2007-2008 Annual Report Enriching Our Communities Through Advancement of the Arts Message from the Chairman of the Board and the President......................................................2 The Impact of Member Agencies........................................................3 Elevating the Arts................................................................................4 Investing in the Arts...........................................................................5 Allied Arts Events................................................................................6 Donor Listing...................................................................................7-11 Board of Directors.............................................................................12 Allocations Committee............................................................................13 Staff........................................................................................................14 1 Message from the Chairman of the Board and the President With support from all sectors of our community, Allied Arts reached new levels of success this year. The 2008 annual campaign broke our previous record and raised more than $2.85 million for the arts in Central Oklahoma. As a result, for the first time in our 37-year history, Allied Arts has allocated more than $2 million to our member agencies for their operational needs and educational programming. Beyond the monetary figures, what does this mean for the arts and our community? It means a culturally vibrant Oklahoma City whose arts calendar is filled with riveting theatre, musical and dance performances, enriching arts festivals and world- renowned visual art exhibits rivaling the offerings of Mark Funke any thriving metropolis. It means reasonably priced 2007-2008 tickets, and often free admission, to those Allied Arts Chairman of the Board performances, events and exhibitions ensuring that the arts are available and accessible for all. It also means arts education for tens of thousands of Oklahoma students, particularly schoolchildren who attend low-income, underserved schools lacking the funds to incorporate art into daily curriculum. Throughout prosperous times and in this more difficult economic climate, Allied Arts will remain at the forefront in leading the effort to advance the arts for the benefit of all members of our community. We will focus on growing our annual campaign to even higher levels to meet the expanding needs of our member agencies. We will work to build our endowments to levels that will eventually enable us to allocate 100% of campaign revenues to our agencies. We will work with the arts community to ensure all Oklahoma schoolchildren have access to arts education in their lives. We thank the individuals, corporations, foundations and organizations who joined us this year and look forward to strengthening our partnerships in the years to come. Together, we are creating a more dynamic, exciting place to live through our support of the arts. Thank you! Donna Rinehart-Keever Allied Arts President 2 The Impact of Member Agencies Lyric Theatre’s reopening of the historic Plaza Theatre and concurrent revitalization of the Plaza District. Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s exclusive exhibition of Paris 1900. Ambassadors’ Concert Choir’s performance with Oklahoma native and Broadway musical director, Linda Twine. OVAC’s Julia Kirt being named the 2008 U.S. Emerging Arts Leader. Our arts landscape has never been in better standing. Allied Arts’ 20 member agencies truly have played a vital part in redefining Central Oklahoma as a dynamic arts community. Together, they touch the lives of 1.7 million people from all walks of life and from all parts of the state, region and world each year. Perhaps more remarkable is their profound impact on the development of our youth. With shrinking school budgets, Allied Arts’ member agencies are taking the lead in ensuring our schoolchildren benefit from the arts in their lives. From City Arts Center’s teen mentoring program for students in public housing to Prairie Dance Theatre’s afterschool dance program, our agencies reach an astounding 228,670 children each year. Your support of Allied Arts helps make this all possible. Thank you. Ambassadors’ Concert Choir Arts Council of Oklahoma City Canterbury Choral Society Carpenter Square Theatre Cimarron Circuit Opera Company City Arts Center Guy Fraser Harrison Academy Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO) Lyric Theatre Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Metropolitan School of Dance OK City Chorus Oklahoma Children’s Theatre Oklahoma City Ballet Oklahoma City Museum of Art Oklahoma City Philharmonic Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC) Prairie Dance Theatre Science Museum Oklahoma 3 In 2008, Allied Arts experienced