212th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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212th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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2017-2018
ANNUAL
REPORT
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PRESIDENT’S LETTER
The current year was a time of tremendous growth and
excitement at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(PAFA). Our Campus Master Plan was propelled by one of the
largest gifts in the institution’s history: over 300 sculptures
and $5 million from the estate of John and Richanda Rhoden.
This tremendous gift has resulted in three important
initiatives:
• PAFA hired Dr. Brittany Webb as the Curator of the John
Rhoden Collection to research this important but
under-recognized sculptor’s achievements, publish a
book about his career, organize and present an exhibition
about Rhoden, and distribute his sculptures to museums
around the United States.
• We completed funding for the 25,000 square-foot
renovations of the Lower Level that will result in the
creation of the John and Richanda Rhoden Arts Center,
the Anne Bryan Art Gallery, and an art storage vault
to house PAFA’s rapidly growing Post World War II and
Contemporary Art collections. Construction for this
project began on November 30, 2017.
• This gift also established a new endowed four-year,
full-tuition scholarship in recognition of John and
Richanda Rhoden to enable an outstanding student of
color to pursue their education at PAFA.
PAFA was also excited to welcome the Brodsky Center, an
innovative printmaking center founded at Rutgers University
in 1986. In its first thirty-two years, the Brodsky Center
produced over 300 editions, including prints, artist books, and
handmade paper objects. The roster of artists with whom they
collaborated is a Who’s Who of contemporary American art,
with special strength in including women and artists of color,
including PAFA alumnus Barkley Hendricks, Kiki Smith, Faith
Ringgold, Melvin Edwards, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Byron
Kim, Lynda Benglis, Richard Tuttle, and many other artists.
The Brodsky Center will continue to engage living artists and
invite them PAFA to produce new work in small editions that
will be sold to collectors and museums, here and abroad. In
the process, PAFA students will increase their knowledge of
printmaking, paper making, and artist book production. They
will also learn about the business of producing and selling art
in editions through internships and participation in art fairs in
New York, Miami, and other cities.
While these exciting developments occurred, we continued
the core work of PAFA: educating nearly 300 students in
degree programs and 1,700 continuing education students,
welcoming more than 220,000 visitors to the Museum,
providing art educational programs for more than 30,000
children, families, and adults, presenting 18 exhibitions of
historical and contemporary art, and adding nearly 500 works
to the permanent collection through gift and purchase.
We appreciate the generous support we receive from our
patrons and the dedication of our Board of Trustees, faculty,
staff, volunteers, and peer institutions. We look forward to
continuing to work with you in the coming year to activate the
transformative power of art and art making.
David R. Brigham
President and CEO
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MUSEUM
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Museum Director
Brooke Davis Anderson,
Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum
We were elated to begin the year steeped in the unreal and the
unexplored, with the the first critical reassessment, Subversion
and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer, which was on
view in the summer of 2017, in our Fisher Brooks Gallery. We
closed the year with a celebration of our founder, the artist
Benjamin West, organized by our CEO and President David
Brigham. First Academies: Benjamin West and the Founding
of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts was installed in our Historic Landmark Building
from March 2, 2018 to June 3, 2018. This project investigated
the role of Benjamin West in the founding of arts academies in
England and the United States.
Our 18 art exhibitions this year were tinged with politics
and political discourse sometimes unexpectedly, as with
Chuck Close Photographs from October 6, 2017 to April 8,
2018 in our Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton
Building. Exploring how one of the most important figures
in contemporary art has stretched the boundaries of
photographic means, methods, and approaches, we were
hosting this project when the artist was accused of sexual
misconduct. PAFA responded to these allegations by putting
together an interactive show, entiltled The Art World We
Want, featuring works from PAFA’s permanent collection that
catalyzed conversations about power, gender, visibility, and
voice, alongside a series of interactive programming on these
issues. It was received well by the press and public alike, and
opened up an important and vital dialogue between the school
and the museum which continues today. It reinforced that
museums can be a space for civil discourse and community
engagement.
The permanent collection grew significantly, with nearly
500 artworks added, through gifts and acquisition. The rare
opportunity to acquire one of Frederic Edwin Church’s
paintings allowed PAFA to gain an important historic work
central to the institution’s mission to collect and preserve
American Art. Church is arguably one of the artists most
integral to the history of American art and this is the first work
by Church (1826–1900) to enter the Museum’s permanent
collection. Entitled Valley of Santa Isabel, New Granada,
painted in 1875, it will be featured in our Summer of 2019
landscape exhibition. Most of the new artworks herald from
the twenty-first century and PAFA is excited to announce
the purchase of a mixed media sculpture by Chicago-based
artist Nick Cave that glorifies found ceramic dogs on thrones
of discarded flea-market objects. PAFA continues to build a
permanent collection devoted to the American experience, and
we remain particularly interested in women artists and artists
of color, so we are utilizing our resources to tell an expansive
story, one that can include many communities, about the art of
America.
To implement our many projects, we mentored many young
students through fellowships and internships. We also
partnered with several institutions in Philadelphia and
beyond. One partnership of note was with Monument Lab, a
nine-week citywide public art and history project co-produced
by Mural Arts Philadelphia and curators Paul Farber, Ken Lum,
and A. Will Brown. The exhibition took place in the city’s five
original William Penn squares as well as five neighborhood
parks throughout Philadelphia and featured a roster of 20
artists. PAFA served as the information hub for the project.
All the proposals for Philadelphia monuments of the future–
generated around the city during the project–were scanned
and exhibited, culminating in a new museum of ideas and
creative data, built by and for the people.
Our exhibition program, publications, public programming
along with our collection building have all made for a very
exciting year at PAFA. We look forward to continuing our
exciting projects and sharing all of them with all of you in the
future!
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Collections & Acquisitions
The Museum acquired 269 objects this year, including the
American artist Frederic Edwin Church’s masterful oil
painting, Valley of Santa Isabel, New Granada, 1875. Church
is arguably one of the artists most integral to the history of
American art and this will be the first work by Church
(1826–1900) to enter the Museum’s permanent collection.
Acquisitions include:
Dawoud Bey—2018 MacArthur Fellow
We acquired three photos. The following is a description of
Mathes Manafee and Cassandra Griffin (from The Birmingham
Project):
In 1964, Bey’s parents brought home a copy of Lorraine
Hansberry’s book The Movement, copiously illustrated with
photos of the Civil Rights Movement. Bey was indelibly
marked by a photo of a young black girl lying in a hospital bed
with her eyes bandaged. This was Sarah Collins, wounded
in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in
Birmingham, Alabama. Her sister Addie Mae Collins was one
of four girls killed in the dynamiting, and two boys were killed
in the violence that followed. In the mid 2000s Bey awoke
one morning with the photo of Sarah Collins rushing back to
his mind. He resolved to go to Birmingham, partnered with
the Birmingham Museum of Art, and arranged to show any
resulting work there.
For over seven years Bey researched the city of Birmingham,
its communities, and the history of the bombing. He ultimately
produced photos of present-day young people who were the
same ages as the children killed in the bombing, and along
with them photographs of adults who were the ages that these
children would have been had they not been killed. He then
paired these photos into diptychs, representing the 50 years
since the bombing. The almost continuous space between
the paired images suggests a connection across this expanse
of time, but the division between them evokes the tragedy
of lives cut short. Some of the adults Bey photographed had
even known the children who were killed, or had heard the
explosion. For these black adults, seeing their own portraits
hanging in the Birmingham Art Museum represented a
once-unimaginable experience, as the institution had been
segregated in the ‘60s. In this particular diptych, the young
Mathes Manafee appears energetic, alert, and even restless,
while the older Cassandra Griffin seems calmer, but resolute
and knowing. Bey’s work effectively memorializes the loss of
children whose lives were cut short before they could occupy
these states of being, and everything else in between.
Mequitta Ahuja —recent Guggenheim fellow
A Real Allegory of Her Studio is part of Ahuja’s broader recent
series titled “Performing Painting.” In these works, Ahuja
delves into the nature of the figurative tradition in painting,
which she describes as “the unseen made visible through a
meaningful fiction”—unseen because it reveals something
seen in the past, in private, and/or in the mind of an artist, and
fictional because it relies on centuries-long developments
of conventions, motifs, and techniques. Ahuja hopes to lay
these features bare by simplifying forms to basic shapes
and primary colors, and drawing attention to hand gestures,
one-point perspective, pyramid compositions, and other
common painterly tools of expression and organization. While
continuing to work in the mode of self-portraiture, Ahuja
intends to allow issues of personal identity to recede, and to
bring a sense of engagement across vast historical scales to the
fore.
Ebony G. Patterson
In her own words, Patterson’s work
“…Raises larger questions about beauty, gender ideals and
constructs of masculinity within so called ‘popular black’
culture. It examines the similarities and differences between
‘camp aesthetics’—the use of feminine gendered adornment—
in the construct of the urban masculine within popular
culture. This body of work raises questions about body
politics, performance of gender, gender and beauty, beauty and
stereotyping, race and beauty, and body and ritual.”
Dawoud Bey, Mathes Manafee and Cassandra Griffin (from The Birmingham project),
2012/2014 Archival pigment prints mounted on dibond, ed. 4/6, 40 x 64 in., Museum
Purchase, 2017.48.1a&b © Dawoud Bey
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This challenging installation work is perhaps the most
ambitious in Patterson’s oeuvre and stands as both a type of
contemporary memorial and an aesthetic engagement with
immersive installational forms.
Rina Banerjee, Viola, from New Orleans-ah
Rina Banerjee has been making work since the early 1990s
after having attended the Yale School of Art for painting
and drawing. Working from drawings that she refers to as
paintings, she constructs fantastical sculptures and largescale installations that query the notion of a singular identity,
advocating for a pluralistic and dispersed understanding of
identity. Banerjee draws from her migratory experience in her
works, claiming to belong to both America and India at once.
In this sculpture Viola, from New Orleans-ah, 2017, Banerjee
references the site of New Orleans in her conception of the
project, also the site of Prospect.4. She recalls the history
of a lost diaspora of Bengalis from Calcutta and Bengal
called the “Bengali peddlers” or the “Hoogali network.” With
notably darker skin, these migrants were often documented
as “mulattos” or African Americans. Through this work,
Banerjee’s work highlights the kinship between African
American and Asian American migratory communities in
the “modern south” of New Orleans. The work references a
specific person within this history, Viola Ida Lewis, an African
American woman who married Joseph Abdin, of Indian
descent. Their marriage was documented as a “Hindoo”
marrying a “Negro” and their children were classified as
African American.
In her sculpture, Banerjee materially references a monstrous
form using an armature, an African mask, shells, and lights.
The sculpture combines numerous materials, in keeping
with Banerjee’s practice, and articulates a combination of the
beautiful and sinister, challenging perceptions concerning
cultural hybridity.
Paulson Fontaine Press acquisition of 129 prints by 15
African American artists
PAFA is now the east coast repository for all of the Press’
prints by African American artists; a relationship that will
continue in the years to come. This collection of prints represents some of the most important artists working today.
The Paulson Fontaine Press is one of the most experimental
presses and that is evident in the quality of the 129 prints we
acquired. Featured artists include Radcliffe Bailey, McArthur
Binion, Kerry James Marshall, and Gary Simmons, among
others.
May Howard Jackson, Morris Heights, N.Y. City
This is the first work by Jackson, a PAFA alum, to enter the
collection. She was the first African American woman to
receive a scholarship to study at PAFA.
Frederic Edwin Church, Valley of Santa Ysabel, New Granada (detail), 1875, Oil on canvas, 39
1/4 x 60 in. 2018.10
Frederick Church, Valley of Santa Ysabel, New Granada
This is the first painting by Church, and the most significant
Hudson River School painting, to enter PAFA’s collection.
Antiques and the Fine Arts recently featured it as one of the
most significant museum acquisitions of 2018.
Laura Combs Hills, Purple Irises
This is the first work by Laura Combs Hills, a pioneering
pastel artist of the early to mid 20th century to enter PAFA’s
collection, despite her lifelong exhibition record at PAFA’s
annual exhibitions.
Walker Hancock (sculpture)
Walker Hancock was a Monuments Man during WWII and
chair of PAFA’s sculpture department for many years. This is
a scale maquette for his iconic WWII memorial in 30th street
station.
Violet Oakley, Shirley Lewis Gerald
This personal drawing was a wedding gift from Oakley to her
housekeeper’s daughter, a portrait of her on her wedding day. It
shows off Oakley’s great skill as a draftswoman and sensitivity
as portraitist.
Mary Cassatt, Looking into the Hand Mirror #3
This is the first etching by Mary Cassatt to enter PAFA’s
collection, and is a charming print depicting one of Cassatt’s
most beloved subjects, the bond between mother and child.
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Loans Spotlight
Collected/Selected Loans from PAFA
Collected/Selected Loans to PAFA
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, In the Wash House
Cecilia Beaux, Les derniers jours d’enfance
Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900, Organized by the
American Federation of the Arts: Denver Art Museum,
October 22, 2017–January 14, 2018;
Speed Art Museum, February 7, 2018 –May 13, 2018;
Clark Art Institute, June 8, 2018–September 3, 2018
Honoré Sharrer, Workers and Paintings, Museum of Modern
Art, NY. Exhibition: Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of
Honoré Sharrer, June 29–September 3, 2017
John Neagle, Pat Lyon at the Forge
The Sweat of Their Faces: Portraying American Workers,
National Portrait Gallery, November 3, 2018–
September 3, 2018
Horace Pippin, John Brown Going to His Hanging
Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art,
October 1, 2017–February 25, 2018; High Museum of Art,
June 24, 2018–September 30, 2018; Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, November 18, 2018–March 18, 2019
Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, Parrish Museum of Art, NY
Exhibition: Chuck Close Photographs, October 6, 2017–
April 8, 2018
Nick Cave, Rescue series, Jack Shaiman Gallery, NY.
Exhibition: Nick Cave: Rescue, December 22, 2017–
May 13, 2018
Benjamin West, The Blind Belisarius, Philadelphia Museum
of Art, PA. Exhibition: First Academies: Benjamin West and the
Founding of the Royal Academy and PAFA, March 2–
June 3, 2018
Howardena Pindell, Art/East
Howardena Pindell, Pindell/DNA
Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen, Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, February 24, 2018–May 20, 2018;
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, August 25, 2018–November 25,
2018; Rose Art Museum, January 24, 2019–June 16, 2019
Barbara Takenaga, Gold + Red
Barbara Takenaga, Williams College Museum of Art,
October 5, 2018–February 18, 2018
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (Athenaeum-type portrait)
Hugh A. Cannon, Henry Clay
Erastus Dow Palmer, Spring
N. C. Wyeth, Deep Cove Lobster Man
Daniel Garber, Lowry’s Hill
Raymond Saunders, Chambre
Jervis McEntee, Ruins of Caesar’s Palace
Cecilia Beaux, Portraits in Summer
Sarah McEneaney, Winter Wildlife
Nina Chanel Abney, Potato, Potata
Art in Embassies Program, American Embassy in Rome,
May 1, 2018–December 31, 2020
Nick Cave, Rescue, 2012, Mixed media, 84 x 53 x 45 in., Jack Shainman Gallery, #NC12.024
© Nick Cave. Photo by James Prinz Photography. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman
Gallery, New York.
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Exhibitions
Emily Sartain after Enoch Wood Perry, (1841-1927) Welcome News, 1888, Etching on chine colle on cream wove paper, 20 x 29 1/ 4 in.
Source unknown
Subversion and Surrealism
in the Art of Honoré Sharrer
Graphic Women
The first critical reassessment of an artist whose rich and
often disquieting critique is equal parts wit, seduction, and
bite.
This exhibition focused on the growth of professional women
artists in Philadelphia between 1880 and the early 20th
century.
A Collaborative Language: Selections from
the Experimental Printmaking Institute
Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms
June 29–September 3, 2017
Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
August 12–November 5, 2017
Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery
Historic Landmark Building
Celebrating the 20-year history of the Experimental
Printmaking Institute (EPI) at Lafayette College.
Monument Lab
September 14–December 10, 2017
Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
Mural Arts’ citywide public art and history project featuring
22 artists, with PAFA as its orientation and information hub.
November 16, 2017–February 18, 2018
Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery
Historic Landmark Building
September 15, 2017–March 18, 2018
Modern Galleries, Historic Landmark Building
This exhibition explored the subversions and potentialities
of feminine forms through works by women artists.
Material World
February 23–April 1, 2018
Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery
Historic Landmark Building
An exhibition of mixed media works by PAFA’s current
graduate and undergraduate students who were given the
prompt to submit mixed media works on paper.
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Chuck Close, Bill T. Jones, 2008, Black-and- white Polaroid diptych mounted on aluminum, Two panels, 33-1/8 x 21-7/8 each, Courtesy of the artist and Pace/MacGill
Gallery, New York
Chuck Close Photographs
October 6, 2017–April 8, 2018
Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Exploring how one of the most important figures in
contemporary art has stretched the boundaries of
photographic means, methods, and approaches.
Nick Cave: Rescue
December 22, 2017–May 13, 2018
Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
Exploring challenging questions on the forging of power
through symbolism.
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First Academies: Benjamin West and the
Founding of the Royal Academy of Arts and the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
March 2–June 3, 2018
Historic Landmark Building
Investigating the role of Benjamin West in the founding of arts
academies in England and the United States.
I’ve Always Worked Hard
March 15–June 20, 2018
Historic Landmark Building
Curated by PAFA’s Youth Council.
Exhibitions: Alumni Gallery
The Alumni Gallery management shifted into the hands of the School Exhibitions Committee and school staff members.
The committee focused on exhibitions highlighting PAFA’s histories and lineages, engaging museum resources, experimenting
with new media exhibitions and integrating student-focused programming within each exhibition.
Zorawar Sidhu: Eakins in Perspective
December 1, 2017–January 7, 2018
Alumni Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
Featuring drawings by Thomas Eakins (Student 1862-1862;
Instructor 1876-1880; Director of the School 1880-1886), this
exhibition examines systems of drawing in the academic
tradition and at present.
Drift: Paintings about One Thing and Another
February 16–March 16, 2018
Alumni Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
The works of six PAFA Alumni (1979–2017)–Philippa
Beardsley, Ryan Busch, Mariel Capanna, Jonathan Lyndon
Chase, Sarah McEneaney and Joseph Rha fit comfortably
into an imaginative yet simplified figuration seen frequently
at PAFA, inspired in part by the influence of Hobson Pittman
(PAFA Faculty 1949–72).
Ghost in the Machine:
Video in the Realm of Objects
April 20–July 1, 2018
Alumni Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
Moving images and paintings by PAFA alumni David
Dempewolf, Alexandria Douziech, Tyler Kline, and
Ashley Wick.
James Havard: Talking in Color
April 6–May 27, 2018
Richard C. Von Hess Works on Paper Gallery,
Historic Landmark Building
Figurative works incorporating realism, trompe l’œil, and
more.
Emily Erb: American Love Story
February 6–April 9, 2018
School of Fine Arts Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
PAFA’s second alumni to receive the Leonore Annenberg
Fellowship Foundation Grant.
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Exhibitions: Student/Faculty
On-Campus Student Exhibitions
Presence
August 9–September 9, 2017
Tuttleman and School of Fine Arts galleries,
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
The first annual thesis exhibition of PAFA’s Low-Residency
MFA program
Material World
February 23–April 1, 2018
Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery,
Historic Landmark Building
An exhibition of mixed media works by PAFA’s current
graduate and undergraduate students who were given the
prompt to submit mixed media works on paper.
Lorena Sferlazza: Within the Walls
Two Cents, Some Change
June 19–July 10, 2018
School of Fine Arts Gallery,
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Seventeen, first year MFAs in exhibition, curated by two
alumni, Sophie Brenneman and Emmitt Smith
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Broad Street Studio
Approximately 50 people engaged this space with a
combination of individual student, faculty/class, and
collaborative projects.
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Graham Preston–Presence
Dave Pettengill–Automat collaboration
Jodi Pinto–collaborative socially engaged projects, with
lecture programming to support student learning
Melissa Joseph performance
Rod Jones installation
David Dempewolf’s avant garde video classes presented
final projects in the spring projected onto the plaza
Alexis Granwell
Student Led Work
In addition to gallery spaces, ongoing elevator lobby
exhibitions, and exhibitions in the Cohen Board Room were
organized by studio floor leaders for the first time.
Seymour Remenick (1923-1999, PAFA Student: 1948 –1949; Faculty: 1977 –1996), Artist’s Studio with Still Life and Easel, 1957, Oil on
canvas, 28 x 36 in., 2002.9.16, Gift of Benjamin D. Bernstein and Robin J. Bernstein. PAFA
Off-Campus Student Exhibitions
PAFA NOW
NoBA Artspace
curated by PAFA alum Jay Walker
Warming
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (SCHA)
curated by a partnership between SCHA and PAFA
Faculty Organized Exhibitions
The Loaded Brush: The Oil Sketch and the
Philadelphia School of Painting
October 5, 2017–February 4, 2018
School of Fine Arts Gallery,
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
The exhibition demonstrates the depth and breadth of the
legacy of oil sketching. Included were a number of rarely-seen
artworks from the 19th century to the present, featuring diverse talents and styles depicting a variety of subject matter.
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SCHOOL
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Dean of the School of Fine Arts
Clint Jukkala
2017-18 was an exciting year in the school and it kicked off
with a commencement for the inaugural class of MFA students
in PAFA’s new Low-Residency program. The August ceremony
was held in the museum’s Historic Landmark Building (HLB)
with Brooke Davis Anderson, the newly appointed Museum
Director, giving the commencement address. The day was
capped off with an opening reception for the graduates’
thesis exhibition in the Hamilton Building. After much
planning, it was rewarding to see the program’s success, and
the high quality of student work, particularly for the faculty
instrumental in starting the program, including Astrid
Bowlby (MFA 96’) and Kevin Richards, the current head of the
program.
Shortly after celebrating the graduation of one class, we
welcomed the next, with a September convocation in the
HLB. A first of its kind, the convocation paired groups of
new students with teams of faculty and museum staff. The
groups spanned out across the museum to share observations
and discuss work on view in the collection, and the students
were given an introduction to the amazing school/museum
partnership that PAFA offers.
The academic year brought innovative changes to PAFA’s
first-year undergraduate curriculum. The new curriculum,
designed by faculty, continued PAFA’s strong emphasis on
drawing, working from observation, and learning from the
figure, and did so through thematic courses that helped
students connect the dots between disciplines. In addition
to a focus on traditional artmaking skills, the new curriculum
included an introduction to digital media, and courses in
writing and art history. Upper level courses were also added,
including a new Illustration course in digital print and web
design, and the school’s first undergraduate video course.
Another school/museum collaboration came in the spring,
when Monica Zimmerman, Director of Museum Education,
led a response to the museum’s Chuck Close exhibition and the
accompanying allegations of sexual misconduct by the artist.
The initiative titled, The Art World We Want, brought students,
faculty, and museum staff together to examine the inequities
that exist in the art world currently, and to imagine how we
would like things to be. The project included an installation of
permanent collection artwork from underrepresented artists,
a timeline that mapped how we get from where we are to
where we want to be, and an illustrated graphic with students’
thoughts about what needs to improve in the realm of the
classroom, the studio, the museum, and the art world at large.
