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A VIRTUAL CELEBRATION SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 7:30PM PROGRAM PREMIERE ANN L. GUND CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES DONALD MOFFETT F '04 CHAIR, BOARD OF GOVERNORS EVENT CO-CHAIRS ELEANOR ACQUAVELLA SIR DAVID ADJAYE OBE BOB COLACELLO CHIARA EDMANDS SUYDAM (SYDIE) LANSING JANE LAUDER JOEL SHAPIRO F '76, '80 & ELLEN PHELAN AERIN LAUDER ZINTERHOFER AFTER-PARTY CO-CHAIRS DERRICK ADAMS A '02, F '13 CAROLINE HOFFMAN ELLE PÉREZ A '15 AMITHA RAMAN CO-DIRECTORS KATIE SONNENBORN SARAH WORKNEH DIGITAL PROGRAM KATIE SONNENBORN AND SARAH WORKNEH, CO-DIRECTORS ANN L. GUND, CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOUNDATION FOR ART & PRESERVATION IN EMBASSIES SKOWHEGAN IMPACT AWARD PRESENTATION FEATURING JENNIFER DUNCAN, JO CAROLE LAUDER, EDEN RAFSHOON, ROBERT STORR A '78, F '02, AND DARREN WALKER PERFORMANCE VIDEO BY JACOLBY SATTERWHITE A '09 EL ANATSUI F '07 SKOWHEGAN MEDAL FOR SCULPTURE PRESENTATION FEATURING NANA OFORIATTA AYIM, DAMIAN LENTINI, AND CHIKA O. OKEKE-AGULU INTRODUCTION BY ABIGAIL DEVILLE A '07 BARBARA HUNT MCLANAHAN IN MEMORIAM SKOWHEGAN GOVERNORS’ AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO ARTISTS PRESENTATION FEATURING CAY SOPHIE RABINOWITZ, CHRISTIAN RATTEMEYER, ERIC RHEIN, AMY SADAO, AND ELLEN F. SALPETER INTRODUCTION BY JENNIE C. JONES A '96, F '14 MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY IAN ISIAH + MISTERVACATION INTRODUCTION BY DERRICK ADAMS A '02, F '13 SPECIAL APPEARANCES BY DANIEL BOZHKOV A '90, F '11, '16 ANGELA DUFRESNE F '17 STEVE DIBENEDETTO F '19 NEIL GOLDBERG F '15 GORDON HALL A '13 SHAUN LEONARDO A '04 ALIX PEARLSTEIN F '04 SONDRA PERRY A '13, F '19 ALISON SAAR F '93 FOLLOWING THE PROGRAM, JOIN US ON INSTAGRAM LIVE FOR THE AFTER-PARTY @SKOWHEGANART A–ALUMNI F–FACULTY FOUNDATION FOR ART & PRESERVATION IN EMBASSIES SKOWHEGAN IMPACT AWARD PRESENTATION FEATURING JENNIFER DUNCAN, JO CAROLE LAUDER, EDEN RAFSHOON, ROBERT STORR A '78, F '02, AND DARREN WALKER e Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is a public-private partnership dedicated to providing permanent works of American art for U.S. embassies worldwide. FAPE was founded in 1986 by Leonore Annenberg, Wendy W. Luers, Lee Kimche McGrath and Carol Price. For more than thirty years, the organization has contributed to the U.S. Department of State’s mission of cultural diplomacy by partnering with American artists whose works encourage cross-cultural understanding within the diplomatic community and the international public. FAPE fullls its mission through site-specic commissions, original print and photography collections, preservation projects, and other arts initiatives. e organization receives no government funding and all artworks commissioned or placed by FAPE are gis, representing the generosity and patriotism of some of the United States’ greatest artists and donors. As of 2020, FAPE has raised more than $150 million in art and monetary contributions, and works by more than 220 preeminent American artists have been placed in more than 140 countries across Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. LOUISIANA BENDOLPH American, 1960 American Housetop (for the Arnetts) 2005: Paulson Fontaine Press Aquatint/so-ground etching, 45 ½ x 38 inches Gi of e Honorable Ronald S. Lauder and Mrs. Jo Carole Lauder JENNIFER DUNCAN has been with FAPE since 1994 and became Director in A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Mrs. Rafshoon graduated from Hollins College, attended 2002. Her responsibilities include the overall management of FAPE, including Board the Sorbonne and the New York School of Interior Design, and received an M.A. in relations, art projects, fundraising, membership and serving as the principal liaison Art History from George Washington University. She resides in Washington, D.C. between FAPE and the State Department. Ms. Duncan plans and executes FAPE’s Annual Events for artist and donor recognition in Washington, D.C. For more than 20 years, Ms. Duncan has led eorts to commission preeminent ROBERT STORR (A '78, F '02) is an artist, critic and curator, and is Chairman American artists to donate works to U.S. embassies for its Site-Specic Collection, and of FAPE’s Professional Fine Arts Committee. From 1990 to 2002, he was the curator has managed the commission, installation and fundraising processes for these and then senior curator at MoMA’s Department of Painting and Sculpture. Storr was projects. Working with FAPE’s leadership, Board and Fine Arts Advisor, Robert Storr, the rst American-born director of the Venice Biennale and organized the 2007 she completed FAPE’s largest project—the art collection for the U.S. Mission to the exhibition, ink with the Senses–Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense. United Nations in New York City. Storr has also served as the Dean of Yale School of Art from 2006 to 2016 and has Ms. Duncan served as a member of the State Department’s 21st Century Embassy Task taught at the CUNY Graduate Center; Harvard University; the Bard