff Fleming Director Kyle Krause President, Board of Trustees

b des moines art center 2015 annual reporT 1 exhibitions

Fourteen exhibitions in 2015 encouraged widespread community engagement and participation through voting for artwork for It’s Your Choice, yarn-bombing Greenwood Park during Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – present, and posting selfies within the exhibition Selfie: Self Portraits From the Permanent Collection.

1 Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa February 13, 2015 – April 19, 2015 Anna K. Meredith Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

Single-Channel 5: Dance (part two) Kent Monkman / Dance To Miss Chief February 20 – June 15, 2015 Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

2 The Departure of the Argonaut: Prints by Francesco Clemente February 27, 2015 – May 17, 2015 John Brady Print Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center 1 Antique Abstraction March 13, 2015 – September 2015 Blank One Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

Iowa Artists 2015: Austin Stewart April 30, 2015 Levitt Auditorium Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

3 Fiber: Sculpture 1960– present May 9, 2015 – August 2, 2015 Anna K. Meredith Gallery, I. M. Pei and Richard Meier buildings, Kyle J. and Sharon Krause Atrium Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

3 4 Sea Life May 22, 2015 – September 20, 2015 John Brady Print Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

4 Single-channel 5: Dance (part three) Rosemarie Padovano / Paloma June 19 – October 4, 2015 Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

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Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations September 4, 2015 – January 24, 2016 Anna K. Meredith Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

4 It’s Your Choice September 17 – December 13, 2015 Blank One and Two Galleries Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

East and Beyond September 29, 2015 – January 17, 2016 John Brady Print Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

Single-channel 5: Dance (part four) Rashaad Newsome / Icon October 9, 2015 – February 21, 2016 Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

Iowa Artists 2015: Jessica Teckemeyer 5 October 29, 2015 – February 21, 2016 John and Mary Pappajohn Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

5 Selfie: Self Portraits From the Permanent Collection December 18 – April 24, 2016 Blank One Gallery Organized by the Des Moines Art Center

Visitors and Art Center staff members joined in the fun and took their own selfies in the SELFIE exhibition, around the museum, and around the world, #ArtCenterSelfie.

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4 des moines art center 2015 annual reporT 5 selections from the new ACCESSIONS

The Art Center accessioned 92 works of art into the permanent collections in 2015 through purchases and gifts. We are extremely grateful to the many donors who made these accessions possible.

1 Mickalene Thomas (American, born 1971) Left Behind Again 2 2014 Relief, intaglio, lithography, digital, collage, enamel paint Board: 44 x 65 1/4 inches Image: 41 3/8 x 63 5/8 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from the Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., and an anonymous gift, 2015.1

Isa Genzken (German, born 1948) Durchgang 1988 Concrete and steel Overall: 96 7/8 x 47 1/4 x 27 9/16 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of John and Mary Pappajohn, 2015.2

2 Jaume Plensa (Spanish, born 1955) Nomade 2007 Painted stainless steel / Overall: 27 x 17 x 18 feet

Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; 1 Gift of John and Mary Pappajohn, 2015.3 Photo © Cameron Campbell

3 Willem de Kooning (American, born , 1904 – 1997) Reclining Figure 1969 – 1982 (see page 9) Bronze / Overall: 68 x 140 x 96 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of John and Mary Pappajohn, 2015.11

Mark di Suvero (American, born China, born 1933) T8 1987 Painted steel / Overall: 343 x 288 x 444 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of John and Mary Pappajohn, 2015.12

Tony Smith (American, 1912–1980) Willy 1962, fabricated 2005 Painted steel / Overall: 91 1/4 x 224 x 135 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of John and Mary Pappajohn, 2015.25

4 Nick Cave (American, born 1959) Rescue 2013 Mixed media including ceramic birds, metal flowers, ceramic Doberman, vintage settee, and light fixture / Overall: 88 x 72 x 44 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from the Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., 2015.29.a-.b

6 des moines art center 2 4 2015 annual reporT 7 selections from the new ACCESSIONS

Each work accessioned in 2015 will enrich the collections as well as the community for years to come.

5 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Italian, 1876 – 1944) Milano: Edizioni Futuriste di “Poesia” Les Mots en Liberté Futuristes (Futurist Words in Freedom) 1919 Typographic text printed in black and red; 112 pages, including 4 foldout pages Overall (book closed) 7 5/8 x 5 1/16 x 3/8 inches Overall (book open): 7 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from the director’s initiative and the Fairall Trust, 2015.31

Francesco Clemente (Italian, born 1952) Perry Tymeson at Petersburg Press, , Petersburg Press, Inc. Untitled A 1986 Lithograph on paper 7 Overall: 27 x 119 3/8 inches Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of Petersburg Press, Inc., to the Des Moines Art Center in honor of Amy N. Worthen, Curator

of Prints and Drawings and the mounting of 5 Outer case above and inside page right the exhibition of Francesco Clemente: Rockwell Kent (American, 1882 – 1971) The Departure of the Argonaut, 2015.33 Frontispiece, vol. 5, Casanova, Memoirs 1925 Tom Marioni (American, born 1937) 6 Josiah McElheny (American, born 1966) Relief print from a copper line relief plate Catherine Brooks (American) Museum Storage: Please Do Not mounted on woodblock, after ink drawing, Crown Point Press Remove the Labels 1994 on paper One Second Sculpture 2002 Blown glass, wood cabinet, and text Sheet: 10 x 6 3/8 inches Direct gravure with water bite aquatint Overall: 28 x 20 x 9 1/4 inches Image: 7 9/16 x 5 1/4 inches printed in black and blue Des Moines Art Center; Paul and Anastasia Des Moines Art Center Permanent Sheet: 32 x 23 3/16 inches Polydoran Collection, 2015.39.a-.l Collections; Gift of Keith Shaver in honor of Plate (image): 20 15/16 x 13 1/4 inches Mary and Roy Shaver, 2015.64.5 Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Robert Therrien (American, born 1947) Gift of the Des Moines Art Center Print Club Untitled (snowman) 1985 Robert S. Moskowitz (American, born 1935) in Memory of Marilyn Baker, 2015.35 Acrylic on acid free archival cardboard The Thinker 1983 Frame: 61 1/2 x 45 1/2 x 1 inches Pastel on paper Jim Hodges (American, born 1957) Board: 56 x 40 inches Frame: 55 1/2 x 32 3/4 x 2 inches Arena I (white white) 2006 Des Moines Art Center; Paul and Anastasia Sheet: 52 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches Screenprint with 24 k gold leaf Polydoran Collection, 2015.40 Des Moines Art Center; Paul and Anastasia Frame: 60 1/8 x 41 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches Polydoran Collection, 2015.81 Sheet: 56 3/4 x 38 inches 7 Mika Rottenberg (Argentine, born 1976) Des Moines Art Center; Paul and Anastasia Cheese 2008 Anna Gaskell (American, born 1969) Polydoran Collection, 2015.38 Mixed media Untitled #35 (Hide) 1998 Dimensions variable C-print Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Image: 36 7/8 x 49 inches Gift of Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Des Moines Art Center; Paul and Anastasia 6 Learsy, 2015.41.1-.205 Polydoran Collection, 2015.90