A major achievement of the year was PAFA’s reaccreditation
with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education
(MSCHE). In the fall PAFA submitted its self-study to the
Commission. The MSCHE visiting team arrived for a campus
visit in the spring, and met with everyone from students
and faculty to staff and board members. The visiting team
commended PAFA on its many accomplishments and was
especially impressed with the quality of the student work. In
June, PAFA received its official reaccreditation from Middle
States. The self-study and visit were campus-wide efforts,
and demonstrated the collaboration and dedication to student
learning present at PAFA.
The spring ushered in another remarkable Annual Student
Exhibition, and artist Nick Cave joined PAFA as the 2018
commencement speaker. Cave treated students to a Q&A style
address in which students were invited to ask the artist about
his work, his experiences when he was an up and coming artist,
and get his advice on what steps to take after graduation. It was
a fitting end to the school year and a wonderful beginning for
PAFA’s next outstanding class of alumni.
2017-18 ENROLLMENT SNAPSHOT
Total Full-time Part-time
Certificate
PAFA/Penn BFA
Academy BFA
Post-Baccalaureate
MFA
Lo-Res MFA
56
8
124
7
65
9
54
7
121
7
65
9
2
1
3
0
0
0
Total
269
263
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Student Life
With an increase of 30% more students living in PAFAaffiliated housing at Stiles Hall, the student services offices
were kept busy planning First Friday Coffee Hours, movie
nights, Visiting Artists, artist demonstrations, and the annual
bonfire hayride. The students had a full year, including trips
to NYC, Washington DC, and Dia Beacon/Storm King. There
were new mindfulness approaches to our student wellness
initiatives, including meditation, yoga, journaling, goal setting,
and time management. The annual Open Studio Night in
February attracted nearly 1000 visitors following upon the
success of the Annual Print Sale in December, which attracted
just as many visitors.
A new Student Exhibitions Committee was particularly active
in planning student exhibitions throughout a range of spaces
while the dedicated student gallery was being renovated on the
Lower Level of the Samuel M.V. Hamilton building.
Community service efforts led to a very successful winter
coat drive.
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Special Interactive Event
The Art World We Want
February 13–April 8, 2018
Frances M. Maguire Gallery, Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building
In December, concurrent with PAFA’s exhibition Chuck
Close Photographs, several women came forward to accuse
the artist of sexual misconduct in his studio.
These accusations come at a moment of cultural reckoning
that is allowing women to speak openly and honestly about
their experiences with harassment and trauma. The accusations against one artist remind each of us that the problems
of abusive power are as endemic in the art world as they are
in other sectors.
discussion, PAFA decided that the Chuck Close Photographs
exhibition would stay on view while the adjacent space was
reinstalled with a selection of works from the museum’s
permanent collection that questioned power, gender,
race, sexuality and access. The exhibition, organized in
collaboration with students and faculty, invited the public’s
response, offering a collective vision for where museums
and art schools need to go as a creative community to bring a
more equitable, diverse and accessible art world into being.
PAFA organized a town hall with Dean Clint Jukkala
and Museum Director Brooke Davis Anderson to open
such dialogue in the PAFA community. As a result of this
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Career Services
Workshops
Career Services offered 24 workshops for students, which
drew 582 attendees. Workshops included The Resume vs
CV, Internships, The Art of Self Observation, Applying
to Grad School, and The Gig Economy & Artists. Author
Sharon Louden came to discuss her new book, The Artist as
Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. This
program featured PAFA faculty Steven and Billy Dufala, who
were profiled in the book. Experts were brought in for Art
Law and Budgeting & Taxes. Collaborations were forged with
museum staff and PAFA faculty: curator Jodi Throckmorton
presented on Studio Visits, conservator Mary McGinn
offered Pest Management Issues in Studios, Galleries and
Museums, Al Gury delivered a workshop on teaching, and
school exhibitions coordinator Brian Boutwell helped
students prepare for the Annual Student Exhibition with a
series of practical workshops. Morgan Hobbs teamed with
representatives from the Women’s Board for a well-attended
session on how to succeed during the ASE Preview party.
Individual appointments
Career Services helps students and alumni develop the
cultural capital to launch their professional careers and to
support the acquisition of tools and habits, which enable
them to continue their art-making practices. In addition, we
supported work in career exploration and career transitions.
120 students and alumni came in for appointments, many of
them for multiple visits.
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Internships
Twenty four students completed internships, working as
artist’s assistants, at Taller Puertorriqueno, the Barnes
Foundation, Magee Rehabilitation, the Delaware Art
Museum and the homeless support organization, SREHUP.
PAFA graduate students were able to obtain paid internship
positions with the After-School Studio Arts Program for High
School Students and undergraduate students were able to
work as teaching assistants in the program. Career Services
worked with archivist Hoang Tran to develop an internship
program in the museum archive.
The FMC/PAFA student curator internship
This offered a paid internship opportunity for a student
to curate the walls of the FMC corporate headquarters
in Philadelphia. In addition to selecting work, planning
exhibitions and overseeing installation, the student curator
helped organize talks and events for FMC employees and their
guests.
Student Grants
The Fine Arts Venture Fund
This fund raised $33,500, the highest total in the five year
history of the program with 52 applicants, a historic high.
$31,259 was distributed to fifteen awardees, for an average
of $2084 to help students realize ambitious projects and
purchase needed equipment and supplies. A committee of
friends of PAFA has developed the Fine Art Venture Fund,
which awards, on a competitive basis, grants-in-aid to
current PAFA students in the BFA, Certificate, and Graduate
programs. The purpose of the fund is to encourage a spirit of
creative arts entrepreneurship and the acquisition of practical
business skills that will help PAFA students build successful
careers as professional artists. Fundable plans might be for
the purchase of materials, supplies, labor, construction and
installation costs related to exhibitions, creation of large
scale works for exhibition, publicity or presentation costs,
transportation expenses or similar expenses related to the
professional creation and exhibition of an artist’s work.
The Anne Bryan Memorial Award
This award assists artists who are ready to launch into the real
world, and who need some support to help them realize their
dreams. Success as an artist not only requires technical ability
but also great imagination, persistence, and entrepreneurship.
Students who receive funds through this program will connect
with resources in marketing, business development, law,
budgeting and creative incubation. Aubrey Brown was the
recipient of The Anne Bryan Memorial Award, and he received
$5000. In its fourth year, the program attracted thirteen
applicants, and each student met with the Director of Career
Services, drafted a proposal, and developed a budget; three
finalists presented their proposals to a panel of faculty and
staff.
Si Friedman Scholarship Fund
The Si Friedman Scholarship Fund, endowed in the PAFA
alum’s memory by his wife Margaret Schuette, was newly established in October 2017. The fund provides assistance to one
new student per year based on merit, or a returning student
having difficulty continuing his or her studies due to financial challenges. The inaugural Si Friedman Scholarship was
awarded to a first-year BFA student.
Faculty Venture Fund
This new program was launched in 2017, through the support
of donors. Over $12,000 was raised for faculty research projects. Awards were granted to the following faculty.
David Dempewolf
For purchase of a 4K video camera and 3D software
Michael Gallagher
For travel and study of Byzantine icon paintings in Bulgarian
monasteries
Steven Nocella
For travel to Rome to study ancient ruins and masonry as a
way to inform his work and teaching
Tony Rosati
To support research and writing of a textbook, titled Printmaking Connections, based on his notes and lectures from both
studio and printmaking history courses
Stuart Shils
To support his studio research project, The Early Years,
Childhood
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Commencement and
Annual Student Exhibition Awards
Faculty Awards
Excellence in Teaching Awards for the spring 2018
(MFA and Post Bacc)
Kate Moran
Excellence in Teaching Awards for the spring 2018
(BFA and Certificate)
Al Gury & Tony Rosati
Faculty Award
Jody Pinto
Murray Dessner Memorial Graduate Travel Prize -MFA 2
Ha Ninh Pham
Richard C. Von Hess Memorial Travel Scholarship
Caitlin O’dea Ott
Donald R. Caldwell Scholarship 2017-2018
Rebecca Giles (Fall 2017)
Tessa Tallakson (Fall 2018)
James J. & Frances M. Maguire Scholarship for
Artistic Excellence
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Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize
for Academy’s Permanent Collection
Ellie Blackman
Claire Huber
M. Adil Ozturk
Women’s Board Travel Scholarship
Elizabeth Endres
Merit Winners
Scout Marsh (2017)
Clarissa Kear (2017)
Abigail Dudley (2017)
Travel Prizes | Caldwell Prize
Nick Potoskie (2018)
Grace Mox (2018)
Diana Serrano (2018)
Lewis S. Ware Memorial Travel Scholarships
Sal Heggeman
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Travel Scholarships
Julia McGehean
Abelardo Quiñones Jr.
William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship
Jessica Smith
Artist in Residence
David Schutter (Cert. ‘96)
Artist and Alumni David Schutter (Cert. ‘96) was the spring
artist in residence in the Howard & Vesna Sacks Artists in
Residence Studio.
Schutter did research in the archives, worked in the AIR
studio, and served as a Visiting Critic in the MFA program.
After graduating from PAFA, Schutter received his MFA at
the University of Chicago, where he is currently an Associate
Professor in the Department of Visual Arts.
Schutter has had solo exhibitions at The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Gemäldegalerie Berlin,
Germany; the National Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland; and
with Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; and Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany. His work
was included in documenta 14.
He is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Guggenheim
Fellowship, and is a Fulbright Scholar.
Visiting Artists
Summer 2017
Kiki Gaffney | June 29
Eileen Neff | July 19
Paul D’Agostino | July 26
Aaron Fowler | August 2
Fall 2017
David Kassan | September 20
Elana Herzog | October 4
Catherine Murphy | October 11
Harry Roseman | October 12
Paula Wilson | October 18
Polly Apfelbaum | November 1
Caroline Lathan-Stiefel | November 15
Joshua Clayton | November 29
Torkwase Dyson | December 6
Polly Apfelbaum
Spring 2018
Amy Sherald | January 24
Anna Betbeze | February 7
Matt Bollinger | February 21
Cosmo Whyte | March 14
Karyn Olivier | March 21
Deborah Roberts | March 28
Heather Day | April 11
Kymia Nawabi | April 18
Amy Sherald
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Brodsky Center at PAFA
PAFA absorbed The Brodsky Center, a collaborative paper and
printmaking center devoted to the creation of new work, from
its longtime location at Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey. The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper
was founded in 1986 by Judith Brodsky, an artist, printmaker,
arts advocate, and professor of art. Housed at the Mason Gross
School of the Arts at Rutgers, the Center was renamed in her
honor in 2006 and is dedicated to enabling groundbreaking
artists, both established and emerging, to create new
work in paper and print. Brodsky, who now sits on PAFA’s
Contemporary Collections Committee, was instrumental in
bringing the Center to PAFA.
The Center’s focus on contemporary art and supporting
women and artists of color align well with PAFA’s mission to
educate students and to develop and promote the work of outstanding and innovative artists. Since its founding in 1986, the
Center has completed over 300 editions with a diverse range of
emerging and established artists who have become renowned
in the field, including Barkley Hendricks, and artists in PAFA’s
collection such as Melvin Edwards, Joan Semmel, and Richard
Tuttle. The Center has an inventory of over 3,000 works of art.
Artist-in-residence Sondra Perry leading a printmaking workshop with 10th and 12th
grade students.
The Brodsky Center is part of the School at PAFA, expanding
its printmaking curriculum and providing internship and
professional opportunities for students to learn about
publishing editions, marketing, and selling artists’ prints. A
new papermaking facility will be established at PAFA and will
provide papermaking opportunities for both Brodsky Center
editions and PAFA students. The Center came with it’s own
Endowment to partially support its needs.
Paola Morsiani, Director of the Brodsky Center, joined the
PAFA team and will continue to lead the Center and develop
learning opportunities for students. Editions produced by
the Brodsky Center are included in the collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, and other international institutions, as well as many
private collections.
Farah Ossouli, Nostalgia, 2014, Silkscreen and digital print, 34 x 24 in., Edition of 10.
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia. Collaborating Master Printer:
Randy Hemminghaus.
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PAFA & THE
COMMUNITY
Family Programs
Family Arts Academy
PAFA’s flagship program for family audiences continued
offering Sunday afternoon workshops for the whole family throughout the school year. PAFA was able to offer 32
workshops at the museum completely free of charge to all
participants and to provide 19 free community workshops at
community centers and festivals around the city, all taught by
local artists from the Philadelphia area, including many PAFA
alumni.
Saturday Classes for Middle School Students
PAFA Art Camp
PAFA’s Summer camp program continued to flourish and
provide an important way to engage with families. In Summer
2017, PAFA offered 27 different camps for 350+ students ages
5 to 15, including camps like “Build Your Portfolio,” “Animal
Kingdom” and “Green Green Movie Making.” Each week of
camp ended with an exhibition and reception for the whole
family in PAFA’s historic cast hall. PAFA was also able to offer
need-based scholarships to 19 deserving students from around
the area
PAFA premiered Saturday Classes for Middle School
Students, offering a new opportunity for young artists to hone
their artistic skills early throughout the school year, including
classes in 2D Animation, Digital Photography, Drawing for
Comics and Illustration.
K-12 Programs
School Group Visits and Outreach
PAFA art educators provided programming for 6,602 participants in its school-based program, visiting classrooms around
the region and facilitating 168 field trips, classroom lessons
and hands-on art programs for area school groups.
Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) for Teens
PAFA’s multi-tiered program to engage teens around the
city continued in its fourth year of implementation, inviting
teens into the museum to help guide PAFA’s development
of initiatives for this burgeoning new audience. A Teen
Summit, in partnership with two dozen cultural organizations
around the city who also host teen programs, kicked off the
year of programming with an opportunity for young people
to develop a Teen Manifesto for the future of Philadelphia
that was delivered to the Mayor’s office in November 2017.
PAFA’s Student Docent Program trained young people to give
inquiry-based tours to their peers, working with 7 schools
including Belmont Charter High School, Friends Select,
Hallahan Catholic School for Girls and a new community
partner, Snider Youth Hockey. The Youth Council provided
peri-professional training for 11 youth throughout the year,
including field trips to other museums and introductions
on how to pursue a career in the arts, and they subsequently
planned three events for other teens around the region
to attend, including a holiday party, kickoff event for the
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s new teen app, and
exhibition tours. The Youth Council also got to work closely
with museum staff on a major exhibition project in the
spring, in which they curated “I’ve Always Worked Hard,” an
investigation of the different kinds of “work” represented in
PAFA’s permanent collection.
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School and Community Partnership
PAFA’s flagship program for community engagement
continues to pursue new relationships and opportunities in
the North Kensington and Feltonville neighborhoods as part
of its multi-year commitment to four underserved schools
- Isaac A. Sheppard Elementary School, Julia de Burgos
School, Feltonville Intermediate and Feltonville Arts and
Sciences. The students at these four schools are among some
of the most economically underresourced in the region and
PAFA’s partnership, which included 9,731 points of contact,
has helped to provide supplies, new arts-based curricula,
free teacher professional development, free trips out of the
neighborhood and into Center City and even art therapy
workshops for struggling parents, all elements contributing
to PAFA’s goal of helping to build stronger communities
and more creative children through arts programming.
With a focus on literacy through art in a primarily bilingual
neighborhood, and over a dozen community partners sharing
in the endeavor, PAFA is laying the groundwork for art to
be a critical tool in neighborhood problem solving, family
communication and academic achievement in Philadelphia.
PAFA’s end of year festival drew over 350 attendees from these
two communities for a day of Latino music and creativity, the
best attendance yet for this new initiative.
Adult Programs
PAFA Performances
PAFA hosted five concerts and performances in the museum,
including Unraveling, a sold out performance by artist Sonya
Clark during a weekend dedicated to art and politics, and a
collaboration with the Network for New Music to commission
new contemporary classical works by nationally-renowned
composers using PAFA’s permanent collection as a source of
inspiration.
Traveling Lecture Series
PAFA gave 24 outreach lectures at community locations
to create grassroots interest in special exhibition projects
and to make the collection accessible to groups that have
low mobility, like active adult communities and community
centers over 30 miles away.
The Director’s Table
PAFA premiered a new series that invites members of the
public to dine and network with contemporary artists and
thinkers in an intimate dinner setting with two sold out events
featuring special guests Joyce Kozloff and Dawoud Bey, both
of whom have works that recently entered PAFA’s permanent
collection.
Points of View Lecture Series
PAFA hosted 18 public talks in conjunction with special
exhibitions and projects, including a multi-series partnership
investigating the role of monuments in the city with Mural
Arts Philadelphia and the Monument Lab project, an
appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
Signe Wilkinson, and an investigation of what neuroscience
can teach us about how the brain sees art with Franklin
Institute Chief Bioscientist, Jayatri Das.
The Art World We Want
In the spring of 2017, PAFA’s Education team spearheaded an
institution-wide response to allegations of sexual misconduct
against the artist Chuck Close. Working closely with students
and faculty in the school, PAFA mounted a contextual
exhibition and series of programs between January and April
of 2019 that included student forums, educator events, writing
workshops and screen-printed protest events to interrogate
issues around sexuality, power and access in the art world.
The Art of Observation
PAFA experienced additional growth in its humanitiesbased programming for healthcare partners and business
executives, offering audiences in other disciplines a deep
level of engagement with how the visual arts can contribute
to their professional work in other sectors. The Wharton
School at the University of Pennsylvania brought 68 of their
“high potential leaders” to PAFA for workshops on emotional
intelligence and Jefferson University hosted two professional
development workshops for staff in the museum galleries. Six
for-credit classes were offered for students at The Kimmel
College of Medicine at Jefferson University and Cooper
Medical Hospital at Rowan University, reaching a total of 120
students and faculty, with education staff working closely
with physicians to develop workshops, classes and tours that
heighten medical students’ ability to observe closely and
accurately, to build empathy and emotional intelligence into
their clinical practice, and to identify and dismantle cognitive
biases that lead to medical errors. This innovative program
merges PAFA’s history of studying the human body with
contemporary curriculum issues around reintroducing the
humanities into the medical field and is creating whole new
audiences for PAFA’s collection and exhibitions.
Art at Lunch
For over 20 years, this free lunchtime lecture series has
provided an opportunity for the public as well as PAFA
students and members for midday talks that bring new
dimension to PAFA’s collections, exhibitions, and interests in
American Art. Nine lectures brought in 579 visitors to PAFA
to hear about its programming and engage with art historians
and artists about their work.
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Continuing Education for Adults and High School Students
PAFA Continuing Education (CE) offered art classes,
workshops, lectures and special programs for adults of all
levels of ability, and pre-college programming for high school
students. Courses were offered during weekdays, evenings
and weekends over three semesters a year: fall, spring and
summer. The faculty comprised practicing, professional
artists, many of whom also teach in PAFA’s degree programs.
The CE program served over 1,943 participants in 2018, up 6%
from 2017.
The CE Program also featured weekend Master Classes,
offering students the opportunity to work with acclaimed
artists, including notable PAFA alumni, and attracting a
national and international audience to PAFA (over 150
enrolled in FY 2018). Artists who participated in 2018
included painter Bill Scott, all prima painter Christine
Lafuente, acclaimed watercolorist Eileen Goodman, Caldecott
Medal-winning book creator David Wiesner, and Juliette
Aristides, renowned artist, founder and instructor of the
Aristides Atelier at the Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle
and noted author of Classical Drawing Atelier, Classical
Painting Atelier and other highly regarded drawing and
painting texts. In spring of 2018, Joseph Sweeney held a plein
air oil and pastel painting expedition to Donegal, Ireland while
James Toogood, noted watercolorist and author of Incredible
Light and Texture in Watercolor led a plein air watercolor class
in Bermuda.
Online courses were introduced in 2018 including Essential
Human Anatomy with Roberto Osti, artist, teacher and
author of Basic Human Anatomy: An Essential Visual Guide,
Build Your Own Labyrinth: Using Constraints to Challenge
and Surprise Yourself, paired with cartoonist, teacher and
translator, Matt Madden, and two art history courses with Dr.
Kevin Richards, Chair of Liberal Arts at PAFA: Modernism &
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Modernity: Art & Culture, 1900 – 1945, and Modern Art Since
1945. These courses reached students locally, nationally and
internationally.
Spring 2018 saw the introduction of CE Certificate Programs,
offering students the opportunity to enhance their technical
skills and professional presence through a curriculum of
focused study under the guidance of expert faculty-artists.
The PAFA Atelier with PAFA faculty Peter Van Dyck was
introduced in FY 2018, a combination instructed class
and open studio for students interested in advancing their
representational drawing and painting. The class was filled
to capacity in the fall and spring semesters, with over 30
students.
The Summer Academy for High School Students is PAFA’s
five-week pre-college program designed for talented and
motivated young people intent on a fine arts education.
Additionally, stand-alone courses for high school students in
drawing, painting, comics, printmaking, and sculpture are also
offered in the summer and on Saturdays during the fall and
spring. New classes in illustration, watercolor, photography
and plein air landscape were introduced in 2018, and were
well-received. The Maguire Foundation provided generous
scholarship support for Maguire Scholar students enrolled in
summer classes.
In 2018, PAFA held the second year of the Francis M. Maguire
Pre-College at PAFA, a 24-week, intensive drawing and
painting course for students from Maguire Foundation
partner schools. Instruction was delivered both on campus
and online in a blended format, and students earned college
credit upon completion. Total enrollment in PAFA’s precollege program was 183 in 2018, up 8% from 2017.
DEVELOPMENT
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PAFA First Capital Campaign
PAFA First: For the Future of American Art is the capital
campaign to support the first phase of PAFA’s transformative
Campus Master Plan. The plan aims to ensure that PAFA will
continue to be a leading force in collecting and exhibiting
contemporary art, engaging the public through community
programming, and educating the next generation of American
artists.
By the conclusion of the campaign, PAFA will have created
50,000 square feet of new programmatic space to expand
its curriculum and public programs, increased its overall
art storage capacity by 80%, completed critical renovations
to both its buildings, and generated a significant economic
impact for the institution and Philadelphia at large. As of June
30, 2018, PAFA has raised over $21.6 million in support of the
campaign—86% of the overall goal.
of Fine Arts the unique opportunity to honor and further Mr.
Rhoden’s legacy and life-long dedication to fine art-making.
Auditorium Seats
Additional support for the Arts Center has been provided in
part by the generous donors who have given gifts to name seats
in the new Auditorium. As of June 30, 2018, PAFA sold 42
seats, including 12 seats in the front rows.
Arts Center
PAFA broke ground on the Arts Center, a 25,000 square foot
project comprising a state-of-the-art auditorium, a gallery for
student art, and collection storage vaults for 20th- and 21stcentury works of art, in the fall of 2017. Construction is on
schedule to conclude by the end of 2018.
Rhoden Estate
In July 2017, PAFA acquired the estate of the artist John
Rhoden and his wife Richanda. This acquisition included
over 320 works by the under-recognized African-American
sculptor. Proceeds from the Rhodens’ Brooklyn estate will
help fund an exhibition of the artist’s work, a scholarship for
students from diverse backgrounds, a curatorial position,
and support the construction of PAFA’s new Arts Center.
In recognition of this gift, PAFA named the Arts Center
Auditorium in the Rhodens’ honor.
PAFA accessioned a number of Rhoden’s works for its own
permanent collection and will help place the remainder of
the works within the collections of other museums around
the world. Select sculptures will be exhibited in dedicated
vestibules throughout the Arts Center Auditorium.
