ANNUAL REPORT 2010 CONTENTS DIRECTOR’S LETTER 3 –4 PRESIDENT’S LETTER 6 ACQUISITIONS 7–13 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE 14 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 15 VOLUNTEER HIGHLIGHTS 16 – 19 2010 DONOR LISTINGS 21 – 28 ART MATTERS ENDOWMENT AND CAPITAL CAMPAIGN DONOR LISTINGS 29 – 35 FROM THE DIRECTOR Photograph by Greg Bartram. Looking back, 2010 was the year of the hard hat. I can’t We took our innovative Art Around Town show to count the number of times I donned my hard hat, which community locations throughout Central Ohio. From hung on a hook in my office, to see the changes taking November of 2009 through December of 2010, more shape in the galleries; to give a donor a tour; to select than 1,300 people enjoyed an experience with an original a new paint color; to test the acoustics in the work of art from our collection, a docent talk, an art Cardinal Health Auditorium; to try out the new cork project, games, and other family-friendly activities. floor in the American Electric Power Foundation Ready Room; or to revel in the glorious new skylight in Derby The community embraced our second Summer Fun Court. We built a renovated Elizabeth M. and Richard initiative, which offered free admission and enhanced M. Ross Building. We built a dynamic, new Center for programming in July and August. Each day, a diverse Creativity. We built new experiences for visitors. And audience joined us for tours, games, art projects and the we built a vision for the future. family-friendly Fur, Fins and Feathers exhibition, which highlighted works from our collection that depict ani - As we were designing our vision for the future, we were mals. We were especially pleased to partner with also building great experiences with great art each and organizations such as the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium every day. We were invited to organize the exhibition and the Columbus Humane Society to present fun, 100 Years of North American Art: A Social Perspective animal-themed programs for visitors. We were very (1910–2010) for the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago, proud when PNC announced, in September 2010, Chile. With the help of board member and director that CMA was one of only thirteen local organizations emeritus Ohio Arts Council Executive Director Wayne to receive a grant from PNC Arts Alive project to Lawson, this exhibition represented the United States support our Summer Fun initiative in 2011. at Museo’s centennial celebrations. We launched our dynamic Center for Creativity with We sent sixty-four works of art from our permanent a Creativity Summit on October 14. It included our collection to forty-five different museums for twenty- Creativity in your Life program co-presented by nine different exhibitions. International destinations Artie Isaac and featuring keynote speaker and author included Paris; San Marino; Frankfurt; the Alhambra, Michael Chabon, a Creative Educator Workshop, Spain; Edmonton, Canada; Lausanne, Switzerland; a Wonder Room Dress Rehearsal, and Creative and Genoa, Rome, Passariano, Naples, Venice and Docent Symposium. A highlight was the Imagination Rimini, Italy. Conversation, which was held in affiliation with 3 FROM THE DIRECTOR New York’s Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in skills that we need to keep up with the present and to Education and co-presented with the Ohio Department become innovators in the future. Risk-taking, problem of Education and the Ohio Arts Council. CMA was the solving, questioning, deep thinking, and harnessing exclusive Ohio site for the Imagination Conversations, a multiple perspectives are the tools of tomorrow. fifty-state effort to raise awareness of imagination, why it Developing creativity impacts every facet of our lives— matters, and how to develop it within our lives and our from our families and communities to our schools communities. The Ohio Imagination Conversation and businesses. Infusing creativity into our lives included Althea Harper, Project Runway Season 6 transforms us into visionaries who create new contestant; Michael Weiss, president, CEO, and director perspectives, new solutions, and even new worlds. of Express, Inc.; Antwone Fisher, director, poet, and screenwriter; Dr. Tim M. Berra, professor emeritus of On 1.1.11, our blood, sweat, tears, creativity, mission, and evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at Ohio State vision converged as we unveiled the new CMA on New University; Chris Coburn, executive director of Cleveland Year’s Day to a record-breaking crowd of people of every Clinic Innovations; Steve Seidel, director of the Arts in size, age, and description. The outpouring of responses to Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of our renovated building, Center for Creativity, and vision Education and former director of Harvard Project Zero; and for the future was beyond what we had hoped. A mother Peter Cunningham, the U.S. Department of Education’s from