Annual Report

2013–2014 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

On the occasion of our Annual Meeting this October Club, valuing this unique place where we can all enjoy and 30, I am pleased to continue the tradition of presenting share transformative art. Please accept my sincere thanks the Annual Report for The Arts Club of Chicago’s for all you do to make the Club one of the most special 2013–2014 fiscal year. This report will provide you with organizations of its kind anywhere in the world. I am a clear and complete picture of The Arts Club’s exciting grateful for this opportunity to help lead this institution accomplishments over this past year. towards its 100th Anniversary in 2016 and beyond. Please join me in thanking The Arts Club’s Board of Directors This year’s number of new members is quite impressive, for their volunteer service and in recognizing all of our as is the record number of programs and exhibitions. An remarkable staff, led by Janine Mileaf, Executive Director, overview of our finances highlights our successes and a for an outstanding year. balanced budget. This is a moment to truly celebrate our vibrant Club and our important participation in its future. Helyn Goldenberg

Throughout my first year as President, I have been humbled by your dedication to and passion for The Arts

Alison Knowles performing “Loose Pages” at t h e s a l o n, November 2013.

1 “The Club for Modern Fashions” part of Two Clubs at The Arts Club of Chicago by Josiah McElheny, September 2013.

2 LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The past year at The Arts Club has been a whirlwind of The Arts Club was also pleased to present its first garden activity. Our programs and exhibitions signaled a renewed installation with Chicago artists Joseph and Sarah Belknap, engagement with Chicago and its artistic communities, who imagined the arrested movement of meteorites in six while also initiating a conversation with the past that will large-scale rocks suspended above the garden space. The lead to our 100th Anniversary in 2016. We opened our installation was visible to street traffic, as well as to diners exhibition season with a landmark commission by Josiah inside The Arts Club. McElheny that included performance, film, and installation. In collaboration with John Vinci, McElheny designed a glass Last fall, The Arts Club was honored to welcome esteemed pavilion in the mode of Mies van der Rohe. Entitled The architect Billie Tsien to reestablish the annual Rue Shaw Club for Modern Fashions, it became home for an opening lecture. In June, we inaugurated a new annual event in night in which performers dressed in attire spanning from honor of past presidents Stanley Freehling and Marilynn the 1920s through the 1970s. That event set the stage for an Alsdorf. Artist, curator, and critic Robert Storr, current Dean interactive exhibition that brought in a wide audience and of the Yale University School of Art, spoke about conceptual participants, as well as critical praise to the Club. Volunteers, art and provided a context for the Simon Starling exhibition. who ranged from art students to actors, Arts Club members Our members further enjoyed concerts, performances, and to writers, came to The Arts Club each day in self-styled presentations that ranged from former ice skating champion fashions of the twentieth century. Dick Button to young award-winning filmmaker Anahita Zadeh; from artist Theaster Gates discussing philosophy The exhibition season continued with a stunning group of with UIC Art School Director Lisa Yun Lee to British art oil paintings by Émilie Charmy that harkened back to the critic Martin Gayford reminiscing on his portrait sittings founding moments of the Club. Charmy participated in with Lucien Freud; or Spektral Quartet’s interpretations of the Armory Show, an extravaganza of modernism that came George Crumb’s Black Angels to a series of paper-inspired to Chicago in 1913, and inspired a group of city leaders to performances by Alison Knowles in honor of the 50th establish a home for modern art that would become The anniversary of Fluxus. Arts Club of Chicago in 1916. Charmy, a French painter whose extraordinary output has been overlooked for decades, The Arts Club expanded its public mission this year in is now being acknowledged for her confident palette and an effort to fulfill our founding intention to educate the brushstrokes in daring self-portrayals and female nudes. This Chicago public about the arts. We did this initially through exhibition, which originated at the University of Virginia, is a new series of free Saturday talks entitled CASES, which her first U.S. retrospective. addressed the speaker’s passion for a particularly thorny art form. Composer Marcos Balter explained his love of new The final exhibition of the season again turned to the music, while Joseph Ravens presented a case for performance legacy of The Arts Club to generate phenomenal new art. The public was also welcome to experience live work. Simon Starling, winner of the 2005 Turner performance during Arts Club et al., an evening of pop-up Prize, produced an original series of photographs that performances of music, dance, and theater that took place trace eighteen Brancusi sculptures from an exhibition in the galleries. It has been a pleasure to be able to stimulate organized by Marcel Duchamp at The Arts Club in 1927. conversation about the arts in this city and we are grateful Unearthing the provenance of Brancusi’s sculptures, Starling to you, our members, for the dues that support such efforts. rephotographed each one in its current location. This We look forward to continuing to expand our reach into the exhibition coincided with a survey of Starling’s work at the arts and cultural communities, while providing first-class Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago—marking the first events for our membership. such collaboration between these two institutions and once again working to open our doors to a broader audience. Janine Mileaf