Rhoden Scholarship
The John and Richanda Rhoden Scholarship will be awarded
every four years, beginning in the fall of 2019, to an incoming
first-year student of color, especially a student who intends to
major in sculpture. The scholarship covers full tuition and fees
for each of four years. This scholarship offers PAFA’s School
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Significant support for the Arts Center came from the Daniel
W. Dietrich II Foundation, which awarded $500,000 in
early 2017 to name the Arts Center Auditorium Stage. The
Foundation’s support came with two conditions: in order to
obtain the funds, PAFA was required to raise by December
2017 the $6.5 million needed to complete the Arts Center,
and to commence construction on the project no later than
January 2018. In order to meet these terms, PAFA’s Board
chairman Kevin F. Donohoe issued a matching challenge of
$250,000, bringing his total campaign gift to $1 million. This
generous additional commitment successfully mobilized the
PAFA community to support the Arts Center project, and thus
secure the Daniel W. Dietrich II Foundation’s critical funding.
RACP
In December 2017, PAFA received a $500,000 award through
the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) to
support its Campus Master Plan. The objective of this statesponsored program is to advance exceptional projects that will
promote Pennsylvania’s economic and cultural development.
Competition for these awards was particularly strong in 2017,
with nearly 400 applicatants (including 91 in Philadelphia
alone) vying for a limited pool of funding.
PAFA First Campaign Donors
List complete as of June 30, 2018
$2,500,000+
The Estate of John and Richanda Rhoden
$1,000,000-$2,499,999
Jonathan L. Cohen
Nancy Winkler and Jay Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin F. Donohoe
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
The Estate of Evelyn Kaplan in Honor of Connie and Jules Kay
Mr.* and Mrs. H. F. Lenfest
Frances and James J. Maguire
$250,000 - $499,999
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Bennett
Dr. Aliya F. Browne and
Mr. Reginald M. Browne
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Chase
The Connelly Foundation
Lee Gunther-Mohr*
Anonymous (3)
The Arcadia Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Averill
Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Ballou
Emily and Mike Cavanagh
Elliot H. Clark
Madeleine and Mark Douglas
Edward and Wendy Harvey
Ro and Martin King
Victoria McNeil Le Vine
Mr. and Mrs. Winston I. Lowe
Maggie and J. Brien Murphy
$100,000 - $249,999
$50,000 - $99,999
Julie and James Alexandre
The Allerton Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Biddle
Linda Aversa-Caldwell and
Donald R. Caldwell
Kelly and Joe Culley
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harper
Susan M. Hendrickson
Jeanne Ruddy and Victor Keen
Dale and Richard Levy
Jannie K. Lau and
Todd C. Longsworth
Mr. and Mrs. Albert P. Matteo
Anne E. McCollum
Amaranth Foundation
Theodore and Nancie Burkett
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Halloran
Dorothy M. Ix and
Raymond E. Ix, Jr.
The Brook J. Lenfest Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Graham
Frank and Anita Leto
The McLean Contributionship
Anonymous
Jane and Casey Brandt
Daniel and Monica DiLella
The Frechette Family Foundation
Robert and Charlotte Friedman
Mrs. J. Welles Henderson
Robert E. Kohler and
Frances Coulborn Kohler
Laura and Kenneth Mitchell
Sara Lomax Reese and Timothy Reese
Holly T. and David R. Brigham
Valentino D. Carlotti
Richard Carlstrom
Antonella and Roger Doucette
Eloise Gretz and Family
Martha and Robert Kennedy
$25,000 - $49,999
$10,000 - $24,999
$5,000 - $9,999
$500,000 - $999,999
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Ball Family Foundation
Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan
Bill and Laura Buck
The Daniel W. Dietrich II Foundation
The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. duP. Smith
Dorothy Woodcock and Kenneth Woodcock
Bill and Rosemary Hankowsky
National Endowment for the Humanities
Richard C. von Hess Foundation
Theodore O. Rogers, Jr.
Vesna and Howard Sacks
Julie D. and Robert N. Spahr
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Vague
Leslie Miller and Richard Worley
Washburn and Susan Oberwager
Herbert S. and Leah R. Riband
Richard and Bonnie Rossello
Barbara B. and Edward M. Scolnick
Marijke and Arlen Shenkman
The Wilmerding Family
James E. O’Neill and
David A. Rubin
Parkway Corporation
Bill and Lynne Schorling
Cynthia and Michael Veloric
Gretchen Roede
Mary G. Gregg and
John M. Ryan
The Snider Foundation
Alicia A. Sterling*
George and Janis Strimel
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PAFA First Campaign Donors (continued)
$1,000 - $4,999
Robert and Enid Anker
DLR Group
Marianne Dean
Julia B. and Darrell L. DeMoss
M. Doddamani
Pamela Doray and Fred Merz
FJN Charitable Foundation
Ofelia Garcia
Janice T. Gordon
David Hoffman
Barbara and Charles Kahn, Jr.
Melissa and Roy Kaiser
Marguerite B. Knysh
Gabriele W. Lee
Anonymous
William J. Avery
Sharon Butler
Patricia and Thomas Connelly
Mari and Robert Corson
Nancy K. Giles
Amy and John Korman
Kenneth Kusmer
Barbara Freed and Alan Mittelman
Elizabeth Racheva
Up to $999
Grants
The Richard C. von Hess Foundation awarded PAFA two
grants for 2017-18 exhibitions: $75,000 to support the
summer 2017 Honoré Sharrer retrospective, and $50,000
toward First Academies: Benjamin West and the Founding of
the Royal Academy of Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts.
PAFA concluded its 30-month, $300,000 grant supporting the
School and Community Partnership (SCP) from the William
Penn Foundation, which also awarded PAFA a three-year
$300,000 renewal of support for the program, beginning
in 2018-19. SCP in 2017-18 provided free educational arts
programming year round to students, teachers, and families
at four schools - Isaac A. Sheppard Elementary, Julia de
Burgos School, Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences, and
Feltonville Intermediate. All four schools have student bodies
that are 60-85% Hispanic, with many students learning
English as a second language, and 100% of students coming
from low-income families.
The Hearst Foundations awarded $75,000 to support PAFA’s
community education programs, as did smaller grants from
several other foundations. The Brook J. Lenfest Foundation
supported PAFA’s free After-School Studio Arts Program for
high school students with a grant of $15,000.
The Allerton Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to support
PAFA’s capital campaign, and Snider Foundation’s $45,000
grant supported both the capital campaign and PAFA’s
programs for teens.
The Horace Goldsmith Foundation renewed its support of
PAFA with a two-year, $200,000 unrestricted grant.
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Tom and Linda McCarthy
Kathleen D. Buffum McCoy
Richard and Brooke Ranck
Edward A. Richards
Richard W. Snowden and Frederick Holzerman
Joan N. Stern
George and Margaret Scudder
Georgia and Hass Shafia
Liz Denney and John Toates
David and Ilene Winikur
The Maguire Foundation committed $1.25 million to endow
the Maguire Scholars Program at PAFA. The Maguire Scholars
Program works with dozens of partner schools across
Philadelphia, from early learners through higher education.
The foundation first welcomed PAFA as a partner school in
2010, and PAFA is incredibly grateful for the foundation’s
decision to endow the program, ensuring future students will
have the opportunity to pursue their educational and artistic
dreams.
$74,000 in scholarship support for PAFA’s students came
from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust. The Richard C. von
Hess Foundation funds a full-tuition scholarship each year,
including fees and an additional $5,000 Travel Award. In
addition to their scholarship commitment, the Maguire
Foundation also awarded $30,000 for PAFA’s pre-college
program.
In 2017-18, PAFA received significant support from several
government agencies, including an $84,000, three-year award
from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in support
of PAFA’s Student Docent Program and Youth Council;
$30,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts in support
of School, Teacher, and Family Programs; $77,000 in general
support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; and two
awards from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund: $12,000 in
general operating support, and a $20,000 one-time PCF Youth
Arts grant supporting the Student Docent Program and Youth
Council programs.
Membership
Peale Circle
Peale Trip to Washington, D.C.
In Fall of 2017 PAFA’s Peale Circle took an Art Exploration trip
to historic Washington, D.C. for four days of art, history and
culture. Brooke Davis Anderson, Edna S. Tuttleman
Director of the Museum, and Anna O. Marley, Curator of
Historical American Art, led the group as they visited
private collections and enjoyed behind-the-scenes tours of
the Smithsonian Museums, artists’ studios, and more. The
cultural experiences were complemented by fine dining at
some of the most fashionable restaurants in Washington, D.C.
New York City Day Trip
At the beginning of May, 2018, Anna O. Marley, Curator of
Historical American Art led a tour of Thomas Cole’s Journey:
Atlantic Crossing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alice Pratt Brown Curator
of American Painting and Sculpture. Later, Peale Circle
Members enjoyed lunch with Sylvia Yount, former PAFA
curator and current Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in
Charge at the Met’s Members Dining Room. Following lunch,
Anna O. Marley and Iria Candela, Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator
of Latin American Art, continued the tour of the Met with a
visit to Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici. The New
York day trip was capped off with a cocktail reception at Godel
& Co. Fine Art, hosted by Katherine W. Baumgartner, Director.
Eileen Rosenau Collection Visit
In April 2018, the Peale Circle visited Eileen Rosenau’s
collection of Modern and Contemporary American art,
including works by Andy Warhol, Dan Flavin, Frank Stella,
Scott Burton, and Dan Graham, collected between 1964 and
1981.
Young Friends
The Young Friends Committee hosted six distinct events,
including Uncorked: The Bacchanal After Party, Young Friends
at Open Studio Night, and Young Collectors Night at the
Annual Student Exhibition. The group also launched a
mentorship program between the committee members and
members of the Board of Trustees.
General Members
PAFA hosted two opportunities for members to see it first;
exhibition openings of Subversion and Surrealism in the Art
of Honoré Sharrer and Chuck Close Photographs, as well as
three Curator Conversations for Chuck Close Photographs,
Graphic Women, and Beyond Boundaries. Two Members
Make events featured terra cotta and monotype prints and
two behind-the-scenes members’ tours were given for Sharrer
and Conservation. 150 members joined PAFA for the Annual
Members Reception.
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Events
Bacchanal
PAFA celebrated the 19th Anniversary Bacchanal Wine Gala
and Auction, which is the institution’s largest fundraiser,
bringing in over $500,000 annually to support student scholarships and community education programs. Since Bacchanal’s inception, the event has raised over $9 million. For the
theme, California Visionaries Bacchanal featured the wines
of Thomas Jefferson Award Honorees Gavin Chanin, Chanin
Wines; Rajat Parr, Domaine de la Côte; Thomas Pillsbury,
DuMOL, Jamie Kutch, Kutch Wines and Loren Grossman,
Wilde Farm Wines. These five extraordinary winemakers
brought their unique visions to life through hard work and
talent and made an indelible mark on the world of California
wines. The Bacchanal Co-Chairs were Gregg Cotler & Bill
McGowan and dinner was prepared by Chef Ashley James of
Starr Events.
Preview Party
117th Annual Student Exhibition
The 117th Annual Student Exhibition Preview party was held
on May 10, 2018, raising $344,197 from the sale of student
art. This was the most well attended preview party to date,
attracting 423 guests and raising a record $375,000 from
tickets and sponsorships. Honorary Chairs were Georgiana W.
and Eric W. Noll and Preview Party Co-Chairs were Melissa
Ingersoll and Katie Rhodes.
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Finance
Statement of Unrestricted Revenues and Expenses
For the years ended June 30, 2018 and 2017
June 30 ,2018
June 30 ,2017
$6,511,078
$6,735,682
Investment income
1,049,784
1,009,968
Gifts and grants revenue
8,749,435
7,882,936
Continuing and public education
770,484
800,978
Facility rentals and retail operations
668,882
907,674
Other revenue
803,398
1,038,156
18,553,061
18,375,394
School operations
8,305,002
7,988,305
Continuing and public education
1,225,967
1,285,049
Museum and exhibitions
2,400,208
3,273,103
Development and fundraising
1,945,544
1,934,726
235,058
249,664
1,895,186
1,979,220
Total Program and Support Expenses
16,006,965
16,710,067
Change in unrestricted net assets before
depreciation, gains (losses) and other income
(expenses)
$2,546,096
$1,665,327
Tuition and Fees, Net
Total Operating Program,
Support and Investment Income
Facility rental and catering
Management and general
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Statement of Financial Condition
as of June 30, 2018 and 2017
Assets
June 30, 2018
June 30, 2017
$383,947
$1,506,345
283,522
211,012
12,050,077
4,834,400
Prepaid expenses
385,099
370,239
Inventories
183,050
117,190
Land, buildings and equipment (net)
52,228,293
50,810,291
Investments
44,411,331
45,641,008
Beneficial interest in perpetual trusts
10,343,994
10,057,806
Other assets
127,870
122,036
Total Assets
$120,397,183
$113,670,327
2,764,740
1,683,612
20,804,545
20,796,727
Line of credit
8,055,000
6,230,000
Deferred revenue
1,374,513
1,082,096
Other liabilities
-
330,211
Total Liabilities
32,998,798
30,122,646
53,262,370
56,074,058
Temporarily restricted net assets
5,185,956
1,161,507
Permanently restricted net assets
28,950,059
26,312,116
Total Net Assets
87,398,385
83,547,681
$120,397,183
$113,670,327
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts receivable
Contributions receivables
Liabilities and Fund Balances
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Bonds and notes payable
Net Assets
Unrestricted net assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
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Operating Revenues 2018
$18,553,061
Continuing and
Public Education
4%
Facility Rentals and
Retail Operations Other Revenue
4%
4%
Tuition and Fees
35%
Gifts and Grants
Revenue
47%
Investment Income
6%
Operating Expenses 2018
$16,006,965
Facility Rental
and Catering
1%
Management and
General
12%
Development and
Fundraising
12%
School Operations
52%
Museum and
Exhibitions
15%
Continuing and
Public Education
8%
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Our Donors
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts extends its grateful thanks to the many generous supporters who
made new gifts and commitments between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018.
PAFA First Campaign supporters are recognized on pages 29-30.
Support through the Former Trustee Association, Peale Circle, the Annual Student Exhibition Preview Party, and the Bacchanal Wine Gala and Auction
are recognized on pages 37 through 41.
Leadership Donors
$1,000,000+
The Maguire Foundation
Estate of John Rhoden
$250,000 - $999,999
Brodsky Center
$100,000 - $249,999
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Artay, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Ball III
Dorrance H. Hamilton Charitable
Lead Trusts*
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Knight Foundation
Mrs. H.F. Lenfest
Richard C. von Hess Foundation
Estate of Mrs. James W. Toren
$50,000 - $99,999
Allerton Foundation
Haverford Trust Company
The Hearst Foundations
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Pine Street Group LP
Ms. Margaret Schuette
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Vague
W.W. Smith Charitable Trust
$25,000 - $49,999
Anonymous
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cavanagh
Mr. Jonathan L. Cohen
Comcast Corporation
Ms. Marianne Dean
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin F. Donohoe
FMC Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Harvey, Jr.
Frances and Robert Kohler
McLean Contributionship
National Endowment for the Arts
Marsha and Jeffrey Perelman
Snider Foundation
Dr. Pina Templeton
Wyncote Foundation
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$10,000 - $24,999
Anonymous (3)
1830 Family Foundation
Julie and Jim Alexandre
Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Ballou
Bank of America
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Biddle
Linda Seyda and Robert Boris
Bowman Properties, Ltd.
Brook J. Lenfest Foundation
Dr. Aliya F. Browne and
Mr. Reginald M. Browne
Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan
Linda Aversa-Caldwell and
Donald R. Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Chase
Mr. Gerard Cuddy
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Culley, Jr.
Mr. Graham Davies
Monica and Dan DiLella
Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Douglas
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Fleischner
Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Friedman
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Gilroy and Lillian Roberts Foundation
Dr. Janice T. Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Halloran
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harper
Mr. Robert F. Henderson
Ms. Susan M. Hendrickson
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Horseman
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Ix, Jr.
Estate of Mr. Howard Kellogg
Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. King
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Leone
Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Leto
Ms. Dale P. Levy and Mr. Richard D. Levy
Liberty Property Trust
Ms. Jannie K. Lau and
Mr. Todd C. Longsworth
Mr. and Mrs. Winston I. Lowe, Esq.
Mr. and Ms. Albert P. Matteo, Jr.
Ms. Anne Elizabeth McCollum
Ms. Lisa D. Kabnick and Mr. John H.
McFadden
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mitchell
Dr. and Mrs. J. Brien Murphy
The Newington-Cropsey Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Eric W. Noll
Mr. James E. O’Neill and Mr. David A. Rubin
Mr. Thomas N. Pappas
PECO
Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Philadelphia Insurance Companies
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert S. Riband, Jr.
Dr. Thayer Tolles Rogers and
Mr. Theodore O. Rogers, Jr.
SEI Investments Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay H. Shah
Mr. and Mrs. Arlen R. Shenkman
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. du P. Smith
Ms. Erika Swarthout
Ms. Isabel S. Wilcox
Ms. Lydia D. Williamson
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Woodcock
Zausmer Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous
Mr. Robert W. Bogle
Ms. Nancy Winkler and Mr. John Bryan
Bryn Mawr Trust Company
Ms. Maria E. S. Bamford and
Mr. Scott M. Cassidy
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Cole
Mr. Charles Corpening
Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, Inc.
Dr. Dorothy J. del Bueno
DLR Group
Mr. Edward Frame
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
The Glenmede Trust Company
Mrs. Maxine S. Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Lockyer
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Mr. Eliot Mosby
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Mundheim
Mr. Norman Olson
SAP America
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr
Sirphune and John Conte Foundation
Mr. Richard W. Snowden and
Mr. Frederick Holzerman
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Svanda
Universal Health Services, Inc.
Leslie Anne Miller and Richard Worley
$1,000 - $4,999
Anonymous (3)
Amaranth Foundation
Ms. Linda Lee Alter
Ms. Brooke Davis Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Asher
Ms. Amy Branch and Mr. D. Jeffry Benoliel
Willo Carey and Peter A. Benoliel
Bittenbender Construction, LP
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Boyer
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Brandt
Ms. Judith Brodsky
Mr. and Mrs. Julian A. Brodsky
Mr. Michael Bzdak
Ms. Susan G. Campbell
Carlson Cultural Trust
Mr. Richard Carlstrom and Mr. Joel Samuels
Mr. and Mrs. Cummins Catherwood, Jr.
Mr. Mark Chehi and Mrs. Johanna Chehi
Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation
Mrs. Brice Clagett
Mr. Richard T. Crawford
Ms. Cicely Cottingham Davson and
Mr. Victor Davson
Mr. Arthur Dantchik
Ms. Kay Deaux
Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation
Dry Family Foundation
Elliott Lewis Corporation
Ms. Pamela Felice
Fine and Staud
Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Fink
Mr. and Mrs. Reeder R. Fox
Mr. Nigel Freeman
Ms. Betty J. Turock and
Dr. Gustav W. Friedrich
Ms. Ofelia Garcia
Dr. Janice T. Gordon
Ms. Shirley L. Green
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Gustafson
Hassel Foundation
Mrs. Hilarie V. Hawley
Mrs. J. Welles Henderson
Mr. Paul M. Hummer and
Ms. Lynda K. Hubbell
International Fine Print Dealers Association
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kennedy
Gilbert and Rebecca Kerlin
Keystone Property Group
Ms. Maggi Kirk
Dr. Evelyn S. Kritchevsky
Ms. Alice Mary R. Lawler
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Le Vine
Mr. and Mrs. Leon L. Levy
Ms. Lisa A. Loughney
Louis N. Cassett Foundation
Mrs. Lawrence E. MacElree
Ms. Allison Leigh Maslow
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mather III
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen McDonnell
Dr. and Dr. Leonard M. Moss
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Napier
Mrs. Isabel Nazario
Dr. Ferris Olin
Mr. Donald S. Owings
Mrs. Zoe S. Pappas
Dr. Lee T. Pearcy
Ms. Amie Potsic
Mr. and Dr. Franklin N. Redd
Mr. Brad Richards
Mr. and Mrs. J. Barton Riley
Mrs. Eileen Y. Rosenau
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Sacks
Katie Adams Schaeffer and
Anthony L. Schaeffer
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Seid
Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Mr.* and Mrs. Stockton Smith
Ms. Enikö Mara-Somkuti and
Dr. Stephen G. Somkuti
Mr.* and Mrs. Harold A. Sorgenti
Ms. Karen Steen
Ms. Sally S. Richards and
Mr. Frans Stemmerik
United States Roofing Corporation
Mr. Ross VanDenbergh
Mr. Bruce Wickersham*
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Williams
Mr. Richard E. Woosnam and
Mrs. Diane Dalto Woosnam
Mrs. Kathryn Q. Wright and
Mr. Joseph Wright
Former Trustee
Association Members
Mr. Robert L. Byers
Mr. John B. Bartlett
Mr. Thomas L. Bennett
Dr. Jane Fortune*
Mrs. Mary P. Graham
Mrs. Henry F. Harris
Mr. Anthony Ibarguen
Ms. Gabriele Lee
Mrs. James J. Maguire
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mather III
Mr. Peter McCausland
Mr. Allen J. Model
Mr. John M. Ryan
Mr. Samuel J. Savitz
William A. Slaughter, Esq.
Henry B. du P. Smith
Mr. Harold A. Sorgenti*
Mrs. Barbara Sylk
Mr. Archbold van Beuren
Mr. Richard E. Woosnam
Mr. Richard Worley
Mrs. James W. Zug
The Peale Circle
Cecilia Beaux Circle
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Averill
Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan
Mr. David Hoffman
Mr. and Mrs. Brook J. Lenfest
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Rossello
Mr. and Mrs. Barton J. Winokur
Thomas Eakins Circle
Mr. and Mrs. Julian A. Brodsky
Horace Pippin Circle
Lorraine and Benjamin Alexander
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Asher
Linda Seyda and Robert Boris
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Churchman
Ms. Heather Richards Evans
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Fleischner
Joan and William Goldstein
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Gross
Mr. and Mrs. Jules Kay
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kennedy
Darcy Allen and Richard Kipp
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Russo
Dr. Willys Silvers
Mr. Richard G. Webster, Jr.
Mr. A. Morris Williams, Jr.
Violet Oakley Circle
Anonymous (2)
Ms. Bettina B. Aberant
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Affleck
Ms. Linda Lee Alter
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Brandt
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck
Mr. and Mrs. G. Theodore Burkett
Ralph Citino and Lawrence Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clayton
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Cole
Ms. Emanuela Miller-Cooke and
Mr. Avi Eden
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Effron
Ms. Joan Miller Moran and
Mr. William Fenza
Mr. and Mrs. David Glickstein
Dr. Janice T. Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Iskrant
Mr. William J.D. Jordan
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kahn, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Le Vine
Ms. Dale P. Levy and Mr. Richard D. Levy
Mr. and Ms. David G. Marshall
Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCausland
Mr. and Mrs. Rory McNeil
Mr. John J. Medveckis
Ms. Nicki Nathan and Mr. Michael Metelits
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mitchell
Ms. Arlene Olson and Dr. Stanley
Muravchick
Ms. Bonnie O’Boyle
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Oehrle
Mr. Norman Olson
Mr. James A. Ounsworth, Esq.
