five-year report Letter From the Board Chair Dear Friends, he 5th anniversary of our new home interdisciplinary mix, from workshops and is an extraordinary moment for the tours to performances and screenings. Museum of Arts and Design. With a Growing our permanent collection three- dynamic roster of exhibitions and fold, under Holly and David’s leadership, allows programs planned, a loyal base of us to offer richer and deeper exhibitions for our friends and supporters and new visitors. Encompassing traditional forms of Lewis Kruger leadership at the helm, we couldn’t craftsmanship, including works made in clay, chairman, board of trustees; be more excited about all that we glass, wood, metal and fiber, as well as works museum of have ahead. Together with our of art and design created with innovative new arts and design dedicated board, so many important donors, materials and processes, the collection now Tour 8,000-strong base of loyal members and our establishes a bridge between legendary craft talented staff, it has been a remarkable process figures and a new generation of makers. to build not just a new building, but a new It is fully digitized and can be accessed online institution. I want to thank Holly Hotchner, who by our global community as well as through led the Museum for 16 years before stepping innovative in-gallery formats, as so many down this spring, and our chief curator David of you have experienced. McFadden, who will be retiring at the end of Our robust special exhibition program this year after a 16-year tenure; as well as my has transformed traditional ideas about craft, fellow members of our board trustees, especially including a series of critically acclaimed Jerome A. Chazen, for chairing the campaign exhibitions organized around materials and for the new building; Nanette L. Laitman, our process, from Slash: Paper Under the Knife (2009) former president; and Barbara Tober, for her to Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, long tenure as chairman and now chairman of Craft, and Design (2013); to exhibitions exploring our Global Leadership Council. innovations in contemporary creation, from I am very proud of all that we have Dead or Alive (2008) to our current Out of accomplished together, moving mad from 53rd Hand: Materializing the Postdigital; as well Street to its new home at Columbus Circle. We as exhibitions exploring everything from the reach an ever wider and more diverse audience, olfactory arts to the Studio Glass Movement, from around the corner and across the globe, or the work of masters such as Viola Frey serving more than 250,000 visitors, students and and Daniel Brush. program participants each year who join us to As we embark on the next exciting chapter explore the exciting, interdisciplinary nature of mad, we couldn’t be more thrilled about of contemporary craftsmanship, art and design; the appointment of Glenn Adamson, the new we reach nearly double that number with Nanette L. Laitman Director. Glenn is among patrons to our store and restaurant. the most prominent and respected voices in the In our new home, mad has presented nearly research and exploration of craft and design 50 exhibitions featuring more than 2,500 today, and with his deep knowledge of the artists and designers; served nearly 50,000 institution’s history and collections, he will bring nyc k-12 students, in the museum and in the a dynamic re-examination of programming, classroom; added nearly 1,000 new objects to looking at the many ways in which a truly post- our collection; and welcomed more than disciplinary institution can champion skilled 1 million visitors to the site, and many more makers and their contributions to society. online. We established a comprehensive Under Glenn’s leadership and with the education program, growing our offerings dedication of our many friends and supporters, cover and to 400 a year, from programs for k-12 and mad is poised for even greater heights of opposite page 2 Columbus especially at-risk teens; to our Open Studios success. We can’t thank you enough for all your Circle exterior program, the first of its kind in an American support that has helped us reach this important photo: hélène binet museum; to our public programs, offering an milestone, and we couldn’t be more excited about all that we have ahead. “With a dynamic roster of exhibitions With all my best wishes, and programs planned, a loyal base of friends and supporters and new leadership at the helm, we couldn’t be more excited Lewis Kruger illustration: kyle hilton illustration: about all that we have ahead.” 