Cool Comes to PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts (PAFA) is America’s first school of fine arts and museum.
A recipient of the 2005 National Medal of Arts presented
by the President of the United States, PAFA is a recognized
leader in fine arts education. Nearly every major American
artist has taught, studied, or exhibited at the Academy. The
institution’s world-class collection of American art continues
to grow and provides what only a few other art institutions in
the world offer: the rare combination of an outstanding
museum and extraordinary faculty known for its commitment
to students and for the stature and quality of its artistic work.
President & Chief Executive Officer, Edward T. Lewis
Edna S. Tuttleman Museum Director, David R. Brigham
Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Jeffrey Carr
Vice President of Admissions & Financial Aid, Stanislaus Greidus
Dean of Student Affairs, Anne Stassen
Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations, John J. Berg
Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration, Leslie Moody
Senior Vice President of Development, Louisa Hanshew
Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Marsha Braverman
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Board of Trustees
Donald R. Caldwell, Chair
Kevin F. Donohoe, Vice Chair and Treasurer
Herbert S. Riband, Jr., Esq., Vice Chair & Secretary
Thomas N. Pappas, Vice Chair and Assistant Secretary
James C. Biddle, Vice Chair
Mark Alderman, Esq.
Roger H. Ballou
Gerald P. Barth
John B. Bartlett, Esq.
Elaine V. Bell
Sally J. Bellet, Esq.
Thomas L. Bennett, CFA
Max N. Berry, Esq.*
Lynn Nowicki Clarke*
Jonathan L. Cohen*
Robert A. Fisk
John A. Fry*
Anthony A. Ibargüen
Michael T. Kennedy
Mary Louise Krumrine, Ph.D.
Ellen Berman Lee
Marguerite Lenfest
Rev. Herbert H. Lusk, II
Frances M. Maguire*
Anne E. McCollum
Francis P. Newell, Esq.
Delphine Poussot
Carole Price Shanis
Linda Richardson
William Rulon-Miller
Steven L. Sanders
William H. Schorling, Esq.
Henry B. du P. Smith
Martha McGeary Snider
Julie D. Spahr
Gerard H. Sweeney
Barbara A. Sylk
Steven Volla
Debora C. Zug
*National Trustee
Emeritus
Barbara L. Greenfield, Chair of Emeritus Trustees & Committee Members Committee
Robert L. Byers, Sr.
William A. Slaughter, Esq.
Richard E. Woosnam
Ex officio
Julia B. DeMoss, President of the Women’s Board
James J. Lynes, President, Alumni Association
Gary Steuer, Director, Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy
Ahmeenah Young, President & CEO of the Pennsylvania Convention Center
Faculty Representative
Robert Roesch
Photo: Susan Beard Design
Perspective: A Partnership
The numbers speak for themselves.
Seventy-eight percent of School
District of Philadelphia children live
in poverty, and 50 percent of these
young people don’t graduate from
high school. Given these numbers, it
is no surprise that only 20 percent of
Philadelphians have college or university
degrees— a percentage that
places this city 92nd out of the 100
largest cities in this country.
It is almost glib to say that something is very wrong. But
that is why we wanted to meet with Dr. Arlene Ackerman,
the new superintendent of the School District, when she first
came to Philadelphia. As one of the leading art institutions in
the region, we wanted to talk about how we might help make
Philadelphia schools a better place for this city’s children.
Out of that meeting and the several that followed, the
Academy and the District crafted a collaborative agreement
in what we came to call the Family Arts Academy at PAFA.
Guided by one of the principal elements of the District’s
new strategic plan, the Family Arts Academy is built around
the importance of familial involvement in a child’s education.
Starting in September of 2009 as a pilot program in
conjunction with the exhibition, Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth
Member News and Events
Events
Join PAFA Curator of Modern Art Robert Cozzolino and
artist Elizabeth Osborne for a walkthrough of the exhibition,
Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light, on Tuesday,
September 8 at 5:30 p.m.
Join us for the opening reception for Barkley L. Hendricks:
Birth of the Cool, on Friday, October 16 at 6:00 p.m.
To rsvp for either of these events, please call 215-972-0522
or email rsvp@pafa.org.