Powell raved that the CMA created “an amazing assistant secretary for communications and outreach. way to connect people with art! It gave me chills.” The The presentation and live webcast of the Imagination Columbus Dispatch January 1, 2011 editorial proclaimed, Conversation solidified CMA’s commitment to creativity "Museum staff members clearly have put a lot of thought and twenty-first century learning. into helping visitors to connect with the exhibits. People can now view the art up close and get acquainted with its On October 21, we celebrated the seventieth birthday of creators and its fascinating back stories." The buzz was beloved, local artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson continuous on Facebook with one fan declaring, "The new with a special program featuring a conversation between museum is amazing. The themed areas are wonderful, the Aminah and Faith Ringgold. This sellout event also seats for conversation and play are inviting, the reference debuted to the public the newly refurbished Cardinal materials for further study are greatly appreciated, and the Health Auditorium. multi-media is fascinating. CMA is definitely a diamond in Central Ohio's crown." The Other Paper, in January 6 We designed even more ways for visitors to connect with review, heralded that "2011 brings us, then, not just a art and with each other. In the galleries, a variety of renovated Columbus Museum of Art, but re-examined hands-on activities for people of all ages now offer and renewed commitments to the museum's collection different approaches to exploring art and stimulating new and the community for which the collection is held in ideas. We added board games, puzzles, design activities, trust. New Year's Day could well be the beginning of and Join the Conversation stations to encourage visitors a brilliant new era for the city and its outstanding art to share their thoughts. We introduced comfortable museum." These and similiar accolades added to our seating in the galleries to encourage visitors to relax numerous accomplishments and made my year of mussed, and to start a conversation. We created an environment hard-hat hair more than worth it. where visitors felt welcome to explore the Museum, to enjoy the art, to have fun together, and to create their own great experiences with great art. LET ART SPEAK TO YOU. We also were inspired by our theme of creative change Nannette V. Maciejunes to formulate a vision for the future informed by Executive Director creativity. Our world changes around us every day. Developing our creativity provides us with the essential 4 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 2010 Revenue 2% Contributions, Memberships, Grants 4,977,265 74% 6% 2% Endowment and Investment Income 542,041 8% Special Events, Museum Store, and Palette Café 551,480 8% 8% Admissions and Other Earned Income 378,647 6% Auxiliary Donations 149,003 2% 8% In Kind Donations 149,777 2% Total Revenue $6,748,213 100% 74% Program Services Expense Collection 971,303 14% 4% Exhibitions 1,790,090 27% 5% 14% Programs 1,471,356 22% Activities 731,048 11% 13% Total Program Services 74% 4% 27% Supporting Services Expense 11% General 266,191 4% 22% Fund Raising 883,155 13% Special Events, Museum Store, and Palette Café 361,544 5% Restaurant and Catering 262,828 4% Total Expense $6,737,515 100% 5 FROM THE PRESIDENT D. Scott Owens, Board President. Years of planning, months of construction, and countless None of these creative changes would have been possible hours of inspiration finally came to fruition in 2010. The without the support for and continuing success of the Art grand unveiling of the renovations to the 1931 historic Matters endowment and capital campaign. Art Matters Broad Street building, renamed the Elizabeth M. and achievements to date have put the Museum on the road Richard M. Ross Building, and new Center for Creativity to sustainability. As of December 2010, the Museum’s marked a significant moment in the history of the endowment has nearly doubled. More than $14 million Columbus Museum of Art. The new CMA is the same in gifts of art or gifts to purchase art have also been Museum you have always loved, only better. received, greatly enhancing the CMA’s collection. The first two phases of the Art Matters campaign — Derby Court has been transformed by a luminous glass renovating Beaton Hall, renovating the historic 1931 skylight and a raised floor that makes the permanent Broad Street building, and creating the Center for galleries easily accessible to all. New lighting throughout Creativity — have been completed on-time and on-budget. the building, a restored elevator, and the addition of a family restroom and Mother’s Room also enhanced our Thank you to the people of Central Ohio, our Museum accessibility. The refurbished galleries now feature our Board of Trustees, our Art Matters campaign chairs and beloved collection dynamically presented in a new committees, our generous donors, our tireless volunteers, thematic context.