3 OFFICERS (November 2013 – November 2014) PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER Ms. Helyn Goldenberg Mr. Dirk Lohan Ms. Cynthia Winter Mr. Dale Pinkert

COMMITTEE CHAIRS AUDIT COMMITTEE Ms. Savi Pai INVESTMENT COMMITTEE Mr. William Gofen FINANCE COMMITTEE Mr. Dale Pinkert NOMINATING COMMITTEE Mr. Dirk Lohan HOUSE COMMITTEE Ms. Nada Andric and Mr. Alex Krikhaar 100th ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE Mr. Dirk Lohan INTERARTS COMMITTEE Mr. Michael Halberstam and Mr. Marshall Brown MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Ms. Cynthia Winter RECEPTION COMMITTEE Ms. Suzette Bross Bulley and Mr. Lincoln Schatz

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (November 2013 – November 2014) Ms. Helyn Goldenberg, President Ms. Sophia Shaw (at large, Immediate Past President) Mr. Dirk Lohan, Vice President Mr. William Gofen (at large, Investment) Mr. Dale Pinkert, Treasurer Mr. Edward Horner, Jr. (ex officio, Nominating) Ms. Cynthia Winter, Secretary Ms. Savi Pai (ex officio, Audit) Mr. Michael Halberstam (at large, InterArts) Ms. Janine Mileaf (ex officio, Executive Director)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS CLASS OF NOV. 2014 CLASS OF NOV. 2015 CLASS OF NOV. 2016 HONORARY BOARD Ms. Heather Bilandic Black Ms. Nada Andric Ms. Kate Bensen MEMBERS Ms. Virginia Gerst Ms. Suzette Bross Bulley Mr. Gerhard Bette Ms. Marilynn B. Alsdorf Mr. Josh Goldman Ms. Wynne Delacoma Mr. Robert Feitler Mr. Norman Perman Ms. Chandra Goldsmith Gray Ms. Helyn Goldenberg Mr. William Gofen Mr. Richard Christiansen Mr. Richard Hunt Mr. Michael Halberstam Mrs. Caryn Harris Ms. Patricia Scheidt Ms. Justine Jentes Ms. Katherine Harvey Ms. Leslie Hindman Mr. Stanley M. Freehling Ms. Suzanne Folds McCullagh Mr. Thomas E. Keim Mr. Edward Horner, Jr. Mr. Patrick Shaw Mr. Andrew Patner Mr. Robert Kleinschmidt Mr. Welz Kauffman Ms. Helen Harvey Mills Mr. Neil Ross Ms. Savi Pai Mr. Alex Krikhaar Mr. James Wells Mr. Lincoln Schatz Ms. Laura Washington Mr. Dirk Lohan Ms. Sophia Shaw Ms. Cynthia Winter Mr. Dale Pinkert Ms. Janine Mileaf Mr. Harrison I. Steans Ms. Keven Wilder (ex officio)

