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Americans for the Arts and 2 tonight’s honorees

for their commitment ensuring broad access to the arts 2014 Americans for the Arts Monday, October 20, 2014

Welcome from Robert L. Lynch Performance by YoungArts Alumni President and CEO of Americans for the Arts Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award Legacy Award American Legion Auxiliary Madeleine H. Berman Presented by Nolen V. Bivens, Presented by Anne Parsons Brigadier General, U.S. Army, (Ret) Accepted by Janet Jefford Lifetime Achievement Award Eli and Edythe Broad Award for 3 Presented by Jennifer Russell Philanthropy in the Arts Vicki and Roger Sant Arts Education Award Presented by The Honorable Christopher J. Dodd P.S. ARTS Presented by Bell Family Foundation Accepted by Joshua B. Tanzer David Hallberg Presented by RoseLee Goldberg Dinner Closing Remarks Robert L. Lynch introduction of Maria Bell Abel Lopez, Chair, Americans for the Arts Vice Chairman, Americans for the Arts Board of Board of Directors Directors and Chair, National Arts Awards and Robert L. Lynch

Greetings from the Board Chair and President

It is our pleasure to welcome you to our annual Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards. Tonight we again celebrate a select group of cultural leaders— groundbreaking artists, visionary philanthropists, and two outstanding nonprofit organizations—who help ensure that every American has access to the transformative power of the arts.

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of all of our honorees. In this time of increasing challenges to our nation’s security and the sacrifices made by our servicemen and women and their families, we are especially pleased to recognize the American Legion Auxiliary, one of our many partners in the work we do with the military and veterans on the role of the arts & healing.

We also take this opportunity to recognize Maria Bell’s 10 years of tremendous service to this National Arts Awards event. Her leadership has been nothing short of extraordinary.

We are very glad that you are here with us tonight and we thank you for all that you continue to do to keep the arts alive across our nation. 4

Abel Lopez Robert L. Lynch Chair, Board of Directors President and CEO 5

The National Arts Awards Chair

Dear Friends of Americans for the Arts,

I’m once again delighted to add my personal message of welcome to all of you joining us tonight for the National Arts Awards.

Our surroundings are graced tonight by our featured artist, , whose work inspires me every day, literally, because I’m fortunate enough to have his images hanging in my office. His iconic portrait of President Obama during the 2008 election catapulted him, and his street art, to new heights. As his graphics brand OBEY GIANT celebrates its 25th year, I applaud the support he lends to so many causes and his consistent ability to blend image with message.

Richard Serra is to receive our Lifetime Achievement Award, and it’s hard to imagine a more worthy recipient. The size of his imagination is matched only by the size of his most prominent sculptures and installations. Even after more than five decades, he continues to move forward, and it is tremendously exciting to anticipate what he will come up with next.

6 Vicki and Roger Sant offer philanthropic leadership in several sectors, and tonight we honor them for their work in the arts. In our nation’s capital, they most notably provide both influence and funds to the , , the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Symphony Orchestra.

A new award is inaugurated tonight, the Legacy Award, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to see it go to my colleague on the board of Americans for the Arts, Madeleine Berman, who has served our organization for 25 years. In her home state of , her arts policy work has been instrumental at both the local and state levels, and earned her appointments by two U.S. presidents to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

As a board member of Americans for the Arts, over the past several years I’ve seen the profound impact of our work in promoting arts and healing, especially as our country deals with the injuries borne by those who have served. The American Legion Auxiliary has long understood the power of the arts in its work with veterans and military families, and we are honored to recognize its contributions.

The National Arts Awards Chair

The incredible dancer David Hallberg is this year’s recipient of the award named for my family’s foundation. Beyond his own considerable artistry, he so beautifully personifies how the arts can be used in cultural diplomacy via his pioneering work with the Bolshoi . He has toured the world and become one of the best ambassadors America can envisage.

Finally, the Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award goes to an organization very near and dear to my heart, P.S. ARTS. As a resident of and as a past board chair of P.S. ARTS, I am so pleased to see this organization recognized nationally for its efforts in providing a more complete education for so many of ’s kids.

It’s my pleasure to again acknowledge Edye and Eli Broad for their continuing sponsorship of our award for individual philanthropy. The two of them set the bar very high when it comes to supporting Americans for the Arts and our country’s artists and arts organizations.

We are so lucky to have all of these extraordinary honorees among us tonight. I feel privileged to chair this event for the 10th year, and I am very grateful to all the 7 wonderful people who serve on the benefit committee, as well as my colleagues on the board and staff of Americans for the Arts.