All photos by Rich Sanders, Des Moines, Iowa 3 unless otherwise specified

8 des moines art center 2015 annual reporT 9 education programs SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Tours Creativity Days Nearly 700 elementary students from the Des Moines metro, Perry, and United Community school districts attended the 21,125 “Creativity Days” program, in which second- people through fifth-grade students engaged in were served by three enrichment activities inspired by the tour program design elements, repetition, and pattern. in 2015 They rotated through a participatory tour of the collection, raised heart rates during a creative movement session, and created 1 4,707 an accordion book adorned with stamped toured the museum. prints. Photos and thank you notes

Fingerman Lecture 2015: art critic Roberta Smith Artist Nick Cave (right) in conversation with former Senior Curator express the success of the days’ events. 5,560 Photo courtesy Eric J. Salmon Gilbert Vicario. Photo courtesy Eric J. Salmon (see front cover) visitors toured the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park. Lectures and Gallery Talks 858 Audio Tours Fourteen lectures were presented at the people participated in off-site Nearly 2,100 unique callers listened to Art Center in 2015 serving more lectures about the Art Center. audio tours of the Pappajohn Sculpture than 1,650 people. World renowned Park and the Art Center’s permanent art critic Roberta Smith served as the and curator of Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – collections, and another 100 people used 26th Fingerman Lecturer and spoke about present gave a revealing talk about her iPod tours at the Art Center. her journey to and research and curatorial process in a behind- included among the thousands of people writing art criticism in today’s multi-platformed the-scenes lecture about the exhibition. participating in guided tours were more landscape. Former Senior Curator Gilbert A pioneer in the use of fiber as art medium, than 5,500 fourth-grade students from Vicario’s exhibition Field, Road, Cloud: Art Magdalena Abakanowicz was the subject Des Moines, Indianola, Newton, Prairie and Africa was supported by a series of of esteemed curator Mary Jane Jacob, City-Monroe, Saydel, S.E. Polk, Waukee, wide-ranging lecture topics: artist Nick Cave who presented a sobering lecture on the and West Des Moines Public School spoke about his work, social consciousness, artist’s life and art. Artist Laurel Nakadate Districts. Students from five Urbandale and identity; University of Iowa Professor participated in a candid interview about elementary schools also began Christopher Roy’s lecture drew from his vast her photographic series “Strangers and participating in tours in the fall. well of firsthand knowledge of West African Relations” with her husband, author Rick objects and culture; and Assistant Professor Moody, in conjunction with her eponymous Films Kelly Baker, also from the University of Iowa, exhibition. Twenty-three film programs were presented a gripping talk about the burden nearly 350 participants attended presented, with more than 3,400 people of water, sanitation, and hygiene-related 11 gallery talks throughout the year. attending. Film festivals, as in years past, issues in Africa. In the most creatively titled Art Center curators Laura Burkhalter, were the most popular screenings. lecture of the year, “Raiding Neptune’s Vault Gilbert Vicario, Amy N. Worthen, and and Other Curious Enterprises,” artist Director Jeff Fleming engaged visitors in Mark Dion spoke about his work in concert their respective exhibitions. 2015 Iowa Artist with Curator of Prints and Drawings Jessica Teckemeyer spoke to 60 people Norwalk High School Days student poses as a cat enthusiast character Amy N. Worthen’s exhibition Sea Life. on the opening night of her show in

Docent Sharyl Smith leads a tour of fourth grade students Jenelle Porter, Mannion Family Senior Curator the John and Mary Pappajohn Gallery of High School Days through the museum. at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston the Richard Meier building. The 2015 installment of High School Days took given the task of taking the sole portrait as inspiration the Laurel Nakadate: Strangers that would exist of a peer’s character and Relations exhibition. In an effort to emulate and consider how they would choose to DOCENTS the psychology of photographing a stranger capture the essence of this person. While Guided tours led by 64 specially trained volunteer docents, engaged people of all ages (as was a condition in Nakadate’s portraits), the portraits were printed, students viewed in conversations about the permanent collections, special exhibitions, and architecture in a list of characters was given to participating the film The Truman Show and pondered 2015. The docents’ aim is to engage visitors and empower them by teaching strategies teachers in advance of their visit. Students philosophical discussion questions. The to interpret works of art on their own. The Art Center’s docents collectively donated more randomly drew assignments and were asked day’s activities concluded with a group than 4,300 hours of service in 2015, including touring and training. to dress and act as their characters and not critique and final character reveal conducted officially reveal their persona until a given time. in the lobby of the museum. Twenty-one candidate docents were accepted into the training program in the fall. After viewing Nakadate’s show, students were Six docents celebrated 10-year anniversaries: Jan Evans, Chris Hartoft, Roy Nilsen, Jon Oakland, Sharon Simmons, and Sandy Thompson Creativity Days activities

