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2015 Americans for the Arts Monday, October 19, 2015

Welcome from Robert L. Lynch Performance by YoungArts Alumni President and CEO of Americans for the Arts Musical Director, Jake Goldbas

Philanthropy in the Arts Award Legacy Award Joan and Irwin Jacobs Maria Arena Bell Presented by Christopher Ashley Presented by Jeff Koons

Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award Lady 1 Presented by Presented by

Arts Education Award Carolyn Clark Powers Alice Walton Lifetime Achievement Award Presented by Presented by Rob Marshall Dinner Closing Remarks Remarks by Robert L. Lynch and Abel Lopez, Chair, introduction of Carolyn Clark Powers Americans for the Arts Board of Directors and Robert L. Lynch Remarks by Carolyn Clark Powers Chair, National Arts Awards

Greetings from the Board Chair and President

Welcome to the 2015 National Arts Awards as Americans for the Arts celebrates its 55th year of advancing the arts and arts education throughout the nation.

This year marks another milestone as it is also the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s signing of the act that created ’s two federal cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Americans for the Arts was there behind the scenes at the beginning and continues as the chief advocate for federal, state, and local support for the arts including the annual NEA budget. Each year with your help we make the case for the funding that fuels creativity and innovation in communities across the .

Some additional numbers help tell this story. In 1965, an estimated 7,000 nonprofit arts organizations were in existence. Today, there are more than 95,000— from the flagship institutions anchoring our nation’s largest cities to the grassroots all-volunteer coalitions that have emerged across the country. All of them are focused on enabling art to thrive in whatever community they serve. In addition, we continue to provide essential research that helps make the case for the arts and 2 arts education in our communities. We also just celebrated the 10th anniversary of our National Arts Policy Roundtable program at Sundance, where over the last decade we have gathered more than 400 top thought leaders, policy makers, and artists in proactive discussions about the arts that result in positive change and action.

Tonight we honor some of the individuals instrumental to this blossoming of art in America. They are exceptional artists and committed philanthropists who inspire and nurture—and they are most deserving of our accolades.

We are also delighted to welcome Carolyn Clark Powers as our incoming chair of this evening’s event, and we thank all of you with us tonight for what you do throughout the year to better America through the arts.

Abel Lopez Robert L. Lynch Chair, Board of Directors President and CEO 3

The National Arts Awards Chair

Dear Friends of Americans for the Arts,

I am so pleased to serve as the new chair of The National Arts Awards, especially after having participated as a past co-chair and having attended this wonderful event in years past. It is always a night to remember.

Here at the National Arts Awards, we celebrate the arts from all disciplines, and we are proud to be one of the few national organizations to do so. Annually we transform the space at Cipriani with visual art, and we get to enjoy a performance by some of our country’s budding young talent that comes to us through The National YoungArts Foundation.

We are privileged to be surrounded tonight by the work of -based artist Kerry James Marshall, whose work here gives us both an indoor view of an artist’s studio, in the recent work that greeted you at the entrance, to the great work from the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, from 1995, which shows us an outdoor scene of an American neighborhood.

4 I am very proud to have my name now associated with that of our Lifetime Achievement Award, and this year’s recipient, Sophia Loren. Her incredible career is testament to a talent that spans decades and the entire globe, and we are so glad she has traveled from Europe to join us this evening with her family.

I spend much of my time in Southern , so I am thrilled that we are recognizing Joan and Irwin Jacobs for their extraordinary philanthropic commitment to the arts in San Diego and where they make their home. They are also national leaders in philanthropy and we applaud all that they have done to nurture the arts. I am equally delighted to see Alice Walton acknowledged for her loyalty to her hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas and for all that she has done as an innovator in arts education and in ensuring arts access for all. Her expansive vision of bringing the best of American art to northwest Arkansas and its neighboring communities is beyond compare.

The National Arts Awards Chair

Lady Gaga receives the Young Artist Award tonight. She is truly an artist who transcends boundaries, having excelled in music, fashion, the visual arts, and now in acting, as she begins her role as the star of this season’s American Horror Story. In spite of her busy creative schedule, she still finds time to work on issues of empowering youth and building better and more equitable communities through her .

The Legacy Award tonight goes to the incredible Maria Bell, who served as the chair of this event for the past 10 years. Maria and I are good friends and have many philanthropic interests and sit on many boards together. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Maria’s passionate commitment to the arts first-hand and she is a most deserving recipient at an event that has grown so much through her efforts.

Finally, the Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award goes to a man who I revere as an artist, and love as a friend, Herbie Hancock. We have worked together on a number of arts education initiatives, through the Institute of , the LA Philharmonic, and the GRAMMY Foundation, to name but a few. Our nation has no better musical ambassador, both at home and abroad than Herbie Hancock, who has done so much to shape the sound of today’s music. 5 I am deeply grateful to my tireless co-chairs, Sarah Arison, , David and Susan Goode, Agnes Gund, Susan and John Hess, Nora C. Orphanides, and Regina K. Scully, as well as our benefit committee and all of you here tonight who have made this evening possible. And of course, I thank the honorees for allowing us to acknowledge their indelible cultural contributions.