Maria Bell

Benefit Committee

Maria Bell Chair

Sarah Arison Edythe and Eli Broad Julie and Edward J. Minskoff Co-Chairs, National Arts Awards

Benefit Committee

Herb Alpert

Bill Bell

Debra and Leon Black

Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy

8 Gail and Alfred Engelberg

Larry Gagosian

David and Susan Goode

Justine and Jeff Koons

Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder

Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis

Nora C. and James M. Orphanides

Emily Wei Rales and Mitchell P. Rales

MADELEINE HARRIS BERMAN Legacy Award

Madeleine Berman was in 1994, and again in 2009, appointed by President born in and Obama. She is a major benefactor of the Michigan received a B.A. in music Theater and a long-term supporter of the from Northwestern Berman Woodwind Youth Orchestra Group at the University and a master’s Detroit Symphony. She serves on the boards of degree in speech, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Ringling communication, and Museum of Arts in Sarasota, Florida. theatre from . She has been She envisioned, built, and continues to support married to Mandell L. the Berman Center for the Performing Arts Berman for 62 years and in West Bloomfield, Michigan. She remains a they have two children and strong supporter of the Detroit Institute of Arts three grandchildren. and through the Berman Foundation, is part of the current rescue plan for that institution’s Ms. Berman’s early career in the arts included irreplaceable collection. serving as the theater and music critic for the Birmingham Eccentric newspaper and as a special She has served on the board of Americans for the projects director for the Detroit Central Business Arts since 1989. District Association, planning public performances 9 of theater, music, and in the city's public Anne Parsons, presenter parks. She pioneered auction activities to raise Anne Parsons arrived in Michigan in 2004 and has funds for the public television station, WTVS, and led the Detroit Symphony Orchestra through a helped create the Friends of WDET for public radio. challenging and exhilarating decade of change as She is a past member of New Detroit's Arts president and CEO. For more than 30 years, Ms. Committee and one of the seven original members Parsons has served in management positions for of the first Detroit Arts Council. She was also a variety of major arts organizations, including the appointed by Governor William Milliken in 1981 City Ballet, the Bowl in Los to the Michigan Council of the Arts, and in 1983, Angeles, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was appointed Vice Chair by Governor James the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, Blanchard. Ms. Berman has served on the boards D.C. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree of the Detroit Community Music School, the from Smith College and was in the first class of , and the Music Hall for the American Symphony Orchestra League’s the Performing Arts. As an early board member Management Fellowship program. She currently of Concerned Citizens for the Arts in Michigan serves on the League’s board, in addition to the (CCAM), she originated the idea of Michigan’s boards of New Detroit; Midtown Detroit, Inc.; and Governors Arts Awards. the Curtis Institute of Music. She also serves as a mentor for the Women of Tomorrow Mentor More recently, her arts service has included two and Scholarship Program, Inc. She lives in Grosse terms on the President’s Committee for the Arts Pointe Farms with her husband of 27 years and and the Humanities, appointed by President Clinton their 17-year-old daughter.

Lifetime Achievement Award RICHARD SERRA

Richard Serra was born in for Lifetime Achievement at the 2001 Venice San Francisco in 1938. He Biennale. Mr. Serra has produced large-scale, studied at the University site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban, of California (Berkeley and and landscape settings spanning the globe, from Santa Barbara), receiving Iceland to New Zealand. a B.A. in English literature while working in steel mills Jennifer Russell, presenter to support himself. He then Jennifer Russell began her museum career in 1974 trained as a painter at Yale at the Whitney Museum of American Art, achieving University, completing his the positions of deputy director and acting B.F.A. and M.F.A. He has director. Ms. Russell moved to The Metropolitan lived in New York since 1966. Museum of Art in 1993 as the Associate Director His first solo exhibitions were for Administration. From 1996 until 2010, Ms. held at the Galleria La Salita, , 1966, and, in Russell held the position of Senior Deputy Director the , at the Warehouse, for Exhibitions, Collections, and Programs at New York, in 1969. His first solo museum exhibition the Museum of in New York, where was held at The Pasadena Art Museum in 1970. Mr. she coordinated more than 100 exhibitions Serra has since participated in several Documenta and oversaw the move of MoMA’s permanent 10 in Kassel (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987) and in the collection in preparation for the museum’s physical Venice Biennales of 1984, 2001, and 2013. His expansion. Currently, as Associate Director for work has been shown in numerous museum Exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, solo exhibitions such as in Stedelijk Museum, she supervises the museum’s entire roster of Amsterdam, 1977; , , 1984; temporary exhibitions, gallery rotations, and The , New York, 1986, and outgoing loan shows, a program of approximately again in 2007, and in other museums in Europe, 35 to 40 presentations per year. She holds a B.A. the United States, and Latin America. In 2005, in American studies from Wellesley College and eight large-scale works were installed permanently an M.A. in art history from ’s at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. A traveling Institute of Fine Arts. survey of Mr. Serra’s drawings was on view in 2011- 12 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the , Houston. In April of this year, Mr.Serra installed a major permanent landscape sculpture in the desert of the Brouq Nature Reserve in western Qatar. Among his many honors are receiving a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1970, the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 1975, and the Golden Lion Photo by Matthew Sumner, 2011 Sumner, Matthew by Photo