10 des moines art center 2015 annual reporT 11 museum education STUDIO education

Iowa Museum Association Enrollment for studio classes totaled 15,034 in 2015, with 3,547 individual children Conference and adult students attending 478 classes, workshops, and day camps. Education Director Jill Featherstone and Studio Education Coordinator Haley Babcock presented the session “Sharing Your Story Sisters enjoying the symphony’s activity at Studio Programs offered 478 The Four Seasons Art Sampler. with Visitors” at the 2015 Iowa Museum classes, workshops, and day Association Conference in Pella on October camps over the course of three designed to introduce the students to a 6. The presentation included sharing trimesters, with enrollment reaching variety of art forms and science inspired approaches on how to engage visitors of all 3,547 children and adults in the by Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. levels with the stories emanating from our art, Image and Identity Colloquium community. Attendance for these Art Center students participated in a nine and how those stories are communicated In September, 15 participants from the classes totaled 15,034. The month curriculum (that included a youth through studio art classes, docent training, Women’s Residential Correctional Facility Art Center’s vital scholarship funds symposium with students from all of the Architect Tim Hickman led two at-capacity tours of guided tours, and artist workshops. participated in an Image and Identity the Art Center which centered on looking at the unique enabled 207 children and adults collaborative partners), a community-centric Colloquium led by artist Laural Nakadate challenges of the Art Center’s spaces. from the community to partake Art Sampler, and a final performance and and author Rick Moody. They explored such in classes. The scholarship program exhibition at the Temple of Performing Arts. Minefields of the Museum questions as “What is a photograph able, enriched the lives of students at an additional Art Sampler, designed for The thematic series “Minefields of the or not able, to capture about a person? ART more than 75 different elementary, families to participate in art activities and Museum: Architecture, Restitution, Is professional photography more or middle, high schools, and colleges view demonstrations, meet instructors, and Conservation, Forgeries, and Controversy” less ‘real’ than a snapshot? How is a delete SPECTRUMS in the Des Moines metropolitan area. learn about classes presented a children’s offered a variety of programs that revealed photograph a vessel of meaning?” The film festival, Animated Adventures produced some of the issues that can cause Art Spectrums launched in 2015 women received complimentary copies of Seven student exhibitions (children and adult) by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. headaches for the museum world. Art Spectrums, a free program for children the exhibition catalogue and a personal featuring artwork made in the Art Center’s Attendance for these events totaled 590. architect Tim Hickman led two at- with autism ages 5 – 12 and their families, description of the series by Nakadate classes were installed in the Adrienne and Twenty-two teens from metro high capacity tours of the Art Center which was piloted in the fall with the purpose herself. After sunset, Nakadate took Charles Herbert Galleries throughout 2015 schools were enrolled in the inaugural centered on looking at the unique of enabling children with autism and their portraits of the women and each was given and accompanying receptions drew Des Moines Art Center Teen Academy, challenges of our spaces. The film Adele’s families to engage with artwork and have fun an 8.5 x 10 inch framed print. 1,064 people. Additionally, one guest a merit based scholarship program Wish was screened, which shines light on at a museum. Participants visit and discuss in addition to hearing about Nakadate exhibition was mounted: West Des Moines designed for college bound teens who the topic of restitution, after which Chief a work of art in the collections for inspiration and her work, the women learned about Community Schools Impact of Art, which want to advance their artistic skills and Registrar Mickey Koch spoke about the and then make their own artwork in the each other. In advance of the meeting, celebrates the visual arts accomplishments School visited the Art Center weekly to build a college portfolio. Additional custom Art Center’s provenance research. Art studio. The program provides an opportunity participants were asked to select a few of students from all 14 West Des Moines participate in art classes for school credit. education classes were offered to the conservation was another focus of the for children with autism, siblings, parents, meaningful photographs and bring them to Community Schools and recognizes seventy-one preschool students from Downtown School, Sacred Heart Catholic series and it was expertly illuminated by and other family members to have fun and the colloquium. Rick Moody, well-known scholarship recipients from their district. five early education centers participated School, Holy Family Catholic School, Midwest Arts Conservation Center Objects make memories with art. for his novel The Ice Storm, led the women in museum inspired art activities in their Central Academy, and various Johnston Conservator Nicole Grabow, who has in a writing exercise based on one of their Customized Education classroom. This program was developed elementary schools. worked on a few Art Center sculptures photographs. The women were asked to Classes to introduce the museum to young learners in recent years. The crime of art forgery write a letter to someone they care about, In addition to class attendance 4,412 while participating in art activities designed was raised in the film Art and Craft, which describing why they value the photo. Moody children and adults attended customized to aid in the development of fine and gross follows one of the most prolific art forgers set four guiding principles for the exercise: education classes at the Art Center and in motor skills. in U.S. history. The same subject was then Be honest the community. Twenty-one Art Center students tackled in a sold-out lecture by Robert K. Be open Fifty-five seventh-grade and 53 eighth participated in a nine month collaboration Wittman, founder of the FBI art crime team. Be personal grade students from St. Augustin Catholic with students from DanzArts, Des Moines Controversy was the final matter addressed Tell a story Symphony Academy, and the Science Center by the film Dirty Pictures, which focused on The women penned their letters while Students in the Spring 2015 Drawing and class (ages 6 – 8) present their work of Iowa. This inter-disciplinary program was the 1990 trial of Cincinnati Contemporary they waited to be photographed. Once Arts Center Director Dennis Barrie, who the portraits were shot, the participants was accused of promoting pornography reconvened, and one by one showed their

by presenting an exhibit of photographs personal photo and read their letters aloud. Teens create a community yarn bomb inspired by by Robert Mapplethorpe. Curator Laura It was a memorable night of sharing and Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – present which they installed in Greenwood Park behind the Art Center. Burkhalter then lead a discussion with compassion, demonstrating the emotional the audience about a few of art history’s capacity of art. Fifteen teens from the community critically reviewed exhibitions. participated in a community yarn bomb inspired by Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present with artist Amy Caterina. Throughout the year, the Art Center also collaborated with the Blank Park Zoo, the Des Moines Playhouse, and the Greater Des Moines Botanical Gardens. An expressive self-portrait created by an Art Spectrums student