Mrs. Zoe S. Pappas
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Patterson
Ms. Pamela Trimingham and
Mr. David Pierson
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Putnam
Mr. Edward A. Richards
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Roth
Mr. Will W. Sachse
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Sacks
Dr. and Mrs. Hass Shafia
Mrs. Joly W. Stewart
Dr. and Mrs. Martin Stogniew
Keith and James B. Straw
Mr. and Mrs. Fabio Terlevich
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Veloric
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Vernon
Dr. Robert J. Wallner
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Dr. and Mrs. Sankey V. Williams
Dr. Yoram Wind
Sotheby’s
Benefactor Members
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Asplundh
Mr. William J. Avery
Mr. Anthony Bayne, Sr.
Ms. Linda Zaleski and
Mr. Andrew F. Blittman
Mrs. Doris Broudy
Mr. Michael P. Buckley
Ms. Catherine Mellina and
Mr. Dave Christopher
Mrs. Mari Corson and Mr. Robert Corson
Mr. Gregg R. Crumley
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Daley
Mr. Arthur Dantchik
Tobey and Mark Dichter
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fernberger, Jr.
Mr. Jeffrey P. Fuller and
Ms. Martha M. Madigan
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Greenwald
Drs. Joel and Linda Griska
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Gustafson
Dan Rothermel and Michael Hairston
Mrs. J. Welles Henderson
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Hill III
Mr. and Mrs. Ian Hinke
Mr. and Ms. L. S. Illoway
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kreithen
Dr. Evelyn S. Kritchevsky
Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold S. Lakoff
Ms. Judith LaLonde
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. McCarthy
Ms. Stella Tsai and Mr. Paul McCarthy
Ms. Kathleen D.B. McCoy
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Mechura
Ms. Anselene Morris
Mr. and Mrs. John Moyer
David F. Ertz and Kristin Mullaney
Mr. Paul R. Nemeth and Ms. Jean Flood
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Nesbitt III
Mrs. Beatrice S. Pitcairn
Ms. Kathryn Rhodes
Ms. Judith Creed and Mr. Robert Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Schwarz, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Sheehan
Ms. Alicia A. Sterling
Ms. Janis O’Connor Strimel and
Mr. George Strimel
Ms. Mary Teeling
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Vegega
Mr. and Mrs. F. Gordon Yasinow
Tribute Gifts
In Honor of Thomas L. Bennett
Ms. Sally Rubenstein
In Honor of David R. Brigham
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck
Dr. Pina Templeton
In Honor of Julie Jensen Bryan
Ms. Beatrice Cromwell and
Mr. E. Clive Anderson
Frederick J.M. LaValley and
John Whitenight
Philadelphia Trust Company
In Honor of Donald R. Caldwell
Ms. Judite Morais and Mr. Timothy P. Speiss
In Honor of Emily Erb
Ms. Hope Armstrong Erb and
Mr. Martin G. Erb
In Honor of Sam Garst
Anonymous
In Honor of Jennifer Johns
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Epstein
In Honor of Melissa D. Kaiser
Mr. and Mrs. John Korman
In Honor of Connie Kay
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold S. Hoffman
In Honor of Robert E. Kohler
Ms. Linda Lewis Kramer
In Honor of Maggie and Brien Murphy
Sheila M. and James A. Bridenstine
Mr. and Mrs. Norman U. Cohn
Ms. Barbara Murphy
Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Rock
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. du P. Smith
Dr. and Mrs. Sankey V. Williams
In Honor of Carolyn Nagy
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Honickman
In Honor of William S. Noel
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Noel
In Honor of Lorraine S. Riesenbach
Ms. Rita Klinger
In Honor of Catherine Samson
Ms. Catherine H. Farrell
In Honor of June Smith
Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthews V. Hamilton, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Le Vine
In Honor of Anne Stassen
Dr. Kathleen Kline and Rev. Andrew Kline
Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Wilmerding
In Honor of Alicia A. Sterling*
Ms. Anne Elizabeth McCollum
In Memory of Lydia Ashcroft
Ms. Kristen Cox
Mr. Allen Raevsky
Ms. Linda S. Stepler
In Memory of Anne Bryan
Ms. Nancy Clipper
Mrs. Rebecca Kriss and Mr. Nicholas Stanley
In Memory of Karen B. Davies
Ms. Susan Basch
Ms. Marijean Boueri
Ms. Edwina Brennan
Mr. Jeffrey S. Brown
M. A. Jane Buhl
Mr. John R. Burns
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Chagares
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Chandler
Mr. and Mrs. Jon E. Christensen
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Christensen
Mr. and Mrs. Chetwin C. Cooke
Ms. Maureen M. Emanuel
Ms. Rei M. Fuller and Mr. Bradley B. Fuller
Mr. and Mrs. A. Evan Haag
Ms. Meridith B. Hurd
Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Levis
Ms. Dale P. Levy and Mr. Richard D. Levy
Ms. Eliza Lewis
Mr. Bruce Lierman
Liswhit Foundation
Peggy and Tony Maggo
Ms. Kathleen A. Mikesh
Ms. Julie Morrison
Mrs. Margaret Rauscher
Ms. Barbara Rea
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Schuler
Ms. Sarah A. Starr
Mr. and Mrs. Kris W. Strausser
Mr. Bruce A. Szymborski
The Barra Foundation, Inc.
Ms. Judith M. Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Jordan R. Upton
Mr. Gary S. Weisband
Ms. Laura A. Williamson
Ms. Lilly Woodworth
In Memory of Murray Dessner
Mr. Allen Newman
In Memory of Karen Frame
Ms. Judith F. Adams
Ms. Lorraine J. Alfieri
Art Works, Inc.
Susan and Steve Bagocius
James and Anita Beard
Ms. Theresa Carey
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Colabrese
Ms. MaryLouise M. Forcine
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley K. Fritz
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Hymowitz
Ms. Jane Johnston
Kaeser & Blair Incorporated
Ms. Thi Poerner
Ms. Lisa Ramelow
Mr. Gerard F. Reimel III
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Walker
Ms. Valerie J. Wujcik
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Zimmer
In Memory of Edward T. Gay
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Dempster
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Mr. and Mrs. Ramy Djerassi
Ms. Gail Jacobson
Mr. Joseph Jenkins
Mr. William J.D. Jordan
Kartman Fire Protection
Mrs. Lisa Lauletta
Mrs. Sharon Machrone
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Perotti
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Pudlin
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham C. Reich
Mrs. Gretchen Reilly
Mr. Gerard Riley
Ms. Maureen Rocks
Ms. Kathleen McDonough Wolf and Mr. John
A. Wolf III
In Memory of Mrs. Samuel M.V. Hamilton
Hamilton Family Foundation
Mrs. Kathleen M. Cannon and
Mr. Brian Kelly
In Memory of Nina Hausner
Ms. Judith Taylor
In Memory of Barkley Hendricks
Gottfried & Somberg
Wealth Management, LLC
In Memory of Mildred T. Lefkoe
Dr. and Mrs. Roy T. Lefkoe
Miss Sydney Ann Lefkoe
In Memory of Ned J. Levine
ACSP Program, Villanova University
In Memory of Gainor I. Miller
Mrs. Philip A. Bregy
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Hensley
Ms. Laurie Moyer
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Pinkus
Mr. Cullen Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Sheffield
In Memory of Janet Minnick
Mr. Robert A. Minnick
In Memory of Shelby Rosenberg
Ms. Gabrielle Birkner
Mr. Steven Cohen
In Memory of Suzanne Savaria
PECO
In Memory of Hannah Shickley
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Landa
In Memory of Vardina Wind
The Wind Foundation
John W. Merriam
Planned Giving Society
Anonymous (3)
Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Ballou
Barbara* and John Bartlett
Pearl M. Carpel
Jonathan L. Cohen
Steven Cohen
Linda Dessner
Drs. Barbara and Leonard Frank
Kenneth F. Herlihy
Katharine K. Hoyler*
Evelyn Rypins Kaplan*, In Memory of
Will Kaplan
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H. Katz
Ms. Emily Klebanoff
Jordan Klinefelter
The Estate of Kenneth D. Kopple
Gabriele W. Lee
Mr. and Mrs. H.F. (Gerry)* Lenfest
Nina Martino
Anne Elizabeth McCollum
Daniel D. Miller Jr.
Ellen Cole Miller*
Mr. Donald S. Owings
Ms. Sally S. Richards
Raymond D. Rubens* and Estelle Rubens*
Dr. and Mrs. Erwin M. Saniga
Barbara L. Sosson
Robert H. Sweet, In Memory of Janet V.
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Officers
Kevin F. Donohoe, Chair
Herbert S. Riband, Jr., Esq., Vice Chair
Thomas N. Pappas, Vice Chair
James C. Biddle, Vice Chair
Anne E. McCollum, Assistant Treasurer
Susan M. Hendrickson, Secretary
Joseph D. Culley, Jr., Treasurer
Trustees
James Alexandre
Roger H. Ballou, National Trustee
Reginald M. Browne, National Trustee
Walter W. Buckley, III
Donald R. Caldwell, Chair Emeritus
Valentino D. Carlotti, National Trustee
Charles E. Chase
Elliot H. Clark
Jonathan L. Cohen, National Trustee
Mark A. Douglas
Monica Duvall DiLella, M.D.
Robert I. Friedman, Esq.
Pia Halloran
William P. Hankowsky
Charles H. Harper, National Trustee
Edward T. Harvey
John M. Horseman, National Trustee
Dorothy Mather Ix
Ro King, National Trustee
Robert E. Kohler, Ph.D.
Jannie K. Lau
Marguerite Lenfest
Francis J. Leto
Sara Lomax-Reese
Winston I. Lowe, Esq.
Brett Matteo
J. Brien Murphy, M.D.
Eric W. Noll
James E. O’Neill, Esq.
Gretchen E. Roede
Theodore O. Rogers, Jr., Esq.,
National Trustee
William H. Schorling, Esq.
Jay H. Shah
Arlen Shenkman
June Marshall Smith, President of the
Women’s Board
Richard W. Snowden
Richard W. Vague
Kenneth R. Woodcock, National Trustee
Ex Officio
David R. Brigham, Ph. D., President & CEO
Gregory J. Fox, Chair of the Board,
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Kelly R. Lee, Director of Office of Arts, Culture
and the Creative Economy
Didier William, Faculty Representative
David Campbell Wilson, President of Alumni
Association
Emeritus
John B. Bartlett
Thomas L. Bennett
Robert L. Byers, Sr.
Charles E. Mather, III
Samuel J. Savitz
William A. Slaughter, Esq.
Henry B. du P. Smith
Harold A. Sorgenti
Richard E. Woosnam
Debora C. Zug
Honorary
Frances M. Maguire
Women’s Board
Active Members
Linda Aversa-Caldwell
Georgeann M. Ballou
Kathie Bell
Christine H. Berrettini
Margaret Biddle
Diana H. Bittel
Julie Jensen Bryan
Amanda Burden M.D.
Kelly Lawson Culley
Ms. Marianne Dean
Julia B. DeMoss
Ms. Pamela Felice
Sharla Floyd
Ms. Ashlee Fuglio
Roz Gibbons
Gale Gillespie
Pia M.E. Halloran
Mrs. Johanna S. Hambrose
Mrs. Rosemary Hankowsky
Melissa K. Ingersoll
Dorothy Mather Ix
Connie Kay
Ms. Caryn Kunkle
Lynn Lehocky
Sandra G. Marshall
Mary MacGregor Mather
Ashley Stewardson McGuinness
Ms. Nicole McLaughlin
Mrs. Sandra Mezzanotte
Maggie Malone Murphy
Carolyn Nagy
Sandra L. Nesbitt
Lisa O’Connell
Mrs. Janice Peck
Carmen Navarro Pelaez
Ms. Camille Peluso
Mrs. Ashwini Reddi
Ms. Katie Rhodes
Donna Marie Salvo
Mrs. Rebecca R. Segall
June Marshall Smith
Mimi Snyder
Alicia A. Sterling
Janis O’Connor Strimel
Kathryn Quinn Wright
Associate Members
Carol Blank Barsh
Ana B. Biddle
Rhea Brooks
Kathleen M. Cannon
Mrs. Brice M. Clagett
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Mrs. Patricia Q. Connolly
Lalla de Rham
Stacy W. Fiechter
Bobette Leidner Fisk
Geraldine Dietz Fox
Laura H. Gardiner
Susan Eaton Guill
Penny M. Hunt
Patricia P. Kermes
Carrie Lawlor
Bobette R. Leidner
Maxine Lewis
Anne E. McCollum
Kathleen D. McCoy
Laura Morris
Karyn A. Mullen
Ms. Susan B. Muller
Mrs. Harry R. Neilson, Jr.
Nancy Shaw Palmer
Mrs. Edwin S. Sheffield
Meredith S.S. Smith
Sara Steele
Clare Stuempfig
Susan W. West
Mrs. Allan Windt
Docents
Beverley Anderson
Bruce Anderson
Penny Bernick
Maxine Brodo
Louise Christopher
Gwen Douse
Dona Duncan
Sheila Ellman
Fradele Feld
Karen Gelfand
Harriet Goodwin
Sharline Heller
Elaine Jaffe
Joan Jeruchim
Joyce Krain
Marita Krivda
Florence Lovitz
Shirlee Maglietta
Jane Mason
Naida Mosenkis
Stephanie Nerges
Joan Quann
Ruth Rothman
Renee Saul
Jo Ann Simon
Jane Slater
Deanna Skalka
Danièle Thomas-Easton
Patricia Zolfaghari
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Jessica Abel
Emily Abendroth
Kassem Amoudi
Colleen Asper
Jan Baltzell
Yevgeniya Baras
Dolores Bartholomew
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Blair Baskin
Sarah Beetham
Mark Blavat
Astrid Bowlby
Elizabeth Brockman
Sharon Butler
Mariel Capanna
Denise Carbone
Jonathan Chase
Roger Chavez
Caitlin Cherry
Lesa Chittenden Lim
Anthony Ciambella
David Cohen
Diane Collins
Patrick Connors
Thomas Csaszar
Matthew Deleget
David Dempewolf
Steven Dufala
William Dufala
Morgan Dummitt
Dona Duncan-Wolfe
Pavel Efremoff
Chelsey Eiel
Renee Foulks
Lawrence Francis
Chie Fueki
Michael Gallagher
Michael Gibbons
Linda Gist
Alexis Granwell
Neysa Grassi
Albert Gury
Sherif Habashi
Elizabeth Hauser
Sarah Henry
Daniel Heyman
John Horn
Erik Horvitz
Darla Jackson
Alex Kanevsky
Titus Kaphar
Frederic Kaplan
Kenneth Kewley
Sharon Koelblinger
Joshua Koffman
Phyllis Laver
Kalup Linzy
Matthew Madden
Douglas Martenson
Virgil Marti
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Jennifer McTague
Troy Michie
Daniel Miller
Michael Moore
Kate Moran
Charles Muldowney
Eileen Neff
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William Noel
Ernest Norcia
Colleen O’Donnell
Michelle Oosterbaan
Roberto Osti
Sandra Perry
Sarah Peters
Jody Pinto
Carolyn Pyfrom
Rosae Reeder
Stephanie Reyer
Kevin Richards
Robert Roesch
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Jill Rupinski
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William Scott
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Denise Amaker
Brooke Anderson
Tabitha Arnold
Alma Barrantes
Shalon Baylis
Laura Beard
Keith Beekler
Michele Besso
Marita Blackney
Tara Blasser
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Amani Bright
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Hubert Cook
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Mostafa Darwish
Alexandria Datts
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Kamili Feelings
Celeste Franklin
James Gaddy
Stefan Garvin
Helen Gassmann
Janyce Glasper
Gillian Golson
Nora Granahan
Kayla Gray
Jimmie Lee Greeno
John Greig
Elizabeth Guerrero
Elizabeth Hamilton
Lisa Hamilton
Daniel Harbison
Benjamin Henderson
Richard Henderson
Melissa Hendrixson
Matthew Herzog
Morgan Hobbs
Mario Alex Ibanez
Patricia Ingersoll
Rebecca Jacob
Jennifer Johns
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Tie Jojima
Sam Jones
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Clint Jukkala
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Megan Kelly
Sheryl Ann Kessler
Abigail King
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P Michael Kowbuz
Mari Elaine Lamp
Erica Land
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Marylynn Mack
Cecily Macy
Zane Magnuson
Emily Mair
Marie Manski
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Anna Marley
Kevin Martin
Gregory Martino
Anthony Martolock
LeAnne Matlach
Kathryn McCammon
Megan McCarthy
Elizabeth McDermott
Laurel McLaughlin
Mary Mcginn
Rachel Means
Peter Medwick
Juliette Meyers
Joseph Miceli
Alicia Mino-Gonzalez
Samantha Dylan Mitchell
Dana Moore
Kelli Morgan
Lindsey Murphy
Kristina Murray
Theresa Murtha
Emily Owens
Lawrence Passmore
Kathryn Petrillo
Colleen Pickup
Edward Poletti
Kaitlin Pomerantz
Sonia Prescott
Alma Radocaj
Heike Rass
Gale Rawson
Victoria Rivers
Jenna Robinson
Ellen Robley
Diego Rodriguez Carrion
Diani Safdeye
Catherine Samson
Aki Sare
Tad Sare
Samuel Schetina
Maria Sciarrino
Dana Shafer
Cheryl Shugars
Darryl Smith
Dressler Smith
Emmitt Smith
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Timothy Stapleton
Anne Stassen
Susan Sullivan
Allison Syvertsen
Laura Thistle
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Judith Martin Thomas
Jodi Throckmorton
Alexander Till
Ysanel Torres
Hoang Tran
Peter Tran
Lois Turner
Britta Valles
Lucas Van Meter
Natalia Vieyra
Kathleen Virdone
Samuel Wagner
Laura Warnecke
Brittany Webb
Megan Webb
Sarah Weidenauer
Kawyne Williams
Leo Wong
Margaret Wood
Kathryn Young
Monica Zimmerman
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ANNUAL
REPORT
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PRESIDENT’S LETTER
The current year was a time of tremendous growth and
excitement at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(PAFA). Our Campus Master Plan was propelled by one of the
largest gifts in the institution’s history: over 300 sculptures
and $5 million from the estate of John and Richanda Rhoden.
This tremendous gift has resulted in three important
initiatives:
• PAFA hired Dr. Brittany Webb as the Curator of the John
Rhoden Collection to research this important but
under-recognized sculptor’s achievements, publish a
book about his career, organize and present an exhibition
about Rhoden, and distribute his sculptures to museums
around the United States.
• We completed funding for the 25,000 square-foot
renovations of the Lower Level that will result in the
creation of the John and Richanda Rhoden Arts Center,
the Anne Bryan Art Gallery, and an art storage vault
to house PAFA’s rapidly growing Post World War II and
Contemporary Art collections. Construction for this
project began on November 30, 2017.
• This gift also established a new endowed four-year,
full-tuition scholarship in recognition of John and
Richanda Rhoden to enable an outstanding student of
color to pursue their education at PAFA.
PAFA was also excited to welcome the Brodsky Center, an
innovative printmaking center founded at Rutgers University
in 1986. In its first thirty-two years, the Brodsky Center
produced over 300 editions, including prints, artist books, and
handmade paper objects. The roster of artists with whom they
collaborated is a Who’s Who of contemporary American art,
with special strength in including women and artists of color,
including PAFA alumnus Barkley Hendricks, Kiki Smith, Faith
Ringgold, Melvin Edwards, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Byron
Kim, Lynda Benglis, Richard Tuttle, and many other artists.
The Brodsky Center will continue to engage living artists and
invite them PAFA to produce new work in small editions that
will be sold to collectors and museums, here and abroad. In
the process, PAFA students will increase their knowledge of
printmaking, paper making, and artist book production. They
will also learn about the business of producing and selling art
in editions through internships and participation in art fairs in
New York, Miami, and other cities.
While these exciting developments occurred, we continued
the core work of PAFA: educating nearly 300 students in
degree programs and 1,700 continuing education students,
welcoming more than 220,000 visitors to the Museum,
providing art educational programs for more than 30,000
children, families, and adults, presenting 18 exhibitions of
historical and contemporary art, and adding nearly 500 works
to the permanent collection through gift and purchase.
We appreciate the generous support we receive from our
patrons and the dedication of our Board of Trustees, faculty,
staff, volunteers, and peer institutions. We look forward to
continuing to work with you in the coming year to activate the
transformative power of art and art making.
David R. Brigham
President and CEO
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Museum Director
Brooke Davis Anderson,
Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum
We were elated to begin the year steeped in the unreal and the
unexplored, with the the first critical reassessment, Subversion
and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer, which was on
view in the summer of 2017, in our Fisher Brooks Gallery. We
closed the year with a celebration of our founder, the artist
Benjamin West, organized by our CEO and President David
Brigham. First Academies: Benjamin West and the Founding
of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts was installed in our Historic Landmark Building
from March 2, 2018 to June 3, 2018. This project investigated
the role of Benjamin West in the founding of arts academies in
England and the United States.
Our 18 art exhibitions this year were tinged with politics
and political discourse sometimes unexpectedly, as with
Chuck Close Photographs from October 6, 2017 to April 8,
2018 in our Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton
Building. Exploring how one of the most important figures
in contemporary art has stretched the boundaries of
photographic means, methods, and approaches, we were
hosting this project when the artist was accused of sexual
misconduct. PAFA responded to these allegations by putting
together an interactive show, entiltled The Art World We
Want, featuring works from PAFA’s permanent collection that
catalyzed conversations about power, gender, visibility, and
voice, alongside a series of interactive programming on these
issues. It was received well by the press and public alike, and
opened up an important and vital dialogue between the school
and the museum which continues today. It reinforced that
museums can be a space for civil discourse and community
engagement.
The permanent collection grew significantly, with nearly
500 artworks added, through gifts and acquisition. The rare
opportunity to acquire one of Frederic Edwin Church’s
paintings allowed PAFA to gain an important historic work
central to the institution’s mission to collect and preserve
American Art. Church is arguably one of the artists most
integral to the history of American art and this is the first work
by Church (1826–1900) to enter the Museum’s permanent
collection. Entitled Valley of Santa Isabel, New Granada,
painted in 1875, it will be featured in our Summer of 2019
landscape exhibition. Most of the new artworks herald from
the twenty-first century and PAFA is excited to announce
the purchase of a mixed media sculpture by Chicago-based
artist Nick Cave that glorifies found ceramic dogs on thrones
of discarded flea-market objects. PAFA continues to build a
permanent collection devoted to the American experience, and
we remain particularly interested in women artists and artists
of color, so we are utilizing our resources to tell an expansive
story, one that can include many communities, about the art of
America.
To implement our many projects, we mentored many young
students through fellowships and internships. We also
partnered with several institutions in Philadelphia and
beyond. One partnership of note was with Monument Lab, a
nine-week citywide public art and history project co-produced
by Mural Arts Philadelphia and curators Paul Farber, Ken Lum,
and A. Will Brown. The exhibition took place in the city’s five
original William Penn squares as well as five neighborhood
parks throughout Philadelphia and featured a roster of 20
artists. PAFA served as the information hub for the project.
All the proposals for Philadelphia monuments of the future–
generated around the city during the project–were scanned
and exhibited, culminating in a new museum of ideas and
creative data, built by and for the people.
Our exhibition program, publications, public programming
along with our collection building have all made for a very
exciting year at PAFA. We look forward to continuing our
exciting projects and sharing all of them with all of you in the
future!
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Collections & Acquisitions
The Museum acquired 269 objects this year, including the
American artist Frederic Edwin Church’s masterful oil
painting, Valley of Santa Isabel, New Granada, 1875. Church
is arguably one of the artists most integral to the history of
American art and this will be the first work by Church
(1826–1900) to enter the Museum’s permanent collection.