2008–2013 five-year report 3 Contents 3 Letter From “In the end, we won all the battles…many of the Board Chair you will remember the setbacks as we moved 5 Board of Trustees forward toward accomplishing our mission to give the City a new public space. To all 6 Measures of Success our donors, and all the unsung heroes who 8 Exhibitions cheered the project on, thank you. This is, 14 Acquisitions and always will be, your Museum.” jerome a. chazen, chairman emeritus 18 Education 22 Public Programs 24 Open Studios 26 The Store at mad 28 People from top exhibitions Guests at the opening 34 Supporters & Donors of Out of Hand photo: gulshan kirat 45 Staff & Docents education Studio Sunday 46 Letter From photo: courtesy of mad the New Director 4 museum of arts and design Board of Trustees mad Board of 2013 Glenn Adamson Marcia Docter Honorary Trustees on opening day Lewis Kruger* nanette l. laitman C. Virginia Fields Kay Bucksbaum September 2008 chairman director Carolee Friedlander Suzanne G. Elson Seth Glickenhaus* Jane Korman Jerome A. Chazen* Diego Arria Sandra B. Grotta Jack Lenor Larsen chairman emeritus Dror Benshetrit Lisa Herbert Marian C. Burke Jeanne Levitt Barbara Tober* Michael Jesselson Cecily Carson Nancy Marks chairman emerita Ann Kaplan* Simona Chazen Aviva Robinson Nanette L. Laitman* Alfred R. Shands, III Edwin B. Hathaway* Charles S. Cohen Eric J. Lee Fred Kleisner Michele Cohen* Jeffrey Manocherian Ex-Officio co-treasurers Mike DePaola Robert Lee Morris Honorable Michael Eric Dobkin* Linda E. Johnson* Kambiz Shahbazi R. Bloomberg– secretary Barbara Karp Shuster Nancy Rosen Klara Silverstein Honorable Angela Sun Christine C. Quinn– William S. Taubman Suzanne Johnson “ In the main, it was getting it done that Miles Young Honorable Scott M. Stringer– counted. And we did…all of us, all together… Maggi Peyton the staff, the board, and the City of New *executive committee York. Our growing constituency considers the new mad a gift to the City, and it is our gift to bring the gigantic, international world of decorative arts and design to the center of this great City.” barbara tober, chairman emerita, board of trustees chairman, global leadership council 2008–2013 five-year report 5 Measures of Success A visual summary of one new building and five years in our new location at 2 Columbus Circle that have seen expanded activity on every level, and a dynamic roster of exhibition and education programs taking place every day since the doors opened in 2008. Visitors Members 1 .2M 7,500 Total audience served (in galleries, Total number of Members 13K Twitter followers public and school programs) Open Studios Exhibitions 3 STUDIOS 94 2,660ARTISTS IN EXHIBITIONS 10K+ ARTISTS HOURS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN VISITORS 5,028OBJECTS ON DISPLAY AND ARTISTS Family & Teens School and Teacher Programs Family, Teen, and Community Participants Programs Participants 432 850 788 714 753 745 321 272 3, 208 Docent tours 41 51 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 icon illustrations: thomas le bas from the noun project 6 museum of arts and design School & Teachers Teachers’ Professional Development Arts Reach student participants 162 1520 137 1235 99 89 241 30K Facebook likes 44 20 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2010 2011 2012 2013 Permanent Collection Materials WOOD SYNTHETICS AND RUBBER 3% 7% 1.7M Unique visitors 1% 22% MIXED 3% MEDIA PAPER Education 4% CERAMIC STONES AND GEMS 1% 1,000 ENAMEL K-12 METAL PROGRAMS 24% FIBER LEATHER, FUR AND ANIMAL 20% NEARLY MATERIALS GLASS 30K 14% STUDENTS SERVED 1% “But by whatever name it chooses to call itself (it is now known by its acronym, mad), this small building is an oasis of enchantment, a kind of Camelot on Columbus Circle. Its collections are instant eye candy (if the serious 3, 000 and erudite staff will forgive me), with magic in every Objects in collection imaginable material, leavened by irony and wit…” ada louise huxtable, the wall street journal, 2011 2008–2013 five-year report 7 Exhibitions The Museum’s move to 2 Columbus Circle brought with it a threefold increase in exhibition space, allowing mad to offer an unprecedented variety and number of groundbreaking exhibitions, and to support its mission of engaging audiences with ideas, materials and processes in the fields of art, craft and design, and the synergy that exists among them. books, among other objects, reflecting a below, from top Forward Thinking: current interest among international artists in Gijs Bakker Building the mad Collection using everyday things as raw materials. Second Liberty pin, 1997 courtesy of the madeleine September 27, 2008–February 15, 2009 Lives was especially timely as mad marked its albright collection own second life as a renewed institution, and photo: john As part of the inauguration of the new building, Columbus Circle also enjoyed a renaissance. bigelow taylor the Museum presented Forward Thinking: Installation shot of Building the mad Collection, an exhibition of Organized by mad William and Mildred Lasdon Forward Thinking, detail, major new gifts from the collections of 21 of the Chief Curator David Revere McFadden and The Creation (from the most important contemporary art and design mad Charles Bronfman International Curator Birth Project), 1984, Judy collectors from around the country, including Chicago, Audrey Cowan Lowery Stokes Sims.