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The Art Center’s community outreach program enriched the lives of Fourteen matches from Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Central Iowa worked more than 1,035 at-risk youth and adults in 2015. Growth in the program together to create a mosaic bowling pin to included the development of eight new community partnerships and help support their mentor program. This programs. The attendance for outreach programming totaled 3,193. activity provided the youth the opportunity to give back to the community. Each of their completed bowling pins were auctioned off at the Big Brother and Big Sisters’ annual The Art Center provided art activities for pre- kindergarten through fourth grade, who were fundraiser Bowl for Kids’ Sake. Art education is used as adolescent children and teens throughout participants in Oakridge Neighborhood the year at Youth Emergency Services Services EDUcamp. Attendance for this a tool to help outreach Nineteen residents and their adult mentors & Shelter. YESS provides emergency program was 147. participants acknowledge from Orchard Place’s Residential shelter, respite, and counseling for children Treatment Center attended three events their unique identities ages birth through 17. Attendance for this Forty-five parents and children from the at the Art Center that included a visit to the and use artistic expression program was 182. Oakridge program Parent and Child museum or Pappajohn Sculpture Park, lunch, to overcome adversity Together visited the exhibition Field, Road, Studio Education Director Tracy Duran and instructor Ramona Muse Lambert work with Conmigo students. and a related studio activity. Orchard Place’s and establish a sense Afterschool Artist Program expanded Cloud: Art and Africa and worked together Residential Treatment Center serves children Achieving Maximum Potential (AMP) to repurpose old clothes into new items to include all 11 Des Moines Public middle to create an inspired piece of art. of positive self-worth. in need of intensive mental health treatment. is a youth-driven advocacy and leadership creating a variety of scarves and bags. schools, enriching the lives of 106 students. Fifty Orchard Place youth also participated group for teens and young adults who Each school participated in a four- to six- Eighty-three mentors and youth from in a four-week art class that focused on have faced the challenges of out-of-home Forty students from Children and week after school program designed to keep Mentor Iowa attended two unique District Wide Program: Children creativity, self-expression, and using art as a placement, whether foster care, group Families Urban Mission in kindergarten the youth engaged in a positive activity and afternoons of shared fun which included and Families of Iowa Classroom coping skill. Many of the youth find happiness homes, shelters, or all three. The organization through fifth grade participated in two-week promote creativity. Curriculum for all programs lunch, museum visits, and related studio served 35 youths who reside in Children and a sense of calm in creating art, and the provides opportunities for service learning multidisciplinary art classes that integrated included a visit to the museum and related activities. Mentor Iowa is dedicated to and Families of Iowa (CFI) group homes and weekly class provides them the opportunity projects, advocacy, and educational/vocational art, science, and literature. The students studio activities inspired by work in the providing trained, volunteer mentors to attend the District Wide program through to express themselves in a safe space. assistance for the youth as they transition into explored a variety of topics related to the museum. Classes were held both at the abused, neglected, and delinquent children the Des Moines Public School District. Orchard Place serves youth from a variety adulthood. Monthly art activities were provided natural sciences, read related children’s books, Art Center and at the individual school who are under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile This program serves students in grades six of backgrounds who struggle with severe to aid the youth in building self-confidence and and created artwork inspired by their learning. campuses making the program accessible to all Court in Polk County. This organization through twelve who need intensive behavioral psychological and mental illness. promote the importance of creativity and self- Attendance for this program totaled 71. students. Attendance for this program was 477. provides guidance to children in need of and academic support to help them reach expression. In October, the youth from AMP graduation. The students spend two and assistance to enhance their self-esteem, Throughout the summer the Art Center collaborated with local artist and instructor Hispanic Educational Resources’ a half hours a week during the school year Des Moines Alternative: Girls stability, and give them a chance for a provided literacy and art classes to Rachel Buse on building a cardboard umbrella early education center Conmigo Program meets the educational needs of positive future. participating in studio classes at the Art 40 students in kindergarten through inspired by the Crusoe Umbrella located in is an early childhood learning center Center. Through this partnership the students young women in grades six through eight who fourth grade, who participated in PACE Cowles Commons in downtown Des Moines specializing in bilingual, culturally affirming are provided the opportunity to receive require intensive academic and behavioral Fifteen mentors and teen mentees from Juvenile Center’s summer camp. for the Boxed-in Design contest at Reggie’s educational programming and experiences instruction. Students participate in two six- Community Youth Concepts’ Mentor high school art credit to help them reach Each art activity encompassed a literacy Sleep Out. The youth enjoyed the challenge for children and families. The Art Center week art classes throughout the school Advantage Program (MAP) enjoyed graduation. The studio art curriculum is an component based on an age appropriate of recreating a community icon out of provided a tour and art activity to 45 students year. This class provides the girls a safe an evening of dinner and creativity at the interdisciplinary approach that integrates children’s book. PACE Juvenile Center is unexpected materials. Attendance for this ages 5 through 12 who attended the environment to gain confidence and promote Art Center. The pairs visited the museum studio art, academic subjects, and museum Orchard Place’s community-based operating program totaled 215. summer camp. positive self-expression. Attendance for this and worked together to create hand printed visits. Attendance for this program was 557. division, providing skill-building services for The 2014–2015 school year culminated program was 135. holiday cards and ornaments. MAP is an Iowa a diverse population of children, teens, and Through the Lutheran Services of Iowa’s Fifteen clients of Link Associates had with a student exhibition and performance Mentoring Partnership program that builds families struggling with mental health and/or Elder Program the Art Center enriched the opportunity to participate in the Big Art During the summer the Art Center provided relationships between middle and high school at the Des Moines Community Playhouse. substance abuse issues. the lives of 20 refugees from the Kingdom of Series, a class designed to introduce self- literacy and art classes to 40 students in youth and professionals in the community. The exhibition consisted of highlights Bhutan and Burma. Weekly classes focused expression through a variety of art media. of the students’ work made at the Art Center. Oakridge Neighborhood Services EDUcamp participants Beginning in September, weekly art activities on simple projects that introduced the elder After finding inspiration in the museum, the Attendance for the exhibition and performance were provided to 10 teen girls participating in students to art and language and allowed participants created , drawings, was 75. the PACE Girls Program. The art activities them time to work independently. The class prints, and sculptures. The class culminated were integrated into their treatment program demonstrated that art and visual language in an exhibition that allowed them to present Beginning in September, 20 students from and were designed to assist in building self- can overcome cultural and linguistic barriers. their artwork to family and friends. Link FOCUS High School began participating confidence and positive self-expression, Associates provides people with intellectual in weekly art classes and museum visits. and promote healing. Attendance for this Twenty children in kindergarten through fifth disabilities opportunities to reach their goals. FOCUS provides a safe, educational, and program totaled 74. grade from Ethnic Minorities of Burma Attendance for this program totaled 188. therapeutic environment for students who are Advocacy and Resource Center in need of additional support for their social, Voices to be Heard is a support group (EMBarc) participated in literacy and art emotional, and academic needs as they for family, friends, and children of an camps. The children explored a variety of transition into adulthood. The art classes are incarcerated loved one. Art Center faculty children’s books and created art inspired by designed to help the students develop life provided art activities for 32 children to the stories. Eight teenage girls from EMBARC’s skills through creative problem solving and promote education, creativity, and self- Community Fiber Program participated in a self-expression. Attendance for this program discovery. Fashion Lab class where they learned how totaled 159.

14 des moines art center 2015 annual reporT 15 AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

The Art Center continued to engage a growing audience in new and entirely unexpected ways.

Summer on the Hill Social Media Highlights The Art Center’s popular “Summer on the Hill” brought movies to the front lawn Over the course of 2015, the Facebook on the first Thursdays and music in the audience increased by 85% to nearly courtyard on the first Fridays of June, 20,000 page likes. Through the use of , The Great Pyramid, 1969 Andy Goldsworthy’s Three Cairns in Greenwood Park July, and August. The Free Flicks series Twitter, public knowledge of the Art Center’s Upper level balcony, Pei building / Instagram photo by chuygonza Instagram photo by calvalier showed a great array of movies—the classic permanent collections increased through Hitchcock Rear Window, the comedy campaigns relating to the exhibition It’s Your Tootsie, featuring Dustin Hoffman, and the Choice as well as international initiatives science fiction cult favorite Blade Runner, like Museum Week, Ask A Curator Day, the director’s cut. To add to film attendees’ Free Museum Day, and more. In 2015, the enjoyment, food trucks were available for Art Center’s Instagram audience increased refreshments during the movies. On First by 222% and remains one of the organization’s Fridays local bands Boomerang, Parranderos most engaged online communities. Latin Combo, and Mr. Baber’s Neighbors Live blogs during lectures allowed those attracted more than 300 attendees. unable to attend to experience and learn along with the audience.

More than 250 guests supported the Art Center’s community partnerships at the annual gala celebration. Awards & Acknowledgements In August, the Art Center was named as a finalist for the Social Media Club Des Moines’ Community Tapestry Día de los Muertos annual Hashie Award in the category of In conjunction with the Art Center’s presentation (Day of the Dead) Facebook: Best Nonprofit. View to Greenwood Park over the Pei building spiral stairway of the exhibition Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – present, In early November, this annual celebration Detail of Jaume Plensa’s Nomade, 2007, with a full moon Instagram photo by j_slimm Pappajohn Sculpture Park / Instagram photo by justinrogers more than 400 fiber artists from 19 Iowa honored one of the founding members of While the Art Center regularly cities, four states, and as far away as England, the Art Center’s Day of the Dead committee, Instagram photos of a few of the Top 10 Most Photographed Places shares information about upcoming contributed knitted, crocheted, and woven Bejarano Lumadue. Entertainment and Pieces in the Art Center are featured on its Instagram page. This exhibitions and community events on submissions in an effort to reimagine the spirit of featured Mariachi Los Aguilares and Danzas audience grew 222% in 2015, becoming one of the organization’s most its social media account, staff the Art Center’s iconic painting From the Lake, Los Jóvenes Embajadores. Nearly 2,000 engaged online communities. also hosted a number of specific No. 1 by Georgia O’Keeffe. The final, massive attended this event. engagement programs and campaigns. tapestry was displayed on the Art Center’s Top 10 Most Photographed Places and Pieces

