FISCAL REPORT FINE ARTS CENTER STAFF FRIENDS OF THE FINE ARTS CENTER Janet M. Rifkin & David R. Kaplan H. Robert Burger Boyd & Janice Kynard Andree Uhlig Silverscape Designs FOUNDATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS TR Rosenberg & Laurel Glocheski Anne & Anthony Burton Gary & Nancy Lamoureaux Steven & Patty Upton Elizabeth Stone Portraits and Fine Art ADMINISTRATION Gifts of $100 or more given 7/1/2007-6/30/2008 Harry & Charlena Seymour Rebecca Caplice Sylvia Langford Elizabeth J. Vastine Wells Fargo Home Mortgage American Guild of Organists Toledo Chapter Director, Dr. Willie L. Hill Jr. Lorin Starr James & Constance Cappelli Joan & Kenneth Langley Patricia Vidil William Truswell/ Aesthetic Laser & Cosmetic The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual SOURCES OF FUNDS FY2008 FY2007 Associate Director, Dennis Conway The Fine Arts Center gratefully acknowledges Mara Superior Neil & Mary Carlson Tom & Anne Jeanne Lardner Patricia H. Virga Surgery Center Arts Inc. Assistant to Director, Kate Copenhaver the generosity of its many donors whose gifts, Ruth K. Webber Daniel & Susan Carmody Carol LaRocca Carolyn Webb Wm Baczek Fine Arts Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc. University Allocations grants, and sponsorships make the breadth of Joan Welch Liz Chalfin Michelle LeBlanc Nancy Winter in memory of Jerry William A. Berry & Sons Inc. Community Foundation of Western State $2,091,442 $ 2,034,902 BUSINESS OFFICE our performing and visual arts and education Nicholas Xenos & Lynn Peterfreund Janet & Albert Chevan Bruno, Laurie, Lauren & Benjamin Lenart Conrad & Barbara Wogrin Massachusetts General Op Funds (GOF) $711,929 $ 770,494 $ Director of Administration and Finance, programs possible. Thank you. Robert Mugar Yacubian Roland & Elizabeth S. Chilton Robert & Madeleine Lenz Michael & Sara Wolff Cricket Island Foundation $2,803,371 2,805,396 Margaret Curtiss Casey & Dick Clark Cheryl Lichwell Jonathan A. & Meg Kelsey Wright Five Colleges Inc. Business Office Manager, Sonia Kudla INDIVIDUALS Sustainer Marjorie L. & Glenn E. Coleman Robert Littman Erika Zekos Benefactor Five College Center for East Asian Studies Revenue Based Trust Funds Technical Systems Manager, Christine Texiera $250 - $499 Mary Commager Norma Locke James Young $500 - $999 Five College Dance Department Bookkeeper, Cyn Horton Chancellor’s Circle Naoko N. Akamatsu Jean Conway Lew & Peg Louraine Cathy A. Schoen & Larry S. Zacharias Bank of Western Massachusetts The Ford Foundation Student Arts Fee Department Assistant, Connie Whigham $10,000 and above Maury Barondes Arrelle Cook Thomas Luck Jane & Howard Ziff Chicopee Savings Bank Massachusetts Cultural Council General Public Ticket Sales $500,785 $534,834 Program Assistant, Doreen Waananen Teddi & Billy Taylor Dhipati & Anjusree Chanda Steven Coombs Kathleen R. Lugosch, Architect Marsha & Bill Zimmer Consigli Construction Co. Inc. Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Other Revenue $194,590 $209,958 Frederick C. & E. Louise Tillis Ananya Chatterjea Joseph & Karen Corso David & Carole Malek Emirzian, Mariano & Assoc. Mondriaan Foundation Transfers In/Out, Intra University Revenues $344,129 $691,488 MARKETING AND DEVELOPMENT Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. Clapp Richard & Helen Covell Meryl Mandell & Stephen Smulski Greenfield Cooperative Bank The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc. Total Revenue Based Trust Funds $1,039,504 $1,436,280 Director of Development, Lucia Miller Leadership Circle Michael Cohen Marit Cranmer Efrem Marder Greenfield Savings Bank National Endowment for the Arts 43 exhibitions, openings, gallery talks, lectures and other events Director of Marketing, Shawn Farley $5,000 - $9,999 Charles Cohn Sally Curcio James E. Marquis BUSINESSES Hannoush Jewelers Nestle Pour L’Art Foundation were held at the August Savage, Hampden, Central and University Community Relations Manager, Anna