P.S. ARTS Arts Education Award

P.S. ARTS was founded students also demonstrated measurable gains in in 1991 in response to literacy, including improved writing mechanics significant education and fluency. In the last three years alone, P.S. budget cuts that resulted ARTS has nearly doubled its service population in the reduction and and was recognized as an exemplar model for elimination of arts arts education by the President’s Committee on programs in California the Arts and the Humanities. Further, P.S. ARTS public schools. Despite programs were recently featured in the PBS evidence that children documentary Arts & The Mind, and its 4th grade living in economically students and a teaching artist were invited to depressed communities present an integrated art and science project at particularly benefit from the STEAM (Science, Technology, participation in the arts, Engineering, Arts, Math) Fair hosted by First Lady the impact of public Michelle Obama and attended by the President. education cuts on these most vulnerable youth has Ben Stiller, presenter Joshua B. Tanzer, been disproportionate. Chairperson – P.S. ARTS Ben Stiller is an , director, writer and producer. Now in its 24th year of He has directed and starred in Reality Bites, service, P.S. ARTS has grown from serving 285 11 Zoolander, Tropic Thunder, and The Secret Life students in one school to providing yearlong in- of Walter Mitty. His acting credits include There’s school arts education to approximately 20,000 Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, The students in 51 public schools across Los Angeles Royal Tenenbaums, Flirting with Disaster, Night at County and California’s Central Valley. In addition, the Museum, and Greenberg. He also co-created, P.S. ARTS contributes to the development of the with Judd Apatow, the Emmy Award-winning arts education field on a national level, serving series The Ben Stiller Show. Stiller will next star in as a partner to the Turnaround Arts initiative, a the third installment of the Night at the Museum program of the President’s Committee on the series, as well as Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Arts and the Humanities, and an expert advisor Young, which recently debuted at the on policy and advocacy councils. A recent two- International Festival. year study of the impact of P.S. ARTS programs on student success conducted by leading arts education researcher, Dr. James Catterall, found that P.S. ARTS students made statistically significant gains in their creative and critical thinking skills, their ability to problem-solve and collaborate with others, and their self-confidence. In addition to these habits of mind essential for success in a 21st century economy, P.S. ARTS Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY

The American Legion competition and festival are to recognize veterans Auxiliary is the world’s for their creative accomplishments and educate largest women’s patriotic and demonstrate to communities throughout the service organization. For country the therapeutic benefits of the arts. nearly a century, its members have dedicated themselves In addition to the national festival, American to meeting the needs Legion Auxiliary members in their own of our nation’s veterans, communities help plan, sponsor, and implement servicemen and women, healing arts activities and local Veterans Creative and their families, both at Arts Festivals. All told, American Legion Auxiliary home and abroad. Auxiliary members have volunteered millions of hours in volunteers step up for mission service. veterans in U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Nolen V. Bivens, facilities across the country, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret), presenter providing comfort items, Nolen Bivens is president of Leader Six, Inc., a healing art therapy, and management consulting, leadership development much more. Members also and training, and organizational development 12 Janet Jefford, 2014-2015 honor veterans and military services company. A U.S. Army Brigadier General American Legion Auxiliary through annual scholarships. National President (ret), he concluded over three decades of leadership and military service as chief of staff The American Legion for the U.S. Southern Command and also served Auxiliary recognizes that art can be powerful as chief operations officer for the U.S. Third therapy. VA medical facilities use the creative Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is a arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment board member of Americans for the Arts and has to help veterans recover from and cope with testified on behalf of the arts before the House physical and emotional disabilities. In 2000, the Appropriations Subcommittee of the Interior. He American Legion Auxiliary partnered with the is co-chair of the National Leadership Advisory VA’s National Veterans Creative Arts Festival, an Committee for the National Initiative for Arts and event that assists veterans in healing from both Health in the Military and has been a guest speaker their physical and psychological wounds through for the National Summit on Arts and Health in the visual and performing arts, and has become its Military and the Aspen Seminar for Leadership in presenting sponsor. The Auxiliary helps fund the Arts. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from South the event and provides volunteers who assist Carolina State University, an M.S. in management with everything from punching meal tickets to and operations research from the Naval Post assembling programs to ironing costumes for the Graduate School, and an M.S. in national security stage show. Best of all, the opportunity affords and strategic studies from the National Defense Auxiliary members life-changing moments through University. interaction with the participating veterans. The key purposes of the National Veterans Creative Arts Eli and Edythe Broad Award for VICKI AND ROGER SANT Philanthropy in the Arts

Victoria P. Sant (Vicki) University. Mr. Sant served as a regent of the Vicki Sant has been a Smithsonian Institution from 2001 to 2013 during member of the Board which he served as its first board chair. He is vice of Trustees of the chairman of the board of the Smithsonian National National Gallery of Museum of Natural History and is on the board of Art since 2000 and the World Wildlife Fund-U.S., which he previously served as president chaired (1994-2000) and later co-chaired (2009- from 2003 to 2014. 2011). Mr. Sant co-founded the Summit Foundation She is also on the and the Summit Fund of Washington with his wife boards of The Phillips Collection and Foundation Vicki and is Chair of the Board of both institutions. He for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) and is a member of the boards of the National Symphony serves on the International Council of the Museum of Orchestra and the D.C. College Access Program, Modern Art and the Director’s Advisory Board of the and served on the Marriott International Board of Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Directors from 1994-2006. Mr. Sant received a B.S. from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. with Beyond the arts, she is the co-founder and president distinction from the Harvard Business School. He of The Summit Foundation and The Summit Fund is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and of Washington. The Summit Foundation provides Sciences and co-author of Creating Abundance – support for international empowerment of girls and America’s Least-Cost Energy Strategy (1982). 13 reproductive health initiatives, the conservation of the Mesoamerican Reef ecosystem, and sustainable cities. The Summit Fund of Washington focuses its The Honorable Christopher J. Dodd, presenter Former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd is chairman and CEO efforts on improving the health and sustainability of of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., the Anacostia River and preventing teen pregnancy in which serves as the voice and advocate of the U.S. the District of Columbia. She is chair of the Stanford motion picture, home video, and television industries in Washington Council and also serves on the World around the world. Senator Dodd served in the U.S. Wildlife Fund National Council and the National Congress representing Connecticut for 36 years—six Geographic Council of Advisors. Mrs. Sant completed years in the House of Representatives and 30 years a ten-year term on the Stanford University Board of in the U.S. Senate. As a key participant in nearly every Trustees in 2007. Mrs. Sant received a B.A. in history major national policy debate over the past three from Stanford University and did graduate work there decades, Senator Dodd authored or co-authored in speech pathology and audiology. major legislation in the areas of education, health, Roger W. Sant financial services, foreign policy, and election reform. Roger W. Sant is co-founder and chairman emeritus Senator Dodd is perhaps best known for bringing of The AES Corporation, a Fortune 200 corporation much-needed attention to children’s and education that produces and distributes electricity worldwide. issues, and he was a longtime member of the Senate’s Prior to starting AES in 1981, Mr. Sant was assistant Cultural Caucus, where he was a staunch advocate administrator for energy conservation and the for the arts. Following his graduation from Providence environment at the Federal Energy Administration. College, Senator Dodd served in the Peace Corps in He was also the director of the Energy Productivity the and earned a law degree from Center, an energy research organization affiliated the Brandeis School of Law at University of Louisville. with the Mellon Institute at Carnegie-Mellon Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award DAVID HALLBERG