Richard Meier building for two weeks during the Facility Rentals To acknowledge and appreciate the way visitors engage with the Art Center’s collection and Slow Art Day summer. A public celebration for the tapestry’s In 2015, 34 private rentals took place at the architecture on social media, staff compiled a list of the year’s 10 most photographed places In April the Art Center participated for the unveiling was held in July, attracting more than Art Center. Rental clients included Ahlers & and pieces including works like Jaume Plensa’s Nomade in the Pappajohn Sculpture Park first time in the international phenomenon of 400 people. Appetizers, beverages, and live Cooney, P.C.; Bankers Trust; Better Homes and Dan Flavin’s Untitled (For Ellen), as well as places like the Richard Meier building’s atrium, Slow Art Day by inviting visitors to slow down music set the stage for the party on the plaza of & Gardens; Design Alliance, Inc.; Faegre Baker and the I. M. Pei spiral staircase. and spend at least 10 minutes looking at the Richard Meier building. Daniels LLP; Holmes Murphy; Kum & Go; one work of art. After their experience, they and Principal Financial Group, Inc. Numerous received a participation button and many GalA Celebration: Celebrating wedding receptions took place at the shared their experiences using the hashtag the he(art) of our community Art Center as well, including nuptials celebrated #DSMSlowArtDay. Museum Shop More than 250 guests attended this year’s by staff and friends of the Art Center. In 2015, the Museum Shop hosted several new events that contributed toward the fundraising gala held in the newly renovated collaborative community events included #ArtCenterSelfie goals of engaging the community and continuing to be a shopping destination in Capital Square atrium. Art Center patron Pat partnerships with Des Moines Metro Opera, As part of the exhibition Selfie: Self Portraits Des Moines. The first was the smART Summer Book Sale where visitors were invited to Schneider served as chair for the gala which International Students From the Permanent Collection, the Art Center browse a wide selection of books for their next great summer read while sipping coffee highlighted the Art Center’s commitment to Association, Drake University Zenith invited museum visitors to see themselves in the lobby. In the fall, the Museum Shop staff teamed up with social media staff to start More than 400 fiber artists community partnerships and its many and Chamber Music Festival, GDMLI Youth delete in the exhibition by sharing their selfie using a blog, which included a fashion photo shoot featuring apparel, jewelry, and handbags. contributed knitted, crocheted, varied outreach programs. As part of the evening’s Leadership Initiative, Heartland Marimba hashtag #ArtCenterSelfie. Visitor photos Gift Wrap 101 featured a gift wrap tutorial along with complimentary gift wrapping and woven pieces to reimagine festivities, a 10-minute video produced by the Festival, and Iowa Public Radio, which were displayed in the gallery along with the service. Come Out and Play provided an opportunity for visitors and their children to the spirit of the Art Center’s iconic Art Center was shown featuring the Art Center’s hosted a breakfast with featured guest permanent collection works. actively engage with an artful collection of toys in anticipation of the holidays. Success painting From the Lake, No. 1 by involvement with numerous community groups speaker Michel Martin, weekend host of in attendance and revenue continued throughout the year with the annual Spring Fling, Georgia O’Keeffe, shown here hung and incorporating interviews with former students, All Things Considered. Holiday in July, and Members’ Double Discount events. on the the Richard Meier building. instructors, and partners, illustrating the power of art to positively change lives.

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3,196 members enjoyed a multitude of ways to interact with the museum through salon 4700 PRINT CLUB member groups, trips, exhibition opening previews, and special events. 2015 was a stellar inaugural year for Salon Print Club continued its support of the 4700. The first year exceeded expectations Art Center’s permanent collections and by attracting 93 members. Numerous great exhibitions by offering a rich selection of events took place such as Salon 4700’s educational programs and events. Highlights In appreciation of member support, the kick-off event; a dialogue with former included talks on framing and living with art, Art Center hosted programs and events for Art Center Senior Curator Gilbert Vicario; a trip to the Poste Print Festival, a reception members such as Art for Lunch, brunches, cocktails with film director Michael Maglaras; at a private collection, and artist talks member orientations and tours, and evenings and the biggest event: A Conversation With by Catherine Brooks, Mark Dion, and with curators and special guests such as Creators. This progressive evening featuring Laurel Nakadate, who created the year’s artist Laurel Nakadate, architect Tim Hickman, four Des Moines artists at the Fitch Building commissioned print. Print Club members lecturers Mary Jane Jacob, Robert Wittman, was a highlight for many. Salon 4700 also selected Drumming and One Second and many more. Three exhibition member participated in a family program in partnership Sculpture by Tom Marioni as their annual previews were held throughout the year: Field, with Studio Education’s Art Sampler, and gifts to the permanent collections and they Road, Cloud: Art and Africa; Fiber: Sculpture offered an opportunity to enjoy brunch and voted to support conservation of Robert 1960 – present; and Laurel Nakadate: an exclusive tour of the It’s Your Choice Delaunay’s lithograph Saint Severin. Strangers and Relations. Attendance totaled exhibition with Director Jeff Fleming. The year 699 for these three openings. Members’ was concluded with an intimate evening and Book Club participants discussed Caveat private collection tour at the home of long- Emptor; I. M. Pei: Mandarin of ; time Art Center supporters Sigurd and Ann The Value of Art; Ponzi and Picasso; and other Anderson—a fitting and very special finale to thought-provoking books. Art Center patrons Jane Hinson and Lou and Pat Schneider with the group’s year. artist Joel Shapiro in his studio during the New York patron trip.

Contemporary Collectors Contemporary Collectors visited DuPont Pioneer’s corporate art collection at their Johnston headquarters in August, and Sharon and Kyle Krause’s home in October for an elegant reception and tour of their personal art collection. The Director’s Dinner attended by 90 members was held in late October at Ellen and Jim Hubbell’s home—a lovely evening with much camaraderie and enjoyment of their eclectic and fascinating personal art collection.

