JUNE 2020
aADVrOCtATsES The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota, Inc. the environment Uppermost in our minds is the Pandemic and MEMBER SURVEY/ questions about how the course of this virus will MEETING FORMATS: continue to impact our personal lives and, more Please be on the alert for specifically, how the virus will impact our decisions online member surveys regarding Arts Advocates. regarding your preferred format for 2020 meetings At the personal level, each of us is making our individual and events. In planning decisions by evaluating such factors as underlying for the October and medical conditions, whether we are in the “high risk” November General Meetings, the Program Committee category, and how concerned we are about wearing will prepare substitute online programs in case large masks and maintaining social distancing guidelines. group meetings are not possible. Anything we say about the future course of the virus is When making decisions about Arts Advocates General pure speculation. No one knows what lies ahead. We Meetings, please bear in mind that whether we include will have to keep open minds as we go forward but pay a luncheon option or not, we still pay Bird Key an close attention to the scientists, epidemiologists, the estimated $1,500 per General Meeting. facts and data. We must resist the temptation to make decisions based on hopes or wishes. I know all of us WISH the virus would disappear and we HOPE to get back to where we were in February. That is understandable; however, the health and safety of our members is paramount.
[email protected] | artsadvocates.org | Fine Arts Society of Sarasota, Inc. 1 a hugely grateful THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the 2020 Giving Challenge! Thanks to you, $13,820 was raised for Arts Advocates!
Duch Adams Joan and Fred Endrizzi Frank Martucci Sarah Skebba Priscilla Adams Tonya Eubank Katherine Martucci Dale Sprintz Charles Albers William Eubank Steve Matthews Joy Stone Alice Allen Laura Feder Donna Maytham Robin and Michael Strauss Debra altshul-stark Betty Ferguson Lenora McComas Nancy Stukenberg Martha Ballard Judy and Fred Fiala Mark Muse Helen Sullivan D’ariel Barnard Bo Galford Lorelei Paster Louise Tesmer Michael Bernstein Karen Geck Faith Perkins Waddy Thompson Aline Blanchard Pat Golemme Sheree Pertile Elizabeth Van Riper Kristine Bundrant Debbie Grovum Julie Planck Kim Warren Cynthia Burnell Roberta Hamilton Elizabeth Rose Janis Wasserman Leslie Butterfield Carol Hirschburg Ira and Judith Rosner Robert Weitz Rennie Carter Susan Keating Jacqueline Salvino Suzanne Weitz Jerome and Kathryn Chesley Evelyn and Barry Levin Barbara Sander Vern Weitz Joyce Cooper Judith Levine Barbara Schott Bennett Williams Lynn Coppinger Miqui Lora Maureen Shea Peggy Williams Ann Durloo Philip and Kimberley Mancini Jane Sheridan [email protected] | artsadvocates.org | Fine Arts Society of Sarasota, Inc. 2 ARTS ADVOCATES art is everywhere TABLE OF ORGANIZATION Ethiopia, People of the OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Omo Valley President Donna Maytham https://youtu.be/RhG1KCW6S-k Vice President Tonya Eubank Recording Secretary Sarah Skebba Corresponding Secretary Barb Sander Treasurer Cynthia Burnell
BOARD MEMBERS* TEAM LEADERS AND TEAMS With the approval of the President, board meetings are open to Team Leaders, Team Members and all Arts Advocates members in good standing.
Coordinator of Member Activities and Programs Tonya Eubank* -Educational Tours Team Leader: Liz Trostli/Lynn Coppinger -Salons Team Leader: Mark Muse -Workshops Team Leader: Judy Levine/Priscilla Adams -Programs Team Leaders: Kris Gardel/ Rennie Carter
Co-Coordinators of the Collection Kristi Bundrant */Linda Bruemmer* - Collection Team: Jerry Chesley, Tonya Eubank,* Evelyn Levin,* Judy Levine, Miqui Lora, Barb Sander,* Sarah Skebba,* Petra Ratner, Meg Krakowiak.