Center for Force, is a Board member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors, and is a Curatorial Studies; the Rhode Island School of Design; the Tyler School of Art; the member of ArtTable. She received an Art History degree from the University of University of Texas, Austin; and the New York Studio School, among others. He has Pittsburgh and currently resides in Arlington, Virginia. been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981 and a writer for publications including Artforum, Parkett and Art Press as well as the author of dozens of museums catalogs and art monographs. JO CAROLE LAUDER has long been devoted to the arts and civic causes, and is Chairman of the Board of FAPE. She is also Co-Chairman of the Trustees’ Council for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. DARREN WALKER is President of the Ford Foundation and Vice President of FAPE. He is a member of Governor Cuomo’s Reimagining New York Commission and Mrs. Lauder has worked extensively with e Museum of Modern Art since 1970. She co-chair of NYC Census 2020. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, he was Vice is currently President Emerita of e International Council and held the position of President at Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing global and domestic programs. President for sixteen years. She was Chairman of MoMA’s Contemporary Arts Council Walker co-chairs New York City’s Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, and now is Honorary Chairman. She was founder of MoMA’s Junior Associates and is Monuments, and Markers, and has served on the Independent Commission on New a member of the museum’s Trustee Committees on Architecture and Design; Film and York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and the UN International Video; and Photography. Labour Organization Global Commission on the Future of Work. Walker co-founded both the US Impact Investing Alliance and the Presidents’ Council on Disability Mrs. Lauder was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and received a B.F.A. from Inclusion in Philanthropy. Walker is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Tyler School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She and her husband, Ronald, have two the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the recipient of 16 honorary daughters and reside in New York City. degrees and university awards, including Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal. EDEN RAFSHOON is President of FAPE. She serves as the ocial Board liaison with the State Department and was a member of the State Department’s 21st Century Embassy Task Force. During the Carter Administration, Mrs. Rafshoon worked in e White House Social Oce and was Co-Chairman of Artists for Carter-Mondale, where she was instrumental in producing a portfolio of artists’ prints for the Democratic National Committee. In 1980, Mrs. Rafshoon served as Chairman of the International Sculpture Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., and in 1994, President Clinton appointed Mrs. Rafshoon to the Federal Commission of Fine Arts. She was reappointed for a second term in 1998. JENNIFER DUNCAN has been with FAPE since 1994 and became Director in A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Mrs. Rafshoon graduated from Hollins College, attended 2002. Her responsibilities include the overall management of FAPE, including Board the Sorbonne and the New York School of Interior Design, and received an M.A. in relations, art projects, fundraising, membership and serving as the principal liaison Art History from George Washington University. She resides in Washington, D.C. between FAPE and the State Department. Ms. Duncan plans and executes FAPE’s Annual Events for artist and donor recognition in Washington, D.C. For more than 20 years, Ms. Duncan has led eorts to commission preeminent ROBERT STORR (A '78, F '02) is an artist, critic and curator, and is Chairman American artists to donate works to U.S. embassies for its Site-Specic Collection, and of FAPE’s Professional Fine Arts Committee. From 1990 to 2002, he was the curator has managed the commission, installation and fundraising processes for these and then senior curator at MoMA’s Department of Painting and Sculpture. Storr was projects. Working with FAPE’s leadership, Board and Fine Arts Advisor, Robert Storr, the rst American-born director of the Venice Biennale and organized the 2007 she completed FAPE’s largest project—the art collection for the U.S. Mission to the exhibition, ink with the Senses–Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense. United Nations in New York City. Storr has also served as the Dean of Yale School of Art from 2006 to 2016 and has Ms. Duncan served as a member of the State Department’s 21st Century Embassy Task taught at the CUNY Graduate Center; Harvard University; the Bard Center for Force, is a Board member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors, and is a Curatorial Studies; the Rhode Island School of Design; the Tyler School of Art; the member of ArtTable.