NEW YORK PATRON TRIP In the fall, the patron trip to New York featured a tour of the Frank Stella exhibition (which included one of the Art Center’s works by Stella) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a visit to Joel Shapiro’s studio, which turned out to be an entertaining and informative two hour visit with the artist. The group saw a Broadway play, enjoyed dinner at Bobby Flay’s Café Americain, and participated in a highly informative tour of the Neue Gallery. The group also visited many art Nearly 700 members attended exhibition opening previews including this Fiber: Sculpture: 1960 – present opening celebration. galleries in the Chelsea area and enjoyed their stay at the Standard High Line hotel, including ART NOIR a walk through the High Line linear park. The affiliate group Art Noir experienced glamour and entertainment celebrating hair another banner year as the group reached as a form of contemporary self-expression;

nearly 600 members. Highlights from the Corporate Collection Tour at American top left Salon 4700 members, shown here with artist year included HUE, the fourth annual color Enterprise, Inc.; Not Your Grandma’s Gallery Larassa Kabel, enjoyed an evening of intimate conversations Art Noir’s Des Moines Art Center Big Hair Ball drew a with artists in their studios in the Fitch Building during creative and energetic crowd of nearly 600 guests and themed celebration; the Des Moines Talk + Wine Tasting celebrating ‘No Shave A Conversation With Creators. participants dressed to impress and astound! Art Center Big Hair Ball, themed “A Big Hair November’; and Art Noir Holiday Studio, left Print Club members pose in the Fitch Building studio of Blowout,” an unforgettable evening of featuring handmade holiday gifts. printmaker Catherine Dreiss and painter Jeffrey Thompson.

18 des moines art center 2015 annual reporT 19 annual fund Homesteaders Life Company Sue Rutledge Brenton and Mary Joan Farver ms. Susan DeMarco Douglas Aupperle and Tom Chase Mary Jane Cassady and Ronald Smith Darren R. Jirsa, D.D.S. J.C. (Buz) Brenton Allison and James Fleming James and Barbara Demetrion Kelli and Bruce Baker Jody Caswell and Julie Ingersoll Mary K. and Daniel M. Kelly Robert Burnett The Frank Miller Scholarship Fund, Mr. Philip J. Dorweiler Joshua Baker and Jessica Terrill Dr. Roger I. and Kimberly Ceilley Sara and Steven Marquardt Thank you to the following donors who have made significant Charles Gabus Ford drake University Timothy and Teresa Dunbar Jeff Baldus Joe and Pat Cerne Randy E. McMullin financial contributions to the Des Moines Art Center over the past Douglas B. Dorner M.D. and Ann and John Ghrist Elizabeth Eddy Christine Conyers and Thomas Baldwin Heidi Cessford Krabbe Meredith Corporation Foundation 26 years. Gifts were contributed to Art Center campaigns, the carole Villeneuve Jo Ghrist Catherine Elliot Nancy Barnett Sandy and Jim Champion free admission program, annual operating support, conservation, O’Brien Family Foundation John and Eileen Eckert Mary Gottschalk Jann Freed and John Fisher Barton Solvents, Inc. Joyce and Richard Chapman art acquisition, programs, and more. Pappajohn Sculpture Park Katherine Elsner and Steven Adelman Barbara Graham Cornel Fuerer and Bokkkyeong Suh Jean Ann Basinger Cyndi Chen maintenance Fund Elaine G. Estes Jason and Athamandia Gross Rosalie Gallagher Sally and Dennis Bates John and Lori Chesser $1,000,000+ Polk County Anastasia Polydoran Farm Bureau Financial Services Charles and Janet Haas Andrew Gangle and Katrina Guest Mr. Rex Batson Teresa and James Choi Mr. Myron and Mrs Jacqueline N. Blank Craig and Kimberly Shadur Mary and Stanley Seidler Fingerman Lecture Fund Dr. Joseph D. 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Macomber Mary and Tom Urban Jim and Debbie Israel Jody and Stan Reynolds Kimberly and Eric Roush Peter and Rita Reed Susan and David Brown Karen Creager and Steve Barker The Fred Maytag Family Foundation Toni and Timothy Urban Fritz James John and Lisa Rhodes Renee and Steve Schaaf Dianne Riley Donald and Barbara Brown Jill Creveling Meredith Corporation Foundation Dennis and Diane Young John Deere Lisa Rogers Mindy and Gary Scholten Dr. Harlan and Mrs. Audrey Rosenberg Joanne Brown Gary Cromer and Judy Porter National Endowment for the Arts Lisa Kruidenier Loretta and Robert Sieman Jaey and Brenda Sedlacek Kent and Janice Rosenberg Nancy Brown Ruby C. Cureg Lauridsen Family Endowment The Sharon A. Simmons Charitable Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Shreck Steven Rosenberg Robert T. Brown Diane Cuttell Margaret and Warren May Foundation Fund Jill Smith and Keith Walton Mr. David Safris and Mrs. Karen Safris Jordan Brownlee Mr. and Mrs. David Dahlquist Patricia McFarland Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Stahl Peggy and Charles Strief Suzanne and Gary Shapiro Roger and Barbara Bruene Nancy and Guy Danielson Michael H. and Gina K. Miller Myrt Levin and Tom Stephenson Ted and Kathy Stuart Bruce and Barbara Sherman Julie and John Bruntz Dr. Peter Daniolos and Neumann Brothers, Inc. Sally Titus Dr. Sally Studer Mark and Mary Ellen Stanley Phillip and Rebecca Bryant dr. Raynard S. Kington 2015 was a memorable year for fundraising thanks Cleojean Olson Variety - The Children’s Charity Target UBS Financial Services Robert and Anne Buck Johnny and Teresa Danos to the Art Center’s generous donors. Jill and Mark Oman Kay Ward Mr. Rick Tollakson Michael Wallace Stewart and Mary Buck Jon Darsee $100,000+ DuPont Pioneer Dr. Mary and Mr. Suku Radia Willa Wenzl Urban Charitable Foundation II Alice Walton Edward Buckingham Lisa Stange and Jon Davidson 21st Century Endowment Ellen and Jim Hubbell Gail and Stanley Richards West Bank Urban Charitable Foundation IV Mark and Karrie Weinhardt Ms. Lois J. Bullinga Donna Davilla Pamela Bass-Bookey and Harry Bookey John and Penny Krantz Debra and Douglas Roberts Robert L. and Ruth E. Wiese Trust Joyce Van Pilsum Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Diana L. Bunten Ronda and Michael Davis Bravo Greater Des Moines Jeanne and Richard Levitt John Ruan Foundation Trust Connie Wimer and Frank Fogarty Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Weitz Leigh Wichern Chris Burch Patricia Davis James D. Edmundson Foundation Maddie Levitt Patricia and Louis Schneider Dr. Jeffrianne and Dr. Eytan Young Mr. James F. and Ann C. Willer Mr. and Ms. Jerry Burgess Marilyn and Stanley Davis Hands On, Des Moines Endowment J. Locke and Harriet S. Macomber Michael Simonson Alan Zuckert Missy and Michael Wolnerman $100 – 499 Joan Burke Charles Day Kyle J. and Sharon Krause Mid Meredith Zuendel Endowment Fund Gordon J. Smith Kathy and Steve Zumbach Krenio Wright Erica Abell-Holland and Brent Holland Don and Pam Burkhead Kristian Day Anna K. Meredith Endowment Trust Nationwide Foundation Mary and Tom Urban Mechile and Charles Adams Mary Ellen and Frederick Burr Daniel and Marilyn Deavers Toni and Timothy Urban The Principal Financial Group US Bank $1,000 – 2,499 $500 – 999 Liz and David Adelman Lauren and Mike Burt Patrick and Mardi Deluhery VOYA Financial, Inc. A.E. Easter Family Foundation Inger H. Anderson Will Aeschliman and Joshua Signs Suzie Glazer Burt and Gregory Burt Des Moines Golf & Country Club $50,000 – 99,999 $15,000 – 24,999 Mary Ann and James Wallace Art4Moore Crystal Helbing and James Austin C.J. and Sara Alexander Matthew and Betsy Busick Tom DeTaeye John and Mary Pappajohn Iowa Arts Council, a Division of the Iowa Deborah and Douglas West Badower’s, Inc. Susan Barnes and Jean Davis Mary Alice and Gary Amerman Eric A. Butler Jacquelyn and Donner Dewdney The Wallace Foundation Endowment department of Cultural Affairs William Randolph Hearst Foundation Julie M. 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Blank Fund for Mary and Doug Bruce Philip and Robin Bear George Davenport and Polly Starling Robert and Marlene Buckley The Arnold Family Phyllis Carpenter Mark and Julia Doll museum Education Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy Belin McCormick, P.C. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Eckhouse Nancy C. Caponi and Robert F. Adams Angie Arthur Linda and Robert Carpenter John and Lettie Domini The Bright Foundation The Cowles Charitable Trust Cheryl and Bill Bergren Jenna and Jason Ekstrom Mr. Frank Cecil Jim Asklof and Sondra Carter and Richard Free Patricia Donhowe W. T. and Edna M. Dahl Trust Patty and Jim Cownie Charitable Fund Margo and Donald Blumenthal Essex Meadows, Inc. Mrs. Paula Coffey stephanie Furstenau Asklof Tamara Carter Andrew and Isabel Doria The Hinson Family Foundation Patricia and Bill Brenton Dr. Joe DeMarco and Betty Augspurger Simon and Patricia Casady Patricia and Doug Dornacker