Robbins Christin A. Couture Gabriella DeFerrari Gerald Bruce & Carol Moore Cutting Mary Mattiace Institute for Training & Development New England Foundation for the Arts galleries, welcoming more than 15,000. Allocable Trust Funds, Gifts & Grants Marketing & Development Assistant, Jacob Epstein Seymour Frankel Jerry Dennerline & Margaret Sarkissian Patricia McGarry Chancellor’s Circle Jones-Town & Country Realty Services Inc. Non-Profit Finance Fund Allyson Garcia Jennifer Lind & Joshua Hornick Nnenna Freelon Kelly & Charlie DeRose Surinder Mehta & Laurie Schad $10,000 and above LaPierrre’s Advertising Inc. Pro Helvetia Foundation UMASS Office of Research Affairs $3,692 $3,452 Marketing Assistant, Jorge Luis González Betsy Siersma Lori J. Friedman Roberta Gere Doering Daniel & Ellen Melley Arts Inc. Look Memorial Park Swiss Consulate of New York Friends of the FAC- Annual Funds $136,090 $108,996 Lois B. Torf ’46 Arnold & Susi Friedmann Karen Dolmanisth Charlotte Meyer Bank of America Douglas Macmillan/Jazz Sketches Student Affairs Cultural Enrichment Fund TD Banknorth $10,000 BOX OFFICE Don & Anne Gasiorowski Sharon L. Downs The Meyers Family Coca-Cola Bottling Company Rigali & Walder Orthodontics TD Banknorth Charitable Foundation Bank of America $12,000 $12,000 Manager, Steven Coombs Presenter’s Circle Barbara & Joseph Goldstein John Ebbets & Patty Masure Susan Meyer TD Banknorth The Garden House at Look Park Theater Communications Group British Council $ 1,868 Assistant Manager, Richard Ballon $2,500 - $4,999 Harold & Frances Hatch Betsy & Dick Egan Lucia N. Miller The Valley Advocate The LIFT Thomas Johnson Foundation Community Foundation of Western Mass $3,000 Gwendolyn Glass Carolyn Hayden Jim Ellis & Trish Farrington Francis & Nancy Mirkin WRSI 93.9 The River Valley Transporter Airport Shuttle & University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Cricket Foundation $30,000 $35,000 PRODUCTION SERVICES Motoko Inoue Legrand & Joyce Hines Harley Erdman & Sarita Husdon Becca & Mark Mitchell WFCR 88.5 FM Transportation Service Association Ford Foundation $400,000 Director of Operations, Lewis E. Louraine, Jr. John & Patricia Kendzierski Amy Johnquest Taiga Ermansons Sue & Bill Monks WGBY TV 57 WEBS University Women Mass Cultural Council $71,200 $68,700 Associate Director of Operations, Fritz Farrington Elizabeth Lee Loughran Carol LeWitt Shawn Farley & David Mintz Hal & Ele Mosher Whalen Insurance Vidda Foundation Mass Foundation for Humanities $10,000 Lighting Director, Erica McIntyre Peter & Maija Lillya Oriole & Sidney Feshbach Arthur & Jean A. Mundt Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts Mondriaan Foundation $17,369 Audio Director, Michael McLaughlin Director’s Circle Lewis & Caden Mainzer Edith Fierst James A. Muspratt & Suzannah Fabing Muspratt Xeric Foundation Henry Moore Foundation $10,000 Production Stage Manager, Brenda Cortina $1,000 - $2,499 Arthur & Elaine Mange Chaula Fisher Thomas P. Navin Leadership Circle New England Foundation for the Arts $21,742 $10,300 Technical Director, Dan Roelofs Anonymous John McCarthy John J. Fitzgerald Catharine & David Newbury $5,000 - $9,999 Sustainer Nathan Cummings $75,000 Audience Services Manager, Heather Bell Horace C. & Gloria B. Boyer Edward Mitchell Nan Fleming Rebecca Nordstrom & Jerome Leibling Baystate Medical Practices $250 - $499 National Endowment for the Arts $95,000 Office Manager, Kate Hayden William A. & Trudy Darity Jerome & Nancy Myers Maurille & Janice Fournier Elizabeth F. O’Brien & Bert Fernandez Daily Hampshire Gazette Black Sheep Deli & Bakery MATCHING GIFTS Nestle Pour L’Art Foundation $8,043 Don & Honoré David Dorothy Nemetz & John Todd Janet & Leslie Fraidstern Jeanne O’Connell The Davis Group Black Walnut Inn Non Profit Finance Fund $180,000 EDUCATION Ian H Fraser & Pamela Bartlett Francine & Frank Ozereko Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Gage Robert K. Ostberg El Planeta Bose Corporation