Carolyn Clark Powers

Benefit Committee

Carolyn Clark Powers Chair

Sarah Arison Co-Chairs

Gagosian Gallery

David and Susan Goode

Agnes Gund

Susan and John Hess

Nora C. Orphanides

Regina K. Scully

Benefit Committee

Page and Lou Adler 6

Bill Bell

Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy

Gail and Alfred Engelberg

Suzanne and David Johnson

Allison and Warren Kanders

Justine and Jeff Koons

Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis

Mrs. Lily Safra

IRWIN M. AND JOAN K. JACOBS Philanthropy in the Arts Award

Irwin Jacobs is the establish the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute founding chairman at Cornell NYC Tech—the embodiment of Cornell’s and and CEO emeritus of the Technion’s partnership at the new campus. Qualcomm, Inc., where In the field of arts and culture in their adopted he pioneered and led hometown, the Jacobs have been significant the commercialization contributors to the San Diego , San Diego’s of Code Division public TV and radio station, KPBS, the La Jolla Multiple Access (CDMA) Playhouse, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San technology, the basis Diego, among many others. for all third generation Last week, they received the 2015 Carnegie Medal for cellular communications Philanthropy, given every two years to individuals who, technology. Today, Qualcomm is the world’s largest like Andrew Carnegie, have dedicated their private fabless semiconductor producer and the largest wealth to the public good and who have impressive provider of wireless chipset and software technology. careers as philanthropists. He was previously a professor of engineering, first at MIT and later at the at San Diego (UCSD), now home to the Jacobs School Christopher Ashley, presenter of Engineering. Dr. Jacobs has received numerous Christopher Ashley has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Artistic Director since October, 2007. During his tenure, 7 Technology from President Clinton for his vision and he has helmed the Playhouse’s productions of The extraordinary success as an engineer and business Darrell Hammond Project, Chasing the Song, His Girl Friday, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Dram of Drummhicit, A leader. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Restoration and the acclaimed Joan Jacobs is a graduate of Cornell University’s College musicals Xanadu and Memphis, which won four 2010 Tony of Human Ecology, and with her husband, a global Awards including Best Musical. He also spearheaded philanthropist and patron of the arts. At UCSD, she the Playhouse’s Without Walls (WoW) series, the DNA served on the Board of Overseers and as a trustee and New Work Series and the Resident Theater program. former vice chair of the UCSD Foundation. She serves Prior to joining the Playhouse, he directed the Broadway on the Executive Committee of the La Jolla Playhouse at productions of Xanadu ( Desk nomination), All UCSD in addition to being a director on its board and is Shook Up and The Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Drama Desk a founding member of the university’s . and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), as well as She is a tireless proponent of the arts in San Diego, the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration productions having served as chair of the Gold Ribbon Patrons, a of Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. Other New fundraising group for the San Diego Symphony, and is York credits include: Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey presently the chairwoman of the San Diego Symphony’s (Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards), The Most Fabulous Story Endowment Foundation and chair of the Museum of Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder of the World, Contemporary Art San Diego’s International Collectors Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Committee. She is the 2015 recipient of the Helen Bull Williams Died and Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), Vandervort Alumni Achievement Award from Cornell among others. Mr. Ashley also directed the feature University’s College of Human Ecology. Irwin and Joan Jeffrey and the production of Blown Jacobs are Presidential Councillors for Cornell University Sideways Through Life for PBS. Mr. Ashley is the recipient and Dr. Jacobs serves on the steering committee for of the Princess Grace Award, the Drama League Director Cornell NYC Tech. In 2013, they made a landmark gift to Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship.

Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award HERBIE HANCOCK

Herbie Hancock’s illustrious Hancock is an activist and advocate, promoting jazz career has spanned five education and performance as Institute Chairman of decades and 14 Grammy the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and serving as Awards, including of co-President of the International Committee of Artists the Year in 2007 for River: for Peace (ICAP), which he co-founded, alongside The Joni Letters, a tribute other artists, in 2002. In 2011 he was designated an to longtime friend and honorary UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition collaborator ; he of his “dedication to the promotion of peace through is one of only a handful of dialogue, culture, and the arts.” Recently named by jazz musicians ever to receive the Philharmonic as Creative Chair for that honor. Born in Chicago Jazz, Mr. Hancock was awarded the much esteemed in 1940, Mr. Hancock was Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by French Prime a child prodigy who Minister Francois Fillon in 2011, and in 2013 he was a performed a Mozart piano recipient of the . concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, and also developed a passion for electronics Paul Simon, presenter and science, double-majoring in music and electrical During his distinguished career, Paul Simon has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including 12 Grammy engineering at . Awards, three of which were Album of the Year: Bridge In 1960, he was discovered by trumpeter , Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years, 8 and in 1963, invited him to join the Miles and Graceland. In 2003 he received a Grammy Lifetime Davis . After leaving the group, he put together a Achievement Award for his work as half of the duo Simon new band called and, in 1973, recorded & Garfunkel. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll . With its crossover hit single “,” Hall of Fame, both as a member of Simon & Garfunkel and it became the first jazz album to go platinum. He won as a solo artist. His song “Mrs. Robinson,” from the filmThe an Oscar in 1986 for scoring the filmRound Midnight, Graduate, was named in the Top 10 of the American Film in which he also appeared as an actor. Numerous Institute’s “100 Years, 100 Songs.” Simon was a recipient of television appearances over the years led to two hosting the Kennedy Center Honors in 2002 and was named one assignments in the 1980s: Rock School on PBS and of Time magazine’s “100 People Who Shape Our World” Showtime’s Coast To Coast. in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the inaugural Library of The legendary Headhunters reunited in 1998, recording Congress for Popular Song. He was elected an album and touring with the Band. to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. That year also marked the recording and release of Of Simon’s many concert appearances, he is most fond Gershwin’s World, which included collaborators as of the two concerts in in (with his diverse as Joni Mitchell, , , partner and childhood friend Art Garfunkel in 1981 and as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, , and a solo artist in 1991) and the series of shows he did at the ; the album won three Grammys in 1999. invitation of , being the first American artist to perform in post-apartheid . In 1998 Simon’s He joined with and in performance on center field at Yankee Stadium celebrating 2002 to record a live concert album, Directions in Music: the unveiling of Joe DiMaggio’s monument is a treasured Live at Massey Hall, a tribute to and Miles memory for this lifelong Yankees fan. Philanthropic works Davis. In 2005, he played a number of concert dates include the co-founding of the Children’s Health Fund (CHF) with a re-staffed Headhunters and became the first-ever with Dr. Irwin Redlener. CHF donates and staffs mobile Artist-In-Residence at the Tennessee-based festival medical vans that bring health care to poor and indigent Bonnaroo. In 2010 Mr. Hancock released the critically children in urban and rural locations around the United acclaimed Herbie Hancock’s , States. Simon also supports and fund-raises for The Nature utilizing the universal language of music to express Conservancy, Autism Speaks, Richard Leakey's Turkana

Photo by Douglas Kirkland by Photo its central themes of peace and global responsibility. Basin Insitute and Joe Torre's Safe At Home Foundation.