Acquisitions include:
Dawoud Bey—2018 MacArthur Fellow
We acquired three photos. The following is a description of
Mathes Manafee and Cassandra Griffin (from The Birmingham
Project):
In 1964, Bey’s parents brought home a copy of Lorraine
Hansberry’s book The Movement, copiously illustrated with
photos of the Civil Rights Movement. Bey was indelibly
marked by a photo of a young black girl lying in a hospital bed
with her eyes bandaged. This was Sarah Collins, wounded
in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in
Birmingham, Alabama. Her sister Addie Mae Collins was one
of four girls killed in the dynamiting, and two boys were killed
in the violence that followed. In the mid 2000s Bey awoke
one morning with the photo of Sarah Collins rushing back to
his mind. He resolved to go to Birmingham, partnered with
the Birmingham Museum of Art, and arranged to show any
resulting work there.
For over seven years Bey researched the city of Birmingham,
its communities, and the history of the bombing. He ultimately
produced photos of present-day young people who were the
same ages as the children killed in the bombing, and along
with them photographs of adults who were the ages that these
children would have been had they not been killed. He then
paired these photos into diptychs, representing the 50 years
since the bombing. The almost continuous space between
the paired images suggests a connection across this expanse
of time, but the division between them evokes the tragedy
of lives cut short. Some of the adults Bey photographed had
even known the children who were killed, or had heard the
explosion. For these black adults, seeing their own portraits
hanging in the Birmingham Art Museum represented a
once-unimaginable experience, as the institution had been
segregated in the ‘60s. In this particular diptych, the young
Mathes Manafee appears energetic, alert, and even restless,
while the older Cassandra Griffin seems calmer, but resolute
and knowing. Bey’s work effectively memorializes the loss of
children whose lives were cut short before they could occupy
these states of being, and everything else in between.
Mequitta Ahuja —recent Guggenheim fellow
A Real Allegory of Her Studio is part of Ahuja’s broader recent
series titled “Performing Painting.” In these works, Ahuja
delves into the nature of the figurative tradition in painting,
which she describes as “the unseen made visible through a
meaningful fiction”—unseen because it reveals something
seen in the past, in private, and/or in the mind of an artist, and
fictional because it relies on centuries-long developments
of conventions, motifs, and techniques. Ahuja hopes to lay
these features bare by simplifying forms to basic shapes
and primary colors, and drawing attention to hand gestures,
one-point perspective, pyramid compositions, and other
common painterly tools of expression and organization. While
continuing to work in the mode of self-portraiture, Ahuja
intends to allow issues of personal identity to recede, and to
bring a sense of engagement across vast historical scales to the
fore.
Ebony G. Patterson
In her own words, Patterson’s work
“…Raises larger questions about beauty, gender ideals and
constructs of masculinity within so called ‘popular black’
culture. It examines the similarities and differences between
‘camp aesthetics’—the use of feminine gendered adornment—
in the construct of the urban masculine within popular
culture. This body of work raises questions about body
politics, performance of gender, gender and beauty, beauty and
stereotyping, race and beauty, and body and ritual.”
Dawoud Bey, Mathes Manafee and Cassandra Griffin (from The Birmingham project),
2012/2014 Archival pigment prints mounted on dibond, ed. 4/6, 40 x 64 in., Museum
Purchase, 2017.48.1a&b © Dawoud Bey
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This challenging installation work is perhaps the most
ambitious in Patterson’s oeuvre and stands as both a type of
contemporary memorial and an aesthetic engagement with
immersive installational forms.
Rina Banerjee, Viola, from New Orleans-ah
Rina Banerjee has been making work since the early 1990s
after having attended the Yale School of Art for painting
and drawing. Working from drawings that she refers to as
paintings, she constructs fantastical sculptures and largescale installations that query the notion of a singular identity,
advocating for a pluralistic and dispersed understanding of
identity. Banerjee draws from her migratory experience in her
works, claiming to belong to both America and India at once.
In this sculpture Viola, from New Orleans-ah, 2017, Banerjee
references the site of New Orleans in her conception of the
project, also the site of Prospect.4. She recalls the history
of a lost diaspora of Bengalis from Calcutta and Bengal
called the “Bengali peddlers” or the “Hoogali network.” With
notably darker skin, these migrants were often documented
as “mulattos” or African Americans. Through this work,
Banerjee’s work highlights the kinship between African
American and Asian American migratory communities in
the “modern south” of New Orleans. The work references a
specific person within this history, Viola Ida Lewis, an African
American woman who married Joseph Abdin, of Indian
descent. Their marriage was documented as a “Hindoo”
marrying a “Negro” and their children were classified as
African American.
In her sculpture, Banerjee materially references a monstrous
form using an armature, an African mask, shells, and lights.
The sculpture combines numerous materials, in keeping
with Banerjee’s practice, and articulates a combination of the
beautiful and sinister, challenging perceptions concerning
cultural hybridity.
Paulson Fontaine Press acquisition of 129 prints by 15
African American artists
PAFA is now the east coast repository for all of the Press’
prints by African American artists; a relationship that will
continue in the years to come. This collection of prints represents some of the most important artists working today.
The Paulson Fontaine Press is one of the most experimental
presses and that is evident in the quality of the 129 prints we
acquired. Featured artists include Radcliffe Bailey, McArthur
Binion, Kerry James Marshall, and Gary Simmons, among
others.
May Howard Jackson, Morris Heights, N.Y. City
This is the first work by Jackson, a PAFA alum, to enter the
collection. She was the first African American woman to
receive a scholarship to study at PAFA.
Frederic Edwin Church, Valley of Santa Ysabel, New Granada (detail), 1875, Oil on canvas, 39
1/4 x 60 in. 2018.10
Frederick Church, Valley of Santa Ysabel, New Granada
This is the first painting by Church, and the most significant
Hudson River School painting, to enter PAFA’s collection.
Antiques and the Fine Arts recently featured it as one of the
most significant museum acquisitions of 2018.
Laura Combs Hills, Purple Irises
This is the first work by Laura Combs Hills, a pioneering
pastel artist of the early to mid 20th century to enter PAFA’s
collection, despite her lifelong exhibition record at PAFA’s
annual exhibitions.
Walker Hancock (sculpture)
Walker Hancock was a Monuments Man during WWII and
chair of PAFA’s sculpture department for many years. This is
a scale maquette for his iconic WWII memorial in 30th street
station.
Violet Oakley, Shirley Lewis Gerald
This personal drawing was a wedding gift from Oakley to her
housekeeper’s daughter, a portrait of her on her wedding day. It
shows off Oakley’s great skill as a draftswoman and sensitivity
as portraitist.
Mary Cassatt, Looking into the Hand Mirror #3
This is the first etching by Mary Cassatt to enter PAFA’s
collection, and is a charming print depicting one of Cassatt’s
most beloved subjects, the bond between mother and child.
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Loans Spotlight
Collected/Selected Loans from PAFA
Collected/Selected Loans to PAFA
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, In the Wash House
Cecilia Beaux, Les derniers jours d’enfance
Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900, Organized by the
American Federation of the Arts: Denver Art Museum,
October 22, 2017–January 14, 2018;
Speed Art Museum, February 7, 2018 –May 13, 2018;
Clark Art Institute, June 8, 2018–September 3, 2018
Honoré Sharrer, Workers and Paintings, Museum of Modern
Art, NY. Exhibition: Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of
Honoré Sharrer, June 29–September 3, 2017
John Neagle, Pat Lyon at the Forge
The Sweat of Their Faces: Portraying American Workers,
National Portrait Gallery, November 3, 2018–
September 3, 2018
Horace Pippin, John Brown Going to His Hanging
Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art,
October 1, 2017–February 25, 2018; High Museum of Art,
June 24, 2018–September 30, 2018; Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, November 18, 2018–March 18, 2019
Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, Parrish Museum of Art, NY
Exhibition: Chuck Close Photographs, October 6, 2017–
April 8, 2018
Nick Cave, Rescue series, Jack Shaiman Gallery, NY.
Exhibition: Nick Cave: Rescue, December 22, 2017–
May 13, 2018
Benjamin West, The Blind Belisarius, Philadelphia Museum
of Art, PA. Exhibition: First Academies: Benjamin West and the
Founding of the Royal Academy and PAFA, March 2–
June 3, 2018
Howardena Pindell, Art/East
Howardena Pindell, Pindell/DNA
Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen, Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, February 24, 2018–May 20, 2018;
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, August 25, 2018–November 25,
2018; Rose Art Museum, January 24, 2019–June 16, 2019
Barbara Takenaga, Gold + Red
Barbara Takenaga, Williams College Museum of Art,
October 5, 2018–February 18, 2018
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (Athenaeum-type portrait)
Hugh A. Cannon, Henry Clay
Erastus Dow Palmer, Spring
N. C. Wyeth, Deep Cove Lobster Man
Daniel Garber, Lowry’s Hill
Raymond Saunders, Chambre
Jervis McEntee, Ruins of Caesar’s Palace
Cecilia Beaux, Portraits in Summer
Sarah McEneaney, Winter Wildlife
Nina Chanel Abney, Potato, Potata
Art in Embassies Program, American Embassy in Rome,
May 1, 2018–December 31, 2020
Nick Cave, Rescue, 2012, Mixed media, 84 x 53 x 45 in., Jack Shainman Gallery, #NC12.024
© Nick Cave. Photo by James Prinz Photography. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman
Gallery, New York.
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Exhibitions
Emily Sartain after Enoch Wood Perry, (1841-1927) Welcome News, 1888, Etching on chine colle on cream wove paper, 20 x 29 1/ 4 in.
Source unknown
Subversion and Surrealism
in the Art of Honoré Sharrer
Graphic Women
The first critical reassessment of an artist whose rich and
often disquieting critique is equal parts wit, seduction, and
bite.
This exhibition focused on the growth of professional women
artists in Philadelphia between 1880 and the early 20th
century.
A Collaborative Language: Selections from
the Experimental Printmaking Institute
Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms
June 29–September 3, 2017
Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
August 12–November 5, 2017
Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery
Historic Landmark Building
Celebrating the 20-year history of the Experimental
Printmaking Institute (EPI) at Lafayette College.
Monument Lab
September 14–December 10, 2017
Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
Mural Arts’ citywide public art and history project featuring
22 artists, with PAFA as its orientation and information hub.
November 16, 2017–February 18, 2018
Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery
Historic Landmark Building
September 15, 2017–March 18, 2018
Modern Galleries, Historic Landmark Building
This exhibition explored the subversions and potentialities
of feminine forms through works by women artists.
Material World
February 23–April 1, 2018
Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery
Historic Landmark Building
An exhibition of mixed media works by PAFA’s current
graduate and undergraduate students who were given the
prompt to submit mixed media works on paper.
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Chuck Close, Bill T. Jones, 2008, Black-and- white Polaroid diptych mounted on aluminum, Two panels, 33-1/8 x 21-7/8 each, Courtesy of the artist and Pace/MacGill
Gallery, New York
Chuck Close Photographs
October 6, 2017–April 8, 2018
Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Exploring how one of the most important figures in
contemporary art has stretched the boundaries of
photographic means, methods, and approaches.
Nick Cave: Rescue
December 22, 2017–May 13, 2018
Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
Exploring challenging questions on the forging of power
through symbolism.
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First Academies: Benjamin West and the
Founding of the Royal Academy of Arts and the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
March 2–June 3, 2018
Historic Landmark Building
Investigating the role of Benjamin West in the founding of arts
academies in England and the United States.
I’ve Always Worked Hard
March 15–June 20, 2018
Historic Landmark Building
Curated by PAFA’s Youth Council.
Exhibitions: Alumni Gallery
The Alumni Gallery management shifted into the hands of the School Exhibitions Committee and school staff members.
The committee focused on exhibitions highlighting PAFA’s histories and lineages, engaging museum resources, experimenting
with new media exhibitions and integrating student-focused programming within each exhibition.
Zorawar Sidhu: Eakins in Perspective
December 1, 2017–January 7, 2018
Alumni Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
Featuring drawings by Thomas Eakins (Student 1862-1862;
Instructor 1876-1880; Director of the School 1880-1886), this
exhibition examines systems of drawing in the academic
tradition and at present.
Drift: Paintings about One Thing and Another
February 16–March 16, 2018
Alumni Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
The works of six PAFA Alumni (1979–2017)–Philippa
Beardsley, Ryan Busch, Mariel Capanna, Jonathan Lyndon
Chase, Sarah McEneaney and Joseph Rha fit comfortably
into an imaginative yet simplified figuration seen frequently
at PAFA, inspired in part by the influence of Hobson Pittman
(PAFA Faculty 1949–72).
Ghost in the Machine:
Video in the Realm of Objects
April 20–July 1, 2018
Alumni Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
Moving images and paintings by PAFA alumni David
Dempewolf, Alexandria Douziech, Tyler Kline, and
Ashley Wick.
James Havard: Talking in Color
April 6–May 27, 2018
Richard C. Von Hess Works on Paper Gallery,
Historic Landmark Building
Figurative works incorporating realism, trompe l’œil, and
more.
Emily Erb: American Love Story
February 6–April 9, 2018
School of Fine Arts Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
PAFA’s second alumni to receive the Leonore Annenberg
Fellowship Foundation Grant.
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Exhibitions: Student/Faculty
On-Campus Student Exhibitions
Presence
August 9–September 9, 2017
Tuttleman and School of Fine Arts galleries,
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
The first annual thesis exhibition of PAFA’s Low-Residency
MFA program
Material World
February 23–April 1, 2018
Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery,
Historic Landmark Building
An exhibition of mixed media works by PAFA’s current
graduate and undergraduate students who were given the
prompt to submit mixed media works on paper.
Lorena Sferlazza: Within the Walls
Two Cents, Some Change
June 19–July 10, 2018
School of Fine Arts Gallery,
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Seventeen, first year MFAs in exhibition, curated by two
alumni, Sophie Brenneman and Emmitt Smith
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Broad Street Studio
Approximately 50 people engaged this space with a
combination of individual student, faculty/class, and
collaborative projects.
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Graham Preston–Presence
Dave Pettengill–Automat collaboration
Jodi Pinto–collaborative socially engaged projects, with
lecture programming to support student learning
Melissa Joseph performance
Rod Jones installation
David Dempewolf’s avant garde video classes presented
final projects in the spring projected onto the plaza
Alexis Granwell
Student Led Work
In addition to gallery spaces, ongoing elevator lobby
exhibitions, and exhibitions in the Cohen Board Room were
organized by studio floor leaders for the first time.
Seymour Remenick (1923-1999, PAFA Student: 1948 –1949; Faculty: 1977 –1996), Artist’s Studio with Still Life and Easel, 1957, Oil on
canvas, 28 x 36 in., 2002.9.16, Gift of Benjamin D. Bernstein and Robin J. Bernstein. PAFA
Off-Campus Student Exhibitions
PAFA NOW
NoBA Artspace
curated by PAFA alum Jay Walker
Warming
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (SCHA)
curated by a partnership between SCHA and PAFA
Faculty Organized Exhibitions
The Loaded Brush: The Oil Sketch and the
Philadelphia School of Painting
October 5, 2017–February 4, 2018
School of Fine Arts Gallery,
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
The exhibition demonstrates the depth and breadth of the
legacy of oil sketching. Included were a number of rarely-seen
artworks from the 19th century to the present, featuring diverse talents and styles depicting a variety of subject matter.
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SCHOOL
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Dean of the School of Fine Arts
Clint Jukkala
2017-18 was an exciting year in the school and it kicked off
with a commencement for the inaugural class of MFA students
in PAFA’s new Low-Residency program. The August ceremony
was held in the museum’s Historic Landmark Building (HLB)
with Brooke Davis Anderson, the newly appointed Museum
Director, giving the commencement address. The day was
capped off with an opening reception for the graduates’
thesis exhibition in the Hamilton Building. After much
planning, it was rewarding to see the program’s success, and
the high quality of student work, particularly for the faculty
instrumental in starting the program, including Astrid
Bowlby (MFA 96’) and Kevin Richards, the current head of the
program.
Shortly after celebrating the graduation of one class, we
welcomed the next, with a September convocation in the
HLB. A first of its kind, the convocation paired groups of
new students with teams of faculty and museum staff. The
groups spanned out across the museum to share observations
and discuss work on view in the collection, and the students
were given an introduction to the amazing school/museum
partnership that PAFA offers.
The academic year brought innovative changes to PAFA’s
first-year undergraduate curriculum. The new curriculum,
designed by faculty, continued PAFA’s strong emphasis on
drawing, working from observation, and learning from the
figure, and did so through thematic courses that helped
students connect the dots between disciplines. In addition
to a focus on traditional artmaking skills, the new curriculum
included an introduction to digital media, and courses in
writing and art history. Upper level courses were also added,
including a new Illustration course in digital print and web
design, and the school’s first undergraduate video course.
Another school/museum collaboration came in the spring,
when Monica Zimmerman, Director of Museum Education,
led a response to the museum’s Chuck Close exhibition and the
accompanying allegations of sexual misconduct by the artist.
The initiative titled, The Art World We Want, brought students,
faculty, and museum staff together to examine the inequities
that exist in the art world currently, and to imagine how we
would like things to be. The project included an installation of
permanent collection artwork from underrepresented artists,
a timeline that mapped how we get from where we are to
where we want to be, and an illustrated graphic with students’
thoughts about what needs to improve in the realm of the
classroom, the studio, the museum, and the art world at large.
A major achievement of the year was PAFA’s reaccreditation
with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education
(MSCHE). In the fall PAFA submitted its self-study to the
Commission. The MSCHE visiting team arrived for a campus
visit in the spring, and met with everyone from students
and faculty to staff and board members. The visiting team
commended PAFA on its many accomplishments and was
especially impressed with the quality of the student work. In
June, PAFA received its official reaccreditation from Middle
States. The self-study and visit were campus-wide efforts,
and demonstrated the collaboration and dedication to student
learning present at PAFA.
The spring ushered in another remarkable Annual Student
Exhibition, and artist Nick Cave joined PAFA as the 2018
commencement speaker. Cave treated students to a Q&A style
address in which students were invited to ask the artist about
his work, his experiences when he was an up and coming artist,
and get his advice on what steps to take after graduation. It was
a fitting end to the school year and a wonderful beginning for
PAFA’s next outstanding class of alumni.
2017-18 ENROLLMENT SNAPSHOT
Total Full-time Part-time
Certificate
PAFA/Penn BFA
Academy BFA
Post-Baccalaureate
MFA
Lo-Res MFA
56
8
124
7
65
9
54
7
121
7
65
9
2
1
3
0
0
0
Total
269
263
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Student Life
With an increase of 30% more students living in PAFAaffiliated housing at Stiles Hall, the student services offices
were kept busy planning First Friday Coffee Hours, movie
nights, Visiting Artists, artist demonstrations, and the annual
bonfire hayride. The students had a full year, including trips
to NYC, Washington DC, and Dia Beacon/Storm King. There
were new mindfulness approaches to our student wellness
initiatives, including meditation, yoga, journaling, goal setting,
and time management. The annual Open Studio Night in
February attracted nearly 1000 visitors following upon the
success of the Annual Print Sale in December, which attracted
just as many visitors.
A new Student Exhibitions Committee was particularly active
in planning student exhibitions throughout a range of spaces
while the dedicated student gallery was being renovated on the
Lower Level of the Samuel M.V. Hamilton building.
Community service efforts led to a very successful winter
coat drive.
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Special Interactive Event
The Art World We Want
February 13–April 8, 2018
Frances M. Maguire Gallery, Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building
In December, concurrent with PAFA’s exhibition Chuck
Close Photographs, several women came forward to accuse
the artist of sexual misconduct in his studio.
These accusations come at a moment of cultural reckoning
that is allowing women to speak openly and honestly about
their experiences with harassment and trauma. The accusations against one artist remind each of us that the problems
of abusive power are as endemic in the art world as they are
in other sectors.
discussion, PAFA decided that the Chuck Close Photographs
exhibition would stay on view while the adjacent space was
reinstalled with a selection of works from the museum’s
permanent collection that questioned power, gender,
race, sexuality and access. The exhibition, organized in
collaboration with students and faculty, invited the public’s
response, offering a collective vision for where museums
and art schools need to go as a creative community to bring a
more equitable, diverse and accessible art world into being.
PAFA organized a town hall with Dean Clint Jukkala
and Museum Director Brooke Davis Anderson to open
such dialogue in the PAFA community. As a result of this
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Career Services
Workshops
Career Services offered 24 workshops for students, which
drew 582 attendees. Workshops included The Resume vs
CV, Internships, The Art of Self Observation, Applying
to Grad School, and The Gig Economy & Artists. Author
Sharon Louden came to discuss her new book, The Artist as
Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. This
program featured PAFA faculty Steven and Billy Dufala, who
were profiled in the book. Experts were brought in for Art
Law and Budgeting & Taxes. Collaborations were forged with
museum staff and PAFA faculty: curator Jodi Throckmorton
presented on Studio Visits, conservator Mary McGinn
offered Pest Management Issues in Studios, Galleries and
Museums, Al Gury delivered a workshop on teaching, and
school exhibitions coordinator Brian Boutwell helped
students prepare for the Annual Student Exhibition with a
series of practical workshops. Morgan Hobbs teamed with
representatives from the Women’s Board for a well-attended
session on how to succeed during the ASE Preview party.
Individual appointments
Career Services helps students and alumni develop the
cultural capital to launch their professional careers and to
support the acquisition of tools and habits, which enable
them to continue their art-making practices. In addition, we
supported work in career exploration and career transitions.
120 students and alumni came in for appointments, many of
them for multiple visits.
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Internships
Twenty four students completed internships, working as
artist’s assistants, at Taller Puertorriqueno, the Barnes
Foundation, Magee Rehabilitation, the Delaware Art
Museum and the homeless support organization, SREHUP.
PAFA graduate students were able to obtain paid internship
positions with the After-School Studio Arts Program for High
School Students and undergraduate students were able to
work as teaching assistants in the program. Career Services
worked with archivist Hoang Tran to develop an internship
program in the museum archive.
The FMC/PAFA student curator internship
This offered a paid internship opportunity for a student
to curate the walls of the FMC corporate headquarters
in Philadelphia. In addition to selecting work, planning
exhibitions and overseeing installation, the student curator
helped organize talks and events for FMC employees and their
guests.
Student Grants
The Fine Arts Venture Fund
This fund raised $33,500, the highest total in the five year
history of the program with 52 applicants, a historic high.
$31,259 was distributed to fifteen awardees, for an average
of $2084 to help students realize ambitious projects and
purchase needed equipment and supplies. A committee of
friends of PAFA has developed the Fine Art Venture Fund,
which awards, on a competitive basis, grants-in-aid to
current PAFA students in the BFA, Certificate, and Graduate
programs. The purpose of the fund is to encourage a spirit of
creative arts entrepreneurship and the acquisition of practical
business skills that will help PAFA students build successful
careers as professional artists. Fundable plans might be for
the purchase of materials, supplies, labor, construction and
installation costs related to exhibitions, creation of large
scale works for exhibition, publicity or presentation costs,
transportation expenses or similar expenses related to the
professional creation and exhibition of an artist’s work.
The Anne Bryan Memorial Award
This award assists artists who are ready to launch into the real
world, and who need some support to help them realize their
dreams. Success as an artist not only requires technical ability
but also great imagination, persistence, and entrepreneurship.