Born in South Dakota, David Mr. Hallberg is committed to pushing the art Hallberg began his formal of dance through means of collaboration with ballet training at the age other forms of artistic outlets. He continues to of 13 with Kee Juan Han at search out positive ways in which audiences can the Arizona Ballet School, experience dance in its best and purest form, while then continued his studies pushing the preconceived boundaries of where the at the Paris Opera Ballet art form lies. School and ’s New York Summer RoseLee Goldberg, presenter Intensives. He became a RoseLee Goldberg, the founding director and member of ABT's studio curator of Performa, is an art historian, critic, company in 2000, joined and curator whose book Performance Art: From American Ballet Theatre in Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, the Corps de Ballet in 2001, and was promoted to pioneered the study of performance art. Former soloist in 2004 and principal dancer in 2005. director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at The Kitchen in New York, In 2011, Mr. Hallberg was the first American to be she is also the author of Performance: Live Art named a Premier Dancer at Russia’s , Since 1960 (1998) and (2000), 14 dancing the role of the prince in The Sleeping and is a frequent contributor to Artforum and Beauty for the company's inaugural performance other publications. Recent awards and grants in its newly renovated theatre. include two awards from the International In addition to worldwide touring with both ABT Association of Art Critics (2011), the Agnes Gund and Bolshoi Ballet, he has also been a guest artist Curatorial Award from Independent Curators with The , Paris Opera Ballet, La International (2010), Curatorial Research Scala di Milano, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Fellowship from the Warhol Foundation (2008), Kiev Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Opera di Roma, and Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters Georgian State Ballet, The Tokyo Ballet, and The from the French government (2006). In 2004, she Australian Ballet. founded Performa, a nonprofit arts organization committed to the research, development, and He has two scholarship programs under his name: presentation of performance by visual artists a program to mentor young aspiring male students from around the world, and launched New York’s for a career in dance at the Jacqueline Kennedy first performance biennial, Performa 05 (2005). Onassis School of American Ballet Theatre and a Since 1987, Ms. Goldberg has taught at New similar scholarship at the School of Ballet Arizona. York University and is a faculty member at the He has created The Innovation Initiative at ABT, Steinhardt School. which nurtures emerging choreographers in the field of dance. Mr. Hallberg recently received the 2014 Princess Grace Statue Award, an honor given to those with a desire to sustain artistic excellence

Photo by Bjorn looss / Trunk Archive / Trunk Bjorn looss by Photo in America.

Performers

Jake Goldbas 2007 YoungArts Winner in Jazz, is a Grammy Nominated Percussionist based in . He currently tours and performs internationally, just returning from a sold out performance at the Tokyo Jazz Festival. Marty Jaffe 2012 YoungArts Winner in Jazz and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, is a brilliant award-winning jazz bassist based in New York City. He is a full time student at and is enrolled in a jazz ensemble at Juilliard. Pascal Le Boeuf 2004 YoungArts Winner in Jazz Piano, is a pianist-composer and electronic artist described as “sleek, new” and “hyper-fluent” by . Recent awards include “Best Electronica Song” and “Best Jazz Album” in the Independent Music Awards, 1st place in the International Songwriting Competition and a New Jazz Works Commission from Chamber Music America to be released in 2015 in collaboration with the JACK Quartet. Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes 2013 YoungArts Winner in Voice and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, is a New York-based flutist and vocalist. She has performed in jazz festivals and clubs throughout the U.S, Europe, Japan, and South America, and won numerous awards for “best soloist” at jazz festivals and from Downbeat magazine. 15 Elliott Skinner 2013 YoungArts Winner in Voice/Jazz, is a New York-based singer/songwriter and bass player from Dallas, TX. His musical inspiration comes from artists such as Bobby McFerrin, and Matt Corby, and he performs in styles from jazz and soul to indie folk. Caleb Teicher 2011 YoungArts Winner in Dance/Tap, is a Bessie Award-winning tap dancer, musical theater performer, and choreographer based in New York City. Favorite credits include Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the International Tour of West Side Story, and The Chase Brock Experience.

