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The American Writers Museum 2018 Annual Report 1 Letter from the Co-Chairs he American Writers Museum (AWM) history, our identity, our culture, and our daily was born in May, 2017, and experienced lives. We will continue to take advantage of T a growth spurt in 2018. The founders the AWM’s uniqueness and reputation as we of this museum never doubted it was a great implement our ambitious plans for broader idea, and it’s gratifying to see that the world reach and deeper impact. agrees. Attendance increased 40 percent over Thanks to many generous donors, and careful the comparable time period of 2017, visitor financial management, the AWM is in a stable reviews continue to be overwhelmingly positive, financial position. Many old and new friends and more of today’s established and emerging stepped up to provide major support in 2018, authors are coming to the AWM to speak and we are thrilled that they see the value with growing audiences. We are serving more and impact of our exhibits and programs. We elementary, middle and high school students, remain grateful to the AWM’s dedicated Board and we continue to improve their educational of Directors, advisors, staff and, especially, experience. supporters like you. During 2018, the AWM Board and staff The end of 2018 marks the end of our term conducted a careful analysis of what we have as the AWM’s inaugural Co-chairs, although learned and how the AWM can reach its greatest we will always support this special place that potential as a cultural and educational resource. was brought to life by an army of creative and From this analysis, we developed a strategic tireless believers. plan that will guide us in the coming years. Thank you for being part of the American The plan is grounded in the AWM’s mission to Writers Museum. engage the public in celebrating American writers and exploring their influence on our M. Hill Hammock, Co-chair Roberta Rubin, Co-chair 2 Letter from the President the American Writers Museum, we honor the past with exhibits that At celebrate American writers from throughout our country’s history, we promote the present through in-person programs with today’s writers, and, most importantly, we use our exhibits, author programs, and student curriculum to inspire the future with the Write In youth education program. This 2018 annual report highlights our growth and impact in all three areas. These accomplishments lay the audience are always interesting and wide- foundation for continued growth and will allow ranging—this lively exchange of ideas is what us to take advantage of new opportunities to the AWM is all about. improve your museum. Good writing can broaden our minds, and in Highlights of 2018 include two new temporary turn, it can change the world. The AWM conveys exhibits: Bob Dylan: Electric which examines this idea by presenting writers and their work in Dylan as a writer and influencer, andFrederick a totally new way. When students visit the AWM Douglass: Agitator, which explores how as part of the Write In program, they experience Douglass used writing as a force for change as hands-on, technology-based exhibits and hear he fought for equality in the 19th century. from today’s writers at special author events As the AWM becomes increasingly well-known, just for them. Write In looks at regular school we continue to attract some of today’s most curriculum through a new lens, giving students a popular authors to discuss their work with the new perspective about what writing can be, and public. In 2018, we were pleased to host 49 how it can be an important part of their lives. events, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice I hope you take pride in what you make possible Sonia Sotomayor, discussing her memoir at the AWM. We would not be on this upward Turning Pages, Pulitzer-prize winner Viet Thanh trajectory without supporters like you. On behalf Nguyen, Editor of The Displaced: Refugee of everyone at the American Writers Museum, Writers on Refugee Lives, Tayari Jones, author thank you for your support and endorsement. of the bestselling novel An American Marriage, and AJ Finn, author of another bestseller, Carey Cranston, President The Woman in the Window, to name a few. Conversations between authors and our 3 The American Writers Museum experience is inspiring and memorable because of its modern, hands-on exhibits. They are designed to guide visitors Honoring the Past through a deep dive into American EXHIBITS writing and its lasting influence. Permanent exhibits celebrate a wide range of American writers, the writing process, and the ways that writers and readers 1 connect. We are often asked if our permanent exhibits will change or be updated. The answer is yes. In 2018, the following additions were made, informed by feedback from our visitors: 1. Ten new works of literature were added to the Featured Works tables, which provide extensive information, including audio excerpts, on various masterworks. Each Featured Works Table now holds information on 35 works, with more to be added. 