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FY2019 ANNUAL REPORT MESSAGE FROM BOARD CHAIR MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER Carlos R. Cardenas Carlos Tortolero As a Mexican American born and raised in Chicago, the National As founder of the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA), I Museum of Mexican Art has tremendous personal meaning for me. The have seen it grow from a one-gallery facility to the impressive space unique focus the Museum has on art and culture encapsulates the reality visitors experience today. The Museum is considered by many to so many of us Mexicans experience – the straddling of two cultures, be the most prominent Latino arts organization in the country both central to who we are. This is the Museum’s gift to Chicago with over 150,000 annual visitors from 60 different countries and and to the country; an institution sin fronteras, a place for those of an 11,000-piece Permanent Collection. For more than 30 years, Mexican heritage and the broader public to share in the opportunity to NMMA has served as a platform to drive civic dialogue through art understand and appreciate the richness and complexity of Mexican art, exhibitions. NMMA’s exhibitions have helped shape conversations culture, and identity. about race, immigration, LGBTQ issues and political repression. NMMA’s approach to art exhibitions draws extensively from the I am honored to be in my second term as Chairman of the Museum’s Mexican tradition of utilizing the transformative power of visual Board of Trustees where I continue my commitment to ensuring arts for educational purposes. the financial health of this great institution. We have many accomplishments from the past year to celebrate, from the We are grateful to our community of donors who make all this groundbreaking photography retrospective of Laura Aguilar to the 25th possible. Thank you for celebrating Mexican art and culture and for anniversary of the Sor Juana Performing Arts Festival. There is much sharing your passion with others. to look forward to in the year to come. Thank you for your support. Thank you for participating in our exhibitions, performing arts events, community festivals, and educational programs. We are excited to have you join us in celebrating Mexican art and culture, forever sin fronteras! NMMA FY19 ANNUAL REPORT x 3 1 4 VISUAL ARTS Through six temporary exhibitions and the anchor exhibition, Nuestras Historias: Stories of Mexican Identity from the Permanent Collection, NMMA showcased Mexican art 2 from both sides of the border. 5 1 Laura Aguilar: face-to-face with a world Show and Tell (3/22- alive with allegories and 8/18/19), a comprehensive symbols. retrospective of 5 photographer Laura Through Open Access: Aguilar, showcased candid Behind-the-Scenes of the portrayals of herself, her Permanent Collection friends and family, and (2/22-7/28/19), we gave THE YEAR IN PERSPECTIVE her Chicana / Latina and visitors a peek at what LGBTQ communities. happens behind the “staff only” signs. July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019 2 Dia de Muertos · A 6 155 6 Spiritual Legacy (9/20- The result of a Chicago- ARTISTS 12/8/19), NMMA’s 33rd Day Cuba artist exchange of the Dead exhibition, displayed at the SMART featured numerous Museum of Art, Cross installations including a Currents / Intercambio display from Mexico’s Black Cultural (7/11-8/18/19) 473 Towns in the Costa Chica. explored issues of Latino WORKS OF ART identity and place. 3 İ No se olvida! 7 3 Remembering the Nuestras Historias: Tlatelolco Massacre Stories of Mexican (9/21/18-1/20/19), Identity from the memorialized the tragic Permanent Collection 7 massacre that occurred in (ongoing) tells the stories Tlatelolco’s Plaza de Tres of Mexicans from both Culturas on October 2, 1968. sides of the border, from Pre-Columbian times to the 4 In Abyss: Rocío present. Caballero (2/15-10/13/19), contemporary artist Rocío Caballero brought us NMMA FY19 ANNUAL REPORT x 5 1 2 PERMANENT COLLECTION The National Museum of Mexican Art’s 11,000-piece permanent collection, stewarded in alignment with American Alliance of Museums standards, contains paintings, folk art, ancient Mesoamerican artworks, prints, and sculptures. 1 Sam Coronado, Pan Dulce, 1986, serigraph, 6/56, 400+ National Museum of Mexican Art Permanent Collection, 2018.190, Gift from the Gil Cárdenas Collection of Latino UNIQUE WORKS Art, image credit: NMMA staff ADDED TO THE PERMANENT 2 Warren J. Vinton, Diego and Frida on the Terrace, COLLECTION IN 1930, gelatin silver print, ed. 9/10, National Museum of Mexican Art Permanent Collection, 2018.242, Gift of FY2019 Jennifer and Isaac Goldman, image credit: NMMA staff 3 İ 3 Timed to coincide with the Open Access exhibition (2/22/2018), the Permanent Collection department launched an online database of NMMA’s photograph collection at http://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/ the-collection NMMA FY19 ANNUAL REPORT x 7 2 EDUCATION As an organization founded by teachers, education is in our DNA. Arts education 39,625 programming supports teachers, students INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED and families and is a crucial component of THROUGH ON-SITE AND the Museum’s mission. OFF-SITE ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMMING 1 47 teachers received 3 32,401 students 4 professional development participated in guided support to better tours, developing critical incorporate Mexican art thinking skills and into the curriculum and knowledge of Mexican art enhance learning & culture 2 492 toddlers & 4 887 youth engaged in caregivers attended Listo in-school and after-school para el museo toddler enrichment programs tours, learning skills 3 crucial to early childhood development 1 NMMA FY19 ANNUAL REPORT x 9 1 2 YOLLOCALLI ARTS REACH Yollocalli Arts Reach is NMMA’s teen initiative, and is the only youth program in the country to have won two National Arts & Humanities Youth Program awards. 