Aetna Foundation, Inc. Prohelvetia $5,136 $9,800 Education Manager, Lori Tuominen Laurie Frazer & Kevin Chrobak Cindy, Gordy & Jack Palley Helen Galloway Lindsay Palermo Fathers & Sons Inc. Bulkley, Richardson & Gelinas LLP Fleet Foundation Group The British Council $935 Program Director, Arts Council, Sally O’Shea Beverly A. Fanning Lyndon N. Preston Wayne D. & Marilyn T. Gass Mr. Peter Paniczko The Hotel Northampton Chandler’s General Electric Fund Thomas Johnson Foundation $6,000 Associate Director of Academic Programs, Roger E. & JoAnne J. Finck Lorna Ritz Dorothy & Joseph Gavin Deborah Pease Hampshire Hospitality Group Don Muller Gallery Lucent Technologies Foundation Vidda Foundation $5,000 $5,000 John Jenkins Sally & Al Griggs Janine Roberts Sally & Richard Giglio Naomi & Micha Peleg Juster Pope Frazier Architects LLP Four Seasons Wine & Liquor Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Women’s Fund of Western Mass. $25,000 $33,000 Academic Program Manager, Lively Arts, Jayant & Alissa Haksar David & Sharon Rogalski Bill & Connie Gillen Helen S. Perry La Prensa/Link latinos.com Gedney Farm/Mepal Manor Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Xeric Foundation $2,000 Donna Carpenter Paul & Nancy Hamel Chris Rohmann Jim Gipe Klaus & Edith Peter Lathrop Retirement Communities Jimmy Burgoff & Mark Ricker Jazz Duo Price Waterhouse Coopers Endowment Income $23,328 $21,650 Program Director, Jazz in July, Mark Baszak Bryan C. Harvey & J. Lynn Griesemer Gloria & James Russell Isabel Glass Pamela & Ray Pfeiffer PeoplesBank New England Promotional Marketing Sovereign Bank Total Allocable Trust Funds, Gifts & Grants $629,425 $830,876 UMass Amherst 105 students gained valuable job experience. Marie Hess Elizabeth Souza & William Stapleton Marcia & Sheldon Goldman Alexander & Harriet Pollatsek Pioneer Valley Travel O’Reilly, Talbot & Okun Associates Inc. PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS Beverly & Willie L. Hill Jr. Jane & Peter Stein Penni Golowka Patricia & Donald Polonis Rainbow Times Pioneer Valley Symphony & Chorus Asian Arts & Culture John & Justine Holdsworth Paul D. Stenard ‘49 Robert Gordon Earl & Mary Kay Pope WEIB 106.3 Smooth FM TOTAL SOURCES OF FUNDS $4,472,300 $5,072,552 Director, Ranjanaa Devi Alix Kennedy Mary Tuttle Louise R. Hammann Robert & Jeanne Potash WRNX 100.9 FM FINE ARTS CENTER

Administrative Assistant, Sue McFarland Sandra & Mark Parent Janna Ugone & Peter Whalen Evelyn K. Hammond-Edmeades Stanley J. Rabinowitz Lorna & Dale Peterson Katherine Vorwerk & Robert Feldman Christine Hannon Ruth & Harold Rauch Patron Annual Report 2007-2008 USES OF FUNDS Center Series Catharine Porter & Gordon DeWerth Hilary & Christopher Woodcock Randall & Dana Harland Meredith B. Raymond $100 - $249 Director of Programming, Kathryn Maguet Scott Prior & Nanny Vonnegut Sue Woodfork Thomas Harrelson Nancy & Eric Reeves Presenter’s Circle Allen House Victorian Inn Program Services Assistant Director of Programming, Ben Smar William Harris Lisa Reilly $2,500 - $4,999 Amherst Cinema Arts Center The Center Series $695,980 $786,053 Halina Kusleika Elizabeth Stone Patron Josephine M. Hart Ronald A. & Michelle Rice Allison Angier & Bartmon, LLP Anita Eliason Designs New World Theater $869,637 $719,530 Sarah & Mark Tanner $100 - $249 Meg & Allen Hart Alfred & Martha Rios Bassette Company Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium University Gallery $320,124 $436,230 New WORLD Theater Karen A. Tarlow & John A. Montanari Anonymous Joyce & Jeffrey Hatch Steven, Anna & Calder Robbins Cooley Dickinson Hospital ‘breath’ Studio University Arts Council $33,603 $36,042 Artistic Director, Andrea Assaf Zina Tillona Douglas & Doris Abbott Sarah L. Hawes Joan H. Rosenbaum Easthampton Savings Bank Cathy Cross MultiCultural Programs $375,163 $427,855 Managing Director, Wesley V. Montgomery Donna Abelli Mary McCarthy & Bob Hawley Stanley Rosenberg El Sol Latino Commonwealth Opera Educational & Outreach $204,812 $224,009 Director of Design and Publicity, Yvonne Mendez Benefactor Hayat N. Abuza Royster C. & Kathryn P. Hedgepeth Margery H. Roy FamilyFun Magazine Hiltrud Schulz/DEFA Film Library at UMass Total Program Services $2,499,318 $2,629,718 Office Manager, Richard Caiander $500 - $999 Ron Ackerman & Cleo Gorman Eric & Yehudit Heller Margaret Sarkissian & Jerry Dennerline Finck & Perras Insurance The Great Wall Grants Coordinator, Chris Rohmann Anonymous Ira S. & Bina G. Addes Marjorie Hess & Rudolph Talaber Roland & Rose A. Sarti Florence Savings Bank Hadley Garden Center Support Services Audience & Community Development Jeffrey & Mary Ellen Anderson Douglas W. Adler Irving & Frieda Howards Gerald L. Schafer Hasbro Games Hazen Paper Company Operations & Production Serv. $853,033 $925,444 Coordinator, Nicole Young Martha Borawski & William Brandt Frank & Elaine Anderson Becky Ikehara Nancy E. Schroeder & Julia L. Demmin John R. Lyman Co. Fancy Fingers Nail & Skin Care Salon Marketing/Development $309,510 $363,289 Program Curator, Priscilla Page A. Rima Dael & Brandon Braxton Paul & Marie Appleby Chip Jackson Elizabeth Schulze Northampton Cooperative Bank Gazebo Intimate Apparel General & Administrative $762,907 $735,843 Project 2050 Interim Director, Heather Lord Eric & Barbara Carle Ronald J Archer John & Miriam Jenkins Ann & Stephen W. Schupack Northampton Dermatology Associates PC H. Oldham Brooks/I.P.D. Corporation Total Support Services $1,925,450 $2,024,576 Project 2050 Associate, Gabriel Gonzalez Steven & Alejandra Daury Judith Ashkin Willard M. Johnson Anne Scigliano Prudential Sawicki Real Estate India House Transfers Out & Intra University Expenses $301,265 $339,420 Ruah Donnelly & Steven Dinkelaker Charles & Deborah Austin Christina Kamra Elizabeth A. Silver The Sloane Club; Tony Muskatt Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival William R. Austin Nicole Kamra Melanie Gallo & Stan Smith The Recorder Janna Ugone & Associates Over $35,000 was raised at the 19th Annual Gala & Auction at the VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMS Ruth V. Elcan University Gallery Linda & Ralph Faulkingham Judith & James Averill Alfred Karslon Robert & DiAnn Speth United Wealth Management Group Judie’s Restaurant Hotel Northampton to augment community artist residency activities TOTAL USES OF FUNDS $4,726,033 $4,993,714 Director, Loretta Yarlow Sharon Fross Joe M. Baillie Jeffrey L. Kaufman Mona Sprecker Liquors 44 through the Friends Residency Fund. Gallery Manager, Craig Allaben Michael & Joan Haley Andrew H. Balder & Cynthia A. Sommer Barbara Keegan Elizabeth & Eric Stahl Modern Memoirs Private Publishing Inc. Collection Registrar, Justin Griswold Jamie Hartwright & Family Steve Berlin-Chavez Maura & Arthur Keene David & Peggy Starr Director’s Circle North Amherst Motors Collision Repair Center Balances Curator of Education, Eva Fierst Merilee & Sandy Hill Michael & Tina Berins David Kelly Brendan Stecchini & Paula Hodecker $1,000 - $2,499 Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce Restricted Grant 162,498 $439,205 Communications Assistant, Thonsey Keopanya Nicholas B. Kuckel Barbara C. Bernard Diane E. Kelton Susan Stoops 1794 Meetinghouse The Porches Inn Restricted Capital Improvements 125,029 $151,977 Augusta Savage Gallery James Mallet Olivia Bernard Edmund M. Keyes Mary Lou Stuart & Jay Fleitman Chef Bill/Bill Collins SHe Co. Botanical Skin Care Restricted Gift 200,363 $224,186 Director, Terry Jenoure David & Tanyss Martula Linda Delone Best in memory of Sandy Fullen Ruth Kjaer Calvin & Joanne Swift Fallon Health Care Side Street Café Operating Funds 513,207 $424,100 Gallery Manager, Alexia Cota Greg & Kathy Malynoski Soren & Sue Ellen Bisgaard Janet Klausner-Wise & Jeremy Wise Jack Szpiler & Colleen Ahern H.B. Financial Group Spirit Haus GOF 56,808 $74,711 Hampden & Central Galleries Sally Montgomery & Chips Whalen Jeff & Marilyn Blaustein Sheila & Charles Klem John D. & Mercedes M. Taylor Les Campbell, Sky Meadow Photo Gallery Swiss Consulate of New York RTF 5,571 $2,896 Director, Anne La Prade Wesley Montgomery Robert M. Boland Lynn & Laura Klock Jeffrey M. Tenenbaum Dell, Inc. Michele Topor Inc. UMass Amherst Gallery Manager, John Simpson Walter & Kathy Mullin Rosalie & Kenneth Boutin George & Mary Knightly Pamela Tillis Goggins Real Estate The House on the Hill Total 1,063,477 $1,317,075 Thomas & Gena O’Brien Patricia L. Branch Ellen Kosmer John & Peggy Townsend IT Wireless; Eddy Ramos Zanna John & Maryanne Peterson John & Jennifer Brelsford Representative Stephen & Suzanne Kulik Donald E. & Jeanne M. Traester Pioneer Valley Hotel Group FINE ARTS CENTER Kirsten Pitts Michael Bulman & Ronnie Janoff-Bulman Halina & Neil Kusleika Lori & Mark Tuominen Pioneer Valley Periodontics www.fineartscenter.com

More than 7,500 youth, teachers, and chaperones attended 11 Global Arts for School Audiences performances. More than 300 learned to salsa dance before a capacity crowd danced the night away to the beat of Tiempo Libre. A Message from the Director Dance and the Human Experience Revolution in Action Sakura Matsuri

Whether the economy is robust or has gone In April 2008 the Center Series presented the Ronald K. Brown/Evi- The sold-out April performance of Project 2050’s The Love in Sakura Matsuri, a six-day festival of Japanese arts, bust, few investments are more sound than dence dance company, which blends dance styles to tell stories about Revolution at New WORLD Theater’s Intersection conference touched 1500 participants through performances and those in students, art and culture, and commu- what is important in the human experience. The evening’s reper- spawned some exciting collaboration with local youths. In the outreach events on campus and at the Wistariahurst nity. The Fine Arts Center enables student and tory included One Shot, a new piece inspired by the work of African audience were several groups of teenagers from inner-city Museum, a community partner in Holyoke. Wistari- community audiences to embrace new artistic American photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris. The Augusta Savage Springfield and Holyoke, including many—boys and girls alike— ahurst hosted two sold-out Japanese tea ceremonies by and cultural experiences. We provide experien- tial learning and act as a resource beyond the Gallery enhanced appreciation of the dance work and its social and who are members of rival gangs. Afterwards they told project the Kitanodai Gagaku Ensemble tea masters. They also boundaries of the classroom. We strengthen historical significance by exhibiting some of Harris’s photographs. members that for them the show had been “revolution presented a talk on kimonos and two ikebana (flower our community by fostering self-expression, Brown hosted a gallery talk in which he “walked” the attendees in action”—stories of youths with backgrounds like theirs com- arranging) workshops. encouraging civic dialogue on difficult and pressing issues, and through each photo in the exhibit and told how he drew inspiration ing together to change their lives for the better. For these teens, bringing together diverse groups in safe public spaces. We believe from them. the show accomplished its central goal: to encourage young On campus, the Japanese Studies Program hosted Over 100 educational events were held in conjunction with performing arts pro- grams on campus and in the community, touching 13,000 lives. art and culture advance our knowledge, enrich our lives, express people to examine their sense of place in their community and “Waka and the Japanese Poetic Tradition,” a two-day fundamental human aspirations, give us joy and hope, and inspire The project was further enhanced by the UMass Dance Department, Five College students were treated to a master class with start creating their own positive revolution. symposium. Artists from the ensemble conducted