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Katonah Museum of Art Annual Report 2007/08 rom the irector anner ear F D Board of Trustees Museum Staff A B Y Victoria F. Morris, President Neil Watson Carole Alexander, Vice Executive Director President Virginia Gold, Vice President Margaret Adasko Shelley LeBoff, Vice President Education Coordinator Rochelle C. Rosenberg, Vice Laura Bass President Public Relations/Marketing Sylvia Smolensky, Secretary Assistant Maralyn Carr, Treasurer Anaïs Borg-Marks Mary Lou Alpert Development Officer Nancy Beaver Gail Bryan Cynthia R. Brennan Public Programming Coordinator Leslie Cecil Allison Chernow Alexander Cortesi Director of Development Rosalie Dolmatch Raymond Finney Mindy Friedman Custodian Literary Lunch Spring Benefit: An Artful Event Nisa Geller Jonni Hirsch This sold-out annual event at Tappan The KMA’s biggest fundraiser LaRuth Hackney Gray Administrative Assistant Leslie A. Jacobson, Emeritus Nancy Hitchcock Hill featured Michael Beschloss, honored long-time KMA leaders Edith Katz Registrar NBC’s “presidential historian,” Mary Lou and Ira Alpert and What a stellar year for the Katonah Museum of Art! We Bernard Korman Patricia Keane Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s senior legal corporate honoree Blue Sky Studios celebrated two important milestones and broke a number of Paul Llewellyn Director of Finance analyst, and Thomas Edsall, a 25-year at the Roosevelt Ballroom in Yonkers. attendance records. Childhood was commemorated with the Katherine C. Moore Gail Keene Linda Nordberg Administrative Assistant veteran of political affairs for The Rebecca and Arthur Samberg’s popular Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Jerry Pinkney Gina Keir Washington Post (December 2007) $60,000 Education Challenge Grant Picture-Book Art. The exhibition Shattering Glass threw back the Yvonne S. Pollack Director of Public Melanie Rose-Cohen Relations/Marketing was matched at the event (May 2008) curtain on the sheer wonder of this everyday material, while Dyan Rosenberg Ellen Keiter Here’s the Thing thrilled us with multiple singular sensations. Rebecca Samberg Curator of Contemporary Art William Kelly Simpson Naomi Leiseroff Ten Rocket Salute Helena Louise Sokoloff Learning Center Curator/ Trustee Yvonne Pollack (center), Great strides continued to be taken with the Museum’s Lisbeth S. Stern Graphic Designer education programs, specifically the Hispanic outreach initiatives. Liana Moss pictured with Director Neil Watson Our children’s art classes remained fully subscribed with each Board of Overseers Visitor Services Coordinator and Board President Vickie Morris, Mary Lou Beitzel, Co-Chair Maxwell Oppenheimer was honored as the driving force new season. Exciting concerts, lectures, workshops, and Alexia Jurschak, Co-Chair Gallery Supervisor travel programs kept our members entertained and educated Yvonne Pollack, Co-Chair Barbara Plechaty in building the Learning Center ten Ira Alpert Volunteer Coordinator/ years ago. Hosted by Rebecca and throughout the year. Building Supervisor Janet Benton Arthur Samberg, the event featured Barbara Cervasio Jacqui Potente During fiscal year 2007/08, the Museum maintained a healthy Candace Dwan Membership Coordinator a talk by gallery owner Ronald Virginia Dwan Karen Stein Feldman. The evening’s generous bottom line, finishing the year with a modest surplus. This could Director of Education Anthony B. Evnin sponsors helped to secure the future not have occurred without the Museum’s dedicated Board of Nicholas L. D. Firth Richard Thompson Trustees, Board of Overseers, loyal volunteers, and staff. We Roslyn Goldstein Gallery Supervisor success of the Learning Center Joseph Handelman Nancy Wallach (October 2007) are continually humbled by the generosity and support of our Donald J. Herdrich Director of Curatorial Affairs donors, who push us to create better programs and exhibitions. Betty Himmel We are indebted to you beyond possible repayment. Leslie A. Jacobson Weekend Staff Paul Jenkel Regina Dueño, Visitor Services KMA International Travels: Robert Keiter Assistant South America Finally, a heartfelt thank you to all of the artists who contributed Edward W. Kelly Alex Buono KMA adventurers and art lovers to our outstanding year. It is the art of the past and the art of Dr. Samuel Klagsbrun Jennifer DeMarco Bonnie Klein Tony Mancini traveled to Brazil and Argentina the present that merge at the Katonah Museum to define our Linda S. Levine Kaiti McGown (January/February 2008) vibrant and far-reaching programs, and to help illuminate our David Moore Stephen B. Morris Margaret Fox course for the future. Helene Morrison Event Photographer Leslie M. Pollack Michael Prudhom Nan Pollock Installation Designer Gabriel Rosenfeld Alan P. Safir Learning Center Staff Sally B. Sakin Brian Beaton Rebecca Samberg Mark Freedman Ron Schlossberg Danielle Freudenheim Susan B. Scofield Brienne Johannes Shop In A Box Neil Watson Robert Stahmer Danielle Marino Susan Wayne KMA’s gift shop sold a selection of Executive Director exhibition-related jewelry and crafts as of June 30, 2008 designed by local and national artisans miles from mid-tow ber households • 5,478 • 43 n Manh KMA mem hours gi f