ALICE WALTON Arts Education Award

Alice Walton is the founder Press Association, inclusion on the 2012 “TIME 100” list of Crystal Bridges Museum of the 100 most influential people in the world, and the Philanthropist and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art board chair Alice Walton, at Crystal Bridges with the “No. 210/No. 211 (Orange)” by of American Art and now ’s Medal. serves as chairwoman Ms. Walton serves as a member of the board of the of the museum’s Board Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth and is a member of Directors. Ms. Walton of the Trustees’ Council of the in is the youngest of four Washington, DC. She currently lives in central Texas. children born to the late Ms. Walton graduated from Trinity University in San Helen Walton and the Antonio with a B.A. in economics and finance. She late Wal-Mart founder has remained committed to improving the quality Sam Walton. An avid of life in her home state and is actively involved in horsewoman, nature lover, philanthropy as a board member of the Walton Family

and art collector, Ms. Foundation. In 2012 the University of Arkansas Abstract Expressionist (part of the museum’s permanent collection). Photo by Stephen Ironside. Walton envisioned creating a significant art museum in her an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts and Humane her hometown of Bentonville, AR, so that people of the Letters. Ms. Walton was presented with the 2014 region would have ready access to great works of art. Leonore and Award for Diplomacy She conceived Crystal Bridges as a celebration not only through the Arts from The Foundation for Art and of American art and history, but of the Ozark landscape Preservation in Embassies in a ceremony hosted by she loved and explored as a child, and planned to build Secretary of State . 9 the museum on land that had belonged to the Walton family. In 2005, she involved her family in her dream Agnes Gund, presenter for Crystal Bridges, and the Walton Family Foundation Agnes Gund is president emerita of the Museum of agreed to fund the project. Modern Art (MoMA), chair of its International Council, Nestled in 120 acres of Ozark woodlands—a gift from and chair of MoMA PS1. She is the founder and board the Walton family to Crystal Bridges—the museum chair of Studio in a School, a nonprofit organization opened in 2011 with the mission of welcoming all to she established in 1977 in response to budget cuts that celebrate the American spirit in a setting that unites the virtually eliminated arts classes from power of art with the beauty of nature. public schools. A philanthropist and collector of modern Since that time, the museum has welcomed more and contemporary art, she is a member of the New York than 2 million visitors and garnered more than 9,000 State Council on the Arts and currently serves on the households in its membership. More than 84,000 boards of the Museum of Art, the Foundation schoolchildren have taken part in the museum’s school for Contemporary Arts, the Foundation for Art and visit program. Ms. Walton serves as board chairwoman, Preservation in Embassies, and Socrates Sculpture Park, among others. She is co-founder of the Center for playing an active role in the museum’s goal of exploring Curatorial Leadership and an honorary trustee of the the unfolding story of America by actively collecting, Independent Curators International and the Museum of exhibiting, interpreting, and preserving outstanding Contemporary Art, Cleveland. She earned a B.A. in history works that illuminate our heritage and artistic from and an M.A. in art history from . In addition, Crystal Bridges also initiated . She holds honorary doctorates from groundbreaking arts education and research programs , the CUNY Graduate Center, and Brown that have helped to shape the field. University. In 1997, Ms. Gund received the National Medal The establishment of the museum and its impact within of Arts from President Clinton and was honored for her the region has prompted numerous accolades for Ms. work in arts education by Americans for the Arts at the Walton, including Headliner of the Year by the Arkansas National Arts Awards in 1999.

LEGACY AWARD MARIA ARENA BELL

Maria Arena Bell is a Art, Los Angeles, where she chaired five of its most television writer and producer successful fundraising galas. She is also on the boards who recently founded of the Friends of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, and Vitameatavegamin Productions has previously served on the boards Center Dance Arts, to develop projects for feature Los Angeles and the Dicapo Theater, New York. film, television, and new media. Ms. Bell was appointed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa She is an Emmy Award-winning to the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission writer and the former executive in October 2012 and is a former California State producer and head writer of the commissioner, appointed by Governor Arnold daytime drama, The Young and Schwarzenegger, to the Commission for the Status of the Restless. Under her tenure Women, which advises the legislature on issues that the show was number one by affect women and girls. the widest margin in its history, and her team won the Ms. Bell resides in Los Angeles with her husband and Writers Guild of America award in 2010 and 2012 and two children. the Emmy in 2011. Ms. Bell’s humorous essays have been published for 10 Jeff Koons, presenter publications such as “T” Style American contemporary artist Jeff Koons is world- Magazine, “C” Magazine, Aspen Magazine, and Aspen renowned for creating iconic artworks such as Rabbit and Peak Magazine. Balloon Dog, as well as his monumental floral sculptures She grew up in Newport Beach, CA, received a B.A. in Puppy and Split-Rocker. Since his first solo exhibition art history from Northwestern University, and did post in 1980, his work has been shown in major galleries graduate work in 19th-century art. Her first career was and institutions throughout the world. In 2014, The as a fashion designer for a major Los Angeles based Whitney Museum of American Art presented the most garment manufacturer. comprehensive survey of his career to date, Jeff Koons: She serves on the board of many arts-related A Retrospective, which went on tour at the Pompidou Centre Paris and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. nonprofits including Americans for the Arts, where she Among his many recent honors, the Royal Academy helped raise more than $10 million to further the arts in of Arts presented him with the John Singleton Copley America as the decade-long chair of the National Arts Award; French President Jacques Chirac promoted Awards. Since 2001, she has been on the board of P.S. him to Officier de la Legion d’Honneur; and Secretary ARTS in Los Angeles, which provides arts education of State Hillary Rodham Clinton honored him with the to nearly 14,000 children in California Title I public inaugural State Department’s Medal of the Arts for his schools. She was chair of that board for six years and outstanding commitment to the Art in Embassies Program for the last five years has been its president. She has and international cultural exchange. A member of the also served as chair for P.S. ARTS’ signature fundraiser Americans for the Arts Artists Committee since 2002, Mr. event, “Express Yourself.” for more than 10 years. Koons received the Artistic Excellence Award at the 2006 Recently, Ms. Bell completed a four-year tenure as co- National Arts Awards. Mr. Koons is the designer of Balloon chair of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Rabbit the evening's award.