1 Yollocalli’s free events for youth, Chill Set and the Anti-Valentine’s Day Party, are two of the key initiatives of the Yollocalli Youth Council. Over 1,200 youth gather in a safe environment where they are able to be themselves. 400+YOUTH FROM 2 Summer Public Art Internships give youth the opportunity to work with a professional artist to design LITTLE VILLAGE & PILSEN and create a public mural. FOUND A SAFE HAVEN IN İ 3 Difusión Media equips youth with professional YOLLO’S AFTER-SCHOOL training in journalism and broadcast media and prepares AND SUMMER PROGRAMMING them to be leaders in the next generation of racially diverse media makers. 3 Keeping it weird since 1997 NMMA FY19 ANNUAL REPORT x 11 PERFORMING ARTS In 2019, the Museum celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Sor Juana Performing Arts 37 PERFORMING ARTS, Festival, which featured Mexican performing LITERARY & FILM EVENTS artists from both sides of the border. NMMA IN FY2019 has served as an incubator for many performing arts organizations over the years, providing capacity building assistance to the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, Aguijon Theater, Mexican Folkloric Dance Company, Sones de Mexico and many others. Image credit: NMMA staff. Astrid Hadad’s I Am Made in America Image credit: Kevin Penczak photography. The Sor Juana Festival welcomed Maria Hinojosa and Sandra Cisneros for a live recording of WBEZ’s Podcast Passport in partnership with WBEZ, Vocalo and Latino USA. Image credit: NMMA staff. Performances by CASA’s Latin Jazz Ensemble and Los Alebrijes Folkloric Dance NMMA FY19 ANNUAL REPORT x 13 1 2 COMMUNITY FESTIVALS The National Museum of Mexican Art reaches tens of thousands of individuals through our free community festivals highlighting Mexican art and cultural traditions. 1 4th Annual Day of the İ 3 Mexico’s finest folk Dead Xicágo Festival artists showcase their 10,000 people attended work and give live this community event demonstrations at the Folk 16,000+ PEOPLE on October 28, 2018 Art Festival, held annually celebrating the spiritual in October. PARTICIPATED IN NMMA tradition of Dia de COMMUNITY EVENTS IN FY2019 Muertos with community ofrendas, face painting, live 2 performances, and pan de muerto. 2 The 23rd Annual Día del Niño Family Health & Wellness Festival supported families with health screenings, physical activities, health education, art activities and live performances. Over 2,000 3 individuals turned out on May 18, 2019 to celebrate this tradition. NMMA FY19 ANNUAL REPORT x 15 BUILDING EQUITY For over 30 years, NMMA has been a NMMA LEADERSHIP national leader in anti-racism arts initiatives, EMBODIES OUR FOCUS strengthening artistic and cultural diversity in Chicago by advocating for the work ON RACIAL EQUITY. of Mexican artists, and the work of other Board of Trustees Demographic Profile culturally-specific organizations. By providing 67% ..................Mexican mentorship and assistance to people and 13% ...................non-Mexican Latino organizations and co-founding initiatives 18% ...................White like Enrich Chicago and the Chicago Latino 2% ....................African American Theater Alliance, NMMA has played a key 33% ..................Female role in creating greater racial equity in 67% ..................Male Chicago’s cultural landscape. NMMA Senior Staff 89% ..................Mexican 11% ...................White 56% ..................Female 44% ..................Male “My exposure to and work within NMMA helped boost my confidence as a Mexican in the US and as an American - confidence in who I am and my understanding of community, engagement, partnership, diversity, & inclusion.” - former Museum educator In 2019, The Field Foundation recognized NMMA President Carlos Tortolero as one of 14 inaugural Leaders for a New Chicago, acknowledging his contributions to the city. NMMA FY19 ANNUAL REPORT x 17 BUILDING FUTURE ARTS ADMINISTRATION LEADERSHIP The Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation Arts administration is a field historically provided funding for a Leonian Fellowship in NMMA’s Permanent Collection Department. Fellow Ximena lacking in diversity. According to a 2018 Mora assisted in developing an online database of report produced by the Mellon Foundation, NMMA’s photographs and curating the Open Access: Behind-the-Scenes of the Permanent Collection only 3% of leadership positions in museums exhibition.

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