4 MEMBERSHIP UPDATE 2013–2014

NEW MEMBERS

Mr. James H. Allan Ms. Kathleen Murphy Skolnik Ms. Mary Bendix Ms. Bija Bennett Ms. Mary Riley Stokes Mr. Steven Brondino Ms. Frances de Bretteville Blair Ms. Eleanor Tippens Mr. John Philip Cialone Dr. Devora Grynspan Ms. Lydia Bauman Ms. Elizabeth Cicchelli Ms. Mirja Haffner Mr. Josiah McElheny Mr. Joseph Credle Ms. Susan S. Higinbotham Mr. David Salle Ms. Catherine Funderburg Mr. Martin Horner Ms. Meredyth Sparks Mr. Frey Hoffman Ms. Sonia Koht Mr. Eric Steele Ms. Myrna Kaplan Ms. Jule Rae McNamara Ms. Mary Bagley Mr. Jay Krehbiel Ms. Rachel Davis Mersey Mr. Joe Eck Ms. Susan O’Connor Mr. Bobby Nesbitt Mr. Richard Holland Ms. Renee Pasikov Mr. Brien O’Brien Ms. Lindy Keiser Mr. Edward Phillipp Ms. Sara N. Paretsky Mr. Eric Keune Ms. Catherine Siegel Mr. Nicholas Phan Ms. Erica Meyer Ms. Jacqueline Wayne-Guite Ms. Megha Ralapati Mr. Russell Rolen Ms. Katherine Williams Ms. Elva Rubio Ms. Karla Sherman Ms. Evonne Yonover Ms. Genevieve Thiers Ms. Manon Spadaro Mr. Rick Fizdale Ms. Alice A. Tucker Ms. Shannon Stratton Ms. Dayna Kirk Ms. Nicole S. Williams Ms. Elizabeth Hutton Turner Ms. Aleksandra Matic Ms. Peggy Shure Snyder Ms. Linda Usher Ms. Maria Pinto Mr. Britton Bertran Mr. Alex Aubry Mr. Joshua Simonds Ms. Joy Bivins Ms. Tiffany Funk Mr. Jaime Velez Mr. Thomas Patrick Boland Ms. Brooke Hummer Mr. John Corbett Ms. Lynn Hummer Ms. Roxanne Jean Decyk Ms. Susan Lyons Mr. Lawrence Del Pilar Ms. Christy MacLear We regret to record the passing of the Mr. Thomas Dyja Ms. Laura Neiman following members Ms. Allison Glenn Mr. Paul Sznewajs Ms. Anne Sebring (15 July 2013) Ms. Annemarie Gramm Ms. Jan Tranen Dr. Rene Amon (30 August 2013) Ms. Dana Horst Mr. Doug Van Tress Mr. Cleve Carney (30 August 2013) Mr. Jason Kalajainen Ms. Mary Jo Abrahamson Ms. Barbara Trentham (31 August 2013) Ms. Danielle Klinenberg Ms. Marta Aznavoorian Mr. Marvin Gordon (10 June 2014) Ms. Jennifer Levine Ms. Margaret Block Ms. Anne Koch (11 June 2014) Ms. Carlotta Maher Ms. Janice Elkins Mr. Andreas Mitisek Mr. Morris Gearring Mr. Matthew Ozawa Dr. Richard L. Hughes Mr. Aurelien Fort Pederzoli Ms. Willa Lang Mr. David Polk Ms. Desiree Ruhstrat Ms. Diana Mendley Rauner Ms. Ashley Allen Short Ms. Sheli Rosenberg Ms. Beth Smetana Mr. Don Share Ms. Lawrie Weed Mr. David Skidmore Mr. Michael Zhou

5 MEMBERSHIP SUMMARY 2013-2014

500 475 450 425 400 375 350 325 300 275 250 225 200 175 150 125 100 75 50 25 0 Life Patron Director Consular Professional Patron - Junior Patron Director - Junior Director Professional - Junior Professional Curator & Academic Curator Architect & Designer Architect Patron - Non Resident - Non Patron Director - Non Resident - Non Director Professional - Non Resident - Non Professional Curator & Academic - Junior & Academic Curator Architect & Designer - Junior & Designer Architect Curator & Academic - Non Resident - Non & Academic Curator Architect & Designer - Non Resident - Non & Designer Architect

This chart represents the distribution of The Arts Club’s Membership categories for the fiscal year July 2013 – June 2014.