LADY GAGA Young Artist Award

Lady Gaga is a one-of-a Known for her innovative and exciting fashion and kind artist and performer. performances, Lady Gaga has delighted her fans with She holds the distinction massive tours including “ Ball Tour” and “The of generating three Monster Ball Tour,” which became the highest-grossing consecutive Number One tour in history for a debut headlining artist. Her 2012/13 on the Billboard “” was ranked as the fifth highest- Hot 100, continuously grossing tour in 2012 by Pollstar. It was followed by topping the charts 2014’s “ArtRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball” which reached with pop hits including, more than one million fans across 24 countries, making “Just Dance”, “Poker it one of the year’s highest-grossing tours. With over Face”, “Paparazzi”, “Bad 3.4 billion combined views of all her videos online, Lady Romance”, “Telephone”, Gaga is one of the biggest living forces in social media “Alejandro”, “Born with over 61 million likes on Facebook, over 49.8 million This Way”, “ followers on , and over 10.1 million followers on of Glory”, and “Applause”.Described as the “Queen Instagram. In 2012, Lady Gaga launched the Born This of Pop” by magazine, she has won six Way Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to and amassed an outstanding 28 empowering youth, embracing differences and inspiring million global album sales and 140 million single sales, kindness and bravery. She is also an outspoken activist making her one of the best-selling musicians of all time. and philanthropist, having been an outspoken supporter Known for her massive pop anthems and her fashion- of many important issues including LGBT rights, HIV/ forward , Lady Gaga has expanded her AIDS awareness and body image issues. 11 talents to television this Fall appearing as The Countess on Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Klaus Biesenbach, presenter Story: Hotel for FX Network. The fifth season of the Klaus Biesenbach is the Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief thriller series premiered on October 7. Lady Gaga has Curator at Large at The . successfully collaborated with multi-platinum artists Among the exhibitions Mr. Biesenbach has organized at ranging from Beyoncé to —with whom MoMA are: : One Woman Show, 1960-1971(with she released Cheek To Cheek, a collection of American Christophe Cherix); Bjork; – Retrospective Jazz standards that won the 2015 Grammy Award for 12345678; Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception; : Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Together they are Motion Pictures; Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present; currently touring Cheek To Cheek, a live tour inspired William Kentridge: Five Themes (with Judith B. Hecker by their 2014 PBS TV special which received a 2015 and Cara Starke); : Pour Your Body Out (7354

Emmy nomination for Outstanding Variety, Music or Cubic Meters); Take your time: (with Roxana © 2015 FX Networks, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Special. Lady Gaga’s other television credits Marcoci); : sleepwalkers (co-commissioned include hosting in 2013 and as with Creative Time); and : Timeline. Mr. herself on in 2012. The first woman to Biesenbach also organized the exhibitions Wael Shawky: receive the RIAA’s Digital Diamond Award, Lady Gaga The Crusades; Zero Tolerance; ; and Rockaway! at Fort Tilden; Korakrit Arunanondchai has won six Grammy Awards, 13 MTV Video Music at MoMA PS1 and MoMA; in Awards, been nominated for two , and New York; EXPO1 in New York and Rio de been named one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Janeiro (2013 and 2014); Cyprien Gaillard; Jeff Elrod; Ryan Women” by Forbes four years in a row, been featured Trecartin: Any Ever; Laurel Nakadate; Fassbinder: Berlin as Billboard’s “Artist of the Year” multiple times, and Alexanderplatz; and City: An Exhibition About the been named one of the world’s most influential people Exchange Rate of Bodies and Values, among many others. by Time. Lady Gaga and her creative talents were In 1990, at age 23, he founded KW (KUNST-WERKE) most recently recognized by the Hall of and subsequently the , which began as Fame with their first-ever Contemporary Icon Award, independent initiatives and are now federal- and state- an award celebrating her iconic status in pop culture. funded institutions. Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award SOPHIA LOREN

