Spring 2020 Happenings

SPRING 2020

The arts rise to the occasion

Letter from the President and CEO Dear friends, First and foremost, from the Arts and Education Council family to you, we hope you and your loved ones are healthy and well. We are thinking of you and are so appreciative of the support you have provided that allows us to support nearly 70 arts organizations that impact our community in so many ways.

The Arts and Education Council has survived many challenging times in our 57-year history, but no one has navigated a moment quite like this. Our arts organizations, large and small, are struggling as earned income from canceled galas and performances has evaporated as we comply with mandatory stay-at-home orders and heed warnings about a potentially life-threatening virus.

Right now, we are focused on ensuring that the important work of Arts and Education Council continues so that we can be here for our arts community.

This issue of Happenings provides a variety of resources for how you can support the Arts and Education Council (page3) so that we can get critical funding to our region’s arts organizations that make the St. Louis metropolitan area a wonderful place in which to live, learn, work and play. And, we will get back to doing all those things – hopefully soon. We also share how artists and arts organizations are keeping us connected, protected and entertained amid a global pandemic (page 4).

We are excited to share information about our Arts and Healing Initiative, in partnership with the Missouri Foundation for Health, which we’ll launch in June (page 7) and finally, we provide important resources for artists and arts organizations in collaboration with the Missouri Arts Council and the Regional Arts Commission (page 6).

As arts enthusiasts it’s counterintuitive for us to separate or perform without an audience; because the arts exist to bring people together for socialization, conversation, debate and joy.

ON THE COVER: Face masks created by St. Louis designer Ralph Moore.

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Today’s separation is only temporary. When we emerge from this difficult time – and we will - it will be the arts that bring us together again thanks to you and your support for the Arts and Education Council.

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SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE COVERAGE:

The arts rise to the occasion

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rtists and arts organizations

and future, called Artist Notes from a

are keeping us connected, pro-

Pandemic. They’re also offering

tected and entertained in the

art-making tutorials on their website

midst of a global pandemic. St. Louis

and social media through the Art at

artists and organizations are stepping

Home series. Artscope is also offering

up and finding innovative ways to share

art-making tutorials for young people

their art forms - from Shakespeare TV

and those young at heart.

to art tutorials St. Louisans can still enjoy our vibrant arts community from

While school is being conducted

their homes. Some artists, like fashion

remotely, art education organizations

designer Ralph Moore, are even using

are finding innovative ways to enrich

their talents to help others by making

students lives virtually. The Community

masks and face shields.

Music School offers private music lessons for all ages, levels, and abilities.

Many theater companies have had to

Students who typically meet for one-

reschedule or cancel performances due

on-one weekly sessions have transi-

to gathering limits. In response, The

tioned to online lessons. COCA, simi-

Repertory Theatre of St. Louis offered

larly, quickly pivoted to provide their

a limited-time opportunity to stream

classes in an online format. STAGES

the final performance of their studio

Performing Arts Academy also has

show “The Cake”. Shakespeare Festival

daily video and audio of opportunities

St. Louis’ 20th annual festival has been

for musical theater lovers to stay

rescheduled to Aug. 12 through Sept. 6.

involved.

While it will be several months until we can gather in Shakespeare Glen at

Across disciplines, artists are also

Forest Park, they have also rolled out a

using their craft to keep others safe.

new initiative: Shakespeare TV.

STAGES St. Louis Resident Costume Designer Brad Musgrove is leading a

Visual art organizations are stepping

team of STAGES employees makingface

up to provide virtual experiences, too.

masks from remnants of costume fab-

Contemporary Art Museum - St. Louis

ric. Tia Bible, a teacher at ArtWorks, is

has started a series of interviews with

using an Artemis 3-D 300 printer

CAM exhibiting artists, past, present

loaned to her by ArtWorks to produce

Local designer Ralph Moore wears a face mask he designed and created.

face shields for healthcare workers. The 3-D printer prints two components of the masks in less than 3 hours and up to 50 face shields a week. She is part of group working to complete 300 masks for BJC. Through STL Makers Unite for Medical Masks, Saint Louis Fashion Fund will produce 14,000 masks that meet CDC standards for hospitals that need personal protection equipment.

The initiative is led by St. Louis Fashion Fund designer-in-residence Michael Drummond.