6 MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES

PROFESSIONAL Professional Members are artists active in the visual, literary, or performing arts.

CURATOR Curator & Academic Members are those employed by & ACADEMIC recognized museums, kunsthalles, colleges, and universities as exhibition curators or professors, but who are not yet fulfilling the administrative responsibilities of a director.

DIRECTOR Director Members are those who serve as administrators in an art-related institution, nonprofit, or gallery.

ARCHITECT Architect/Design Members are Architects, Landscape & DESIGNER Architects, Interior Designers, Graphic Designers, and Fashion Designers who are professionals in one or more of those fields and are recognized by their peers.

PATRON Patron Members are those who have demonstrated a commitment to the arts, but are not professionals in the field.

LIFE Life Members are those who have been members of The Arts Club for more than 50 years.

JUNIOR Junior Members are those members who are under the age of 40 years old.

7 2013–2014 EXHIBITIONS

Installation view of Émilie Charmy, February 2014. Photo credit: Michael Tropea.

Josiah McElheny: Two Clubs at The Arts Club of Chicago,17 September – 14 December 2013

86th Exhibition of Professional Members, 14 January – 15 February 2014

Émilie Charmy, 27 February – 17 May 2014

Joseph & Sarah Belknap: Afterglow, a Garden Installation, 8 April – 18 August 2014

Simon Starling: Pictures for an Exhibition, 6 June – 27 September 2014

Arts Club members Cindy Kalnow, Jeanne Mayes, Joan Moriarty, and Tamara Beeler celebrate Jeanne’s birthday in “The Club for Modern Fashions,” October 2013.

8 EXHIBITIONS IN THE PRESS

McElheny, Josiah with Jason Foumberg. “Josiah McElheny.” Artforum.com. 25 Sept. 2013.

Ise, Claudine. “Arts Club, Josiah McElheny Make a Brilliant Combination.” Chicago Tribune. 9 Oct. 2013.

Foumberg, Jason. “How the Public Can Access the Private Floor of the Arts Club of Chicago.” Chicago Magazine. 22 Oct. 2013.

Ise, Claudine. “Best Art Shows of 2013.” Chicago Tribune. 13 Dec. 2013.

Connors, Thomas. “The Arts Club of Chicago Celebrates the Vision of Émilie Charmy.” Chicago Splash. 16 Mar. 2014.

Miller, Chris. “Review: Émilie Charmy/Arts Club of Chicago.” Newcity Art. 16 Mar. 2014.

Waxman, Lori. “Simon Starling Brings His Elegant Alchemy to the MCA and Arts Club.” Chicago Tribune. 4 Sept. 2014.

Mayo, Amanda R. “Simon Starling in Chicago.” San Francisco Arts Quarterly. 11 Sept. 2014.

Reiman, Joshua. “Actualizing Potential: A Conversation with Simon Starling.” Sculpture Magazine. International Sculpture Center, Sept. 2014.

Afterglow, a garden installation by Sarah and Joseph Belknap at The Arts Club, April 2014. Photo credit: Michael Sullivan.

9 Lucky Plush Productions dancing at Arts Club et al., May 2014. Photo credit: Matthew Gregory Hollis.

PUBLIC EVENTS

ARTS CLUB ET AL., 29 May 2014 The Arts Club of Chicago opened its doors for its inaugural public event, Arts Club et al., a festive evening in The Arts Club gallery where an eclectic mix of Chicago-based performance companies performed short pop-up segments throughout the night. The lineup included Ensemble Dal Niente, Lucky Plush Productions, and The Hypocrites.