Students who receive funds through this program will connect
with resources in marketing, business development, law,
budgeting and creative incubation. Aubrey Brown was the
recipient of The Anne Bryan Memorial Award, and he received
$5000. In its fourth year, the program attracted thirteen
applicants, and each student met with the Director of Career
Services, drafted a proposal, and developed a budget; three
finalists presented their proposals to a panel of faculty and
staff.
Si Friedman Scholarship Fund
The Si Friedman Scholarship Fund, endowed in the PAFA
alum’s memory by his wife Margaret Schuette, was newly established in October 2017. The fund provides assistance to one
new student per year based on merit, or a returning student
having difficulty continuing his or her studies due to financial challenges. The inaugural Si Friedman Scholarship was
awarded to a first-year BFA student.
Faculty Venture Fund
This new program was launched in 2017, through the support
of donors. Over $12,000 was raised for faculty research projects. Awards were granted to the following faculty.
David Dempewolf
For purchase of a 4K video camera and 3D software
Michael Gallagher
For travel and study of Byzantine icon paintings in Bulgarian
monasteries
Steven Nocella
For travel to Rome to study ancient ruins and masonry as a
way to inform his work and teaching
Tony Rosati
To support research and writing of a textbook, titled Printmaking Connections, based on his notes and lectures from both
studio and printmaking history courses
Stuart Shils
To support his studio research project, The Early Years,
Childhood
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Commencement and
Annual Student Exhibition Awards
Faculty Awards
Excellence in Teaching Awards for the spring 2018
(MFA and Post Bacc)
Kate Moran
Excellence in Teaching Awards for the spring 2018
(BFA and Certificate)
Al Gury & Tony Rosati
Faculty Award
Jody Pinto
Murray Dessner Memorial Graduate Travel Prize -MFA 2
Ha Ninh Pham
Richard C. Von Hess Memorial Travel Scholarship
Caitlin O’dea Ott
Donald R. Caldwell Scholarship 2017-2018
Rebecca Giles (Fall 2017)
Tessa Tallakson (Fall 2018)
James J. & Frances M. Maguire Scholarship for
Artistic Excellence
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Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize
for Academy’s Permanent Collection
Ellie Blackman
Claire Huber
M. Adil Ozturk
Women’s Board Travel Scholarship
Elizabeth Endres
Merit Winners
Scout Marsh (2017)
Clarissa Kear (2017)
Abigail Dudley (2017)
Travel Prizes | Caldwell Prize
Nick Potoskie (2018)
Grace Mox (2018)
Diana Serrano (2018)
Lewis S. Ware Memorial Travel Scholarships
Sal Heggeman
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Travel Scholarships
Julia McGehean
Abelardo Quiñones Jr.
William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship
Jessica Smith
Artist in Residence
David Schutter (Cert. ‘96)
Artist and Alumni David Schutter (Cert. ‘96) was the spring
artist in residence in the Howard & Vesna Sacks Artists in
Residence Studio.
Schutter did research in the archives, worked in the AIR
studio, and served as a Visiting Critic in the MFA program.
After graduating from PAFA, Schutter received his MFA at
the University of Chicago, where he is currently an Associate
Professor in the Department of Visual Arts.
Schutter has had solo exhibitions at The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Gemäldegalerie Berlin,
Germany; the National Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland; and
with Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; and Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany. His work
was included in documenta 14.
He is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Guggenheim
Fellowship, and is a Fulbright Scholar.
Visiting Artists
Summer 2017
Kiki Gaffney | June 29
Eileen Neff | July 19
Paul D’Agostino | July 26
Aaron Fowler | August 2
Fall 2017
David Kassan | September 20
Elana Herzog | October 4
Catherine Murphy | October 11
Harry Roseman | October 12
Paula Wilson | October 18
Polly Apfelbaum | November 1
Caroline Lathan-Stiefel | November 15
Joshua Clayton | November 29
Torkwase Dyson | December 6
Polly Apfelbaum
Spring 2018
Amy Sherald | January 24
Anna Betbeze | February 7
Matt Bollinger | February 21
Cosmo Whyte | March 14
Karyn Olivier | March 21
Deborah Roberts | March 28
Heather Day | April 11
Kymia Nawabi | April 18
Amy Sherald
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Brodsky Center at PAFA
PAFA absorbed The Brodsky Center, a collaborative paper and
printmaking center devoted to the creation of new work, from
its longtime location at Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey. The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper
was founded in 1986 by Judith Brodsky, an artist, printmaker,
arts advocate, and professor of art. Housed at the Mason Gross
School of the Arts at Rutgers, the Center was renamed in her
honor in 2006 and is dedicated to enabling groundbreaking
artists, both established and emerging, to create new
work in paper and print. Brodsky, who now sits on PAFA’s
Contemporary Collections Committee, was instrumental in
bringing the Center to PAFA.
The Center’s focus on contemporary art and supporting
women and artists of color align well with PAFA’s mission to
educate students and to develop and promote the work of outstanding and innovative artists. Since its founding in 1986, the
Center has completed over 300 editions with a diverse range of
emerging and established artists who have become renowned
in the field, including Barkley Hendricks, and artists in PAFA’s
collection such as Melvin Edwards, Joan Semmel, and Richard
Tuttle. The Center has an inventory of over 3,000 works of art.
Artist-in-residence Sondra Perry leading a printmaking workshop with 10th and 12th
grade students.
The Brodsky Center is part of the School at PAFA, expanding
its printmaking curriculum and providing internship and
professional opportunities for students to learn about
publishing editions, marketing, and selling artists’ prints. A
new papermaking facility will be established at PAFA and will
provide papermaking opportunities for both Brodsky Center
editions and PAFA students. The Center came with it’s own
Endowment to partially support its needs.
Paola Morsiani, Director of the Brodsky Center, joined the
PAFA team and will continue to lead the Center and develop
learning opportunities for students. Editions produced by
the Brodsky Center are included in the collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, and other international institutions, as well as many
private collections.
Farah Ossouli, Nostalgia, 2014, Silkscreen and digital print, 34 x 24 in., Edition of 10.
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia. Collaborating Master Printer:
Randy Hemminghaus.
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PAFA & THE
COMMUNITY
Family Programs
Family Arts Academy
PAFA’s flagship program for family audiences continued
offering Sunday afternoon workshops for the whole family throughout the school year. PAFA was able to offer 32
workshops at the museum completely free of charge to all
participants and to provide 19 free community workshops at
community centers and festivals around the city, all taught by
local artists from the Philadelphia area, including many PAFA
alumni.
Saturday Classes for Middle School Students
PAFA Art Camp
PAFA’s Summer camp program continued to flourish and
provide an important way to engage with families. In Summer
2017, PAFA offered 27 different camps for 350+ students ages
5 to 15, including camps like “Build Your Portfolio,” “Animal
Kingdom” and “Green Green Movie Making.” Each week of
camp ended with an exhibition and reception for the whole
family in PAFA’s historic cast hall. PAFA was also able to offer
need-based scholarships to 19 deserving students from around
the area
PAFA premiered Saturday Classes for Middle School
Students, offering a new opportunity for young artists to hone
their artistic skills early throughout the school year, including
classes in 2D Animation, Digital Photography, Drawing for
Comics and Illustration.
K-12 Programs
School Group Visits and Outreach
PAFA art educators provided programming for 6,602 participants in its school-based program, visiting classrooms around
the region and facilitating 168 field trips, classroom lessons
and hands-on art programs for area school groups.
Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) for Teens
PAFA’s multi-tiered program to engage teens around the
city continued in its fourth year of implementation, inviting
teens into the museum to help guide PAFA’s development
of initiatives for this burgeoning new audience. A Teen
Summit, in partnership with two dozen cultural organizations
around the city who also host teen programs, kicked off the
year of programming with an opportunity for young people
to develop a Teen Manifesto for the future of Philadelphia
that was delivered to the Mayor’s office in November 2017.
PAFA’s Student Docent Program trained young people to give
inquiry-based tours to their peers, working with 7 schools
including Belmont Charter High School, Friends Select,
Hallahan Catholic School for Girls and a new community
partner, Snider Youth Hockey. The Youth Council provided
peri-professional training for 11 youth throughout the year,
including field trips to other museums and introductions
on how to pursue a career in the arts, and they subsequently
planned three events for other teens around the region
to attend, including a holiday party, kickoff event for the
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s new teen app, and
exhibition tours. The Youth Council also got to work closely
with museum staff on a major exhibition project in the
spring, in which they curated “I’ve Always Worked Hard,” an
investigation of the different kinds of “work” represented in
PAFA’s permanent collection.
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School and Community Partnership
PAFA’s flagship program for community engagement
continues to pursue new relationships and opportunities in
the North Kensington and Feltonville neighborhoods as part
of its multi-year commitment to four underserved schools
- Isaac A. Sheppard Elementary School, Julia de Burgos
School, Feltonville Intermediate and Feltonville Arts and
Sciences. The students at these four schools are among some
of the most economically underresourced in the region and
PAFA’s partnership, which included 9,731 points of contact,
has helped to provide supplies, new arts-based curricula,
free teacher professional development, free trips out of the
neighborhood and into Center City and even art therapy
workshops for struggling parents, all elements contributing
to PAFA’s goal of helping to build stronger communities
and more creative children through arts programming.
With a focus on literacy through art in a primarily bilingual
neighborhood, and over a dozen community partners sharing
in the endeavor, PAFA is laying the groundwork for art to
be a critical tool in neighborhood problem solving, family
communication and academic achievement in Philadelphia.
PAFA’s end of year festival drew over 350 attendees from these
two communities for a day of Latino music and creativity, the
best attendance yet for this new initiative.
Adult Programs
PAFA Performances
PAFA hosted five concerts and performances in the museum,
including Unraveling, a sold out performance by artist Sonya
Clark during a weekend dedicated to art and politics, and a
collaboration with the Network for New Music to commission
new contemporary classical works by nationally-renowned
composers using PAFA’s permanent collection as a source of
inspiration.
Traveling Lecture Series
PAFA gave 24 outreach lectures at community locations
to create grassroots interest in special exhibition projects
and to make the collection accessible to groups that have
low mobility, like active adult communities and community
centers over 30 miles away.
The Director’s Table
PAFA premiered a new series that invites members of the
public to dine and network with contemporary artists and
thinkers in an intimate dinner setting with two sold out events
featuring special guests Joyce Kozloff and Dawoud Bey, both
of whom have works that recently entered PAFA’s permanent
collection.
Points of View Lecture Series
PAFA hosted 18 public talks in conjunction with special
exhibitions and projects, including a multi-series partnership
investigating the role of monuments in the city with Mural
Arts Philadelphia and the Monument Lab project, an
appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
Signe Wilkinson, and an investigation of what neuroscience
can teach us about how the brain sees art with Franklin
Institute Chief Bioscientist, Jayatri Das.
The Art World We Want
In the spring of 2017, PAFA’s Education team spearheaded an
institution-wide response to allegations of sexual misconduct
against the artist Chuck Close. Working closely with students
and faculty in the school, PAFA mounted a contextual
exhibition and series of programs between January and April
of 2019 that included student forums, educator events, writing
workshops and screen-printed protest events to interrogate
issues around sexuality, power and access in the art world.
The Art of Observation
PAFA experienced additional growth in its humanitiesbased programming for healthcare partners and business
executives, offering audiences in other disciplines a deep
level of engagement with how the visual arts can contribute
to their professional work in other sectors. The Wharton
School at the University of Pennsylvania brought 68 of their
“high potential leaders” to PAFA for workshops on emotional
intelligence and Jefferson University hosted two professional
development workshops for staff in the museum galleries. Six
for-credit classes were offered for students at The Kimmel
College of Medicine at Jefferson University and Cooper
Medical Hospital at Rowan University, reaching a total of 120
students and faculty, with education staff working closely
with physicians to develop workshops, classes and tours that
heighten medical students’ ability to observe closely and
accurately, to build empathy and emotional intelligence into
their clinical practice, and to identify and dismantle cognitive
biases that lead to medical errors. This innovative program
merges PAFA’s history of studying the human body with
contemporary curriculum issues around reintroducing the
humanities into the medical field and is creating whole new
audiences for PAFA’s collection and exhibitions.
Art at Lunch
For over 20 years, this free lunchtime lecture series has
provided an opportunity for the public as well as PAFA
students and members for midday talks that bring new
dimension to PAFA’s collections, exhibitions, and interests in
American Art. Nine lectures brought in 579 visitors to PAFA
to hear about its programming and engage with art historians
and artists about their work.
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Continuing Education for Adults and High School Students
PAFA Continuing Education (CE) offered art classes,
workshops, lectures and special programs for adults of all
levels of ability, and pre-college programming for high school
students. Courses were offered during weekdays, evenings
and weekends over three semesters a year: fall, spring and
summer. The faculty comprised practicing, professional
artists, many of whom also teach in PAFA’s degree programs.
The CE program served over 1,943 participants in 2018, up 6%
from 2017.
The CE Program also featured weekend Master Classes,
offering students the opportunity to work with acclaimed
artists, including notable PAFA alumni, and attracting a
national and international audience to PAFA (over 150
enrolled in FY 2018). Artists who participated in 2018
included painter Bill Scott, all prima painter Christine
Lafuente, acclaimed watercolorist Eileen Goodman, Caldecott
Medal-winning book creator David Wiesner, and Juliette
Aristides, renowned artist, founder and instructor of the
Aristides Atelier at the Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle
and noted author of Classical Drawing Atelier, Classical
Painting Atelier and other highly regarded drawing and
painting texts. In spring of 2018, Joseph Sweeney held a plein
air oil and pastel painting expedition to Donegal, Ireland while
James Toogood, noted watercolorist and author of Incredible
Light and Texture in Watercolor led a plein air watercolor class
in Bermuda.
Online courses were introduced in 2018 including Essential
Human Anatomy with Roberto Osti, artist, teacher and
author of Basic Human Anatomy: An Essential Visual Guide,
Build Your Own Labyrinth: Using Constraints to Challenge
and Surprise Yourself, paired with cartoonist, teacher and
translator, Matt Madden, and two art history courses with Dr.
Kevin Richards, Chair of Liberal Arts at PAFA: Modernism &
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Modernity: Art & Culture, 1900 – 1945, and Modern Art Since
1945. These courses reached students locally, nationally and
internationally.
Spring 2018 saw the introduction of CE Certificate Programs,
offering students the opportunity to enhance their technical
skills and professional presence through a curriculum of
focused study under the guidance of expert faculty-artists.
The PAFA Atelier with PAFA faculty Peter Van Dyck was
introduced in FY 2018, a combination instructed class
and open studio for students interested in advancing their
representational drawing and painting. The class was filled
to capacity in the fall and spring semesters, with over 30
students.
The Summer Academy for High School Students is PAFA’s
five-week pre-college program designed for talented and
motivated young people intent on a fine arts education.
Additionally, stand-alone courses for high school students in
drawing, painting, comics, printmaking, and sculpture are also
offered in the summer and on Saturdays during the fall and
spring. New classes in illustration, watercolor, photography
and plein air landscape were introduced in 2018, and were
well-received. The Maguire Foundation provided generous
scholarship support for Maguire Scholar students enrolled in
summer classes.
In 2018, PAFA held the second year of the Francis M. Maguire
Pre-College at PAFA, a 24-week, intensive drawing and
painting course for students from Maguire Foundation
partner schools. Instruction was delivered both on campus
and online in a blended format, and students earned college
credit upon completion. Total enrollment in PAFA’s precollege program was 183 in 2018, up 8% from 2017.
DEVELOPMENT
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PAFA First Capital Campaign
PAFA First: For the Future of American Art is the capital
campaign to support the first phase of PAFA’s transformative
Campus Master Plan. The plan aims to ensure that PAFA will
continue to be a leading force in collecting and exhibiting
contemporary art, engaging the public through community
programming, and educating the next generation of American
artists.
By the conclusion of the campaign, PAFA will have created
50,000 square feet of new programmatic space to expand
its curriculum and public programs, increased its overall
art storage capacity by 80%, completed critical renovations
to both its buildings, and generated a significant economic
impact for the institution and Philadelphia at large. As of June
30, 2018, PAFA has raised over $21.6 million in support of the
campaign—86% of the overall goal.
of Fine Arts the unique opportunity to honor and further Mr.
Rhoden’s legacy and life-long dedication to fine art-making.
Auditorium Seats
Additional support for the Arts Center has been provided in
part by the generous donors who have given gifts to name seats
in the new Auditorium. As of June 30, 2018, PAFA sold 42
seats, including 12 seats in the front rows.
Arts Center
PAFA broke ground on the Arts Center, a 25,000 square foot
project comprising a state-of-the-art auditorium, a gallery for
student art, and collection storage vaults for 20th- and 21stcentury works of art, in the fall of 2017. Construction is on
schedule to conclude by the end of 2018.
Rhoden Estate
In July 2017, PAFA acquired the estate of the artist John
Rhoden and his wife Richanda. This acquisition included
over 320 works by the under-recognized African-American
sculptor. Proceeds from the Rhodens’ Brooklyn estate will
help fund an exhibition of the artist’s work, a scholarship for
students from diverse backgrounds, a curatorial position,
and support the construction of PAFA’s new Arts Center.
In recognition of this gift, PAFA named the Arts Center
Auditorium in the Rhodens’ honor.
PAFA accessioned a number of Rhoden’s works for its own
permanent collection and will help place the remainder of
the works within the collections of other museums around
the world. Select sculptures will be exhibited in dedicated
vestibules throughout the Arts Center Auditorium.
Rhoden Scholarship
The John and Richanda Rhoden Scholarship will be awarded
every four years, beginning in the fall of 2019, to an incoming
first-year student of color, especially a student who intends to
major in sculpture. The scholarship covers full tuition and fees
for each of four years. This scholarship offers PAFA’s School
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Significant support for the Arts Center came from the Daniel
W. Dietrich II Foundation, which awarded $500,000 in
early 2017 to name the Arts Center Auditorium Stage. The
Foundation’s support came with two conditions: in order to
obtain the funds, PAFA was required to raise by December
2017 the $6.5 million needed to complete the Arts Center,
and to commence construction on the project no later than
January 2018. In order to meet these terms, PAFA’s Board
chairman Kevin F. Donohoe issued a matching challenge of
$250,000, bringing his total campaign gift to $1 million. This
generous additional commitment successfully mobilized the
PAFA community to support the Arts Center project, and thus
secure the Daniel W. Dietrich II Foundation’s critical funding.
RACP
In December 2017, PAFA received a $500,000 award through
the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) to
support its Campus Master Plan. The objective of this statesponsored program is to advance exceptional projects that will
promote Pennsylvania’s economic and cultural development.
Competition for these awards was particularly strong in 2017,
with nearly 400 applicatants (including 91 in Philadelphia
alone) vying for a limited pool of funding.
PAFA First Campaign Donors
List complete as of June 30, 2018
$2,500,000+
The Estate of John and Richanda Rhoden
$1,000,000-$2,499,999
Jonathan L. Cohen
Nancy Winkler and Jay Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin F. Donohoe
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
The Estate of Evelyn Kaplan in Honor of Connie and Jules Kay
Mr.* and Mrs. H. F. Lenfest
Frances and James J. Maguire
$250,000 - $499,999
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Bennett
Dr. Aliya F. Browne and
Mr. Reginald M. Browne
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Chase
The Connelly Foundation
Lee Gunther-Mohr*
Anonymous (3)
The Arcadia Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Averill
Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Ballou
Emily and Mike Cavanagh
Elliot H. Clark
Madeleine and Mark Douglas
Edward and Wendy Harvey
Ro and Martin King
Victoria McNeil Le Vine
Mr. and Mrs. Winston I. Lowe
Maggie and J. Brien Murphy
$100,000 - $249,999
$50,000 - $99,999
Julie and James Alexandre
The Allerton Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Biddle
Linda Aversa-Caldwell and
Donald R. Caldwell
Kelly and Joe Culley
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harper
Susan M. Hendrickson
Jeanne Ruddy and Victor Keen
Dale and Richard Levy
Jannie K. Lau and
Todd C. Longsworth
Mr. and Mrs. Albert P. Matteo
Anne E. McCollum
Amaranth Foundation
Theodore and Nancie Burkett
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Halloran
Dorothy M. Ix and
Raymond E. Ix, Jr.
The Brook J. Lenfest Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Graham
Frank and Anita Leto
The McLean Contributionship
Anonymous
Jane and Casey Brandt
Daniel and Monica DiLella
The Frechette Family Foundation
Robert and Charlotte Friedman
Mrs. J. Welles Henderson
Robert E. Kohler and
Frances Coulborn Kohler
Laura and Kenneth Mitchell
Sara Lomax Reese and Timothy Reese
Holly T. and David R. Brigham
Valentino D. Carlotti
Richard Carlstrom
Antonella and Roger Doucette
Eloise Gretz and Family
Martha and Robert Kennedy
$25,000 - $49,999
$10,000 - $24,999
$5,000 - $9,999
$500,000 - $999,999
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Ball Family Foundation
Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan
Bill and Laura Buck
The Daniel W. Dietrich II Foundation
The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. duP. Smith
Dorothy Woodcock and Kenneth Woodcock
Bill and Rosemary Hankowsky
National Endowment for the Humanities
Richard C. von Hess Foundation
Theodore O. Rogers, Jr.
Vesna and Howard Sacks
Julie D. and Robert N. Spahr
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Vague
Leslie Miller and Richard Worley
Washburn and Susan Oberwager
Herbert S. and Leah R. Riband
Richard and Bonnie Rossello
Barbara B. and Edward M. Scolnick
Marijke and Arlen Shenkman
The Wilmerding Family
James E. O’Neill and
David A. Rubin
Parkway Corporation
Bill and Lynne Schorling
Cynthia and Michael Veloric
Gretchen Roede
Mary G. Gregg and
John M. Ryan
The Snider Foundation
Alicia A. Sterling*
George and Janis Strimel
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PAFA First Campaign Donors (continued)
$1,000 - $4,999
Robert and Enid Anker
DLR Group
Marianne Dean
Julia B. and Darrell L. DeMoss
M. Doddamani
Pamela Doray and Fred Merz
FJN Charitable Foundation
Ofelia Garcia
Janice T. Gordon
David Hoffman
Barbara and Charles Kahn, Jr.
Melissa and Roy Kaiser
Marguerite B. Knysh
Gabriele W. Lee
Anonymous
William J. Avery
Sharon Butler
Patricia and Thomas Connelly
Mari and Robert Corson
Nancy K. Giles
Amy and John Korman
Kenneth Kusmer
Barbara Freed and Alan Mittelman
Elizabeth Racheva
Up to $999
Grants
The Richard C. von Hess Foundation awarded PAFA two
grants for 2017-18 exhibitions: $75,000 to support the
summer 2017 Honoré Sharrer retrospective, and $50,000
toward First Academies: Benjamin West and the Founding of
the Royal Academy of Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts.
PAFA concluded its 30-month, $300,000 grant supporting the
School and Community Partnership (SCP) from the William
Penn Foundation, which also awarded PAFA a three-year
$300,000 renewal of support for the program, beginning
in 2018-19. SCP in 2017-18 provided free educational arts
programming year round to students, teachers, and families
at four schools - Isaac A. Sheppard Elementary, Julia de
Burgos School, Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences, and
Feltonville Intermediate. All four schools have student bodies
that are 60-85% Hispanic, with many students learning
English as a second language, and 100% of students coming
from low-income families.