In 1991 Sophia Loren received sons, appearing occasionally in television , and an Honorary Academy Award the first actress to launch her own fragrance for her body of work and was and eye wear line. She returned to the big screen in declared “one of world cinema’s ’s Ready to Wear in 1994 and followed it greatest treasures.” up with the hit comedy Grumpier Old Men with Walter Born in Rome, , she grew Matthau. Over the next decade she took plum roles in up in the struggling city of a few non-mainstream arthouse films, and in 2009, she Pozzuoli during World War II. appeared in the musical Nine opposite Daniel Day-Lewis Her life took an unexpected and directed by Rob Marshall. In addition to her work turn when as a teenager, she as an actress, Ms. Loren was named a United Nations entered a beauty contest and Goodwill Ambassador In 1992. Moved by a widely caught the attention of film publicized image of a Somali child, “a living skeleton, producer Carlo Ponti, whom with enormous eyes, tragically attempting a smile,” she later married and under she said, “was the moment I decided that I must do whose guidance she appeared something.” “I know it is a human, instinctive reaction as an extra in 10 films beginning in 1950, before working to remove from us anything that can disturb our eyes.” her way up to supporting roles. By her late teens, she Ms. Loren said. “But I firmly say: NO! We must feel was playing lead roles in many Italian features. In 1957, disturbed, we must feel shaken and ask ourselves which she embarked on a successful acting career in the way we can be involved and help.” With a career that U.S., starring in such films asLegend of the Lost with has already spanned six decades and been honored 12 and The Pride and the Passion with Cary with some 50 awards, Sophia Loren remains one of Grant and . For the next three years she the most beloved and recognizable figures in the also starred in Desire Under the Elms with Anthony international film world and humanitarian community. Perkins, The Key with William Holden, The Black Orchid with , It Started in Naples with Clark Gable, A Breath of Scandal with Maurice Chevalier and Rob Marshall, presenter John Gavin, and The Millionairess with Peter Sellers Rob Marshall’s films have been honored with a total of 26 before returning to Italy to star in Two Women. For Academy Award nominations—winning nine, including this Vittorio De Sica film, Ms. Loren created a powerful Best Picture. His most recent film is the musicalInto portrayal of a mother living in war-torn Italy who is the Woods starring , which was nominated raped while unsuccessfully trying to protect her young for three Oscars, three Golden Globes (including Best daughter, who is also assaulted. cast in the Picture), and was chosen as one of AFI’s best films of the role of the daughter, Ms. Loren fought against type year. He also has directed the filmsChicago (six Academy and was re-cast as the mother, receiving international Awards, DGA and National Board of Review Awards — Best Director); Memoirs of a Geisha (three Academy acclaim and the Academy Award for Best Actress, Awards), Nine (four Academy Award nominations), becoming the first artist to receive an Oscar for a starring Sophia Loren and Daniel Day-Lewis, and Pirates foreign-language performance. of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny She continued as an international star throughout the Depp and Penelope Cruz, which earned more than billion sixties and seventies, making films on both sides of the dollars worldwide. On television, Mr. Marshall received Atlantic. Her American films included El Cid, The Fall of Emmy Awards for directing, choreographing, and the Roman Empire, Arabesque, and Man of La Mancha, executive producing Tony Bennett, An American Classic, and the Italian films Marriage Italian Style and A Special and he also directed and choreographed the Disney/ABC Day, both with Marcello Mastroianni, her frequent co- musical Annie (Emmy Award, Peabody Award). A six-time star. During these years she received a second Oscar Tony Award nominee, Mr. Marshall’s stage work includes nomination and won five Golden Globe Awards. Broadway productions of Cabaret, , Victor/ In the 1980s, Ms. Loren limited her filming schedule in Victoria, Damn Yankees, , Company, and Kiss

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Performers

Jake Goldbas 2007 YoungArts Winner in Jazz, is a Grammy nominated artist who has taken the music scene by storm. A respected educator and clinician, Goldbas leads a band for Jazz at ’s new education program Jazz For Young People and has performed at the world’s most distinguished venues from to . Carney 2011 YoungArts Winner in Theater and Voice and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, is a multi- talented performing artist and vocalist with “a voice of gold” (MStars News), Carney sang alongside Grammy-award winner and Jason Derulo as one of the Top 5 on The Voice. Based in Los Angeles and New York, the native has performed at NYC’s Apollo Theater, Madison Square Garden, Yankee Stadium, California’s , Montana’s Crown Guitar Workshop & Festival, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes 2013 YoungArts Winner in Voice and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, is a New York-based flutist and vocalist. She has performed in jazz festivals and clubs throughout the U.S, Europe, , and South America, and won numerous awards for “best soloist” at jazz festivals and from Downbeat magazine. Samora Pinderhughes 2009 YoungArts Winner in Jazz, is a world-renowned and composer who has performed in venues including the , the Blue Note, MoMA, the Sundance Film Festival, , and Carnegie Hall. He is a 2015 Sundance Composers Lab fellow and is currently working on a live score for the historic film Lime Kiln Field Day, commissioned by MoMA and Stage. Elliott Skinner 2013 YoungArts Winner in Voice, is a New York-based singer, , and bass player from , Texas. He is currently the bassist and background singer for Grace Weber and member of Thirdstory, and has performed with artists such as John Clayton and Polyphonic Spree. Alex Wintz 2006 YoungArts Winner in Jazz, is a guitarist quickly becoming a name in the international jazz community. At a young age he has already won numerous awards and performed around the world in Europe, Asia, 13 South America and in major U.S. clubs including the Monterey Jazz Festival, , The Knitting Factory, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, and the DC Jazz Festival, to name a few. Martin Jaffe 2012 YoungArts Winner in Jazz and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, is a bassist and composer based in New York City. He has studied with Dr. Salvatore Macchia, John Clayton, Ray Drummond, and ; toured with Takeshi Obayashi and Beka Gochiashvili; and collaborated with dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, pianist Conrad Tao, and French Horn virtuoso John Clarke. Adam O’Farrill 2013 YoungArts Winner in Jazz, was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY to a musical family. He joined Rudresh Mahanthappa’s new band for his latest album, Bird Calls, and has co-led the O’Farrill Brothers Band with his brother, Zack. Adam is now leading a new quartet, called Stranger Days, with recent performances at The Jazz Gallery, , the Lilypad, , and more.

The National YoungArts Foundation (formerly known as the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts) was established in 1981 by Lin and Ted Arison to identify and support the next generation of visual, literary, and performing artists. To date, YoungArts has honored more than 17,000 young artists with over $6 million in monetary awards; facilitated in excess of $150 million in college scholarship opportunities; and enabled its participants to work with master teachers who are among the most distinguished artists in the world, such as , Jacques d’Amboise, Plácido Domingo, Bill T. Jones, and . In addition, YoungArts serves as the exclusive nominating agency for the U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, the country’s highest honor for young artists. Some of YoungArts’ work is featured in its two-time Emmy nominated HBO series YoungArts MasterClass, which chronicles renowned artists including Bruce Weber, Kathleen Turner and Bobby McFerrin sharing their art and life experiences with YoungArts Winners. YoungArts alumni who have gone on to become leading professionals in their fields include actors Davis, Adrian Grenier, and ; four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza; recording artists Nicki Minaj and Chris Young; star Eric Owens; musicians and Jennifer Koh; choreographer and dancer Desmond Richardson; visual artist Hernan Bas; and internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Doug Aitken.