a the very best within ourselves. which earlier in the year commissioned associate director Arcell Ron Brown and the Evidence dance company members bonsai workshop at Durfee Conservatory, and musi- Art in the Public Sphere Caubag to set a Ron Brown piece for its dancers. Brown then Inspired by the experience, three youth groups affiliated with cians held classes demonstrating koto and shakuhachi, Of our many accomplishments during the past year, we at the returned to campus, where the dancers spent some memorable time Springfield community organizations joined with Project 2050 a Japanese flute, for Commonwealth College and the University Gallery’s cross-disciplinary symposium “Art in the Fine Arts Center are probably proudest of having established the Friends Residency Fund. This initiative enables us to engage artists with him. After the performance, many audience members got to to participate in the South Africa Performing Arts Project, an Lively Arts classes. Public Sphere: Singular Works, Plural Possibilities” drew a to go beyond public performances and exhibitions by directly con- Mission speak candidly with the dancers and artistic director. exchange with a group of artists from Cape Town, South Africa, capacity audience of 260, including UMass Amherst and Five necting with students in workshops, lectures, and special demon- organized by the Institute for Training and Development. The More than 500 youths from regional schools filled College students and faculty; local artists, architects, and de- The UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center seeks to engage and inspire the “His work is so important, so beautiful, so imbued with both old/new intelligence, strations that fuel learning and innovation and bolster our local campus and regional communities in the arts through a broad array local teens produced original poetry and dance and performed Bowker Auditorium for a matinee performance of signers; and museum professionals representing institutions as so rich with the bittersweet of our human experience. I am thoroughly grateful that arts economy. The Fund does much to help us achieve one of the of exemplary performances, exhibitions, and educational programs. it in Izandi, the show that capped the exchange. “Sakura Matsuri: Cherry Blossom Festival of Japanese far afield as Washington. D.C. Organized in collaboration with he chose to spend time with us.” Fine Arts Center’s primary goals: deepening the diversity of our Arts,” narrated by Japanese Studies Program students. the departments of Art, Architecture, Art History, and Land- arts education offerings. Performing Arts —Donna Mejia, dance faculty The newly established Springfield Coalition, a partnership based A first-grade class participated in a butterfly dance scape Architecture and Regional Planning, the symposium in- on Project 2050’s model of community-based activist arts, is a workshop and tried on masks featured in the perfor- cluded distinguished faculty panelists and others. Among them Through the generosity of our many donors, we have invested in Asian Arts & Culture promising expansion of the project’s reach and influence into a mance. The evening public performance was attended were such national notables as Rick Lowe, artist and founder our community here on campus, throughout the Five Colleges, in Center Series Magic Triangle / Solos & Duos community that urgently needs an infusion of creative energy by dignitaries from the Japanese consulate in Boston. of Houston’s Project Row Houses; Anne Pasternak, president our public schools, and with our partners in surrounding towns New WORLD Theater and hope. 678 Angel Tickets were distributed through more than 80 participating and director of Creative Time of New York City; and George and cities. We are deeply grateful to all of our donors for their Global Arts for School Audiences human service agencies in the tri-county area. Trakas, an artist working out of Amherst and