Coordinators for Communication, Marketing, Website, Social media -Newsletter Team Leader: Faith Perkins* -Marketing Team Leader: Gary Donson (Pro Tempore) -Publicity/Communication Team Leader: Kelly Fores (Pro Tempore) -Online Conferencing Team Leader: Jane Sheridan (Pro Tempore)
Coordinator for Sustainability Donna Maytham* - Membership Team Leader: Betty Ferguson* Mentoring Team Leaders: Martha Ballard/ Priscilla Adams - Fundraising and Finance Team Leader: Donna Maytham* Team: Martha Ballard, Cynthia Burnell,* Joan Endrizzi,* Tonya Eubank,* Marjorie Floyd, Louise Tesmer - Philanthropy: Scholarship Team Leader: Jackie Salvino* Community Outreach Team Leader: Open - Governance: Marjorie Floyd (Pro Tempore)
Board Members At Large: Joan Endrizzi*, Evelyn Levin* [email protected] | artsadvocates.org | Fine Arts Society of Sarasota, Inc. 3 ARTS ADVOCATES DRAFT OPERATING BUDGET MAY 1, 2020 – APRIL 30, 2021 CONTINGENCY PLAN -EXCLUDING PHILANTHROPY
Accounting $6,000 Expenses Bank Charges $2,000 Bank Fees $1,000
Board Education/Meetings $1,000 Scholarships Credit Card Services $2,000 Financial Review (Audit) $4,000 Operating Expenses Fundraising Mailing $1,000 Philanthropy Community Legal and Professional Fees $5,000 $63,000 Outreach Operations (Discretionary) $64,200 Liability and Board Insurance $1,000 (Essential) Licenses and Permits $1,000 Newsletter/Emails $2,000 Collection Postage /Office Supplies $1,000 Publicity $6,000 Storage $2,000 Total Expenses $127,200 Tax (#990) Preparation $2,000 Website/Social Media $12,000 TOTAL $49,000 Income
6 Bird Key Meetings and Luncheons $9,000* Scholarship Luncheon $3,000* General Meeting Programs $1,200 Member Activities $2,000* TOTAL $15,200 Fundraising Member Dues and Campaigns Member Activities Grants $21,000 GRAND TOTAL $64,200 $106,200 *Offset in part by paid luncheons and Tour fees
Total Income $127,200
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• Please be on the alert for periodic member • Jane Sheridan has stepped up to assist Arts Advocates surveys. We want to know what you are with online conferencing, member surveys and other thinking and value your opinions as we communications projects. She also participated as progress through the coming months. a member of the Scholarship Team and coordinated Also, please feel free to contact me or the performing arts applications and awards. Jane is an any other board members if you want to ask outstanding example of what new members can contribute. questions or share ideas. • Jackie Salvino, Linda Milberg and Scholarship Team • With the approval of the President, all members have done an outstanding job in selecting ten members in good standing are invited to incredible scholars. Well done! attend Arts Advocates board meetings. Online conferencing makes it easy for • Linda Bruemmer and Kristi Bundrant are leading the members to listen in. Transparency is our Collection Team. Everything is under wraps for the moment goal. but we can hardly wait to share information about two totally new venues where all or part of our Collection will • We are focused on exploring available be displayed. These Co-Coordinators made miracles happen. foundation grants and sponsorships. It is • Tonya Eubank, Cynthia Burnell, Martha Ballard and important to tap additional sources o Joan Endrizzi helped us raise over $13,000 from the Giving funding beyond member dues and income Challenge. Now, they are focused on revising our formal from member activities. document (Profile) that is kept on file at the Community Foundation. Our thanks for an outstanding job. • The Arts Advocates Board of Directors meets regularly online, and individual teams • Our Publicist and Public Relations Consultant, Kelly Fores, hold meetings through online conferencing will take over some of the projects formerly managed by platforms such as Zoom and, in some cases, Cynthia Burnell. Cynthia is becoming increasingly Go-To-Meeting. The work goes on remotely. involved in the financial and business-related aspects of Arts Advocates’ operations. Thank you both. • We have heard from Bird Key Yacht Club that the premises have been thoroughly cleaned • Kris Gardel and Rennie Carter are leading the Program and they plan to be open for “Members Only” Team and are providing alternate programs for the coming beginning in July. The club will observe season. In the event that we are not able to meet face-to social distancing guidelines and other health face, they plan to have online speakers and presenters “in authority protocols. the wings.” Thank you for being flexible and imaginative. member activities update It is still too early to provide alternate dates for three of our member activities: *Salon at the home of Ronald Kendall *Paint Your Own Silk Scarf with artist Jamie Kirkel. *Salon at the home of Karin Jones As soon as we are able to safely provide these activities and you are comfortable attending, we will notify participants of the new dates. Thank you for your patience as we navigate these unchartered waters! As we spend more time at home, we would love to hear ideas for salons, workshops and educational tours that we can explore when we are able to resume our regular activities! If you have some thoughts or suggestions, please email to [email protected].