Featured Artist KERRY JAMES MARSHALL

With a career spanning almost In 2013, Mr. Marshall was one of seven new appointees three decades, Kerry James named to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Marshall is well known for his the Humanities, where he participates in the committee’s depicting actual and Turnaround Arts program. Other prestigious awards imagined events from African- include a 1997 grant from the MacArthur Foundation American history. His complex and a 1991 fellowship from the National Endowment for and multilayered portrayals of the Arts. youths, interiors, nudes, housing Currently on view through May 2016 is a large-scale estate gardens, land- and mural the artist created specifically for the High Line, seascapes synthesize different located at 22nd Street and 10th Avenue in New York. traditions and genres, while Titled Above the Line, it marks Mr. Marshall's first seeking to counter stereotypical public commission in New York City. In the spring of representations of black 2016, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago will people in society. Mr. Marshall also produces drawings host the first major museum survey of his work. The in the style of comic books, sculptural installations, show will travel to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in photography, and video. As with his paintings, these New York, followed by the Museum of Contemporary works accumulate various stylistic influences to address Art in Los Angeles. the historiography of black art, while at the same time On view this evening at the National Arts Awards drawing attention to the fact that they are not inherently are Untitled (Studio), 2014 and Our Town, 1995. partisan because their subjects are black. Our Town is in the collection of the Crystal Bridges 14 Mr. Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, AL. He Museum of American Art. Mr. Marshall was born in studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, earning 1955 in Birmingham, AL. He studied at the Otis Art his BFA in 1978 and an honorary doctorate in 1999. The Institute in Los Angeles, earning his BFA in 1978 and

Felix Clay all rights reserved. Courtesy David Zwirner, Zwirner, David Courtesy all rights reserved. Clay Felix artist lives and works in Chicago. an honorary doctorate in 1999. Mr. Marshall lives and works in Chicago.

Balloon Rabbit Award

Jeff Koons, a member of the Americans for the Arts Artists Committee, designed the National Arts Awards Balloon Rabbit award in 2009. One of the world’s most preeminent artists, Mr. Koons’s work has been widely exhibited and is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC; The Family Foundation in Santa Monica, CA; the Tate Gallery in London; the Stedelijk Museum in ; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum; and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AK. In 2008, he was the first contemporary artist to have his work installed at the Palais de Versailles in . A retrospective of Mr. Koons’ work, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art is currently traveling the globe. The Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards evokes both Mr. Koons’s iconic 1986 Rabbit sculpture as well as the balloon forms of his Celebration Series and is truly a visual exemplification of artistic “celebration!” We are grateful to the artist and his studio for their generosity and support.

Credits and Special Thanks

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Alice Walton Jared Mink Jana and Larry Morales Vincent Andrunas Rod Bigelow Ryan Murphy John Moran Mary Beebe Diane Carroll Amanda Silverman Justin Morris, Morris Bureau Kay Burlingame Crystal Bridges Museum Julie Muraco Sophia Loren Candy Coleman of American Art Nadine Johnson & F. Murray Abraham Martha Gilmer Ford Foundation Associates Inc. Academy of Motion Picture Victoria L. Michael Gericke Candace and Charles Arts and Sciences Mel Katz Thelma Golden Nelson Kerry Brougher Warren Kessler Stephen Ironside Lauran Rothstein Compania Cinematografica Pentagram Lori Robishaw La Jolla Light Champion Shiffman & Kohnke La Jolla Playhouse Daniel Day-Lewis Safdie Architects Sprinkles Cupcakes Philipp Scholz Rittermann Andrea Giusti Renee Sandell Ty Stiklorius Michael Rosenberg Barbra Korn Studio Museum in Harlem John Von Schmid Colette Carson Royston Lancaster Gate Darren Walker Lauren Winston San Diego Public Library Lucamar Productions Foundation YoungArts Maria Arena Bell San Diego Symphony Michael Zimmer Alice and Andy Arena Relativity Media Stuart Collection 15 Eli Broad Societe Generale de UC San Diego Featured Art: Chateau Marmont Cinematographie Kerry James Marshall Herbie Hancock uniFrance Films (cover image) Marc Allan Karen Denne Warner Bros. Our Town, 1995 Tom Carter The Eli and Edythe Broad The Weinstein Company Acrylic & collage on canvas Dawn Hamilton/UCLA Foundation Lina Wertmüller 101 x 143 inches Josh Johnson LACMA Special Thanks Crystal Bridges Museum of Chip Latshaw/UCLA LAGALLA Productions Text Design, Inc. American Art, Bentonville, MOCA Melinda Murphy Charlotte Brooks Arkansas. Photography by Kate & Laura Mulleavy Pharrell Steven Burridge Art Gallery. P.S. ARTS Jonathan Pinson Cipriani 42nd Street Kerry James Marshall Loriel Samaras Wayne Shorter Mitch Curtis Untitled (Studio), 2014 Francesco Vezzoli Pamela Springsteen/UCLA Elizabeth De Mase Acrylic on PVC panel Thelonious Monk Institute Lady Gaga DigiLink 84 1/8 x 119 1/2 inches of Jazz at the UCLA Herb Tony Bennett Amy Herritt Courtesy David Alpert School of Music Zwirner, London Katherine Kliewer UCLA Newsroom Bobby Campbell Jeff Koons UNESCO Emma Justine Koons The Voice Jeff Koons Vanessa Leitman Holly Wallace Don Lawrence Betsy Libretta Mica Medoff Gary McCraw

Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award

I am delighted to be engaged with Americans for the Arts as the new chair of the National Arts Awards, and I am proud to lend my name to the award for lifetime achievement.

I was raised in a family immersed in American music history. My ancestral home, Dockery Farms in the Mississippi Delta, is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places for its role in of music. Musicians who once lived on the farm or had a presence in the community include Charlie Patton, , Howlin’ Wolf, and the late, great B.B. , who I helped to connect with Americans for the Arts when he received our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. The farm remains a vibrant place of pilgrimage for musicians and enthusiasts alike.