The National YoungArts Foundation (formerly known as the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts) was established in 1981 by Lin and Ted Arison to identify and support the next generation of visual, literary, design and performing artists. To date, YoungArts has honored more than 20,000 young artists, ages 15-18 (or grades 10-12), with over $6 million in monetary awards; facilitated in excess of $150 million in college scholarship opportunities; and enabled its participants to work with master teachers who are among the most distinguished artists in the world, such as Marina Abramović, , Plácido Domingo, , and Bruce Weber. In addition, YoungArts serves as the exclusive nominating agency for the U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, the country’s highest honor for young artists. Some of YoungArts’ work is featured in its three-time Emmy-nominated HBO series YoungArts MasterClass, which chronicles renowned artists, such as Joshua Bell, , and Kathleen Turner, sharing their art and life experiences with YoungArts alumni. YoungArts alumni who have gone on to become leading professionals in their fields include Viola Davis, Adrian Grenier, Andrew Rannells and ; four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza; recording artists Josh Groban, Judith Hill, Nicki Minaj and Chris Young; star Eric Owens; musicians Terence Blanchard, Gerald Clayton and Jennifer Koh; choreographer Desmond Richardson; writer and producer Jenji Kohan; visual artist Hernan Bas; and internationally-acclaimed multimedia artist Doug Aitken. For more information, visit YoungArts.org.

Featured Artist SHEPARD FAIREY

Shepard Fairey is the artist for Darfur, marriage equality reform, Hurricane behind OBEY GIANT, the Katrina relief, Adopt-a-Pet.com, and the Rush graphics brand. Beginning Philanthropic Arts Foundation. In 2009, the with an absurd sticker he Institute of /Boston exhibited created in 1989 while studying his full-scale solo retrospective, which then went at the Rhode Island School on to the Museum in Pittsburgh and of Design, Mr. Fairey’s output the Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati. evolved into a worldwide Earlier this year he had his first major exhibition street art campaign, as well in his hometown of Charleston, SC, at the Halsey as an acclaimed body of fine Institute of Contemporary Art, alongside Jasper art. This year marks its 25th Johns. In 2015, he has a scheduled solo exhibition anniversary. Mr. Fairey’s art at the CAC Malaga, Spain. In addition to his guerilla reached a new height of prominence in 2008, street works, as of 2014, Fairey has painted 40 when his “HOPE” portrait of large-scale murals around the world. became the iconic image of the presidential campaign and helped inspire an unprecedented political movement. The original image now hangs in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait 16 Gallery in Washington, DC. In addition, he has donated artwork and made contributions to

Photo by David Armstrong David by Photo charitable organizations such as the ACLU, Hope

Balloon Rabbit Award

Jeff Koons, a longtime member of the Americans for the Arts Artists Committee, designed the National Arts Awards Balloon Rabbit award in 2009. One of the world’s most preeminent artists, Mr. Koons’s work has been widely exhibited and is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art; the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; The National Gallery and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC; The Eli Broad Family Foundation in Santa Monica, CA; the Tate Gallery in London; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum. In 2008, he was the first contemporary artist to have his work installed at the Palais de Versailles in France. A major retrospective of Mr. Koons’ work opened this year at the Whitney Museum of American Art and will travel to the Centre de Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Guggenheim, Bilbao. The Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards evokes both Mr. Koons’s iconic 1986 Rabbit sculpture as well as the balloon forms of his Celebration Series and is truly a visual exemplification of artistic “celebration!” We are grateful to the artist and his studio for their generosity and support.

Credits and Special Thanks

Richard Serra Elementary National Gallery of Art Rona Sebastian ART21 Christopher Hintz Caroline Paganussi Amy Shapiro Alexander von Berswordt Interlochen Center The Phillips Collection Amy Silver Phong Bui for the Arts Dr. Earl A. Powell III Walgrove Avenue Anne Chauvet Jillian Jackson Smithsonian Institution Elementary School Virginia Coleman Fred Lazarus IV Pavla Teie Special Thanks Mario Lemons Lynne Cooke Deborah Ziska Text Design, Inc. Joshua McClendon Emily Wei Rales and Mitchell Cipriani 42nd Street Rales Nick Osman American Legion Auxiliary Don Barley Mitch Curtis Ian Forster Anne Parsons Mary "Dubbie" Buckler DigiLink Asia Rapai Brenda Bushera Shepard Fairey Glenstone Abbey Springer Ron Capps Megan Harmon Sarah Edwards Holley Lara Zade Duke Sanford School of Nadine Johnson & Lorenz Kienzle David Hallberg Public Policy Associates Inc. Rik Van Lent American Ballet Theater Heather Griswold Jeff Koons Laura Linton Arizona School for the Arts Jay Harden Betsy Libretta Cristiano Mascaro Maria Baibakova Rebecca Heissler Gary McCraw Rob McKeever Black Frame Highpoint Productions Jana and Larry Morales Trina McKeever Bolshoi Senator Johnny Isakson Peter Moore 17 Kee Juan Han Karen Kemp Justin Morris, Morris Bureau National Gallery of Art Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Elizabeth Mackey Pace Prints Eve Moros Ortega Kaitlyn Kominsky Amanda Maddox Lori Robishaw Anne Reeve Benjamin McGowan National Veterans Creative Benjamin Ross Dirk Reinartz Susie Morgan Taylor Arts Festival Loriel Samaras Leonard Riggio Brian Phillips John Paulsel Shiffman & Kohnke Yayoi Sakurai Bettina Prentice Travis Perkins Andrew Sotomayor Tiffany Stover Tummala Prentice Art Stacy Poca Ann Stock Matthew Sumner Communications Christine Pointer John Von Schmid The Brooklyn Rail Alexei Ratmansky RCTV Productions Victoria Yarnish Stockton Toler Leah Roberts Robert Reeg YoungArts Joe Vilardi Kelly Ryan Jim Stevens Kathryn Zenowitz Rudolf Wakonigg Dr. Tommy Sowers Featured Art: Clara Weyergraf-Serra Damir Yusupov U.S. Department of Veterans Shepard Fairey Deborah Ziska Affairs Vicki and Roger Sant (cover image) Melissa S. Walker Monkey Pod Canvas, 2008 Madeleine H. Berman Dr. Wayne Clough Spray Paint, Stencil and Andrew Buccholz Deb Crawford P.S. ARTS Detroit Institute of the Arts on Paper Annabeth Guthrie Scott Cronan 44 x 30 inches Detroit Symphony Orchestra Sarah Edwards Holley InStudium Arts Image courtesy of the artist Graham W.J. Beal Dr. Ellen Dougherty Grace Jaeger Shepard Fairey Gavin Berger Vernon E. Jordan Lisa Kudrow MAYDAY Flag 1, 2010 Ann Berman Feld Dr. Dorothy Kosinski Lawndale School District Screen Print and Collage Pamela Burko Lazard Donzell Lewis on Paper 60 x 44 inches Tim Burns Elizabeth Lubben Dr. Kristen Paglia Henry Ford Academy Image courtesy of the artist

The Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award

To advance the arts in any discipline, we must continuously embrace the new. And that’s why we believe it is so important to recognize young artists at the National Arts Awards.

Our involvement with Americans for the Arts reaches back to when we first began attending the awards ceremony in 2002 and were so impressed to see a nationally prominent event where visual artists were honored alongside artists from all other disciplines. The awards further distinguished themselves in our minds because Americans for the Arts is committed to recognizing artists who not only excel at their craft, but also represent the best of citizen advocates, using their prominence to help causes which further enrich our communities and our nation. The fact that Americans for the Arts expressly honors young artists in addition to those more established “lifetime” achievers is something that meshes completely with our own interests.

Our longstanding commitment to young people and arts education, as well as to Americans for the Arts, on whose board Maria sits and for which she chairs the National Arts Awards—this year for the 10th time, makes the naming of this award a perfect match for us. We couldn’t be more delighted to know that David Hallberg is the fifth recipient of the award named for our family foundation.

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Maria Bell Bill Bell

Eli and Edythe Broad Award for Philanthropy in the Arts

Art has been an integral part of our lives for more than 40 years. We love collecting art, living with art, and sharing art—with as many people as possible.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Art Foundation, which we started as a lending library when our walls were filled and we wanted to continue collecting and sharing great works of contemporary art with museums and audiences around the world. Now, we are building The Broad, a museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles that will be home to the Broad collections when it opens in 2015. We find no greater satisfaction than giving back and helping to create new institutions and improve existing ones.

There’s a great saying that “Earth without art is just ‘eh.’ ” The arts play a powerful role in our society and world today. There is no greater creative expression, filled with heart and emotion, than the visual and performing arts. Art stretches our boundaries and our point of view. We collect contemporary art for the very reason that we enjoy conversations with artists whose world view is vastly different than our own.

At a time of limited resources and competing priorities, we need to make a case for the arts. We need to support arts institutions while simultaneously ensuring that art is accessible to everyone — regardless of income, age, background, or beliefs. We need to democratize the arts.

We commend Americans for the Arts for its leadership in making the national case for private and public 19 arts funding. Our country’s collective investment, leveraging government and philanthropic dollars to fund the visual and performing arts, is an extraordinary hallmark of American artistry.

We are delighted to lend our name to this award in recognition of those philanthropists who share our passion for the arts and for giving back. Tonight we commend and congratulate Vicki and Roger Sant for their generosity in the arts, particularly in support of institutions in our nation’s capital.

There are unlimited opportunities to get involved and make a difference. We encourage you to deepen and broaden your commitment to the arts. The needs are significant, but the personal satisfaction and rewards are extraordinary.