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Arts Advocates recently awarded 10 Sarasota and Manatee (Miami, FL); Emma Pritchett, architecture, University of county students with $26,900 in scholarships for the 2020- South Florida (Tampa, FL); Haley Rosenthal, theater, Boston 21 school year. Since 1969, the scholarship program has Conservatory at Berklee (Boston, MA); Elijah Schildkraut, awarded over $1.1 million to students whose studies include music, Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA); and Zachary visual and related arts, dance, writing, music, theater and Timmons, visual art, Savannah College of Art and Design. architecture. All scholarship monies are generated through Our remarkable committee has handled the adversity of the Arts Advocates activities. times with their focus on the future of these young talented Members of our organization are proud to support students members of our community. They have fully cooperated and in furthering their education in all fields of the arts. We have supported each other beyond expectations. Special thanks bright lights among us, even in these unforeseen times, and have been earned by Violetta Chandler, Karen Geck, Carol we are looking to the future by continuing to financially sup- Hirschberg, Karen Mathis, Barbara Kerwin, Sue Shimelman, port scholars. As our entertainment is so focused on arts that Maureen Shea, Jane Sheridan, Elizabeth Van-Riper, and are brought into our homes, we are contributing to training the Marci Weisgold. These dedicated Arts Advocates members next generation that will stretch our imaginations, touch our have kept positive attitudes as they rode the rough waters with emotions, and inspire our dreams. aplomb. Recipients of the 2020-2021 scholarships, their fields of study, Regretfully, we were unable to present the talent of our and the educational institutions they’ll be attending, are: Emily special Scholarship Recipients at an annual luncheon this Cain, architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, year. However, please find out more about each Scholar by NY); Angelina Cotto, film, Savannah College of Art and Design following their links below. (Savannah, GA); Thaleia Dasberg, performing arts, Barnard Linda Milberg and Jackie Salvino College (New York, NY); Danny Bò DeLongaig, music, Baldwin 2020 Arts Advocates Scholarship Co-Chairs Wallace University (Berea, OH); Pablo Gonzalez, digital art, The New School: Parsons School of Design (New York, NY); Alexis McKinnon, fine arts, Florida International University
“My biggest pleasure through the years has been reviewing and seeing all the wonderful youth talent in the arts. Offering them scholarships has been an incredible experience. The talent really blows me away and inspires my own artwork.” Karen Mathis, Scholarship Committee Member
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EMILY CAIN THALEIA DASBERG $2,650 $3,000 Emily is a fourth year student A Senior at Booker High at Rensselaer Polytechnic School, Thaleia will be Institute in a five year attending Barnard College architecture program. She in the fall. While maintaining is a prior Arts Advocates a cumulative 4.8 GPA and scholarship recipient. Emily completing her senior year, impressed us with her she also is a full time Trainee submitted design, her work (the highest level offered) ethic and her focus. Her at the Margaret Barbieri ultimate goal is to incorporate elements of sustainability Conservatory, the pre-professional education program into architectural design on a larger urban scale as a of The Sarasota Ballet. To quote Kate Honea, Principal means to eliminate negative environmental impact. Dancer and Assistant Ballet Mistress, “she wasn’t born Emily’s passion for design stems from her love of nature with all the natural abilities and gifts of a dancer, but (she) and concern for the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem. worked harder than her peers and classmates to achieve View her work at: perfection.” https://www.dropbox.com/s/pqjg19p49no9zo6/Cain_ Thaleia’s goal is to become an interdisciplinary artist who Emily_Scholarship%20Portfolio.pdf?dl= weaves together acting, dance, and creative writing. Please view samples of Thaleia’s presentations at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK2oBY- Ke0T4Xb3It31zDNw ANGELINA COTTO $2,650 Angelina is a 2020 graduate DANNY of Lakewood Ranch High School with an overall GPA BÓ DELONGAIG of 3.8. She has applied to $2,000 attend the Savannah (GA) Danny is a Senior at Booker College of Art and Design, High School with a 4.4 GPA. In where she spent the last three the opinion of his teachers, he summers studying film design. is an exceptional talent whose This experience convinced performances are larger than Angelina to major in film in college, in pursuit of a career life. He is the only high school as a cinematographer. Projects Angelina submitted to student ever selected as an Arts Advocates reflect her ability to create a multimedia intern at the Junior Theater approach to the arts in areas such as still photography and Festival, where he served as guide to Sir Cameron poetry as well as film making. Angelina aspires to become McIntosh and Cynthia Erivo, among others. He has played a cinematographer and to tell a story through creative, lead and feature roles at school in which “he is always a imaginative visuals. leader, inspiring his peers and faculty with