2. First Lines is a new, original exhibit piece at the north end of the S. Leigh Pierson and Douglas R. Conant Reader’s Hall. Throughout the development of the AWM, we 2 have benefitted from support and counsel from some of America’s greatest living writers. Over several years, the museum founders asked these writers to pen a new first line to something they have never written. First Lines is a collection of delightful and varied “first line” cards from writers including Judy Blume, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, David McCullough, and Colson Whitehead. 3. As part of the popular 2017 exhibit The Beat Journey: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, the AWM commissioned the creation of a digital version of the iconic first draft scroll in the exhibit. After the exhibit, the museum maintained and moved the digital scroll, which is on a 55-inch touch screen, allowing visitors to see the entire novel, and zoom in to see Kerouac’s original typewritten, stream-of-consciousness storytelling and handwritten notes. The digital Kerouac Scroll is now a permanent AWM exhibit. 4. Several new book choices were added to the Reader’s 3 Choice kiosks, based on visitors’ suggestions. 4 4 2018 Temporary Exhibits Capturing Stories: Photographs of Writers by Art Shay, closed Oct. 2018 Laura Ingalls Wilder: From Prairie to Page, closed June 2018 Andy Anway in the John and Cathie Estey Nation of Writers. Photo: John Zich AWM Exhibit Designer Andy Anway, Founder of Frederick Douglass: Agitator Bob Dylan: Electric Amaze Design Opened June 2018 Opened October 2018 Andy Anway is the designer of The Roberta Rubin Writer’s Room The Meijer Exhibit Gallery the AWM’s permanent exhibits, This exhibit focuses on Douglass’s writing This exhibit examines Dylan as a and activism from 1865–the year slavery songwriter, looking specifically at the album and continues to work with us to ended–until his death in 1895, including Highway 61 Revisited; his controversial design new temporary exhibits his advocacy for the 13th, 14th, and 15th performance at the 1965 Newport Folk that keep the AWM experience amendments; his many speeches and essays Festival, where he played electric for the fresh and timely. on equal rights for African-Americans and first time; the 1965 documentary of Dylan’s women; and his involvement with the World’s tour of England, Don’t Look Back; and In 2018, Andy led the team to Columbian Exposition in Chicago. quotes and music from the many writers design and build Bob Dylan: and musicians he influenced. A video screen in the exhibit features Electric and Frederick Douglass: teenagers from Young Chicago Authors Bob Dylan: Electric also spotlights Dylan reading excerpts from Douglass’s speeches, as the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Agitator. Andy and his team carrying his still-relevant messages forward. Literature, with audio of Dylan reading his approach every project with the Nobel Prize Lecture, in which he describes Curators visitor experience in mind, and his musical and literary influences. John Stauffer, Professor of English, never fail to create exhibits that American Studies and African American Curator surprise and delight. Studies, Harvard University Alan Light, renowned music journalist Keidrick Roy, Ph.D. candidate, Artifacts on loan from American Studies, Harvard University Jim Irsay, Mitch Blank, Gary Ollman, “Working with the AWM Partners Bill Pagel, the Woody Guthrie Center, has been a labor of and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Frederick Douglass National Historic Site love, in large measure The Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives Sponsors because of the gifted Sponsors Poetry Foundation • Robin & Sandy Stuart and dedicated group of Allstate • Wintrust American Songwriter Magazine Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation Ivan & Kathy Kane • Susan & Doug Lyons supporters, contributors, The Donnelley Foundation • Jane Irwin Shanti Nagarkatti • Roberta Rubin and staff that it has Joyce & Don Rumsfeld • Patricia Dodson Ken & Jossy Nebenzahl attracted since its Olivia Bedi’s Fabulous Facebook Friends Jane Rotrosen Agency inception. The visitor experience reflects the joy we all feel in the presence of great writers and writing.” — Andy Anway 5 AUTHORPromoting the Present EVENTS The AWM offers author events year-round, approximately once a week, bringing the public face-to-face with writers in a variety of genres. Author events are often thematically tied to exhibits–in 2018 we initiated the Singers and Songwriters Series to complement Bob Dylan: Electric. In conjunction with Frederick Douglass: Agitator, we hosted Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass, to speak about Douglass’s legacy, Manisha Sinha on her new book, The Slave’s Cause, and co-hosted the Frederick Douglass Mixtape with Young Chicago Authors.
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