Artists are even finding unexpected inspiration in these challenging times.

Ralph Moore, a local fashion designer, can make up to 150 masks a week – sharing people’s personalities through their masks’ designs. While Moore never anticipated that he’d be sewing custom masks, he’s up for the challenge -from super heroes to incorporating designer bags. He is selling his masks on Facebook and Instagram.

Stay tuned to our blog for a closer look at how artists and arts

Local arts organizations are creating virtual resources for people to make art at home like this video from ArtScope’s “Try This at Home” series.

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organizations are responding to COVID19. KeepArtHappening.org/blog.

What can we learn from Shakespeare while quarantined?

This article was written by Tom Ridgely, producing artistic director of

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ou might have heard a lot lately about how Shakespeare wrote King Lear while he was quarantined in London during an outbreak of the plague. He didn’t. But what he did do when the theaters closed is even more impressive—and more helpful for those of us who might not have a masterpiece of dramatic tragedy set to pour forth: He adapted.

The plague epidemic was a nearly constant fact of life in Shakespeare’s time, and it shut down the theaters repeatedly throughout his career. Along with the other London-based companies, Shakespeare’s would routinely tour the provinces when the city theaters were shuttered.

This was less of a forward evolution than a retrieval of an old business model. English playing companies had been nomadic for decades, touring a circuit of rural towns before the rise of urban public theaters in the 1570s.

But it was not the default mode of operation when a harrowing outbreak of the plague closed the London playhouses in 1592. Still, as the only hope for any kind of income under the circumstances, they wasted no time in reverting to it.

We don’t know if Shakespeare himself went out on the road with them, but we do know that what he did during the nearly two years the theaters stayed shut not only altered the trajectory of his own professional life but with it all of Western culture.

In 1592, Shakespeare had just started out as a playwright. He’d probably written early comedies like Two Gentlemen of Verona and Taming of the Shrew, as well as the three parts of Henry VI, but he was still mainly an actor, only in his late 20s, and had yet to make any kind of a name for himself.

That all changed, as swiftly and dramatically as a revelation in one of his plays. Staring down a seemingly endless period of unemployment, Shakespeare reinvented himself as an

Photo by Jody Christopherson.

Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, and originally appeared on STLMag.com. artist and a laborer. The actor-turnedplaywright turned to poetry.

With it unsafe to gather and the playhouses shuttered, he realized the only sure and remunerative way to reach an audience was in the comfort of their own homes. Luckily there was a relatively new technology at his disposal that was capable of communicating with very large numbers of people: the printing press.

For this modern medium, Shakespeare wrote something unlike anything he had before or since: an epic erotic poem called Venus and Adonis. At over 1,200 lines, it narrates the goddess of love’s seduction of the impossibly handsome young hunter in language so suggestive it can raise eyebrows and quicken pulses over 400 years later. It flew off the shelves.

The speed and magnitude of the success and its impact on his life can hardly be overstated. Suddenly “the honey-tongued Shakespeare” was on everybody’s lips. Venus and Adonis was a runaway bestseller and made its author a household name—especially among the upmarket elite who did things like read and buy books.

In 2014, the musician Sting told James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio that he was “very grateful to ‘Roxanne’ because she gave me my life. Having a hit is very difficult. Having a first hit is almost impossible.” The effect on an artist can be transformative. The freedom, confidence, and cachet that came Shakespeare’s way from his first literary hit helped launch him on arguably the greatest artistic hot streak in the history of the world.

Between this and the next major plague closure in 1603, he churned out Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and a full dozen other plays, plus another epic poem and 154 sonnets. If Venus and Adonis were Shakespeare’s Roxanne, then to the end of his days he

Shakespeare Festival St. Louis Producing Director Tom Ridgely.

must’ve been eternally grateful to them.

Which brings us back to Lear. As many have noted, the first recorded performance of the play was at King James’s court in December 1606. This followed an extended closure of the theaters that began that July due to another plague outbreak, which has apparently led to the assumption that Shakespeare wrote his magnum opus under quarantine.

In all likelihood, however, he had completed at least a version of it before the shutdown. In fact, the oft-cited Shakespearean James Shapiro writes in his book The Year of Lear that “the evidence suggests” the play was “begun by the autumn of 1605” and premiered at the Globe in “the early months of 1606”. And that is the scholarly consensus. Which means that he actually wrote it in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, or Jacobean England’s version of 9/11.