his devotion and demeanor.” View her work at: https://acottoartwork.blogspot.com/ https://vimeo.com/371042111?utm_source=email&utm_ Enjoy Danny at: medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_ https://youtu.be/41iGKXq4Duc campaign=29220 [email protected] | artsadvocates.org | Fine Arts Society of Sarasota, Inc. 7 PABLO GONZALEZ EMMA PRITCHETT $2,650 $2,650 A repeat Arts Advocates Emma views architecture as scholarship recipient, Pablo a unique combination of an was also selected in 2019. individual’s experience and He attends Parsons/The New understanding of art, history, School in NYC. With a GPA for math and science. She is the first semester of 3.94, he interested in using alternative qualified for the Dean’s List. energy sources such as His art is of high quality and vegetation walls and optical he is exuberantly prolific. Pablo majors in Communication land utilization. Her goal is to design efficient buildings Design and is delving into how to communicate by without losing the authentic personality of the construct. exploring the way people interact with visual media using Emma is well rounded scholar at the University of South a multidisciplinary approach. His website demonstrates Florida with interests extending to athletics, service to this approach with a wide variety of artistic disciplines community and is also supplementing her funding by featured. part time work. She has received an impressive array of https://www.pablogonzalezartist.com/ leadership awards while achieving academic excellence. Emma’s website: https://issuu.com/pritchett.emma/docs/emma_ pritchett_portfolio ALEXIS MCKINNON $2,650 Alexis has a clear vision of her future career as an artist. She HALEY ROSENTHAL has “became more and more $3,000 intrigued, experimenting with Haley will be a Senior at every medium and constantly the Boston Conservatory at finding new questions and Berklee. While completing endless ways to answer them her course work, she worked with my own two hands. Art has professionally for six weeks, given me a space to speak without words, touch people I’ll wrote and produced an album, never see, and find a true happiness and fulfillment.” and engaged in significant At Booker High School, Alexis was named as a “Cambridge volunteer activities. To quote Outstanding Learner” in 2018 in part for earning her professor, “in her personal life, she has faced and recognition for achieving “Highest Mark in the World for overcome numerous challenges and has continued to Cambridge International AS-Level General Papers”. After pursue her passion for theater with grace in the face of taking a gap-semester, Alexis has matriculated at Florida these obstacles.” International University. Haley suffers from Stevens-Johnson syndrome/TENS and as a working artist hopes to have a platform raising awareness and support for social and health issues. Attending school in Boston allows her to be near doctors specializing in this challenging disease. Her perseverance, positive attitude and determination to give back as well as her dedication to dance, make her an impressive scholar and person.
[email protected] | artsadvocates.org | Fine Arts Society of Sarasota, Inc. 8 ELIJAH ZACHARY SCHILDKRAUT TIMMONS $3,000 $2,650 Eli will be a Senior at Berklee This will be Zachary’s second College of Music where he year as a scholarship recipient. maintains a 3.98 GPA and He attends the Savannah has been on the Dean’s List College of Art. every semester. His career Zachary’s portfolio of work goal is Piano Performance/ shows very sophisticated Music Director. He is already conceptual development in demand as an accompanist and music director for beyond his 19 Years. Mastery not only of digital, but many performances at Berklee and other productions, also studio work all illustrates a strong foundation that including a professional short-term position at Boston’s will allow him to excel in whatever areas he decides to famous Speakeasy Theater Company. His concentration integrate into his creative path as a professional artist. on jazz piano and musical direction for theater have led him to direct at French Woods Festival in the summer and Zachary’s letters of recommendation and the clarity and as pianist for the Boston Conservatory. Eli has been the thoroughness of his application tell a very compelling recipient of Arts Advocates scholarships in the past years, story. He is comfortable traversing traditional disciplines and we are pleased to have him as one of our scholars and assumptions, not just by exploring but by researching once again! the territory of exploration. He sees value in the interplay of a wide range of mediums to experiment in finding what Enjoy Elijah’s performance at: answers his questions or objectives. This is a young man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iduZ3887Rqo&feat who will optimize the experience of attending one of ure==youtu.be the top three Art institutions in our country. His ability to articulate and achieve general scholarly success will serve him well in pursuing his passion and being an effective working artist in wherever his creative voice takes him. He is a doer, seeker, dreamer and leader. “This is the kind of young adult who merits such opportunities awarded to him. It is an investment not only in his future but ours as well.” Jeffery A Cornwell, AP Art Instructor, Booker High School.
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