New York. contributions and for the opportunity to add so much to the Sculptor Kevin Reese spent four days working with children in Pelham cultural vitality of the Pioneer Valley. Elementary School to create this permanent addition to their landscape. Visual Arts EVENTS Project 2050 brought Springfield and Holyoke teenagers together UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS A concurrent, juried multi-media exhibition of 44 public art Augusta Savage Gallery to change their lives for the better FINE ARTS CENTER SEASON PROGRAM projects selected from close to 200 entries was held at the Uni- Dr. Willie L. Hill Jr. Central Gallery DATE versity Gallery. Representing local, national, and international Hampden Gallery 2007-2008 University Gallery artists, architects and designers, the exhibition was adjudicated LOCATION by LARP professors Bischoff and Sleegers along with Art, Art AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS History, and Architecture professors Ontiveros and Krupczynski. Education PERFORMANCE Education/Access “Your selection of program participants and exhibitors created learning and Jazz in July Summer Music Programs MUSIC DANCE THEATRE EXHIBITS discovery among all of us pushed and guided by your topics of inquiry. It was The Lively Arts an honor to be part of it and we will all consequently continue to do new UMass Arts Council At commencement ceremonies, the University honored two Fine Arts Center supporters, work having been challenged and invigorated by it.” Michael R. Haley Jr. ’65 and Peter Tolan, with a Distinguished Achievement Award and —George Trakas Friends Board of Directors Honorary Doctorate, respectively. Fine Arts Center Endowments JoAnne J. Finck, Chair James F. Mallet Emeriti Gregory A. Malynoski Ian H. Fraser, Vice Chair Frederick C. Tillis Endowment for the Arts William Baczek Lorna M. Peterson Frank Anderson Héctor A. Bauzá Tini Sawicki Barbara C. Bernard Billy Taylor Endowment for Jazz Residencies Mark R. Berman William T. Stapleton Richard Covell Fletcher Henderson Memorial/Max Roach Fund for Scholarships Martha Borawski Brandt Sarah Tanner Betsy Egan Jazz in July Summer Music Programs Endowment W. Rochelle Calhoun Karen A. Tarlow Carl Eger Joyce E. and Benedict J. Smar Endowment for Angel Tickets Nnenna Freelon was Kevin J. Chrobak William H. Truswell Seymour Frankel Paul G. and Elaine S. Marks Art Acquisition Fund honored as the Fine Arts Carol Moore Cutting Arnold Friedmann Center Artist of the Year A. Rima Dael Honorary Members Gwendolyn Glass University Gallery Endowment at the Monterey Jazz William A. Darity Alfred L. Griggs Asian Arts & Culture Endowment Steven K. Daury Frederick C. Tillis William Hogan Festival 50th Anniversary Lori J. Friedman Director Emeritus Dolly Jolly performance where she Fran Goldsher Michael Haley Dave Martula was the featured guest Jimmy Heath Kathleen Mullin Nancy J. Hamel artist. Nnenna was both Legrand Hines Jr. Yusef Lateef Sandra Parent Justine G. Holdsworth Stan Rosenberg Robert Mugar Yacubian a Jazz in July student and Motoko Inoue Billy Taylor the first Billy Taylor Jazz In collaboration with UMass Graduate School, Department of Aaron Julien Peter Tolan Residency Artist. Lois Torf History, University Outreach and Research, the Fine Arts Center Alexandra Kennedy AmericAura, companion exhibits in Augusta Savage and Hampden galleries, Elizabeth Lee Loughran George Trakas presented sold-out performances of The American Beauty Project and Dark Star Orchestra as part of “Unbroken Chain: The responded to an earlier exhibit of Cameroonian paintings symbolizing the countries Grateful Dead in Music, Culture and Memory,” a two-day public of Africa. More than 50 U.S. artists, many local or alumni, created new works on Dr. Billy Taylor announced his retirement from the Jazz in July Summer symposium. paper interpreting national identity. Music Programs after 27 years. Joan Hanley‘s public art entry from the juried exhibition.