So don’t feel bad if you haven’t written your King Lear in the last three weeks.

(You should’ve written that in October 2001). It’s much more likely that Shakespeare spent the four months of enforced seclusion in 1606 finishing off Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. He no doubt wanted to be sure he had a fresh batch of new plays ready for whenever the “inhibition” was lifted, the theaters reopened, and box offices started humming again.

For him, it was just another way of doing what we all now have to do: adapt.

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Resource Page A list of resources for artists and arts organizations compiled in collaboration with the Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Arts Council and the Arts and Education Council. Please click through on the links for more information. These resources change daily so check back often.

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American Alliance of Museums

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Americans for the Arts

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Art House Convergence

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American Society of Journalists & Authors

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Artist Relief

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Artists’ Fellowship, Inc.

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Arts Education Partnership

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Authors League Fund

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Bagby Foundation for Musical Arts

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Artist Relief Fund

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Arts Ready

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ArtsKC

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Blues Foundation HART Fund

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CARES Act via National Endowment for the Arts

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Broadcasters’ Foundation of America

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Devos Institute of Arts Management, University of Maryland

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Carnegie Fund for Authors

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Film Festival Alliance

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CERF+ Emergency Relief Fund for Artists

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Grantmakers in the Arts

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League of American Orchestras

COVID-19 and Freelance Artists

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National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness & Emergency Response

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Dancers’ Resource

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Directors Guild Foundation

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Dramatists Guild Foundation

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NonProfitPRO, A huge mistake nonprofits make in preparing for COVID-19

Episcopal Actors Guild of America

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Foundation for Contemporary Arts

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Performing Arts Readiness

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Freedimensional

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TechSoup,

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Grand Ole Opry Trust Fund

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Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts (VLAA)

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Human Rights Watch

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Jazz Foundation of America

For Both Organizations and Artists

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Emergency Grant

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Artists at Risk Connection:

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Lifetime Arts

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Creative Capital

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Midwest Artist Project Services (MAPS)

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Motion Picture and Television Fund

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Music Maker Relief Foundation

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MusiCares Foundation

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Musicians Foundation

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National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

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Actors Fund of America: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc. American Federation of Musicians (AFM): Lester Petrillo Memorial Fund for Disabled Musicians

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American Guild of Musical Artists Relief Fund

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National Alliance for Musical Theatre

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American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA):

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RAC Artist Relief Fund

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American Poets Fund

Rauschenberg Emergency Grants

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Renaissance Entertainers, Services, and Crafters United Foundation (RESCU)

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Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Emergency Medical and Legal Fund

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Screen Actors Guild Foundation

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Sweet Relief Musicians Fund

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Teaching Artist Guild

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The Artists’ Charitable Fund

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The Haven Foundation

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The PEN Writers Fund

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Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Assistance Fund (MPPAF)

For children and families During this time, the kids in your life might also be missing what the arts bring to their lives. We’re excited to share some fun activities that children can do at home by themselves and together as a family. Check the Arts and Education Council’s blog frequently as resources are being added often.

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Arts and Education Council coloring page

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Artscope tutorials

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Class 103.7 Musical Ancestries

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Metro Theater Company’s Online Learning Resources

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The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’ Play At Home

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STAGES Performing Arts Academy

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The Sheldon Study Guides

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Springboard to learning

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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Instrument Playground

PROGRAMS:

Arts and Healing Initiative to launch in June

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n 2019, the Arts and Education Council received a five-

the arts have a critical role in improving an individual’s

year grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health to

health and social well-being. Arts in health and healing is

launch an Arts and Healing Initiative. This Initiative may

the addition of any art form to a variety of healthcare and

improve the quality of life for people throughout St. Louis

community settings for therapeutic, educational, and

City and County in its first year, and other Missouri counties

expressive purposes with a proven benefit to patients, their

in subsequent years.

families and their caregivers.