CASES: A SERIES OF PUBLIC TALKS, Spring 2014 Why go to the opera? Listen to new music? Or attend a performance art event? The Arts Club of Chicago presented a new series of public talks by Chicago’s most dynamic arts professionals who explain why you should. Sharing strategies for unlocking the mysteries of the arts, these speakers made a case for their favorite art form, while entertaining with stories, demonstrations, interludes, and dramatizations.

GALLERY TALKS

21 September 2013: Josiah McElheny: Two Clubs at The Arts Club of Chicago Exhibition Open House with Christine Mehring & Josiah McElheny

1 March 2014: Émilie Charmy Open House & Gallery Talk with Elizabeth Hutton Turner & Yasmine Seale

Saturday 7 June 2014: Simon Starling Open House and Gallery Talk with Janine Mileaf

VIDEOS The Arts Club created its first video in celebration of Josiah McElheny’s exhibition, which can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/78269721.

To view The Arts Club’s behind-the-scenes video with the Belknaps, visit https://vimeo.com/93410141.

10 PROGRAMS 2013-2014

During the 2013–2014 season, The Arts Club of Chicago hosted 101 individual events. These included lunchtime lectures, evening concerts, a series of live art performances, public events, holiday events, as well as exhibition teas, open houses, and gallery talks. A summary of the different types of events is below.

ARTS CLUB EVENT TYPES

10 NUMBER OF EVENTS OF NUMBER 5

0 Film Travel Music Dance eatre Fashion Field Trip Field Literature e Salon Gardening Visual Arts Visual Food Culture Food Holiday Events Holiday Cultural Positions Cultural Architect & Design Architect Exhibition Openings Exhibition Public Talks and Events Talks Public

This chart represents the number of events held at The Arts Club in each category from July 2013 – June 2014

11 AVERAGE ATTENDANCE

120

100

This chart represents the average attendance at each type of event held at The Arts Club from July 2013 – June 2014.

12 Simon Starling, Modified Deardorff 8x10 Field Camera photographing Constantin Brancusi, Beginning of the World (c. 1920), 2014, gelatin silver print.

13 LIST OF PROGRAMS JULY 2013 – JUNE 2014

Contemporary Circus Festival with The Ever Evolving Circusat The Arts Club’s t h e s a l o n, June 2014.

2013

7/9/13 t h e s a l o n Kalapriya Center for Performing Arts 7/10/13 Lunchtime Program Gloria Groom, Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity 7/15/13 Lunchtime Program Janine Mileaf, Report from Venice 7/16/13 Lunchtime Program Thomas Dyja, The Battle for the Mecca 7/22/13 Lunchtime Program Chay Yew & Luis Alfaro, Mojada 7/24/13 Summer Movie Night My Architect (2003) 7/25/13 Lunchtime Program Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives 7/30/13 Lunchtime Program Wynne Delacoma, What’s New 2.0 8/2/13 Lunchtime Program Nena Ivon, Joy Bivins, & Virginia Heaven, Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair 8/6/13 Lunchtime Program Matthew Urbanski, New Parks for Chicago 8/7/13 Summer Movie Night Eames: The Architect and the Painter(2011) 9/7/13 Public Program Desiree Ruhstrat, David Cunliff, & Matthew Lipman, Beethoven Festival: LOVE 2013 9/12/13 Lunchtime Program Robert Bucholz, All That Life Can Afford: How London Became the Greatest City in the Western World 9/17/13 Exhibition Opening, Public Performance & Dinner Josiah McElheny: Two Clubs at The Arts Club of Chicago 9/18/13 Lunchtime Program Josiah McElheny 9/21/13 Public Open House & Gallery Talk Josiah McElheny & Christine Mehring 9/24/13 Lunchtime Program Michael Kutza & Mimi Plauché, The Chicago International Film Festival 9/25/13 Cultural Positions Series Lincoln Schatz & Virginia Shore 9/26/13 Evening Performance Spektral Quartet, George Crumb’s Black Angels & & Dinner Giuseppe Verdi’s Quartet in E minor 9/27/13 Lunchtime Program Lydia Bauman, Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure 9/30/13 Lunchtime Program Steve Dolinsky & Dave Beran, The Art of Cooking: What’s Next in Chicago 10/1/13 Lunchtime Program To Eat: A Talk with Joe Eck 10/3/13 Lunchtime Program Chris Jones, ‘Acidy Cassidy’ or ‘That Woman from Chicago’: The power, guts and clout of Claudia Cassidy 10/7/13 Lunchtime Program Victoria Lautman & Eric Fischl, Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas

14 10/8/13 t h e s a l o n The Art of Man and Machine 10/11/13 Lunchtime Program Billie Tsien, The Rue Shaw Memorial Lecture, Gravity and Grace 10/17/13 Lunchtime Program Carole A. Travis, Extreme Gourmands: Ten ‘Whys’ to Relish Your Neighbor 10/18/13 Lunchtime Program Martin Gayford, Man with a Blue Scarf 10/21/13 Evening Performance & Dinner iAN&ANi, Tango Plus 10/29/13 Cultural Positions Series Lincoln Schatz & photojournalist Lucian Perkins 10/31/13 Lunchtime Program Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Calder’s Mobility 11/6/13 Lunchtime Program Charles Newell & David Wray, An Iliad 11/7/13 Annual Meeting of the Membership 11/8/13 Lunchtime Program Jay Pridmore, Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago 11/12/13 Lunchtime Program Victoria Lautman, Beyond the Taj Mahal 11/12/13 t h e s a l o n Fluxus at 50, Paper as Instrument 11/14/13 Lunchtime Program Violinist Tessa Lark & Wynne Delacoma 11/15/13 Lunchtime Program Phyllis Lambert, How Seagram Got Built 11/18/13 Evening Film Screening Citizen Kane (1941), A Memorial Tribute to Roger Ebert 11/19/13 Lunchtime Program Andrew Patner, Chaz Ebert, Michael Phillips, Barbara Scharres, and Milos Stehlik, Memorial Tribute to Roger Ebert: Lunchtime Round Table 11/21/13 Lunchtime Program Alex Aubry, Reconsidering the Fashion of American Modernism 11/22/13 Lunchtime Program Susan O’Connor Davis & John Vinci, Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park 11/25/13 Director’s Table with Janine Mileaf 12/2/13 Lunchtime Film Screening Playtime (1967) 12/3/13 Lunchtime Program Henry Kupjack & Andrew Patner, Thorne Miniature Rooms 12/9/13 Lunchtime Holiday Reading Michael Halberstam, Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince 12/10/13 t h e s a l o n Darrell Jones, Strike a Pose 12/14/13 Holiday Brunch 12/16/13 Evening Holiday Program The Magic Parlor 12/19/13 Lunchtime Program Sylvain Bellenger, Il Presepio Napoletano: Art and Theater of Life

The Hypocrites performing at Arts Club et al., May 2014. Photo credit: Matthew Gregory Hollis.