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Hein Liz and Robert Lee Robert Montgomery Sandra Riggs Tori Squires Kathleen and James West Jillene and James Ferguson Susan Breen-Held and Steven Held Jennie LeGates and Fritz Wehrenberg Gloria and Paul Morris Wes and Karen Ritchie Dr. Lawrence Staples and Patricia and Paul Westphal Jonathan Fialkov, M.D. and Kate Henry Deanna R. Lehl Brenda and Bernard Mouw Dawn and Stephen Roberts mrs. Marilyn Staples John and Joan Wetherell mrs. Jill Fialkov Christine and Steve Hensley Ann Lehmann Susan Skinner and Mark Movic Rudy and Jean Roe Carol Stayner Jeanne White and David Sampel Martha and Jim Fifield Victoria Herring and Mark McCormick Karen and Charles Leibold Ann Mowery and Allan Powers Craig Rogers and Margaret Wilcox Michael and Simma Stein Toni and Bill Whitman Robert and Diane Findlay Doris Hertsgaard Harriet and Duane Leitch Robert and Tracy Mullen Donald and Darcy Rogerson Shirley M. Stetson and Roger F. Stetson Malinda Wiesner Dr. John Fingert Steven and Karen Herwig Peggy and Jim Leonardo Mary Muller Joseph and Karen Romano Hannah and Scott Steuben Dolores A. Willemsen Richard and Elizabeth Fisher Judy Hines and Shelley Mossberg Janet and David Leslie Clayton and Julie Murphy Ms. Jessica Rooker Sarah Steward and Jeff Bruning Robert and Jean Williams Mr. Oliver G. Fleming Christine and Terry Hines David and Barbara Lettween Brian Murray and Jeff Hartman Sol Rosenbaum Nancy and William Steward Beth Wilson Andrew Flynn and Linda Shevlin Harry and Starr Hinrichs Ann Levine and Bryan McCay Marilyn Musser Mark and Janet Rosenbury Pamyla and Clarke Stewart Jean and George Wilson Stephen and Ann Forney The Michael S. Hipp Family Caroline W. Levine Ms. Diane Myers Nanette King and Thomas Ross Roger and Carolyn Stirler Ms. Annabel Wimer Shirley Foster Mrs. Martha Hippee Tracy Levine Pauline Kay Myers Joanne and Jonathan Roth Susan Stocum Sandra and James Windsor, III Teresa McMahon and Garth Frable Harlan and Dorothy Hockenberg Bertel Lewis Jeff Nall M. Jessica Rowe and Thomas T. Tarbox Pat and Scott Stouffer Marvin and Robbie Winick Ric and Susan Frambach Brent and Anna Hoffman Diane and Calvin Lewis Joe and Marla Naumann Mr. and Mrs. John Ruan, IV Saundra Strong Art and Sue Wittmack Joe Freund and Nicholas Roth Rebecca and Alan Hoisington Jesse and Linda Lewis LaVonne Neerland and Stephen J. Voit Brenna and Craig Rueschhoff Jayne A. Sullivan Ms. P.D. Jenison and Mr. Irving Wolfe Dr. Carole A. Frier Denise and Alan Holck Elizabeth Lidgett and Nick Renkoski Bill and Jennifer Nellans Sandy and David Ruhs J. M. Sullivan Molly Wood Barbara Royal and Deidre Fudge Gerald and Rosemary Holland Kelli and Gracie Linnemeyer Staci and Michael Nevinski Ms. Lori Sacco Sriram Sundararajan Paul Woodard Gannett Foundation Sharon and Bob Holz, Jr. Edward Loeb Niccum Family I. Pour-El and Paul Sacks Nancy and Keith Swanson James C. Work Dr. Corrine and Dr. J.G. Ganske Connie and Stan Honken Christina and Joseph Logsdon Judith and John Nicholson David and Kris Saggau Mathilde Brown Swanson and Karen and Sumner Worth Judith Garber Ms. Kristine Houston Brad and Lori Long Roy and Mary Nilsen Jenelle and James Sarcone, Jr. richard Swanson Amy and Thomas Worthen Sarah Gardner and Thomas Frolick James and Nicole Howard John and Nicole Lozier Paul Novak Patrice Sayre Ms. Vivian J. Swanson Fredda Wright Jennifer Garst and Steve Libbey Elizabeth and Stephen Howell Kaye and Richard Lozier Jason and Carla Nunemaker Claudia A. Schickler and Paul Schickler Thomas Swartwood and Terri Combs Gerald Wurtz and Marilyn Dysart Kate Garst and Leland Searles Darla and G.A. Hulse Rick Lozier and Kathryn Gamble Lozier Samuel and Sarah O’Brien Steven and Cristen Schipper Joyce and Benjamin Swartz Jon Yankey Dr. Sarah Garst Jeffrey Hunter and Janet Griffin Kristi Lund Lozier and William Lozier Amy and William O’Brien Richard and Jacqueline Schmeal David and Denise Swartz Mary and Kerald Yearns Jon and Sara Gaskell Marcia and Michael Hunter Paul Lubetkin Nancy O’Connell Deb Wiley and John Schmidt Laura and Michael Sweet Warren Young Mr. and Ms. Nolden L. Gentry Alan and Denise Hutchison Rita and John Luther Joel and Kathy Olah Mr. Larry Schmidt Dianne and David Swieskowski Terry Zeimetz Thomas and Katherine Geraty Christine and Tim Ihrig Jeanne and Mark Lyle John W. Olds, M.D. and Rosemary Olds Joseph Schneider Dr. Kenneth and Mrs. Cathy Talcott Jenny Graham Zimmerman Michael and Ann Gersie Annette Isaacson David W. and Laura Mackaman Marlene and Gary Olson Mr. and Ms. Robert Schoeller Sandra and Robert Tatge and Dan Zimmerman Pat Gessman Carl and Joan Jackson Gillian Madigan Susan J. Olson William and Karen Schoenenberger Dawn Taylor Kent Zimmerman Jean A. Gifford and D. Craig Gifford Joanne Stevens and Thomas Jackson Rosemary Mahoney Martine and Nathan Olson-Daniel Russ and Diane Schrage John R. Taylor April Zingler Olena and Ryan Gilbert Ramin and Donya Jahromi Dr. Jeffrey T. Malik and Kylee C. Malik Olson-Larsen Galleries Jack and Georgianne Schreiber Mr. Larry Taylor Jane and Roger Zobel John Gilgun Michelle McGovern and Jack Janda Li Zhao and Justin Mandelbaum Eileen O’Meara Bert and Nancy Schroeder Susan Taylor Dr. Harvey Giller and Ryan Jennings Paul and Lynn Mankins Stephen Orr and Chad Jacobs Mary Ellen Schulte Chuck and Sylvia Terlouw mrs. Barbara Hirsch-Giller Andrea Jensen Joan Mannheimer Jean O’Shea Kenneth and Linda Schultheis Mary and Mike Thilges