Edythe Broad Eli Broad

Past Honorees

ARNOLD GINGRICH Alberto M. Carvalho, Music Industry and NAMM National Endowment for MEMORIAL AWARD Mikhail Baryshnikov public school NationsBank the Arts, In Honor of 40 superintendent years of Service (Presented 1966-1996) Principal Financial Group Schuyler Chapin, Representative Jerrold Procter & Gamble civic leader Nadler & Pierre Dulaine & United States Conference Yvonne Marceau, Inc. of Mayors, In Honor of its American Ballroom Time Warner 75th Anniversary Theater United Technologies Anna Deavere Smith Midori Goto, artist Corporation YOUNG ARTIST Agnes DeMille Renée Fleming Agnes Gund, VH1 AWARD FOR Hugh Hardy philanthropist & Company ARTISTIC Wynton Marsalis, artist EXCELLENCE INDIVIDUAL Arthur Mitchell, artist Sofia Coppola PHILANTHROPY Peter Martins President’s Committee ∞ on the Arts and the Paul G. Allen** William Paley Josh Groban∞ Humanities Wallis Annenberg* Joseph Papp Nam June Paik ARTISTIC Eli Broad* Polshek Kate and Laura Mulleavy, EXCELLENCE Sidney Harman* Rodarte∞ Christo and Joan W. Harris* Jeanne-Claude Martha Rivers Ingram** Salman Rushdie Jeff Koons Gabourey Sidibe∞ Sheila C. Johnson* 20 Peter Martins Mena Suvari Teresa Heinz Kerry* Beverly Sills Ed Ruscha Jo Carole Lauder Paul Taylor Kerry Washington Raymond Nasher* Kirk Varnedoe, Kehinde Wiley LIFETIME Memorial Tribute John and Mary Pappajohn** ACHIEVEMENT OUTSTANDING , FEATURED ARTISTS * Dame CONTRIBUTIONS TO Isaac Stern Award, Will Cotton Beverley Taylor THE ARTS Excellence Classical Salvador Dali Music Sorenson** Todd Eberle Jenny Holzer Jeff Koons SPECIAL Joel Shapiro CORPORATE Sol LeWitt Frank O. Gehry HONOREES RECOGNITION Julie Mehretu Representative John B.B. King† Brademas Kelly Richardson ARTS ADVOCACY Amerindo Thomas Krens Bravo Television, Ed Ruscha Investment Advisors Excellence in Arts & Kenny Scharf AT&T Media Jennifer Steinkamp Chuck Close AXA Art Insurance Richard Meier Corporation Hart, Michael Greene, National Outstanding Robert Redford Andy Warhol Academy of Recording Contributions to the Arts Jason Robards Arts & Sciences Citigroup, Inc. Representative Amory James Rosenquist† Phil Ramone FleetBoston Houghton, Jr. *Frederick R. Weisman Beverly Sills Financial Corporation Award for Philanthropy Mike Jordan, CBS, in the Arts Frank Stella† General Electric Outstanding Vision and **Eli and Edythe Broad Isaac Stern The Hearst Corporation Exemplary Contributions to the Arts Award for Philanthropy Paul Taylor ARTS EDUCATION IBM Corporation in the Arts JP Morgan Chase & Co. Institute for Museum and , YoungArts ∞Bell Family Foundation KITTY CARLISLE Lockheed Martin Library Sciences, In Martina Arroyo, artist Honor of 25 Years of Young Artist Award HART AWARD William Bassell, public The McGraw-Hill Service †Isabella and Theodor school principal Companies Dalenson Lifetime Richard Avedon MetLife Achievement Award

Americans for the Arts Board of Directors

CHAIR AT LARGE Sheia Johnson EX-OFFICIO Abel Lopez Madeleine H. Berman Salamander Hospitality Robert L. Lynch GALA Hispanic Theatre Arts Patron Middleburg, VA Americans for the Arts Washington, DC Franklin, MI Washington, DC Deborah Jordy Susan Coliton Colorado Business Committee IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR Paul G. Allen Family Foundation for the Arts IN MEMORIAM C. Kendric Fergeson , WA Denver, CO Peggy Amsterdam NBC Oklahoma Peter Donnelly Altus, OK Susan S. Goode William T. Kerr Arts Patron MiBa Holdings LLC Norfolk, VA Arbitron Inc. (retired) SECRETARY Columbia, MD Michael Spring Miami-Dade County Timothy McClimon Liz Lerman Department of Cultural Affairs American Express Foundation Choreographer Miami, FL New York, NY Baltimore, MD Dorothy Pierce McSweeny TREASURER Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Mary McCullough-Hudson Julie Muraco Washington, DC ArtsWave Praeditis Group LLC Cincinnati, OH New York, NY Margie Johnson Reese Big Thought Felix Padrón VICE CHAIRS Dallas, TX City of San Antonio Department for Culture & Creative Ramona Baker Development 21 Ramona Baker Consulting DIRECTORS San Antonio, TX Arts Administration Program, Nolen V. Bivens Goucher College, Indianapolis, IN U.S. Army (ret) Barbara S. Robinson Arlington, VA Arts Midwest Maria Bell, Arts Patron , OH Vitameatavegamin Productions Leslie Blanton Los Angeles, CA Arts Patron Ann Stock Houston, TX Former Assistant Secretary John Haworth of State for Educational and George Gustav Heyes Center Charles X Block Cultural Affairs National Museum of the Bedrock Group Alexandria, VA American Indian Philadelphia, PA New York, NY Edgar L. Smith, Jr. Theodor Dalenson World Pac Paper William Lehr, Jr. Nove Capital Cincinnati, OH Capital Blue Cross New York, NY Hershey, PA Nancy Stephens Alessandra DiGiusto Actor and Activist Steven D. Spiess Deutsche Bank Americas Los Angeles, CA Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP Foundation New York, NY New York, NY Ty Stiklorius Atom Factory Michael S. Verruto Floyd W. Green, III Los Angeles, CA HPI Capital LLC Aetna, Inc. Charlotte, NC Hartford, CT Charmaine Warmenhoven Arts Patron Glen S. Howard Montalvo Arts Center Cultural Data Project Monte Sereno, CA Washington, DC

