#i Am 2019 ANNUAL REPORT BOARD OF Debradirec Harounian orsPeltz Chairman t Linda LeRoy Janklow Founding Chairman Dear Friends, Robert A. Pruzan 2019 was a year of change and partnership for ArtsConnection. Vice Chairman Debra Harounian Peltz, who has served on our Board of Directors for a dozen Robert W. Downes years, became only the third Board Chairman in our 40-year history. Treasurer We created our first Artist Advisory Council to help us make our programs Theodore S. Berger Secretary more visible. To ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion are at the center of our work, Patricia Morris Carey, Ph.D. we created working diversity committees on both the board and staff levels. Ada Ciniglio We worked in 194 schools utilizing the talents of over 125 diverse teaching Emily Ford artists. Our afterschool programs for teens created opportunities for 10,000 Andrea Glimcher young people to connect to the creative world of NYC. Lisa Hedley It was a year when we reached beyond our own organization to create Lynne S. Katzmann partnerships that enhanced and expanded our work, allowed us to learn and Stephen Levinson share with other agencies, be more cost effective and leverage the collective David Monn experience of youth-serving entities. These partnerships included: Lisa Plepler • Collaborating with DreamYard to bring the TRaC (Teen Reviewers and Chairman Emeritus Critics) program to the Bronx Douglas Schoen • Working with the Bronx Public Library to create Pizza and a Movie nights Chad Tredway in that borough Stephanie Wagner • Beginning OnTrac, a career and college readiness program for teens, in Louise Hartwell White partnership with Futures and Options Hon. Tom Finkelpearl, • Creating GIVE, a partnership with The New Victory Theater and the Ex-Officio Community-Word Project to create resources that will enable teaching artists to work more effectively in classrooms serving both general and Steven Tennen special education students together Executive Director We thank our program partners and our many public, private and individual supporters who made 2019 such a successful year at ArtsConnection. Steven Tennen ArtsConnection Executive Director hroughout the 2018–2019 school year, ArtsConnection collaborated with extraordinary partners to provide new programming and share our expertise in support of our city’s students. There wereT exciting joint ventures developed and others which expanded Providing and deepened services for children and teens who look forward to ArtsConnection in their classrooms or exploring the arts across New York City during out-of-school-time hours. pathways to teenWe are proud programs to support arts-interested teens art2artAnother 150 high school visual artists joined the as they prepare for post-secondary success. growing cadre of students creating original visual With funding from the Pinkerton Foundation, we responses to a renowned theater production. are partnering with Futures and Options, which Our third year of partnering with Broadway focuses on career and college guidance. Our pilot musical Dear Evan Hansen engaged students in OnTRaC course helped students confidently take exploring and interpreting the show’s themes, opportunity the next steps in determining their pathways. which resonate so strongly with teens. Our annual This summer, Teen Reviewers and Critics (TRaC) Spring Benefit, in support of our programming, increased its reach, with our first Bronx course celebrated this collaboration with lead producer, made possible by a partnership with DreamYard, Stacey Mindich Productions. which provides equity and opportunity for Bronx youth through the arts. through the kingThrough our kong collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, 200 students giveArtsConnection is collaborating with two other from long-time partner schools PS 49x and PS 130k arts organizations—Community-Word Project and all of our fall Teen Reviewers and Critics teens arts for our and The New Victory Theater—to create systemic saw King Kong on Broadway. Back in their class- improvements to arts education for inclusion rooms, younger students created and performed classrooms serving a mixed student body of with their own fantastical creatures, from smaller those with and without disabilities. With multi- individual puppets to giant group-created and year support from The New York Community animated parade puppets. TRaC teens learned Trust, the partnership began the process of about the rich history of the Kong story and city’s students developing a flexible toolbox of resources: GIVE approached their written reviews of the production (Growing Inclusivity for Vibrant Engagement: A from their particular TRaC seminar art form. Teaching Artist Planning