15 2014

1/14/14 Exhibition Opening 86th Exhibition of Professional Members 1/16/14 Lunchtime Program Michelle Boone, Bechara Choucair, Gabe Klein & Laura Washington, Chicago Cultural Plan: A City and Cross-Departmental Cultural Initiative 1/29/14 Lunchtime Program Forrest Nash, Contemporary Art Daily: Art on the Internet 1/30/14 Lunchtime Program Michael Phillips, The Arts Club Picks the Oscars 1/31/14 Lunchtime Program A Red Orchid Theatre, Solstice 2/5/14 Lunchtime Program Celia Hilliard & Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection 2/6/14 Lunchtime Program Mikael Eliasen in conversation with Craig Terry 2/7/14 Evening Performance & Dinner Curtis Opera Tour 2/15/14 Valentine’s Day Tea 2/19/14 Lunchtime Program Anahita Ghazvini Zadeh, Growth in Delay: The films of Anahita Ghazvini Zadeh 2/21/14 Lunchtime Program Bonnie Brooks, Dance, Legacy, and the Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour 2/27/14 Exhibition Opening Émilie Charmy 2/28/14 Lunchtime Program Matthew Affron, An Artist Rediscovered 3/1/14 Public Open House & Gallery Talk Janine Mileaf, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, & Yasmine Seale 3/5/14 Lunchtime Program The Lincoln Trio, Spanish Sojourns 3/11/14 t h e s a l o n Anke Loh, Sensory Mode: Fashion & Technology 3/13/14 Lunchtime Program Carol Ross Barney, Chicago’s New Coast: The Riverwalk 3/24/14 Lunchtime Program Nicholas Phan & Shannon McGinnis, Discovering Art Song: Franz Schubert 3/26/14 Lunchtime Program Jeanne Pinsof Nolan, From the Ground Up 4/2/14 Lunchtime Program Theaster Gates and Lisa Yun Lee, Social Transformation as an Art Practice 4/3/14 Lunchtime Program Joan Given, Japanese Tea Ceremony: A Cosmic Journey 4/4/14 Evening Performance & Dinner Jorge Federico Osorio 4/8/14 t h e s a l o n The Belknaps Garden Installation 4/9/14 Lunchtime Program Graham W. J. Beal, Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, What’s the Big Idea? Transforming the Detroit Institute of Arts 4/11/14 Lunchtime Program Roche Schulfer, From Box Office to CEO: The Career of Roche Schulfer at Goodman Theatre 4/15/14 Lunchtime Program Michael Anania, Keeping Time: Music as the Occasion for Poetry 4/16/14 Cultural Positions Series Lincoln Schatz & Michael Kaiser, President of the John F. Kennedy Center 4/18/14 Lunchtime Programs Habib Azar, Soaps, Sitcoms, & Symphonies: Style in Multi-Camera Directing 4/22/14 Lunchtime Program Sebastian Schmaling, Staying Sober 4/24/14 Lunchtime Program Martha Ward 4/30/14 Lunchtime Program Timothy Corrigan, An Invitation to Château du Grand-Lucé 5/2/14 Lunchtime Program Michelle Grabner & Janine Mileaf, Curating the Biennial 5/8/14 Lunchtime Program David Garrard Lowe, The Armory Show at 100: The Exhibition That Created The Arts Club of Chicago 5/9/14 Lunchtime Program Charles Waldheim, Chicago O’Hare: A Natural and Cultural History of the Definitive Modern Airport 5/9/14 Evening Performance & Dinner John Yeh, CSO First Chairs Series

16 Akiko Soki Sato setting the table for the Japanese Tea Ceremony: A Cosmic Journey in The Arts Club Library, April 2014.

5/10/14 Mother’s Day Weekend Jazz Brunch 5/14/14 Lunchtime Program Redmoon Theater, The Great Chicago Fire Festival 5/16/14 Lunchtime Program Leslie Buchbinder & John Corbett, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists: A Sneak Peek with the Pentimenti Productions Film Team 5/17/14 Public Event CASES, You don’t know that you already love it: A Case for New Music With Marcus Balter 5/23/14 Lunchtime Program Mary Tonetti Dorra, Demeter’s Choice and the Artists of the Beaux Arts Movement 5/29/14 Public Event Ensemble Dal Niente, Lucky Plush Productions, & The Hypocrites, Arts Club et al. 5/30/14 Lunchtime Program Dick Button, On and Off the Ice 6/2/14 Arts Club Field Trip Art Spaces and Places 6/5/14 Lunchtime Program Simon Starling 6/6/14 Exhibition Opening Simon Starling: Pictures for an Exhibition 6/10/14 t h e s a l o n Contemporary Circus Festival, The Ever Evolving Circus 6/13/14 Lunchtime Program Robert Storr, The Marilynn Alsdorf & Stanley Freehling Honorary Lecture, Conceptualism vs. Misconceptualism: From Idea Art to Whimsy to Utter Nonsense 6/19/14 Lunchtime Program Remi Canarie & Nena Ivon, Fashion Forward 6/19/14 Evening Performance & Dinner A Musical Evening with the Ryan Opera Center 6/21/14 Public Event CASES, Joseph Ravens, “What the #%#*@ is he doing?”: A Case for Performance Art 6/23/14 Lunchtime Program Francesca Cigola, Inside the Outdoor: Landscapes and Art in America