Artists Committee

Jane Alexander David Hallberg Matt Mullican IN MEMORIAM Kwaku Alston Hill Harper Leonard Nimoy Dame Julie Andrews Arthur Hiller Alessandro Nivola Mary Rodgers Guettel Martina Arroyo Craig Hodgetts Naomi Shihab Nye Skitch Henderson Paul Auster Lorin Hollander Yoko Ono Bob Balaban Jenny Holzer Harold Prince John Raitt John Baldessari Siri Hustvedt Robert Redford Alec Baldwin Michael Ritchie Billy Taylor Theodore Bikel Melina Kanakaredes Victoria Rowell Wendy Wasserstein Lewis Black Salman Rushdie Lauren Bon Jon Kessler Martin Scorsese Amy Brenneman Richard Kind Cindy Sherman Connie Britton Jeff Koons Gabourey Sidibe Blair Brown Swoosie Kurtz Anna Deavere Smith 22 Kate Burton John Legend Chuck Close Liz Lerman Chuck D John Lithgow Holland Taylor Jacques d’Amboise Graham Lustig Julie Taymor Carla Dirlikov Kyle MacLachlan Marlo Thomas Fran Drescher Yo-Yo Ma Stanley Tucci Patty Duke Yvonne Marceau Pierre Dulaine Peter Martins Clay Walker Todd Eberle Marlee Matlin Malcolm-Jamal Warner Hector Elizondo Kathy Mattea Kerry Washington Giancarlo Esposito Trey McIntyre William Wegman Julie Mehretu Bradley Whitford Laurence Fishburne Richard Meier Kehinde Wiley Ben Folds Arthur Mitchell Henry Winkler Hsin-Ming Fung Brian Stokes Mitchell Frank O. Gehry Walter Mosley Kulapat Yantrasast Marcus Giamatti Paul Muldoon Peter Yarrow Josh Groban Kate Mulleavy Michael York Vijay Gupta Laura Mulleavy

About Americans for the Arts

(L-R) Arts patron Gail Engelberg, William J. Bell, (L-R) 2011 YoungArts Winner in Jazz Gabe Saunders (L-R) Grammy Award®-winning blues musician Americans for the Arts Board Member and National and 2012 YoungArts Winner in Jazz Patrick Bartley and honoree Arts Awards Gala Chair Maria Bell, and arts patron perform at the 2013 National Arts Awards. with 2013 Isabella and Theodor Dalenson Lifetime Alfred Engelberg at the 2013 National Arts Awards. Achievement Award honoree B.B. King at the 2013 National Arts Awards.

Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate 23 all forms of the arts. Each year, Americans for the Arts provides a rich array of programs that meet the needs of more than 150,000 members and stakeholders. For more information about our programs or to learn how (L-R) 2013 Bell Family Foundation you can become more involved in our work, please visit us (L-R) Artists Committee Member and Young Artist Award recipient Dakota 2014 Citizen Artist Award recipient Fanning with screenwriter and film online at www.AmericansForTheArts.org or contact us at Fran Drescher with Mayor Kevin director Kelly Reichardt at the 2013 202.371.2830 or 212.223.2787. Maurice Johnson of Sacramento, CA National Arts Awards. at the United States Conference of Mayors' 82nd Winter Meeting.

Americans for the Arts President and CEO Robert (L-R) Composer, bassist, educator, and activist Marcus (L-R) CEO and Executive Director at U.S. Conference L. Lynch (on piano) leads a jam session at the 2014 Shelby; 2011 YoungArts Winner in Writing and U.S. of Mayors Tom Cochran; Americans for the Arts Artists Americans for the Arts Convention in Nashville. Presidential Scholar in the Arts Delali Ayivor; Americans Committee Member Alec Baldwin; Managing Director at for the Arts President and CEO Robert L. Lynch; U.S. Conference of Mayors Tom McClimon in the Capitol Soprano and Americans for the Arts Artists Committee Building during Arts Advocacy Day 2014. Member Carla Dirlikov; and Executive Director of ArtPlace Jamie L. Bennett at the 2014 Americans for the Arts Convention in Nashville. THE NATIONAL YOUNGARTS FOUNDATION CONGRATULATES ALL OF THIS YEAR’S NATIONAL ARTS AWARDS HONOREES The National YoungArts Foundation was established in 1981 by Lin and Ted Arison to identify and support the next generation of artists, and to contribute to the cultural vitality of the nation by investing in the artistic development of talented young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts. Each year, there are approximately 11,000 applications to YoungArts from 15-18 year old (or grades 10-12) artists, and from these, approximately 700 winners are selected. YoungArts provides these emerging artists with life-changing experiences and validation by renowned mentors, access to significant scholarships, national recognition and other opportunities throughout their careers to help ensure that the nation’s most outstanding emerging artists are encouraged to pur - sue careers in the arts. To date, YoungArts has honored more than 20,000 alumni, including Doug Aitken, Josh Groban, Jenji Kohan, Desmond Richardson and Kerry Washington, with over $6 million in monetary awards; facilitated in excess of $150 million in college scholarship opportunities; and enabled its participants to work with master teachers who are among the most distinguished art - ists in the world, such as Marina Abramovic´, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Plácido Domingo, Frank Gehry, Robert Redford and Bruce Weber . Congratulations to tonight’s honorees. Your talent and commitment are a work of art. — Lynda & Stewart Resnick

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