Save the Date
Mark your calendar! The Annual Print Sale and Members
Shopping Day will be held on Friday, December 4, featuring
original works for sale by PAFA students and discounted
shopping at PORTFOLIO at the Pennsylvania Academy®.
Keep an eye on the alumni e-newsletter, e-preview and
www.pafa.org for more information on these and upcoming
events. If you would like to join the e-mail list for e-preview,
send us a note at membership@pafa.org. PAFA does not
trade its email lists with other organizations.
of the Cool, this program will be offered free of charge on
weekends to adults with children. In its fullness, it will offer
multi-week courses in the visual arts, workshops, exhibitions,
and career mentoring. Although the program will be
open to all families with children, we’ll make a special effort
to reach families whose children attend low performing and
under-funded schools. The District and PAFA are now jointly
seeking funding for the program’s full implementation by next
January.
This program isn’t founded on some mawkish nostrum.
We know that family involvement makes a decided difference.
We know that young people in a visual arts program
are twice as likely to excel in academic performance and
far more likely to continue their education after high school.
So we think the District and PAFA are on to something
important. And we’re proud to be the District’s partner in an
educational initiative that just might make a difference.
Edward T. Lewis
President & Chief Executive Officer
PAFA Receives Major Grant from William Penn Foundation
The William Penn Foundation has awarded PAFA a grant in the amount of $440,000. The grant will fund a three-year contemporary
art program that will support the production of new art, encourage the broadest understanding of contemporary
art practice, and expand audiences for both contemporary and historical art at PAFA.
“This grant is a major step forward in making contemporary art more accessible to the public and to advancing Philadelphia’s
identity nationally as a center for contemporary art,” comments Edna S. Tuttleman Museum Director David Brigham.
PAFA’s multi-year contract with the William Penn Foundation will be used in support of the following forthcoming exhibitions:
Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious (January – April, 2010) is the inaugural presentation of a multi-sited international
festival of contemporary art that will occur in Philadelphia every four years. Philagrafika 2010 will focus on artistic
practices that engage the visual, intellectual, and creative frontiers in printmaking and how these approaches relate to social
and political issues.
Further developing the Morris Gallery’s role and reputation as an important venue for supporting emerging art, PAFA will
stage a series of five solo exhibitions (May, 2010 – December, 2011). The five artists will be drawn from across the country
and the Philadelphia region and their work will be in a diverse range of mediums. In a number of cases this will be an artist’s
first solo museum exhibition. This series will also provide for the commissioning of new works.
We’re All Still Here (October, 2011 – January, 2012) will bring together six curators from other regions, commissioned
to collaborate with PAFA’s Curator of Contemporary Art to create an exhibition that surveys artists who live outside the main
market centers and who make the hot issues of contemporary art their own. Conceived to take account of an artist’s “sense
of place,” this exhibition will provide a platform to support and promote the work of Philadelphia and regional artists demonstrating
the vitality of art being made in different parts of the country.
Julien Robson, PAFA’s Curator of Contemporary Art states, “This is a great vote of confidence in our programming plans
and allows PAFA to move into a new and dynamic phase of contemporary exhibitions that will promote regional artists in a
national and international context while expanding audiences within the city and the region.”
A Special Thanks
PAFA would like to acknowledge the following members of
the Charles Willson Peale Society, we are truly grateful for
your support:
Lorraine and Benjamin Alexander; Ms. Linda Lee Alter;
Mr. W. Graham Arader III; Mrs. Joseph T. Beardwood, III;
Mr. and Mrs. Julian A. Brodsky; Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck;
Ms. Lori Cohen; The Hon. and Mrs. Robert W. Duemling;
Mr. and Mrs. John Durham; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Hooper;
Mr. Joel Koppelman; Ms. Emanuela Miller-Cooke; Mr. and
Mrs. Washburn S. Oberwager; Mr. W. Gresham O’Malley III;
Dr. and Mrs. Karl F. Rugart; Mr. John M. Ryan and Ms. Mary
Gregg; Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer N. Sellers; The Honorable
Nicholas Sellers; Dr. and Mrs. Bayard T. Storey; Mr. Febo F.
Troilo; and Mr. and Mrs. A. Morris Williams, Jr.
Special thanks to Mrs. J. Maxwell Moran, and her support of
the Thomas Eakins Circle.
PAFA would also like to acknowledge the ongoing generosity
of our Board of Trustees.