22 des moines art center 2015 annual reporT 23 operating Revenues and Support Board of Trustees 2015 Staff

The Des Moines Art Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose officers honorary trustees ADMINISTRATION INSTALLATIONS Kyle Krause Mertze Anderson Jeff Fleming Jay Ewart mission is to engage diverse local and international audiences with PRESIDENT Kirk V. Blunck EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHIEF PREPARATOR Patricia McFarland Woodward G. Brenton Sue Lundstrom Mindy Meinders EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT the art of today through its museum and school, adding to the cultural VICE PRESIDENT Melva Bucksbaum ASSOCIATE PREPARATOR

Toni Urban Robert Burnett Jeff Ashe record through collections and programs. AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT second VICE PRESIDENT Elaine Estes Brad Ball Christine Doolittle Stacy Polydoran Louis Fingerman INSTALLATION TECHNICIANS DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND PUBLIC SECRETARY Mell Meredith Frazier RELATIONS Johnnie Friedman MEMBERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT James Wallace Megan Bannister TREASURER Barbara Gartner Total revenues Contributed Support Social Media Manager Emily Bahnsen Elise Shuler Geraghty DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR James Hubbell, III Barbara Briggie-Smith Michele Griswell CHAIRPERSON & EX-OFFICIO DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS Staci Harper Bennett Charles S. Johnson ASSOCIATE visitor services Supervisor Lana Jones-Gould BOARD Debra Kurtz Jerrod Jordahl Richard S. Levitt DIRECTOR OF EVENTS Grants Associate Pamela Bass-Bookey Harriet Macomber Julie Brenton Cathy Williams Julia Mason Gray Marvin E. Mazie Facility Rental Manager Membership and Visitor bravo Joseph H. Ceryanec 19% Tom Meredith services manager Graham Cook Theresa McIlhenny memberships Judith Milligan Leslie Onthank contributed Lois Fingerman Inta Garrett 23% Nancy Powell Montgomery Membership and database administrator support Christine Hensley Sharyl Smith Gregg Narber endowment 25% Bruce Hughes visitor services ASSISTANTS gifts John Pappajohn MUSEUM SHOP and trust income James Israel and grants trustees Katie Peverill BUILDING & GROUNDS Sarah Jane Shimasaki 58% Dale Jansen 24% 17% Cynthia Rehm RETAIL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Darren Jirsa Don Burkhead Gail Richards ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DIRECTOR Mary Kelly Ellen O’Neil Harris Lucia R. Riddle LEAD SALES ASSOCIATE John Krantz Kurt Nicholson Lou Schneider FACILITIES MANAGER corporate Lisa Kruidenier Hannah Borge Mary Seidler Mary Lou Grotewold support Jeanne Levitt Kevin Brown Gaylord Torrence Laura Palmer 17% Warren May Brian Evans Thomas N. Urban SALES ASSOCIATES education Mike Miller Joey Hanlin Timothy J. Urban 6% Mary Pappajohn Gene Swan William F. Vernon PROTECTION SERVICES Suku Radia* MAINTENANCE staff Museum Fred Weitz Mike O’Neal Shop Pat Schneider FINANCE PROTECTION SERVICES DIRECTOR 4% Craig Shadur Mike Simonson Cheryl Tuttle Myron Anderson SECURITY OPERATOR other special Dennis E. Young SENIOR DIRECTOR OF FINANCE 1% events Janet Weeden Andy McDonald CHIEF GUARD 6% *At large member of ACCOUNTANT/BENEFITS ADMINISTRATOR the Executive Committee Vincent Bejarano Total Expenses 2015 Financial Summary CURATORIAL Rollie Bramhall Laura Burkhalter Ralph Briggs marketing Operating Revenues and Support $6 million CURATOR Ted Brubaker and public Walt Brumbelow Amy N. Worthen relations Total Assets $110 million CURATOR OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS Andy Buch education 7% Milton Bunce Jr and outreach Total Net Assets $109 million Michael Davenport museum EDUCATION 18% William Dawe shop Jill Featherstone Tom Dodge 5% DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION Thomas Dolezal 2015 attendance Tracy Duran Trudy Dolezal STUDIO EDUCATION AND Rhonda Fingerman Des Moines Art Center 112,962 OUTREACH MANAGER Vance Fischer Haley Babcock Donald Gage John and Mary Pappajohn STUDIO EDUCATION COORDINATOR Eileen Gloor Sculpture Park 37,944 Diane Collett collections, Christopher Haines STUDIO EDUCATION AND visitor Claudia Cole Meek exhibitions, Subtotal 150,906 Services Assistant and works of art Dianne Melton Michael Lane Ernest Moore 45% Des Moines Arts Festival 268,000 STUDIO EDUCATION COMMUNITY Isaac Shella-Stevens COORDINATOR Total Attendance 418,906 Mark Swisher Megen O’Toole David Thrasher MUSEUM EDUCATION ASSISTANT membership, SECURITY GUARDS development, Dara Saunders and audience STUDIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATE REGISTRATION engagement 17% INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Mickey Koch CHIEF REGISTRAR Robert Reeves SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Megan Cohen assistant REGISTRAR/curatorial assistant administration 8% Sydney Royal-Welch ASSISTANT REGISTRAR/CURATORIAL ASSISTANT

AS OF DECEMBER 2015

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