The Hearst Foundations awarded $75,000 to support PAFA’s
community education programs, as did smaller grants from
several other foundations. The Brook J. Lenfest Foundation
supported PAFA’s free After-School Studio Arts Program for
high school students with a grant of $15,000.
The Allerton Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to support
PAFA’s capital campaign, and Snider Foundation’s $45,000
grant supported both the capital campaign and PAFA’s
programs for teens.
The Horace Goldsmith Foundation renewed its support of
PAFA with a two-year, $200,000 unrestricted grant.
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Tom and Linda McCarthy
Kathleen D. Buffum McCoy
Richard and Brooke Ranck
Edward A. Richards
Richard W. Snowden and Frederick Holzerman
Joan N. Stern
George and Margaret Scudder
Georgia and Hass Shafia
Liz Denney and John Toates
David and Ilene Winikur
The Maguire Foundation committed $1.25 million to endow
the Maguire Scholars Program at PAFA. The Maguire Scholars
Program works with dozens of partner schools across
Philadelphia, from early learners through higher education.
The foundation first welcomed PAFA as a partner school in
2010, and PAFA is incredibly grateful for the foundation’s
decision to endow the program, ensuring future students will
have the opportunity to pursue their educational and artistic
dreams.
$74,000 in scholarship support for PAFA’s students came
from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust. The Richard C. von
Hess Foundation funds a full-tuition scholarship each year,
including fees and an additional $5,000 Travel Award. In
addition to their scholarship commitment, the Maguire
Foundation also awarded $30,000 for PAFA’s pre-college
program.
In 2017-18, PAFA received significant support from several
government agencies, including an $84,000, three-year award
from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in support
of PAFA’s Student Docent Program and Youth Council;
$30,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts in support
of School, Teacher, and Family Programs; $77,000 in general
support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; and two
awards from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund: $12,000 in
general operating support, and a $20,000 one-time PCF Youth
Arts grant supporting the Student Docent Program and Youth
Council programs.
Membership
Peale Circle
Peale Trip to Washington, D.C.
In Fall of 2017 PAFA’s Peale Circle took an Art Exploration trip
to historic Washington, D.C. for four days of art, history and
culture. Brooke Davis Anderson, Edna S. Tuttleman
Director of the Museum, and Anna O. Marley, Curator of
Historical American Art, led the group as they visited
private collections and enjoyed behind-the-scenes tours of
the Smithsonian Museums, artists’ studios, and more. The
cultural experiences were complemented by fine dining at
some of the most fashionable restaurants in Washington, D.C.
New York City Day Trip
At the beginning of May, 2018, Anna O. Marley, Curator of
Historical American Art led a tour of Thomas Cole’s Journey:
Atlantic Crossing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alice Pratt Brown Curator
of American Painting and Sculpture. Later, Peale Circle
Members enjoyed lunch with Sylvia Yount, former PAFA
curator and current Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in
Charge at the Met’s Members Dining Room. Following lunch,
Anna O. Marley and Iria Candela, Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator
of Latin American Art, continued the tour of the Met with a
visit to Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici. The New
York day trip was capped off with a cocktail reception at Godel
& Co. Fine Art, hosted by Katherine W. Baumgartner, Director.
Eileen Rosenau Collection Visit
In April 2018, the Peale Circle visited Eileen Rosenau’s
collection of Modern and Contemporary American art,
including works by Andy Warhol, Dan Flavin, Frank Stella,
Scott Burton, and Dan Graham, collected between 1964 and
1981.
Young Friends
The Young Friends Committee hosted six distinct events,
including Uncorked: The Bacchanal After Party, Young Friends
at Open Studio Night, and Young Collectors Night at the
Annual Student Exhibition. The group also launched a
mentorship program between the committee members and
members of the Board of Trustees.
General Members
PAFA hosted two opportunities for members to see it first;
exhibition openings of Subversion and Surrealism in the Art
of Honoré Sharrer and Chuck Close Photographs, as well as
three Curator Conversations for Chuck Close Photographs,
Graphic Women, and Beyond Boundaries. Two Members
Make events featured terra cotta and monotype prints and
two behind-the-scenes members’ tours were given for Sharrer
and Conservation. 150 members joined PAFA for the Annual
Members Reception.
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Events
Bacchanal
PAFA celebrated the 19th Anniversary Bacchanal Wine Gala
and Auction, which is the institution’s largest fundraiser,
bringing in over $500,000 annually to support student scholarships and community education programs. Since Bacchanal’s inception, the event has raised over $9 million. For the
theme, California Visionaries Bacchanal featured the wines
of Thomas Jefferson Award Honorees Gavin Chanin, Chanin
Wines; Rajat Parr, Domaine de la Côte; Thomas Pillsbury,
DuMOL, Jamie Kutch, Kutch Wines and Loren Grossman,
Wilde Farm Wines. These five extraordinary winemakers
brought their unique visions to life through hard work and
talent and made an indelible mark on the world of California
wines. The Bacchanal Co-Chairs were Gregg Cotler & Bill
McGowan and dinner was prepared by Chef Ashley James of
Starr Events.
Preview Party
117th Annual Student Exhibition
The 117th Annual Student Exhibition Preview party was held
on May 10, 2018, raising $344,197 from the sale of student
art. This was the most well attended preview party to date,
attracting 423 guests and raising a record $375,000 from
tickets and sponsorships. Honorary Chairs were Georgiana W.
and Eric W. Noll and Preview Party Co-Chairs were Melissa
Ingersoll and Katie Rhodes.
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Finance
Statement of Unrestricted Revenues and Expenses
For the years ended June 30, 2018 and 2017
June 30 ,2018
June 30 ,2017
$6,511,078
$6,735,682
Investment income
1,049,784
1,009,968
Gifts and grants revenue
8,749,435
7,882,936
Continuing and public education
770,484
800,978
Facility rentals and retail operations
668,882
907,674
Other revenue
803,398
1,038,156
18,553,061
18,375,394
School operations
8,305,002
7,988,305
Continuing and public education
1,225,967
1,285,049
Museum and exhibitions
2,400,208
3,273,103
Development and fundraising
1,945,544
1,934,726
235,058
249,664
1,895,186
1,979,220
Total Program and Support Expenses
16,006,965
16,710,067
Change in unrestricted net assets before
depreciation, gains (losses) and other income
(expenses)
$2,546,096
$1,665,327
Tuition and Fees, Net
Total Operating Program,
Support and Investment Income
Facility rental and catering
Management and general
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Statement of Financial Condition
as of June 30, 2018 and 2017
Assets
June 30, 2018
June 30, 2017
$383,947
$1,506,345
283,522
211,012
12,050,077
4,834,400
Prepaid expenses
385,099
370,239
Inventories
183,050
117,190
Land, buildings and equipment (net)
52,228,293
50,810,291
Investments
44,411,331
45,641,008
Beneficial interest in perpetual trusts
10,343,994
10,057,806
Other assets
127,870
122,036
Total Assets
$120,397,183
$113,670,327
2,764,740
1,683,612
20,804,545
20,796,727
Line of credit
8,055,000
6,230,000
Deferred revenue
1,374,513
1,082,096
Other liabilities
-
330,211
Total Liabilities
32,998,798
30,122,646
53,262,370
56,074,058
Temporarily restricted net assets
5,185,956
1,161,507
Permanently restricted net assets
28,950,059
26,312,116
Total Net Assets
87,398,385
83,547,681
$120,397,183
$113,670,327
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts receivable
Contributions receivables
Liabilities and Fund Balances
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Bonds and notes payable
Net Assets
Unrestricted net assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
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Operating Revenues 2018
$18,553,061
Continuing and
Public Education
4%
Facility Rentals and
Retail Operations Other Revenue
4%
4%
Tuition and Fees
35%
Gifts and Grants
Revenue
47%
Investment Income
6%
Operating Expenses 2018
$16,006,965
Facility Rental
and Catering
1%
Management and
General
12%
Development and
Fundraising
12%
School Operations
52%
Museum and
Exhibitions
15%
Continuing and
Public Education
8%
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Our Donors
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts extends its grateful thanks to the many generous supporters who
made new gifts and commitments between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018.
PAFA First Campaign supporters are recognized on pages 29-30.
Support through the Former Trustee Association, Peale Circle, the Annual Student Exhibition Preview Party, and the Bacchanal Wine Gala and Auction
are recognized on pages 37 through 41.
Leadership Donors
$1,000,000+
The Maguire Foundation
Estate of John Rhoden
$250,000 - $999,999
Brodsky Center
$100,000 - $249,999
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Artay, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Ball III
Dorrance H. Hamilton Charitable
Lead Trusts*
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Knight Foundation
Mrs. H.F. Lenfest
Richard C. von Hess Foundation
Estate of Mrs. James W. Toren
$50,000 - $99,999
Allerton Foundation
Haverford Trust Company
The Hearst Foundations
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Pine Street Group LP
Ms. Margaret Schuette
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Vague
W.W. Smith Charitable Trust
$25,000 - $49,999
Anonymous
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cavanagh
Mr. Jonathan L. Cohen
Comcast Corporation
Ms. Marianne Dean
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin F. Donohoe
FMC Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Harvey, Jr.
Frances and Robert Kohler
McLean Contributionship
National Endowment for the Arts
Marsha and Jeffrey Perelman
Snider Foundation
Dr. Pina Templeton
Wyncote Foundation
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$10,000 - $24,999
Anonymous (3)
1830 Family Foundation
Julie and Jim Alexandre
Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Ballou
Bank of America
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Biddle
Linda Seyda and Robert Boris
Bowman Properties, Ltd.
Brook J. Lenfest Foundation
Dr. Aliya F. Browne and
Mr. Reginald M. Browne
Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan
Linda Aversa-Caldwell and
Donald R. Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Chase
Mr. Gerard Cuddy
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Culley, Jr.
Mr. Graham Davies
Monica and Dan DiLella
Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Douglas
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Fleischner
Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Friedman
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Gilroy and Lillian Roberts Foundation
Dr. Janice T. Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Halloran
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harper
Mr. Robert F. Henderson
Ms. Susan M. Hendrickson
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Horseman
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Ix, Jr.
Estate of Mr. Howard Kellogg
Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. King
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Leone
Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Leto
Ms. Dale P. Levy and Mr. Richard D. Levy
Liberty Property Trust
Ms. Jannie K. Lau and
Mr. Todd C. Longsworth
Mr. and Mrs. Winston I. Lowe, Esq.
Mr. and Ms. Albert P. Matteo, Jr.
Ms. Anne Elizabeth McCollum
Ms. Lisa D. Kabnick and Mr. John H.
McFadden
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mitchell
Dr. and Mrs. J. Brien Murphy
The Newington-Cropsey Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Eric W. Noll
Mr. James E. O’Neill and Mr. David A. Rubin
Mr. Thomas N. Pappas
PECO
Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Philadelphia Insurance Companies
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert S. Riband, Jr.
Dr. Thayer Tolles Rogers and
Mr. Theodore O. Rogers, Jr.
SEI Investments Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay H. Shah
Mr. and Mrs. Arlen R. Shenkman
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. du P. Smith
Ms. Erika Swarthout
Ms. Isabel S. Wilcox
Ms. Lydia D. Williamson
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Woodcock
Zausmer Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous
Mr. Robert W. Bogle
Ms. Nancy Winkler and Mr. John Bryan
Bryn Mawr Trust Company
Ms. Maria E. S. Bamford and
Mr. Scott M. Cassidy
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Cole
Mr. Charles Corpening
Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, Inc.
Dr. Dorothy J. del Bueno
DLR Group
Mr. Edward Frame
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
The Glenmede Trust Company
Mrs. Maxine S. Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Lockyer
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Mr. Eliot Mosby
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Mundheim
Mr. Norman Olson
SAP America
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr
Sirphune and John Conte Foundation
Mr. Richard W. Snowden and
Mr. Frederick Holzerman
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Svanda
Universal Health Services, Inc.
Leslie Anne Miller and Richard Worley
$1,000 - $4,999
Anonymous (3)
Amaranth Foundation
Ms. Linda Lee Alter
Ms. Brooke Davis Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Asher
Ms. Amy Branch and Mr. D. Jeffry Benoliel
Willo Carey and Peter A. Benoliel
Bittenbender Construction, LP
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Boyer
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Brandt
Ms. Judith Brodsky
Mr. and Mrs. Julian A. Brodsky
Mr. Michael Bzdak
Ms. Susan G. Campbell
Carlson Cultural Trust
Mr. Richard Carlstrom and Mr. Joel Samuels
Mr. and Mrs. Cummins Catherwood, Jr.
Mr. Mark Chehi and Mrs. Johanna Chehi
Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation
Mrs. Brice Clagett
Mr. Richard T. Crawford
Ms. Cicely Cottingham Davson and
Mr. Victor Davson
Mr. Arthur Dantchik
Ms. Kay Deaux
Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation
Dry Family Foundation
Elliott Lewis Corporation
Ms. Pamela Felice
Fine and Staud
Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Fink
Mr. and Mrs. Reeder R. Fox
Mr. Nigel Freeman
Ms. Betty J. Turock and
Dr. Gustav W. Friedrich
Ms. Ofelia Garcia
Dr. Janice T. Gordon
Ms. Shirley L. Green
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Gustafson
Hassel Foundation
Mrs. Hilarie V. Hawley
Mrs. J. Welles Henderson
Mr. Paul M. Hummer and
Ms. Lynda K. Hubbell
International Fine Print Dealers Association
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kennedy
Gilbert and Rebecca Kerlin
Keystone Property Group
Ms. Maggi Kirk
Dr. Evelyn S. Kritchevsky
Ms. Alice Mary R. Lawler
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Le Vine
Mr. and Mrs. Leon L. Levy
Ms. Lisa A. Loughney
Louis N. Cassett Foundation
Mrs. Lawrence E. MacElree
Ms. Allison Leigh Maslow
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mather III
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen McDonnell
Dr. and Dr. Leonard M. Moss
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Napier
Mrs. Isabel Nazario
Dr. Ferris Olin
Mr. Donald S. Owings
Mrs. Zoe S. Pappas
Dr. Lee T. Pearcy
Ms. Amie Potsic
Mr. and Dr. Franklin N. Redd
Mr. Brad Richards
Mr. and Mrs. J. Barton Riley
Mrs. Eileen Y. Rosenau
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Sacks
Katie Adams Schaeffer and
Anthony L. Schaeffer
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Seid
Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Mr.* and Mrs. Stockton Smith
Ms. Enikö Mara-Somkuti and
Dr. Stephen G. Somkuti
Mr.* and Mrs. Harold A. Sorgenti
Ms. Karen Steen
Ms. Sally S. Richards and
Mr. Frans Stemmerik
United States Roofing Corporation
Mr. Ross VanDenbergh
Mr. Bruce Wickersham*
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Williams
Mr. Richard E. Woosnam and
Mrs. Diane Dalto Woosnam
Mrs. Kathryn Q. Wright and
Mr. Joseph Wright
Former Trustee
Association Members
Mr. Robert L. Byers
Mr. John B. Bartlett
Mr. Thomas L. Bennett
Dr. Jane Fortune*
Mrs. Mary P. Graham
Mrs. Henry F. Harris
Mr. Anthony Ibarguen
Ms. Gabriele Lee
Mrs. James J. Maguire
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mather III
Mr. Peter McCausland
Mr. Allen J. Model
Mr. John M. Ryan
Mr. Samuel J. Savitz
William A. Slaughter, Esq.
Henry B. du P. Smith
Mr. Harold A. Sorgenti*
Mrs. Barbara Sylk
Mr. Archbold van Beuren
Mr. Richard E. Woosnam
Mr. Richard Worley
Mrs. James W. Zug
The Peale Circle
Cecilia Beaux Circle
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Averill
Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan
Mr. David Hoffman
Mr. and Mrs. Brook J. Lenfest
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Rossello
Mr. and Mrs. Barton J. Winokur
Thomas Eakins Circle
Mr. and Mrs. Julian A. Brodsky
Horace Pippin Circle
Lorraine and Benjamin Alexander
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Asher
Linda Seyda and Robert Boris
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Churchman
Ms. Heather Richards Evans
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Fleischner
Joan and William Goldstein
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Gross
Mr. and Mrs. Jules Kay
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kennedy
Darcy Allen and Richard Kipp
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Russo
Dr. Willys Silvers
Mr. Richard G. Webster, Jr.
Mr. A. Morris Williams, Jr.
Violet Oakley Circle
Anonymous (2)
Ms. Bettina B. Aberant
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Affleck
Ms. Linda Lee Alter
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Brandt
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck
Mr. and Mrs. G. Theodore Burkett
Ralph Citino and Lawrence Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clayton
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Cole
Ms. Emanuela Miller-Cooke and
Mr. Avi Eden
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Effron
Ms. Joan Miller Moran and
Mr. William Fenza
Mr. and Mrs. David Glickstein
Dr. Janice T. Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Iskrant
Mr. William J.D. Jordan
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kahn, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Le Vine
Ms. Dale P. Levy and Mr. Richard D. Levy
Mr. and Ms. David G. Marshall
Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCausland
Mr. and Mrs. Rory McNeil
Mr. John J. Medveckis
Ms. Nicki Nathan and Mr. Michael Metelits
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mitchell
Ms. Arlene Olson and Dr. Stanley
Muravchick
Ms. Bonnie O’Boyle
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Oehrle
Mr. Norman Olson
Mr. James A. Ounsworth, Esq.
Mrs. Zoe S. Pappas
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Patterson
Ms. Pamela Trimingham and
Mr. David Pierson
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Putnam
Mr. Edward A. Richards
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Roth
Mr. Will W. Sachse
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Sacks
Dr. and Mrs. Hass Shafia
Mrs. Joly W. Stewart
Dr. and Mrs. Martin Stogniew
Keith and James B. Straw
Mr. and Mrs. Fabio Terlevich
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Veloric
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Vernon
Dr. Robert J. Wallner
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Dr. and Mrs. Sankey V. Williams
Dr. Yoram Wind
Sotheby’s
Benefactor Members
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Asplundh
Mr. William J. Avery
Mr. Anthony Bayne, Sr.
Ms. Linda Zaleski and
Mr. Andrew F. Blittman
Mrs. Doris Broudy
Mr. Michael P. Buckley
Ms. Catherine Mellina and
Mr. Dave Christopher
Mrs. Mari Corson and Mr. Robert Corson
Mr. Gregg R. Crumley
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Daley
Mr. Arthur Dantchik
Tobey and Mark Dichter
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fernberger, Jr.
Mr. Jeffrey P. Fuller and
Ms. Martha M. Madigan
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Greenwald
Drs. Joel and Linda Griska
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Gustafson
Dan Rothermel and Michael Hairston
Mrs. J. Welles Henderson
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Hill III
Mr. and Mrs. Ian Hinke
Mr. and Ms. L. S. Illoway
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kreithen
Dr. Evelyn S. Kritchevsky
Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold S. Lakoff
Ms. Judith LaLonde
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. McCarthy
Ms. Stella Tsai and Mr. Paul McCarthy
Ms. Kathleen D.B. McCoy
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Mechura
Ms. Anselene Morris
Mr. and Mrs. John Moyer
David F. Ertz and Kristin Mullaney
Mr. Paul R. Nemeth and Ms. Jean Flood
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Nesbitt III
Mrs. Beatrice S. Pitcairn
Ms. Kathryn Rhodes
Ms. Judith Creed and Mr. Robert Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Schwarz, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Sheehan
Ms. Alicia A. Sterling
Ms. Janis O’Connor Strimel and
Mr. George Strimel
Ms. Mary Teeling
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Vegega
Mr. and Mrs. F. Gordon Yasinow
Tribute Gifts
In Honor of Thomas L. Bennett
Ms. Sally Rubenstein
In Honor of David R. Brigham
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck
Dr. Pina Templeton
In Honor of Julie Jensen Bryan
Ms. Beatrice Cromwell and
Mr. E. Clive Anderson
Frederick J.M. LaValley and
John Whitenight
Philadelphia Trust Company
In Honor of Donald R. Caldwell
Ms. Judite Morais and Mr. Timothy P. Speiss
In Honor of Emily Erb
Ms. Hope Armstrong Erb and
Mr. Martin G. Erb
In Honor of Sam Garst
Anonymous
In Honor of Jennifer Johns
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Epstein
In Honor of Melissa D. Kaiser
Mr. and Mrs. John Korman
In Honor of Connie Kay
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold S. Hoffman
In Honor of Robert E. Kohler
Ms. Linda Lewis Kramer
In Honor of Maggie and Brien Murphy
Sheila M. and James A. Bridenstine
Mr. and Mrs. Norman U. Cohn
Ms. Barbara Murphy
Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Rock
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. du P. Smith
Dr. and Mrs. Sankey V. Williams
In Honor of Carolyn Nagy
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Honickman
In Honor of William S. Noel
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Noel
In Honor of Lorraine S. Riesenbach
Ms. Rita Klinger
In Honor of Catherine Samson
Ms. Catherine H. Farrell
In Honor of June Smith
Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthews V. Hamilton, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Le Vine
In Honor of Anne Stassen
Dr. Kathleen Kline and Rev. Andrew Kline
Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Wilmerding
In Honor of Alicia A. Sterling*
Ms. Anne Elizabeth McCollum
In Memory of Lydia Ashcroft
Ms. Kristen Cox
Mr. Allen Raevsky
Ms. Linda S. Stepler
In Memory of Anne Bryan
Ms. Nancy Clipper
Mrs. Rebecca Kriss and Mr. Nicholas Stanley
In Memory of Karen B. Davies
Ms. Susan Basch
Ms. Marijean Boueri
Ms. Edwina Brennan
Mr. Jeffrey S. Brown
M. A. Jane Buhl
Mr. John R. Burns
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Chagares
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Chandler
Mr. and Mrs. Jon E. Christensen
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Christensen
Mr. and Mrs. Chetwin C. Cooke
Ms. Maureen M. Emanuel
Ms. Rei M. Fuller and Mr. Bradley B. Fuller
Mr. and Mrs. A. Evan Haag
Ms. Meridith B. Hurd
Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Levis
Ms. Dale P. Levy and Mr. Richard D. Levy
Ms. Eliza Lewis
Mr. Bruce Lierman
Liswhit Foundation
Peggy and Tony Maggo
Ms. Kathleen A. Mikesh
Ms. Julie Morrison
Mrs. Margaret Rauscher
Ms. Barbara Rea
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Schuler
Ms. Sarah A. Starr
Mr. and Mrs. Kris W. Strausser
Mr. Bruce A. Szymborski
The Barra Foundation, Inc.
Ms. Judith M. Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Jordan R. Upton
Mr. Gary S. Weisband
Ms. Laura A. Williamson
Ms. Lilly Woodworth
In Memory of Murray Dessner
Mr. Allen Newman
In Memory of Karen Frame
Ms. Judith F. Adams
Ms. Lorraine J. Alfieri
Art Works, Inc.
