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Annual Report Contemporary Arts Museum Houston 17–18 Annual Report Contemporary Arts Museum Houston 17–18 6 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Interim Director’s Statement presents extraordinary, thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions to educate and 8 Exhibitions inspire audiences nationally and internationally. 24 Art on the Lawn 28 Education and Public Programming 44 Communications and Marketing 48 Publications 58 Development 72 Financial Reports 80 Board of Trustees 81 Staff Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018 Cover: Visitors encounter Christopher Child takes part in Family Day activities at Knowles: In a Word at Contemporary Arts Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2017. Museum Houston, 2017. Photo: Ronald L. Photo: Ronald L. Jones. Jones. 2 Annual Report 17–18 3 Young Patrons Gallery Walk, 2017. Photo: Ronald L. Jones. 4 5 Christina Brungardt storms and hurricanes, CAMH was not the United States. As a pioneer in the Restrepo, which focused on artists and immediately impacted in great part field of contemporary ceramics, Rosen’s artist collectives living and working in Interim Director due to luck and also the preparations work speaks to the sculptural and our neighboring city to the west. The of Assistant Director of Facilities performative nature of the field. Pauline exhibition was highlighted by several live and Risk Management, Mike Reed. He Boudry / Renate Lorenz’s first US solo arts performances, including Christie prepared hydra-barriers and placed exhibition Telepathic Improvisation Blizzard, Julia Barbosa Landois, and sandbags along the areas of risk to the was presented at CAMH in September duo of Britt Lorraine and Kristy Perez building in advance of the storm and and resulted from a collaboration known collectively as Saintlorraine. returned daily to check on the status between Walker Art Center’s Moving of the Museum. In addition, CAMH’s Image Commissions and EMPAC / Throughout the year, our Education and Registrar, Tim Barkley, and Head Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media Public Programs Department works Preparator, Jeff Shore, de-installed all and Performing Arts Center. The title to make the art on view accessible to exhibition material in the downstairs references experimental composer and our visitors. I applaud Felice Cleveland Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery as a Houston-born Pauline Oliveros’s 1974 and her team for their creative precaution. We were overwhelmed by score of the same title. Boudry and endeavors to make contemporary the outpouring of concern for CAMH Lorenz recently transformed the Swiss art understandable and engaging— and appreciate the volunteers who Pavilion at the Venice Biennale into a even when the subject is extremely arrived of their own accord to ready the large-scale film installation. challenging. The Communications and Museum for the storm. Marketing Department, led by Kent CAMH strives to partner with national Michael Smith, strives to spread the Our first fundraiser of the season, and international institutions and news of our exhibitions and programs, Another Great Night in November, was artists to support the Museum’s and expands our visitorship through not without its challenges. Hurricane mission to present extraordinary, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Harvey heavily damaged the home of thought-provoking exhibitions. In Facebook. They document every talk, our original hostess, Martha Finger. December Christopher Knowles: In lecture, and performance so that Again, the community came together to a Word opened, which was organized CAMH’s legacy as a cutting-edge CAMH strives to partner with support the Museum and we will forever by the Institute of Contemporary location to experience contemporary national and international be grateful. The ladies of the board Art at the University of Pennsylvania, art will be available for generations to served as chairs of the event and Leslie Philadephia. Later in the season, Cary come. institutions and artists to Ballard Hall offered to be hostess, Leibowitz: Museum Show organized by support the Museum’s mission repairing her own damaged home in The Contemporary Jewish Museum, Although much was accomplished in to present extraordinary, time for the ladies-only gala. Leslie and San Francisco, California, became 2017–2018, even more is happening next thought-provoking exhibitions. her mother, Carol Chiles Ballard, have an immediate hit with the Houston season in celebration of CAMH’s 70th long supported CAMH and its mission. community. For its presentation in Anniversary. We look forward to sharing Her graciousness in opening her home the FotoFest 2018 Biennial, INDIA: with you all that is planned in the next The 2017–2018 Season at allowed CAMH to raise critical funds Contemporary Photography and year. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston for our exhibitions and educational New Media Art, CAMH showcased (CAMH) will forever be remembered. programs. photographs by collaborators Sunil Shortly after the start of the fiscal Gupta and Charan Singh in the year, Houston experienced one Our exhibition season launched just exhibition Dissent and Desire. of its worst natural disasters in days before Harvey made landfall recent history, Hurricane Harvey. A with Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, CAMH also seeks to highlight the devastating experience for the city Gathered, Heaped organized by amazing talent found in Texas. We became a moment when the strength former Senior Curator Valerie Cassel closed the season with Right Here, of the Houston community was readily Oliver. Rosen’s first major survey— Right Now: San Antonio organized by seen and felt. Although the Museum has chronicling over 20 years of her work Curator Dean Daderko with Exhibitions a long history of flooding during tropical in ceramics—continues to tour across Manager and Assistant Curator Patricia 6 Annual Report 17–18 Interim Director’s Note 7 Exhibitions Visitors in the Telepathic Improvisation exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2017. Photo: Ronald L. Jones. 8 Annual Report 17–18 9 2017–2018 Exhibitions As one of the oldest, major non-collecting art institutions in the United States, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston dedicates its resources to organizing, presenting, and touring exhibitions that showcase the most influential art being made today. Each season, CAMH features a combination of regional, national, and international artists through its diverse exhibition schedule. The Museum documents these exhibitions in publications designed for use by both scholars and the general public. Free programs accompany each exhibition to encourage engagement with contemporary art. Support for CAMH’s 2017–2018 Exhibition Season was generously provided by the Museum’s Board of Trustees and their families: Allison and David Ayers, Candace Baggett and Ron Restrepo, Vera and Andy Baker, James M. Bell, Jr., Jereann Chaney, Estela and David A. Cockrell, Margaret Vaughan Cox and Jonathan Cox, Ruth Dreessen and Tom Van Laan, Barbara and Michael Gamson, Blakely and Trey Griggs, Melissa and Albert J. Grobmyer IV, Catherine Baen Hennessy and Matt Hennessy, Leslie and Mark Hull, Louise Jamail, Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter, Erica and Benjy Levit, Lucinda and Javier Loya, Catherine and George Masterson, Libbie Masterson, Greg McCord, Mac and Karen McManus, Jack and Anne Moriniere, Cabrina and Steven Owsley, Howard and Beverly Robinson, Andrew and Robin Schirrmeister, Nicholas and Kelly Silvers, David P. and Marion Young, and Elizabeth and Barry Young. Additional funding for CAMH’s exhibitions, programming, and operations was provided by its dedicated patrons and donors: Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen, The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, City of Houston through the Houston Museum District Association, George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation, Houston Endowment, Sissy and Denny Kempner, KPMG, Kathrine McGovern/The McGovern Foundation, Sara and Bill Morgan, National Endowment for the Arts, Louisa Stude Sarofim, The Sarofim Foundation, Susan Vaughan Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, Wallace S. Wilson, The Wortham Foundation, Inc., and Michael Zilkha. Museum visitors’s love of yellow was on view during the opening reception of Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2017. Photo: Martin Yaptangco. 10 Annual Report 17–18 Exhibitions 11 Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped Brown Foundation Gallery Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped was the August 19– artist’s first major survey and chronicled over 20 years of her November 26, 2017 work in ceramics. The exhibition also featured works on paper Works borrowed: 126 that mirror the trajectory of her works created in clay. For over two decades, Annabeth Rosen has demonstrably delved into the place of craft in the contemporary art land- scape. Formally trained in ceramics, Rosen has expanded her practice from the functional and decorative into expansive conceptual installations that meld materiality and process. Her diminutive and occasionally monumental works are composed through laborious and obsessive additive processes that push the medium beyond spectacle and into dialogues about endur- ance, labor, and feminist thought, as well as nature, destruction, and regeneration. Rosen is a pioneer in the field of contemporary ceramics, bringing fluidity to the genre and its discourse with contem- porary art. Within the genre’s trajectory, she functions as an important link between artists such as Lynda Benglis, Mary Heilmann, Jun Kaneko, and Peter Voulkos, as well as a
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