The initiative will provide grants to 501(c)(3) organiza-

This initiative is a unique opportunity to define arts-

tions who have a primary mission to provide programs or

based healing in the St. Louis region and beyond. As such,

activities in areas directly concerned with arts, arts educa-

program participants will drive a shared process to define

tion, health, healing and well-being, cultural heritage and/or

healing over the course of the initiative.

health equity.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis in health care The purpose of the Arts and Education Council’s Arts

access may change the method of delivering arts and heal-

and Healing Initiative is to improve the quality of life for

ing programs to participants. Now more than ever people

people throughout our Missouri region. The Arts and

will look for ways to heal, emotionally and physically, from a

Education Council echoes the World Health Organization’s

national pandemic.

assertion that a holistic view of health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being rather than merely the absence of disease or infirmity. We believe

To receive information about the initiative please visit KeepArtHappening.org/what-we-do/grants/arts-and-heal-

Photo courtesy Jazz St. Louis.

ing-initiative.

A partnership between Washington University Neurofibromatosis (NF1) Center and Jazz St. Louis (an Arts and Education Council grantee), developed BeatNF—the only music therapy program in the country for toddlers with NF1. Dr. David Gutmann, director of the Washington University Neurofibromatosis Center, serves on the Arts and Healing Advisory Committee.

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Circle of Giving

CELEBRATE:

2021 St. Louis Arts Awards - Our 30th year!

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$25,000+ Penny Pennington and Mike Fidler

n 1992, the St. Louis Arts Awards debuted at the Ritz-

$10,000 - $24,999

Carlton Hotel and was an instant hit. Created by Pat Rich,

Anonymous (2) Mr. Kevin D. Bastien Louis D. Beaumont Fund No. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Ferrari PNC Foundation

then president of the Arts and Education Council, the

event served to shine a spotlight on the depth and breadth of the diversity of the arts throughout our region.

Photo provided.

Now as we plan for the 30th anniversary of the St. Louis Arts Awards, Pat Rich returns as our Honorary Chair. Plan to join us on Monday, January 25 Royal Sonesta Hotel as we gather and celebrate our region’s resiliency and creativity.

Do you know an artist, educator, philanthropist, corporate citizen or organization that has enriched our arts and cultural community?

Nominate them for a St. Louis Arts Award!

Pat Rich, founder of the St. Louis Arts Awards in 1992 and 2021 event Honorary Chair.

Nominations are open through April 30: KeepArtHappening.org/Nominate.

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January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020

$5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous Admiral and Mrs. Kevin R. Alm Mr. Mark C. Anderson and Ms. Cary D. Hobbs BTD & Company, LLC Mr. Tim Burke Ms. Patricia M. Carter Confluence Charter Schools Mr. Thomas Curran Mr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Hill Mr. Scott Miller Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Niemann Regional Business Council Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Ross Mr. and Mrs. Jim D. Weddle

$2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous AT&T Mr. and Mrs. Craig J. Basler Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Boedges Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Buckley Mr. Matt W. Burkemper Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Dahlstrom Mr. and Mrs. Tom B. Domian Mr. Jonathan Dutton Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Ellenhorn Mr. Andrew Greenberg Mrs. Tina Hrevus Mr. and Mrs. C. Brendan Johnson Mr. Alan Kindsvater Mr. and Mrs. Eric B. Koestner Mr. Richard D. Link Judge Daniel Pelikan and Mrs. Lisa Pelikan

Ms. Elizabeth S. Powitzky Mr. John F. Rahal Mr. Tim Rea Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Roberts Ms. Terry M. Schmittgens Mr. and Mrs. David E. Williams

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Mr. and Mrs. John Peters MacCarthy Ms. Deborah Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. McBride Mr. and Mrs. Steve C. Melichar Mr. and Mrs. Andrew T. Miedler Mr. Matthew J. Mikula Mr. Vince J. Milnes Ms. Neuka B. Mitchell Ms. Samantha Muncy and Mr. Phillip Orndorff Mr. Chad Nolan Ms. Maria C. O’Brien Ms. Stacie Owens Ms. Lisa L. Peel and Mr. Joseph R. Stremlau Emily Rauh Pulitzer Mr. Todd J. Purdy Mr. David Reifschneider Mr. Johnnie E. Roland, Jr. Dr. Vicki L. Sauter Mr. Harry Dalton Schumacher Mr. Steve Sherwood Mr. Michael Sigmond Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Thurman, Jr. Ms. Katherine Sundararaman Mr. William Swanson The Muny Theatre Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Thoma Mr. Cody Vardeman Mr. and Mrs. James T. Vieth Caren Vredenburgh Charitable Fund at Schwab Charitable Mr. Scott E. Weindel Mr. David P. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Williams