Susan and Steve Bagocius
James and Anita Beard
Ms. Theresa Carey
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Colabrese
Ms. MaryLouise M. Forcine
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley K. Fritz
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Hymowitz
Ms. Jane Johnston
Kaeser & Blair Incorporated
Ms. Thi Poerner
Ms. Lisa Ramelow
Mr. Gerard F. Reimel III
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Walker
Ms. Valerie J. Wujcik
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Zimmer
In Memory of Edward T. Gay
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Dempster
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Mr. and Mrs. Ramy Djerassi
Ms. Gail Jacobson
Mr. Joseph Jenkins
Mr. William J.D. Jordan
Kartman Fire Protection
Mrs. Lisa Lauletta
Mrs. Sharon Machrone
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Perotti
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Pudlin
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham C. Reich
Mrs. Gretchen Reilly
Mr. Gerard Riley
Ms. Maureen Rocks
Ms. Kathleen McDonough Wolf and Mr. John
A. Wolf III
In Memory of Mrs. Samuel M.V. Hamilton
Hamilton Family Foundation
Mrs. Kathleen M. Cannon and
Mr. Brian Kelly
In Memory of Nina Hausner
Ms. Judith Taylor
In Memory of Barkley Hendricks
Gottfried & Somberg
Wealth Management, LLC
In Memory of Mildred T. Lefkoe
Dr. and Mrs. Roy T. Lefkoe
Miss Sydney Ann Lefkoe
In Memory of Ned J. Levine
ACSP Program, Villanova University
In Memory of Gainor I. Miller
Mrs. Philip A. Bregy
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Hensley
Ms. Laurie Moyer
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Pinkus
Mr. Cullen Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Sheffield
In Memory of Janet Minnick
Mr. Robert A. Minnick
In Memory of Shelby Rosenberg
Ms. Gabrielle Birkner
Mr. Steven Cohen
In Memory of Suzanne Savaria
PECO
In Memory of Hannah Shickley
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Landa
In Memory of Vardina Wind
The Wind Foundation
John W. Merriam
Planned Giving Society
Anonymous (3)
Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Ballou
Barbara* and John Bartlett
Pearl M. Carpel
Jonathan L. Cohen
Steven Cohen
Linda Dessner
Drs. Barbara and Leonard Frank
Kenneth F. Herlihy
Katharine K. Hoyler*
Evelyn Rypins Kaplan*, In Memory of
Will Kaplan
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H. Katz
Ms. Emily Klebanoff
Jordan Klinefelter
The Estate of Kenneth D. Kopple
Gabriele W. Lee
Mr. and Mrs. H.F. (Gerry)* Lenfest
Nina Martino
Anne Elizabeth McCollum
Daniel D. Miller Jr.
Ellen Cole Miller*
Mr. Donald S. Owings
Ms. Sally S. Richards
Raymond D. Rubens* and Estelle Rubens*
Dr. and Mrs. Erwin M. Saniga
Barbara L. Sosson
Robert H. Sweet, In Memory of Janet V.
Sweet
Annual Student Exhibition
Preview Party
Premier Sponsor
Beneficial Bank
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck
Benefactor Sponsor
FMC Corporation
FS Investments
Partner Sponsor
Blick Art Materials
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Philadelphia Trust Company
Zero Technologies in honor of Hal Sorgenti
Master Sponsor
Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan
CFI - The Knoll Source
FirstService Brands
Freeman’s
Kamelot Auction House
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Klehr
The Maguire Foundation
Eric W. and Georgiana W. Noll
Ms. Judith Creed and Mr. Robert Schwartz
June and Hank Smith
Dr. Pina Templeton
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Yass
Scholar
CRW Graphics
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin F. Donohoe
Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthews V. Hamilton, Jr.
Sandra Lazovitz and Craig Pressman in
honor of Stephen Lazovitz
The Victory Foundation
Philanthropist
Ms. Bettina B. Aberant
Ms. Linda Lee Alter
Altus Partners, Inc.
Apartment Investment and
Management Company
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Arizin
Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Ballou
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Bennett
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Biddle
Bittenbender Construction, LP
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bracaglia
Ms. Nancy Winkler and Mr. John Bryan
Gretchen and Stephen Burke
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Byers
Linda Aversa-Caldwell and
Donald R. Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cavanagh
Dr. Jennifer Maida-Chateau and
Mr. Olivier Chateau
Mr. and Mrs. R. Putnam Coes III
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Costin
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Culley, Jr.
Mr. Arthur Dantchik
Ms. Marianne Dean
Monica and Dan DiLella
Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Douglas
Ms. Barbara Eberlein
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Effron
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Farragut
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Fleischner
Dr. Margaret Foti
Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Friedman
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Gillespie
Dr. James L. Goodwill
Ms. Beth Hanley and Mr. Mike Gretz
Mr. David W. Haas
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hankowsky
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Honickman
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. King
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kress
Ms. Aleni Pappas and
Mr. Anthony Kyriakakis
Mrs. H.F. Lenfest
Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. Levinson
Mr. and Mrs. Winston I. Lowe, Esq.
Manja L. Lyssy
Mr. and Ms. David G. Marshall
Mr. and Ms. Albert P. Matteo, Jr.
The McCausland Foundation
Ms. Kathleen D.B. McCoy
Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. McCulloch
Mr. and Mrs. Wade McDevitt
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Mundheim
Dr. and Mrs. J. Brien Murphy
Mrs. Carolyn B. Nagy and
Mr. Alexander Nagy
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Oehrle
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Oliver
Mr. James E. O’Neill and Mr. David A. Rubin
Dr. and Mrs. David Paskin, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Peck
Mr. Jonathan Peterson
Ms. Laurie Phillips
Mrs. Beatrice S. Pitcairn
Bryan and Mindy Rishforth
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Mr. and Mrs. Tony Roth
Katie Adams Schaeffer and
Anthony L. Schaeffer
Mr. Jay H. Shah
Mr. and Mrs. Arlen R. Shenkman
June Marshall Smith
Mr. Richard W. Snowden and
Mr. Frederick Holzerman
Square One
Ms. Janis O’Connor Strimel and
Mr. George Strimel
Mr. Peter and Ms. Kathleen Tenhula
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Vague
Mr. Joseph S. Zuritsky
Connoisseur
Anonymous
Mr. Michael Angelakis
The Art Partnership
Miss Elizabeth Asplundh
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Averill
Dr. and Mrs. Wade H. Berrettini
Ms. Diana H. Bittel
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Boyer
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Brandt
Mr. and Dr. George Coates, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Cole
Mr. Thomas Hills Cook
Dr. Carolyn Cannuscio and Dr. Daniel Rader
Mr. and Mrs. Darrell L. DeMoss
Mr. Robert Dixon
Ms. Laura DuPont
Debbie and Jerry Epstein
Ms. Heather Richards Evans
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Eyre, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Bayard R. Fiechter
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Gardner
Mr. and Mrs. Steven H. Gendler
Mr. John M. Ryan and Ms. Mary G. Gregg
Mr. William H. Haines, IV
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Halloran
Ms. Susan M. Hendrickson
Ms. Fay Trachtenberg and
Dr. Howard Goldman
Mr. and Ms. George B. Trammell III
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Ix, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Joyce
Ms. Amanda Kaiserman
Rev. Andrew Kline and Dr. Kathleen Kline
Ms. and Mr. Kimberly Kearns
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Kelly
Ms. Caroline Kennedy
Ms. Stacey C. Kerr
Dr. Kenneth L. Kusmer
Mrs. Deena Gu Laties and Dr. Alan M. Laties
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lehocky
Mr. and Mrs. Ami Lonner
Mr. Michael Lukasek
Ms. Delia M. Khosrowshahi
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mather III
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Mayes
Dr. Elizabeth McCaffrey
Mr. and Ms. Shawn McCaney
Ms. Anne Elizabeth McCollum
Ms. Nicole McLaughlin
Ms. Patricia Wellenbach and Mr. Lawrence
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G. McMichael
Mr. and Mrs. Garrett D. Melby
Mr. Harvey S. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mitchell
Ms. Leslie Morgan
Ms. Susan B. Muller
Mr. and Mrs. Mousa F. Natan
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Nesbitt III
Ms. Patricia Owens
Gregory and Rebecca R. Segall
Miss Laura Raab
Ms. Kathryn Rhodes
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Rossello
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Sacks
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Schwenke
Dr. and Mrs. Hass Shafia
Mrs. Lewis du Pont Smith
Mrs. Jeannette W. Smith
Mrs. and Mr. Priscilla H. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney V. Smith, Jr.
Ms. Enikö Mara-Somkuti and
Dr. Stephen G. Somkuti
Ms. Judite Morais and Mr. Timothy P. Speiss
Ms. Alicia A. Sterling
Mrs. Joly W. Stewart
Ms. Vivian M. Su
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompson, III
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Walsh
Ms. Gina Ward
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Warden, IV
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. White
Mrs. Kathryn Q. Wright and
Mr. Joseph Wright
Mr. Maxwell P. Young
Bacchanal Wine Gala
and Auction
Lead Sponsor
Haverford Trust Company
Diamond Table
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Platinum Table
Cross Atlantic Capital Partners
FMC Corporation
Liberty Property Trust
Quaker Chemical
TIAA
Gold Table
FirstService Brands
Hersha Hospitality Trust
Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
SAP
Silver Table
Cantor Fitzgerald
Delaware River Stevedores, Inc.
John Toates Architecture & Design
PFM
United States Roofing Corporation
Wine Sponsors
Chanin Wines
Domaine de la Cote
DuMOL
Kutch Wines
Wilde Farm Wines
Premier Benefactors
Mr. Jeffrey Beachell
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Bennett
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Biddle
Ms. Nancy Winkler and Mr. John Bryan
Dr. Monica E. Duvall and Mr. Dan DiLella
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin F. Donohoe
Ms. Pamela Felice
Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Friedman
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Halloran
Ms. Susan M. Hendrickson
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mitchell
Mr. Norman Olson
Mr. Walter R. Progner
Mr. and Mrs. Shantanu RoyChowdhury
Mr. and Mrs. David Rubenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. du P. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Woodcock
Mr. Richard E. Woosnam and Mrs. Diane
Dalto Woosnam
Patrons
Mr. Jonathan Betz
Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan
Mr. Jonathan Cohn
Mr. and Mrs. Gregg N. Cotler
Mr.and Mrs. Keith Cox
Mr. William J. Farrell II
Mr. and Mrs. Winston I. Lowe, Esq.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gelfman
Mr. and Ms. David G. Marshall
Dr. Donna Barbot and
Dr. William E. McGowan
James Allsop and Jane Moses
Ms. Linda Moss
Judith Broudy and Eli Packman
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Segall
Ms. Martha McGeary Snider
Ms. Enikö Mara-Somkuti and
Dr. Stephen G. Somkuti
Ms. Christina M. Thistle
Gifts In-Kind
Anonymous
1812 Productions
Arden Theatre Company
Ashton Cigar Bar
BalletX
Mr. Bo Bartlett
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Biddle
Blick Art Materials
Bluefin Restaurant
Blueprint Retirement Services
Linda Aversa-Caldwell and
Donald R. Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Chase
Dr. Rick Cody
CRW Graphics
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Culley, Jr.
Delaware River Stevedores, Inc.
Mr. Alan Denis
DermaCenter Medical Spa
Domaine de la Cote
Ms. Laura Dubin-Wander
DuMOL
Freeman’s
Ms. Ellyn Gellar- Elstein
Mr. Al Gury
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Halloran
Mr. Jim Hamilton Esq.
Helium Comedy Club
Ms. Susan M. Hendrickson
Hersha Hospitality Trust
Independence Seaport Museum
Inliquid Art + Design
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jordan
JoS. A. Bank
Joseph Phleps Vineyards
Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. King
Kramer Portraits
Krug Champagne US
Mr. Jamie Kutch
Mr. Ben Labovitz
Le Meridien Philadelphia
Louella Style LLC
Mr. Brian Lynch
Douglas Martenson and Camille Peluso
Ms. Lisa D. Kabnick and
Mr. John H. McFadden
Dr. Donna Barbot and
Dr. William E. McGowan
Ms. Larissa McShane
NBC Sports Philadelphia
Mr. Charles Newman
Opera Delaware
Paramour at the Wayne Hotel
Pennsylvania Ballet
Philadelphia Phillies
PNC Wealth Management
Ramey Wine Cellar
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Sacks
Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky
Saul Ewing, LLP
Sea Glass Fine Photography
Gregory and Rebecca R. Segall
Mr. Edward Schoenfeld
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Sigman
Sojourn Cellars
Ms. Enikö Mara-Somkuti and
Dr. Stephen G. Somkuti
Stephen Starr Events
Stone Harbor Golf Club
Sweet Potato Photography
Theatre Exile
Thomas Fallon Photography
Liz Denney and John Toates
Mr. Mark Trachtenberg
Tria Cafe
Vine Street Imports
Walnut Street Theatre
The Wand
Mr. John Y. Wind
Ms. Marsha Woods
Mr. Douglas Young
Board of Trustees
Officers
Kevin F. Donohoe, Chair
Herbert S. Riband, Jr., Esq., Vice Chair
Thomas N. Pappas, Vice Chair
James C. Biddle, Vice Chair
Anne E. McCollum, Assistant Treasurer
Susan M. Hendrickson, Secretary
Joseph D. Culley, Jr., Treasurer
Trustees
James Alexandre
Roger H. Ballou, National Trustee
Reginald M. Browne, National Trustee
Walter W. Buckley, III
Donald R. Caldwell, Chair Emeritus
Valentino D. Carlotti, National Trustee
Charles E. Chase
Elliot H. Clark
Jonathan L. Cohen, National Trustee
Mark A. Douglas
Monica Duvall DiLella, M.D.
Robert I. Friedman, Esq.
Pia Halloran
William P. Hankowsky
Charles H. Harper, National Trustee
Edward T. Harvey
John M. Horseman, National Trustee
Dorothy Mather Ix
Ro King, National Trustee
Robert E. Kohler, Ph.D.
Jannie K. Lau
Marguerite Lenfest
Francis J. Leto
Sara Lomax-Reese
Winston I. Lowe, Esq.
Brett Matteo
J. Brien Murphy, M.D.
Eric W. Noll
James E. O’Neill, Esq.
Gretchen E. Roede
Theodore O. Rogers, Jr., Esq.,
National Trustee
William H. Schorling, Esq.
Jay H. Shah
Arlen Shenkman
June Marshall Smith, President of the
Women’s Board
Richard W. Snowden
Richard W. Vague
Kenneth R. Woodcock, National Trustee
Ex Officio
David R. Brigham, Ph. D., President & CEO
Gregory J. Fox, Chair of the Board,
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Kelly R. Lee, Director of Office of Arts, Culture
and the Creative Economy
Didier William, Faculty Representative
David Campbell Wilson, President of Alumni
Association
Emeritus
John B. Bartlett
Thomas L. Bennett
Robert L. Byers, Sr.
Charles E. Mather, III
Samuel J. Savitz
William A. Slaughter, Esq.
Henry B. du P. Smith
Harold A. Sorgenti
Richard E. Woosnam
Debora C. Zug
Honorary
Frances M. Maguire
Women’s Board
Active Members
Linda Aversa-Caldwell
Georgeann M. Ballou
Kathie Bell
Christine H. Berrettini
Margaret Biddle
Diana H. Bittel
Julie Jensen Bryan
Amanda Burden M.D.
Kelly Lawson Culley
Ms. Marianne Dean
Julia B. DeMoss
Ms. Pamela Felice
Sharla Floyd
Ms. Ashlee Fuglio
Roz Gibbons
Gale Gillespie
Pia M.E. Halloran
Mrs. Johanna S. Hambrose
Mrs. Rosemary Hankowsky
Melissa K. Ingersoll
Dorothy Mather Ix
Connie Kay
Ms. Caryn Kunkle
Lynn Lehocky
Sandra G. Marshall
Mary MacGregor Mather
Ashley Stewardson McGuinness
Ms. Nicole McLaughlin
Mrs. Sandra Mezzanotte
Maggie Malone Murphy
Carolyn Nagy
Sandra L. Nesbitt
Lisa O’Connell
Mrs. Janice Peck
Carmen Navarro Pelaez
Ms. Camille Peluso
Mrs. Ashwini Reddi
Ms. Katie Rhodes
Donna Marie Salvo
Mrs. Rebecca R. Segall
June Marshall Smith
Mimi Snyder
Alicia A. Sterling
Janis O’Connor Strimel
Kathryn Quinn Wright
Associate Members
Carol Blank Barsh
Ana B. Biddle
Rhea Brooks
Kathleen M. Cannon
Mrs. Brice M. Clagett
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Mrs. Patricia Q. Connolly
Lalla de Rham
Stacy W. Fiechter
Bobette Leidner Fisk
Geraldine Dietz Fox
Laura H. Gardiner
Susan Eaton Guill
Penny M. Hunt
Patricia P. Kermes
Carrie Lawlor
Bobette R. Leidner
Maxine Lewis
Anne E. McCollum
Kathleen D. McCoy
Laura Morris
Karyn A. Mullen
Ms. Susan B. Muller
Mrs. Harry R. Neilson, Jr.
Nancy Shaw Palmer
Mrs. Edwin S. Sheffield
Meredith S.S. Smith
Sara Steele
Clare Stuempfig
Susan W. West
Mrs. Allan Windt
Docents
Beverley Anderson
Bruce Anderson
Penny Bernick
Maxine Brodo
Louise Christopher
Gwen Douse
Dona Duncan
Sheila Ellman
Fradele Feld
Karen Gelfand
Harriet Goodwin
Sharline Heller
Elaine Jaffe
Joan Jeruchim
Joyce Krain
Marita Krivda
Florence Lovitz
Shirlee Maglietta
Jane Mason
Naida Mosenkis
Stephanie Nerges
Joan Quann
Ruth Rothman
Renee Saul
Jo Ann Simon
Jane Slater
Deanna Skalka
Danièle Thomas-Easton
Patricia Zolfaghari
Faculty
Jessica Abel
Emily Abendroth
Kassem Amoudi
Colleen Asper
Jan Baltzell
Yevgeniya Baras
Dolores Bartholomew
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Blair Baskin
Sarah Beetham
Mark Blavat
Astrid Bowlby
Elizabeth Brockman
Sharon Butler
Mariel Capanna
Denise Carbone
Jonathan Chase
Roger Chavez
Caitlin Cherry
Lesa Chittenden Lim
Anthony Ciambella
David Cohen
Diane Collins
Patrick Connors
Thomas Csaszar
Matthew Deleget
David Dempewolf
Steven Dufala
William Dufala
Morgan Dummitt
Dona Duncan-Wolfe
Pavel Efremoff
Chelsey Eiel
Renee Foulks
Lawrence Francis
Chie Fueki
Michael Gallagher
Michael Gibbons
Linda Gist
Alexis Granwell
Neysa Grassi
Albert Gury
Sherif Habashi
Elizabeth Hauser
Sarah Henry
Daniel Heyman
John Horn
Erik Horvitz
Darla Jackson
Alex Kanevsky
Titus Kaphar
Frederic Kaplan
Kenneth Kewley
Sharon Koelblinger
Joshua Koffman
Phyllis Laver
Kalup Linzy
Matthew Madden
Douglas Martenson
Virgil Marti
Carolina Maugeri
Jennifer McTague
Troy Michie
Daniel Miller
Michael Moore
Kate Moran
Charles Muldowney
Eileen Neff
Steven Nocella
William Noel
Ernest Norcia
Colleen O’Donnell
Michelle Oosterbaan
Roberto Osti
Sandra Perry
Sarah Peters
Jody Pinto
Carolyn Pyfrom
Rosae Reeder
Stephanie Reyer
Kevin Richards
Robert Roesch
Anthony Rosati
Jill Rupinski
Hironori Sakaguchi
Bruce Samuelson
Judith Schaechter
William Scott
Stephanie Sena
Clarissa Shanahan
Claire Sherman
Stuart Shils
Julia Staples
Joseph Sweeney
Lisa Sylvester
Maria Teicher-Dougherty
Mayumi Tomii
James Toogood
Pat Traub
Andrea Tsurumi
Peter Van Dyck
Robert Waddington
Ian Wagner
Gary Weisman
David Wiesner
Didier William
David Wilson
Ronald Wyffels
Theodore Xaras
Jayne Yantz
Staff
Denise Amaker
Brooke Anderson
Tabitha Arnold
Alma Barrantes
Shalon Baylis
Laura Beard
Keith Beekler
Michele Besso
Marita Blackney
Tara Blasser
Donald Blyler III
Anne Boisvert
Arthur Booker
Brian Boutwell
Amanda Bowman
Sophie Brenneman
David Brigham
Amani Bright
Olufumilayo Brooks
Nathanael Brouhard
Lindsay Buchman
Alison Lynn Campbell-Wise
Stephen Coleman
Ebony Collier
Aaliyah Collings
Steven Connell
Hubert Cook
Adrian Cubillas
Tuong-Vy Dang
Mostafa Darwish
Alexandria Datts
Bryan DeProspero
Anthony Decocinis
Malini Doddamani
Sean Kristoffer Domingo
Brian Duffy
Nicole Dupree
Sharlene Eleby-Gittens
Kamili Feelings
Celeste Franklin
James Gaddy
Stefan Garvin
Helen Gassmann
Janyce Glasper
Gillian Golson
Nora Granahan
Kayla Gray
Jimmie Lee Greeno
John Greig
Elizabeth Guerrero
Elizabeth Hamilton
Lisa Hamilton
Daniel Harbison
Benjamin Henderson
Richard Henderson
Melissa Hendrixson
Matthew Herzog
Morgan Hobbs
Mario Alex Ibanez
Patricia Ingersoll
Rebecca Jacob
Jennifer Johns
John David Johnson
Tie Jojima
Sam Jones
Zachary Joseph
Clint Jukkala
Melissa Kaiser
Barbara Katus
Robert Kelleher
Megan Kelly
Sheryl Ann Kessler
Abigail King
Mark Andrew Knobelsdorf
Daniel Kolodny
P Michael Kowbuz
Mari Elaine Lamp
Erica Land
Keith Leitner
Susan Liedke
Katherine Lipscomb
Joann Loviglio
Marylynn Mack
Cecily Macy
Zane Magnuson
Emily Mair
Marie Manski
Samuel Margai
Anna Marley
Kevin Martin
Gregory Martino
Anthony Martolock
LeAnne Matlach
Kathryn McCammon
Megan McCarthy
Elizabeth McDermott
Laurel McLaughlin
Mary Mcginn
Rachel Means
Peter Medwick
Juliette Meyers
Joseph Miceli
Alicia Mino-Gonzalez
Samantha Dylan Mitchell
Dana Moore
Kelli Morgan
Lindsey Murphy
Kristina Murray
Theresa Murtha
Emily Owens
Lawrence Passmore
Kathryn Petrillo
Colleen Pickup
Edward Poletti
Kaitlin Pomerantz
Sonia Prescott
Alma Radocaj
Heike Rass
Gale Rawson
Victoria Rivers
Jenna Robinson
Ellen Robley
Diego Rodriguez Carrion
Diani Safdeye
Catherine Samson
Aki Sare
Tad Sare
Samuel Schetina
Maria Sciarrino
Dana Shafer
Cheryl Shugars
Darryl Smith
Dressler Smith
Emmitt Smith
Christopher Stahl
Timothy Stapleton
Anne Stassen
Susan Sullivan
Allison Syvertsen
Laura Thistle
Jay Thistlewood
Judith Martin Thomas
Jodi Throckmorton
Alexander Till
Ysanel Torres
Hoang Tran
Peter Tran
Lois Turner
Britta Valles
Lucas Van Meter
Natalia Vieyra
Kathleen Virdone
Samuel Wagner
Laura Warnecke
Brittany Webb
Megan Webb
Sarah Weidenauer
Kawyne Williams
Leo Wong
Margaret Wood
Kathryn Young
Monica Zimmerman
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