From this musical foundation, I grew to passionately embrace all forms of the arts, and I am a strong champion of arts education. Because of this, I was thrilled at the opportunity to support the National Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This award has gone to recipients from every arts discipline and to such luminaries as opera 16 singer ; the choreographer Paul Taylor; architect Frank O. Gehry; the Queen of ; actor/director ; and visual artist , among many others.

I am so pleased that the award bearing my name in this first year will go to iconic film legend Sophia Loren. I have always been in awe of her tremendous talent, grace, and beauty and so admire her commitment to human rights.

Carolyn Clark Powers

Past Honorees

ARNOLD GINGRICH HART ARTS EDUCATION MetLife National Endowment for MEMORIAL AWARD AWARD , YoungArts Music Industry and NAMM the Arts, In Honor of 40 years of Service (Presented 1966-1996) , artist NationsBank Representative William Bassell, Principal Financial Group Jerrold Nadler George Balanchine public school principal Procter & Gamble United States Conference Alberto M. Carvalho, Mikhail Baryshnikov of Mayors, In Honor of its public school Inc. 75th Anniversary superintendent Time Warner Schuyler Chapin, YOUNG ARTIST & United Technologies civic leader AWARD FOR ARTISTIC Agnes DeMille Corporation Pierre Dulaine & Yvonne EXCELLENCE VH1 Marceau, American Coppola Ballroom Theater & Company ∞ Anna Deavere Smith Midori Goto, artist ∞ Renée Fleming Agnes Gund, INDIVIDUAL William Paley Hugh Hardy philanthropist PHILANTHROPY Paul G. Allen** David Hallberg∞ Joseph Papp , artist * Arthur Mitchell, artist Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Peter Martins P.S. ARTS Rodarte∞ Yoko Ono President’s Committee Eli Broad* Beverly Sills on the Arts and Sidney Harman* Gabourey Sidibe∞ the Humanities Joan W. Harris* Mena Suvari Polshek Martha Rivers Ingram** ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE Harold Sheila C. Johnson* Christo & Jeanne-Claude Kerry Washington 17 Teresa Heinz Kerry* Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Salman Rushdie Jo Carole Lauder LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Peter Martins Martin Scorsese Raymond Nasher* FEATURED ARTISTS Dame Ed Ruscha Beverly Sills John and Mary Will Cotton Richard Avedon Pappajohn** Paul Taylor Salvador Dali John Baldessari Kirk Varnedoe, David Rockefeller* Todd Eberle Memorial Tribute Aretha Franklin Vicki and Roger Sant** Jeff Koons , Isaac Frank O. Gehry Beverley Taylor Sol LeWitt OUTSTANDING Stern Award, Excellence Sorenson** CONTRIBUTIONS TO Julie Mehretu B.B. King† THE ARTS LEGACY AWARD Kelly Richardson Thomas Krens Herb Alpert CORPORATE HONOREES Madeleine H. Berman Ed Ruscha American Legion Auxiliary Kenny Scharf SPECIAL RECOGNITION Jenny Holzer Amerindo Investment Jennifer Steinkamp Representative John Richard Meier Advisors Joel Shapiro Brademas Robert Redford AT&T Bravo Television, Andy Warhol Jason Robards AXA Art Insurance Excellence in Arts † ARTS ADVOCACY Corporation & Media Kitty Carlisle Hart, Beverly Sills Citigroup, Inc. Outstanding Frank Stella† Chuck Close FleetBoston Financial Contributions to the Arts Corporation Representative *Frederick R. Weisman Isaac Stern Michael Greene, National Award for Philanthropy in General Electric Amory Houghton, Jr. Paul Taylor Academy of Recording the Arts Arts & Sciences The Hearst Corporation Mike Jordan, CBS, **Eli and Edythe Broad Phil Ramone IBM Corporation Outstanding Vision and Exemplary Contributions Award for Philanthropy in JP Morgan Chase & Co. to the Arts the Arts Lockheed Martin Institute for Museum ∞Bell Family Foundation The McGraw-Hill and Library Sciences, Young Artist Award Companies In Honor of 25 Years of †Isabella and Theodor Service Dalenson Lifetime Achievement Award

Americans for the Arts Board of Directors

CHAIR AT LARGE Glen S. Howard EX-OFFICIO Abel Lopez Susan Coliton Cultural Data Project Robert L. Lynch GALA Hispanic Theatre Paul G. Allen Family Washington, DC Americans for the Arts Washington, DC Foundation Deborah Jordy Washington, DC SECRETARY , WA Business IN MEMORIAM Committee for the Arts Michael Spring Susan S. Goode Peggy Amsterdam Arts Patron Denver, CO -Dade County Peter Donnelly Department of Cultural Norfolk, VA William T. Kerr Affairs Dorothy Pierce McSweeny Eaglepoint Advisors, LLC EMERITUS Miami, FL DC Commission on the Arts New York, NY Madeleine H. Berman and Humanities TREASURER Liz Lerman C. Kendric Fergeson Washington, DC Choreographer Julie Muraco Fred Lazarus Praeditis Group LLC Margie Johnson Reese Baltimore, MD New York, NY Arts Management Felix Padrón VICE CHAIRS Professional City of San Antonio Dallas, TX Ramona Baker Department for Culture & Ramona Baker Consulting, Charmaine Warmenhoven Creative Development Master of Arts in Arts Arts Patron San Antonio, TX Administration Program, Montalvo Arts Center Barbara S. Robinson 18 Goucher College Monte Sereno, CA Arts Patron Indianapolis, IN DIRECTORS Cleveland, OH Maria Arena Bell Nolen V. Bivens Edgar L. Smith, Jr. Arts Patron U.S. Army (ret) World Pac Paper, LLC Vitameatavegamin Arlington, VA , OH Productions Tommy Sowers, Ph.D Los Angeles, CA Leslie Blanton Arts Patron U.S. Army John Haworth , TX Solo National Museum of the Chapel Hill, NC Charles X Block American Indian Ann Stock New York, NY Bedrock Group LLC , PA Former Assistant Secretary William Lehr, Jr. of State for Educational and Capital Blue Cross Theodor Dalenson Cultural Affairs Hershey, PA Nove Capital Alexandria, VA New York, NY Timothy McClimon Nancy Stephens American Express Alessandra DiGiusto Actor and Activist Foundation Deutsche Bank Americas Los Angeles, CA New York, NY Foundation New York, NY Ty Stiklorius Steven D. Spiess Friends at Work Mid Atlantic Arts Floyd W. Green, III Santa Monica, CA Foundation Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT Michael S. Verruto New York, NY HPI Capital LLC Charlotte, NC