our most successful campaign to date. With participation from businesses, foundations, individuals and our arts organizations, we raised more than $2.85 million on behalf of the arts in Central Oklahoma. Led by extraordinary co- chairs, Kay Goebel and Fred Hall, and by our honorary chair, Gene Rainbolt, our network of 200 dedicated volunteers worked tirelessly to ensure a record-setting year. 2008 Campaign Cabinet Kay Goebel, PhD Co-Chair Fred Hall, Fred Jones Companies Co-Chair Gene Rainbolt, BancFirst Honorary Chair Lance Benham, The Benham Companies Building Vice Chair James Pickel, Smith & Pickel Construction Building Vice Chair Kirk Humphreys, Humphreys Real Estate Investments Business Vice Chair K. Randy Roper, MidFirst Bank Business Vice Chair Renzi Stone, Saxum Public Relations Communications Vice Chair Steve Knox, Alpine Energy Energy Vice Chair Tom Price, Jr., Chesapeake Energy Corporation Energy Vice Chair James Young, JPMorgan Chase Financial Vice Chair Ann Johnstone, Community Volunteer Leadership Vice Chair Joan Maguire, Community Volunteer Leadership Vice Chair Charlotte Richels, Community Volunteer Leadership Vice Chair Richard Mildren, Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison & Lewis Legal Vice Chair Bruce Lawrence, INTEGRIS Health Medical Vice Chair Chuck Wiggin, Wiggin Properties Professional Vice Chair Debby Hampton, Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits Public Service Vice Chair 4 Campaign funds are reinvested in our community to support our 20 member agencies, non-member arts organizations and 2008-2009 Allocations arts education efforts. As a result of the campaign’s success, Ambassadors’ Concert Choir $10,876 Allied Arts will allocate more than $2 million to the arts in our Arts Council of Oklahoma City $140,183 2008-2009 fiscal year. Canterbury Choral Society $68,924 Carpenter Square Theatre $19,349 Member agencies receive the bulk of campaign funds in support Cimarron Circuit Opera Co. $17,293 of their operational needs. These funds are used for everything City Arts Center $89,742 Guy Fraser Harrison Academy $11,760 from keeping lights on and doors open, to keeping ticket prices Individual Artists of Oklahoma $8,984 low, to creating remote access programs to ensure the Lyric Theatre $214,257 participation of populations unable to travel to art sites. Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art $59,210 Metropolitan School of Dance $12,073 Our member agencies are leading the crusade for arts education OK City Chorus $12,074 for all. The Allied Arts Educational Outreach Program provides Oklahoma Children’s Theatre $41,522 additional funding to help expand the reach of their youth Oklahoma City Ballet $127,699 Oklahoma City Museum of Art $356,488 education efforts. Oklahoma City Philharmonic $360,228 Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park $15,869 In the 2007-2008 school year, the Allied Arts Educational Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition $33,573 Outreach Program awarded $52,345 in grants and served 34,914 Prairie Dance Theatre $7,129 Oklahoma schoolchildren. Projects included: Science Museum Oklahoma $392,767 Small Grants Program $30,250 The Arts Council of Oklahoma City’s Arts After School Gallery Educational Outreach Program $75,000 At-Risk Management $9,000 enabled Arts After School participants to showcase their artwork to family and hundreds of thousands of attendees at the 2008 Total $2,114,250 Festival of the Arts. After completing a 12-week program featuring artists in residency, the students proudly displayed Sources of their pieces in a professional gallery setting during the festival. Campaign Income Carpenter Square Theatre provided free busing and admission for underserved students to attend a production of “The Chosen.” Set in the 1940s, the play tackles issues such as conflict between parent and child and the struggle to decide on a life vocation and path, that today’s students grapple with on a daily basis. Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art developed a series of teacher workshops to integrate arts into science, language arts and Campaign Growth social studies classroom lessons. More than 100 teachers are projected to attend the workshops, impacting 3,000 students. The Allied Arts Small Grants Program, open to member agencies and non-member agencies alike, assists arts and cultural organizations in accessing professional development, consultant services and other capacity-building opportunities. Last year, Allied Arts awarded more than $31,000 in small grants funding in support of 31 member agency and non-member agency projects. Projects included strategic planning retreats, board training and professional development opportunities. 5 Engaging Our Young Leaders in the Arts With a “Casino Royale” theme, the always debonair James Bond and his lovely cadre of Bond Girls