Guide for Best Arts Engagement Practices in Inclusion Classrooms), to help teaching artists in NYC public schools plan, implement and reflect on their curricula summerWITH MULTILINGUAL in the LEARNERS city and instructional practices. The summer marked our second consecutive year working with the NYC Department of Education’s Summer in the City: Multilingual Summer Academy. ArtsConnection served over itAn inaugurals our grant story from the Departmentto tell of 5,300 multilingual learners in 85 schools in all Cultural’ Affairs’ CreateNYC Disability Forward five boroughs, who responded to their literacy Fund enabled us to implement a new media curriculum with theater and visual arts activities program: a documentary filmmaking residency to strengthen vocabulary, speaking and at District 75’s Dr. Horan School for high school listening skills. students who have significant disabilities. Putting the camera in their own hands, students also learned about the other roles in a documentary film crew, and shared their unique perspectives and artistic expressions with their larger school community in a fully-realized film. PHOTO CREDITS Cover photo: Joe Nanashe 2018-2019 HIGHLIGHTS 2018-2019 Photos: Brian Hatton Photography, Sari Goodfriend Photography, Jo Chiang Photography, Rina Ortega Fiscal Thank you to our partners in education. We are grateful for your collaboration. Year 2019 schoolIS 96 partnershipsPS 59 IS 93 REVENUE & EXPENSE Bronx PS 106 P 94 @ PS 15 PS 107 PS 14 BREAKDOWN PS 130 P 94 @ PS 51 IS 125 PS 36 Financials represent fiscal year PS 132 P 94 @ PS 188 PS/IS 127 PS 40 2019, spanning September 1, 2018 IS 136 P 94 @ PS 276 MS 137 PS 49 to August 31, 2019 PS 138 P 94 @ PS 281 PS/MS 138 PS 53 PS 159 P 94 @ PS 340 IS 145 PS 54 PS 186 P 94 @ PS 361 PS 150 PS 64 PS 189 P 94 @ PS 397 PS 153 PS 73 PS 199 JHS 104 JHS 157 PS 75 $1,736,587 PS 203 PS 124 MS 158 PS 76 PS 215 PS 128 PS 165 PS 105 JHS 223 PS 130 PS 166 PS 119 PS 225 JHS 143 JHS 185 $463,985 MS 135 PS/IS 226 PS 146 PS 212 $1,202,654 PS 160 IS 228 PS 149 JHS 217 $508,155 PS 161 PS/IS 229 PS 150 PS 220 P 168 @ PS/MS 20 PS 230 PS 153 IS 230 P 168 @ PS 160 IS 240 PS 161 PS 234 P 168 @ Hillman $1,432,772 PS 250 PS 163 IS 237 Children's Center PS 254 Amistad Dual PS 239 P 186 PS 257 Language School P 256 @ PS 43 PS/MS 194 JHS 259 Art and Design P 256 @ Gateway PS 204 PS 261 High School Academy IS 254 Revenue PS 264 Fiorello H. LaGuardia PS/IS 295 Federal, City, State PS 369 MS 266 High School P 993 @ MS 72 $1,432,772 Academy of Public IS 281 Hamilton Grange P 993 @ Frank Sinatra Foundation, Corporate, & Individuals Relations Ps 289 Middle School School of the Arts $1,202,654 Arturo A. Schomburg PS 299 High School of High School Satellite Academy NYC Dept. of Education IS 303 Fashion Industries P 993 @ Long Island High School $1,736,587 IS 318 Dr. Horan School City High School Bronx High School for Other/In-kind PS 376 Mosaic Preparatory Bayside High School the Visual Arts $463,985 PS/IS 384 Academy Business Technology East Fordham Academy Special Events PS 503 Satellite Academy Early College High for the Arts $508,155 PS 889 High School School Elementary School The Boerum Hill School School for Glo bal Corona Arts & Sciences for Math, Science, for International Leaders Academy and Technology Studies Brooklyn Stuyvesant High George J. Ryan School Fairmont Neighborhood Environmental School Queens Explorers School Exploration School Washington Heights Elementary School Jonas Bronck Academy $968,119 Ebbets Field Academy The Queens School The Lorraine Hansberry Middle School of Inquiry Academy John Dewey High School Queens Rockwood Park School Morris Academy For Middle School for Art JHS 8 The Walter Crowley Collaborative and Philosophy PS 13 Intermediate School Studies High School Red Hook PS 16 Mott Hall III Neighborhood PS 17 Westchester Square Staten Island $4,631,377 School PS 20 Academy PS 1 Ronald Edmonds PS 23 @ Queens PS 6 Brooklyn Learning Center II Children Center PS 13 School of Science & PS/MS 42 PS 16 PS 1 Technology PS 46 PS 19 PS 7 The Shirley Tanyhill PS 48 PS 22 PS 24 Expenses School PS 49 PS 31 Program Services PS 32 Dr. Susan S. McKinney PS 50 PS 42 $4,631,377 PS 38 Secondary School PS 51 PS 48 Supporting Services PS 44 of the Arts PS 60 IS 49 $968,119 PS 52 PS 62 PS 58 PS 53 Manhattan PS 63 PS 68 PS 58 PS 5 PS 66 IS 72 PS/IS 66 PS 15 IS 77 Total Revenue:Totals$5,344,153 IS 68 PS 33 PS 91 PS 69 Total Expenses: $5,599,496 PS 48 PS 92 PS 95 Preliminary and unaudited. Complete financial statement may be obtained by contacting us: [email protected] Many thanks to all of our generous supporters. Due to space limitations, we cannot list all donor names here, but all of your contributions are deeply appreciated.