exhibition space ounded attan 200 ven by vo e feet o 1954 Katonah Gallery f • • 1, lunteers in ’07 squar ½ mile from Katonah train station /’08 • 2,988 Katonah Museum of Art 2 Katonah Museum of Art 3 E xperience A rt In the Beitzel and Righter Galleries Here’s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life (March 30 – June 29, 2008) included Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art over 60 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints that focused exclusively on (July 1 – October 21, 2007) presented original illustrations by 83 artists in a everyday objects. Acclaimed realist painter Robert Cottingham was the guest comprehensive survey of the best children’s book art of the last ten years. curator. The accessible art he selected attracted more than 3,000 children, Organized with the Eric Carle Museum, Children Should Be Seen marked the making it the most popular school exhibition to date. ten-year anniversary of the KMA Learning Center. “Top Five” Shattering Glass: New Perspectives (November 11, 2007 – – where KMA visitors come from In the Project Gallery February 24, 2008) shattered visitors’ expectations of The Project Gallery proved to be a valuable, glass: what it is, what it looks like, how it functions, and versatile space throughout the year. It its perceived limitations of scale, texture, and malleability. served as a comfortable reading room for Many of the featured artists created new, site-specific families during Children Should Be Seen, it was Gabi Swiatkowska installations. The exhibition also shattered recent transformed into a dramatic “underwater” from the book My Name Is Yoon © 2003 by Helen Recorvits (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) attendance records, with 13,500 visitors. sea of neon jellyfish for Shattering Glass, and, ultimately, it was returned to a traditional Katonah Somers Mt. Kisco Chappaqua Bedford gallery for Jenny Lynn: The Object is Art “…Shattering Glass: New Perspectives [is] a This year marked the 25th anniversary of the Young (March 30 – June 29, 2008). stunner of a show at the Katonah Museum Michael Craig-Martin Artists exhibition, showcasing the extraordinary talents Sandal, 2002 of Art that enables viewers to consider the Acrylic on canvas many meanings of transformation.” of seniors from the Museum’s member high schools. Young Artists ’08 Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery, NY (March 9 – 16, 2008) featured 300 students from 30 schools throughout –Georgette Gouveia, The Journal News, “…[Here’s the Thing] is a wonderful show, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Dutchess, and Fairfield counties. The December 3, 2007 intelligently assembled and presented.” March opening reception broke the KMA’s single-day attendance record –Maureen Mullarkey, The New York Sun, with over 1,100 visitors. April 17, 2008 Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir Horizons, 2007 Cast iron and glass Courtesy of the artist Karen LaMonte Dress Impression with Drapery, 2005 Cast glass In the Simpson Sculpture Garden & on the South Lawn Courtesy Heller Gallery, NY In the summer of 2007, Icelandic artist Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir installed 11 life-size, cast iron and glass figures amid the majestic grove of Norwegian “…[Shattering Glass] is so rich in spruces that shade the Simpson Sculpture Garden. Museum visitors were stylistic diversity that it is hard to believe everything is made of the same treated to other outdoor installations as well: Keith Haring’s playful Acrobats material….The installation is flush with a Young Artists '08 performed on the South Lawn through sun and snow, while the winds of Keith Haring Acrobats, 1986 sense of joy and pleasure.” spring kept Drew Klotz’s kinetic sculpture Titan circling in constant motion. Painted aluminum –Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Courtesy Deitch Projects, NY Times, December 20, 2007 in the galleries • ists exhibited • paint used 13 e sional art 3,357 me se last name starts with “S” lons of xhib rofes mbershi rs who 66 gal itions 72 p p broch embe • from 1 ures maile 78 m 266 feet above sea level July ’07 to June ‘08 • d • 1 Katonah Museum of Art 4 Katonah Museum of Art 5 E ducation and the C ommunity T he L earning C enter KMA Outreach Programs During the past several years the KMA education team has actively The Katonah Museum of Art has collaborated with new audiences while continuing to reach out to schools and a strong history of working with service organizations. In 2007 we set a record in school group participation: underserved groups in Westchester over 6,000 students enjoyed guided visits to the Museum. They traveled County including hospitals, special from Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Dutchess, and Fairfield Counties. The The Learning Center, which is open to the public free- education classes, and community- Museum visit includes lively discussions about art so that children gain a better of-charge, is the only interactive space in the community based organizations that serve understanding of the world and of themselves. The Education Department where children, with an adult caregiver, can drop in to low-income populations.