Mr. Joe Bergan Ms. Melanie L. Boehne Ms. Mary Pat Brown Busey Bank Ms. Natalie A. Calandro Mr. Patrick J. Chanod Mrs. Marty Chapman Ms. Dana R. Cooley Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design Mr. John M. Davis Ms. Irasa L. Downing Mr. Tom M. Egan, Jr. Mrs. Bettie Gershman Dr. Margaret P. Gilleo and Mr. Charles J. Guenther, Jr. Mr. Ross Hage Mr. and Mrs. Jason Hansen Mr. Steven M. Heffington Mr. Mark Hoppe Ms. Naretha Hopson Mr. and Mrs. Tim Hosler Mr. Russell Jackson, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Jones Mr. Thomas C. Kersting Mrs. Constance J. Little Dr. Julia K. Muller and Mr. Earl K. Shreckengast David Obedin and Clare Davis Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Panchot Mr. Patrick E. Poole Mr. Chris Pope Mr. Tom Ridgely Saint Louis Fashion Fund Ms. Anita M. Siegmund Stephen W. and Linda Skrainka Ms. Kristen Steffens Mr. Daniel L. Stone

2020 Board of Directors CHAIR Caren Vredenburgh VICE CHAIRS Curtis Cassel Kenneth Haller, M.D. SECRETARY Nicole Hudson TREASURER Deanna Hohman MEMBERS Mark C. Anderson Susan Block Sara B. Burke Sheila Burkett

Jeffrey Carter, M.D. Chris Cedergreen Kendall Coyne Chris Dornfeld Terrance J. Good Jason Hall Marcela Manjarrez Hawn Naretha Hopson C. Brendan Johnson Kenneth Kranzberg Linda Lee Brad Liebman Debbie Marshall Neuka B. Mitchell Gordon Myers Janet Newcomb

Kit Sundararaman Solomon Thurman, Jr. David Weiss Keith Tyrone Williams LIFETIME BOARD MEMBERS Len Eschbach Barbara B. Goodman EX-OFFICIO Cynthia A. Prost, President and CEO Alexandra Schenk, Young Friends of the Arts President

Young Friends of the Arts Board PRESIDENT Alexandra Schenk

SECRETARY Rebecca Punselie

VICE PRESIDENT Tara Campbell

TREASURER Carla Johnson

MEMBERS Natalie Calandro Anita Hansen Anthony Omosule Andrew Pandji Adam Stanley Jason Vasser-Elong

Staff PRESIDENT AND CEO Cynthia A. Prost

MARKETING MANAGER Andie Murphy

VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT Kate Francis

CAMPAIGN AND EVENTS MANAGER Rhiannon Chavez

DIRECTOR OF GRANTS AND PROGRAMS Cynthia P. Davis

DEVELOPMENT AND DATABASE MANAGER Tonya Hahne

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Jessie Youngblood

OFFICE MANAGER/ EXECUTIVE SUPPORT Jessica Kilmade

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT Debbie Akins GRANTS AND PROGRAMS COORDINATOR Jessireé Jenkins DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Jessica Caldwell

$500 - $999 *Boards and staff as of April 14, 2020

Anonymous (2) Ms. Marina Allen Mr. Matt Armentrout

Tenants of the Centene Center for the Arts

To make your gift to the Arts and Education Council, visit KeepArtHappening.org or contact Kate Francis, vice president of development, at 314.289.4003 or Kate-F@KeepArtHappening.org.

Peter H. Bunce* • Ann M. Corrigan Joseph E. Corrigan • Barbara Grace* Shirley A. Heiman • Karen J. Isbell James A. Krekeler • Glenn Sheffield* Judith Cozad Smith • Jane Stamper* Trust Michael W. Weisbrod • David P. Weiss

Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis African Heritage Association of St. Louis, Inc. American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Association of American Voices Bach Society of Saint Louis Black Tulip Chorale Cinema St. Louis Creative Reaction Lab ERA

Gateway Men’s Chorus Intercultural Music Initiative Make Music St. Louis, Inc. Open Studio Network Prison Performing Arts SATE Sharon Hunter Productions St. Louis Classical Guitar Upstream Theater YoungLiars

*deceased

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