17 THE ARTS CLUB STAFF

The Arts Club Kitchen

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION DINING ROOM Janine Mileaf, executive director Jose Abrego, part-time waiter Modesto Abarca, head of maintenance Maxmilian Estrada, part-time waiter Anna Banka, comptroller Romeo Fernandez, part-time waiter Molly Feingold, programming director Roberto Vazquez Hernandez, part-time waiter Mariano Galindo, maintenance Mario Juarez, full-time waiter Eric Hampton, security guard Gilberto Lopez, part-time waiter Rachel Levin, membership & communications coordinator Maria Lopez, part-time waiter Charla Moseley, dining room & catering manager Lydia Ocegueda, coat room Josh Sumner, facilities & gallery manager Leslie Okoro, part-time waiter Yechen Zhao, curatorial assistant Marisol Osorio, part-time waiter Imani Robinson, part-time waiter KITCHEN Jesus Rodriguez, maitre d’ Lucas Franco, head chef Gina Talavera, part-time waiter Fermin Alberto, dishwasher Faviola Uriostegui, part-time waiter Cayetano Carbajal, dishwasher Felicitas Uriostegui, full-time waiter Jose Gonzalez Estrada, dishwasher Sebastian Vargas, part-time waiter Ruben Celis, cook Miguel Quizhpi, pastry chef Alexandra Pilco Ramos, cook

18 ASSETS AS OF JUNE 30

0.6% 2.4%

4.0% 0.1%

33.2% 59.7%

Cash $800,178

Net Accounts Receivable $484,843

Inventory $26,328

Prepaid Expenses $121,908

Investments $11,947,707

Net Property and Equipment $6,642,708

19 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION June 30, 2014

ASSETS

Current assets: Cash $ 800,178 Net accounts receivable 484,843 Inventory 26,328 Prepaid expenses 121,908 Total current assets 1,433,257 Investments 11,947,707 Net Property and Equipment 6,642,708 Total assets 20,023,672

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Current liabilities: Accounts payable $ 116,443 Current portion of deferred compensation 9,133 Accrued expenses 63,026 Deferred revenue 1,016,465 Deposits 12,350 Total current liabilities 1,217,417 Long-term liabilities: 45,797 Total liabilities 1,263,214

Unrestricted net assets: Undesignated 17,100,731 Board-designated 1,659,727 Total unrestricted net assets 18,760,458 Total liabilities and net assets $ 20,023,672

20 STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES Year ended June 30, 2014

Operating support and revenue: Dues and fees $ 1,216,938 Food service revenue 940,345 Investment return designated for current operations 427,500 Contributions 81,935 Program revenue 70,721 Other income 6,992 Total operating support and revenue 2,744,431

Operating expenses: Food service costs 1,060,056 Program services 218,422 Management and general 1,156,799 Total operating expenses 2,435,277

Nonoperating activity: Excess in investment return 1,289,067

Change in net assets: 1,598,221 Net assets, beginning of period 17,162,237 Net assets, end of period $ 18,760,458

Thank you to Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams LTD for conducting the 2013–2014 audit.

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