Artists Committee

Doug Aitken Hill Harper Alessandro Nivola IN MEMORIAM Naomi Shihab Nye Theodore Bikel Kwaku Alston Craig Hodgetts Richard On Dame Julie Andrews Lorin Hollander Yoko Ono Mary Rodgers Guettel Martina Arroyo Jenny Holzer Skitch Henderson Paul Auster Siri Hustvedt Robert Redford Bob Balaban David Henry Hwang Michael Ritchie Leonard Nimoy John Baldessari Melina Kanakaredes Marc Roberge John Raitt Alec Baldwin Moisés Kaufman Victoria Rowell Lewis Black Kenna Salman Rushdie Billy Taylor Lauren Bon Jon Kessler Martin Scorsese Wendy Wasserstein Amy Brenneman Richard Kind Cindy Sherman Connie Britton Jeff Koons Gabourey Sidibe Swoosie Kurtz Anna Deavere Smith Chuck Close John Legend Meryl Streep Chuck D Liz Lerman Holland Taylor 19 Jacques d’Amboise John Lithgow Julie Taymor Carla Dirlikov Graham Lustig Fran Drescher Kyle MacLachlan Stanley Tucci Yo-Yo Ma Pierre Dulaine Yvonne Marceau Clay Walker Todd Eberle Peter Martins Malcolm-Jamal Warner Hector Elizondo Marlee Matlin Kerry Washington Giancarlo Esposito Kathy Mattea William Wegman Shepard Fairey Trey McIntyre Bradley Whitford Julie Mehretu Kehinde Wiley Richard Meier Ben Folds Arthur Mitchell Hsin-Ming Fung Brian Stokes Mitchell Kulapat Yantrasast Frank O. Gehry Walter Mosley Peter Yarrow Marcus Giamatti Paul Muldoon Michael York Josh Groban Kate Mulleavy Vijay Gupta Laura Mulleavy David Hallberg

About Americans for the Arts

Americans for the Arts President and CEO Robert Artists Committee Members O.A.R. guitarist Richard Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), founding co-chair L. Lynch with Congressional Arts Award recipient On and front man Marc Roberge take to Capitol Hill to Congressional Arts Caucus with Artists Committee Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and Tom McClimon of the lobby for arts education. Photo by Ayappa Biddanda Member Holland Taylor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Conference of Mayors at the 2015 Congressional and Americans for the Arts President and CEO Arts Kick Off, part of Arts Advocacy Day 2015 on Robert L. Lynch during Arts Advocacy Day 2015. Capitol Hill.

Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for 20 every American to participate in and appreci- ate all forms of the arts. Each year, Americans for the Arts provides a rich array of programs that meet the needs of more than 150,000 members and stakeholders.

Actor, director, writer, and producer For more information about our programs or to learn how President’s Committee on the Arts Ben Stiller speaking about the you can become more involved in our work, please visit us and the Humanities Turnaround Artist importance of arts education at the Doc Shaw with Rep. John Lewis 2014 National Arts Awards. online at www.AmericansForTheArts.org or contact us at (D-GA) during Arts Advocacy 2015 202.371.2830 or 212.223.2787. on Capitol Hill.

2014 Bell Family Foundation Young Artist Award Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) with 2015 Nancy Hanks The Symphony Youth Orchestra with artist honoree and Artists Committee Member David Lecture on Arts and Public Policy lecturer Norman COMMON at the 2015 Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts Hallberg gives a kiss to his presenter RoseLee Lear and former Ovation EVP for Content Distribution and Public Policy. Goldberg, founding director and curator of Performa, Brad Samuels. at the 2014 National Arts Awards. Congratulations to tonight’s honorees. Your talent and commitment are a work of art. — Lynda & Stewart Resnick

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10 years of commitment, dedication, support and hard work for Americans for the Arts Congratulations, Maria We are so proud of you!! With love from your sisters, Dad, and Alice

My congratulations and support to Americans for the Arts in honoring Alice Walton & Lady Gaga, Maria Bell, Herbie Hancock Joan and Irwin Jacobs, Sophia Loren Kerry James Marshall who have done so much to make a difference through the arts With much gratitude Agnes Gund CELEBRATING ALICE WALTON The Board of Trustees and staff of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art celebrate Alice Walton as a National Arts Awards honoree for her contribution to arts education. Congratulations to my dear friends

Carolyn Clark Powers & Maria Arena Bell You are both stars! With love, Bridget Gless Keller The Board of Directors and Staff of The Old Globe congratulate Joan and Irwin Jacobs. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts NationalArts for your love and support of live theatre. PolicyRoundtable

Americans for the Arts is proud to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the National Arts Policy Roundtable, an annual forum of which over 300 national leaders have shared a commitment to the arts and a willingness to meet and recommend Othello, directed by Barry Edelstein, policies critical to the advancement of sponsored by Joan and Irwin Jacobs, 2014. Pictured: Richard Thomas, Kristen Connolly, , and Noah Bean with American culture and society. the cast of Othello. Photo by Jim Cox. AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS CONGRATULATES ROBERT L. LYNCH ON HIS 30TH ANNIVERSARY AS OUR PRESIDENT & CEO

Congratulations Carolyn ON A GOAL SHATTERING FIRST YEAR AS CHAIR! WITH AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE FROM THE BOARD AND STAFF OF AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS Save the Date National Arts Awards 2016 October 17, 2016 (Same place, same time) See you there!

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