ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2024
44,000: that’s the number of people who visited the Currier Museum of Art in Fiscal Year 2024.
Every one of these individuals has a story. There are the families who made new memories at one of our free “Second Saturday” programs. There are the students who took their first step into the museum as part of a school tour, discovering moments of awe. There are the participants in the Currier’s signature Art and Wellness programs, tapping into the healing power of creativity. There are the community members who engaged with world-class artists at exhibition openings. I could go on and on. This museum is full of stories of impact, inspiration, and transformation.
As President of the Board of Trustees, I am proud of the many ways this museum changes lives.
a letter from leadership
This Annual Report provides a snapshot of the Currier from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. Whether you celebrate the exhibitions we hosted, the great works of art we acquired, or the public programs we offered, you will rediscover what we all know to be true: the Currier is so much more than a museum. In bringing people together around the arts, we create a ripple effect of positive change that extends well beyond our walls.
You will also see how the Currier thrives in an ecosystem of generosity. As we look ahead to our goals for the future, I also encourage you to recognize your unique role as a champion for the arts. With Jordana Pomeroy as our new Director CEO, this is a pivotal moment of opportunity for the Currier. I invite you to be part of it.
Steve Duprey Currier Board of Trustees President
aquisition highlights
ROMÉO MIVEKANNIN
African (Ivory Coast), b. 1986
Santa Casilda, after Francisco de Zurbarán, 2023
Acrylic and elixir bath on unstretched canvas
Henry Melville Fuller Fund
MARY GRIGORIADIS
American, b. 1942
Prairie Song, 1980
Oil on raw linen
Henry Melville Fuller Fund
JEFFREY GIBSON
American, b. 1972
If You Are Looking You Will Find It, 2023
Repurposed punching bag, acrylic felt, glass beads, plastic bone pipe beads, artificial sinew, and nylon fringe
Henry Melville Fuller Fund
ROMÉO MIVEKANNIN
African (Ivory Coast), b. 1986
Les Augures, after Jan Raes II and Peter Paul Rubens, 2022
Pigments, acrylic and elixir bath on free canvas
Henry Melville Fuller Fund
ELLA WALKER
English, b. 1993
Dream, Queen of the Night, 2022
Acrylic dispersion, pigment, chalk and pencil on linen
Henry Melville Fuller Fund
The Visitation, 2022
Acrylic dispersion, pigment, chalk and pencil on canvas
Henry Melville Fuller Fund
ANDREA BOWERS
American, b. 1965
We Are Part of Nature, Not Outside of It. What We Do to the Earth, We Do to Ourselves (quote by Petra Kelly, original illustration by Henry Justice Ford from the Pink Fairy Book, 1897), 2022
Acrylic on cardboard Henry Melville Fuller Fund
SANAA GATEJA
Ugandan, b. 1950
Home, 2021 paper, acrylic, stitched on barkcloth Henry Melville Fuller Fund
HEW LOCKE
English, b. 1959
Gravesend, 2019 wood and mixed media Henry Melville Fuller Fund
SHILPA GUPTA
Indian, b. 1976
Untitled, 2021 polymer resin, wood Henry Melville Fuller Fund
EILEEN AGAR
Argentine-British, 1899-1991
Self-Portrait, 1952 oil on board Henry Melville Fuller Fund
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ
American, 1954-1992
Untitled, 1987 (printed 2024) 3 gelatin silver prints
Ed and Mary Scheier Fund
GIFT OF SANDRA TORP STAFFORD
University of New Hampshire Class of 1962, a former student of the Scheiers
EDWIN SCHEIER AND MARY SCHEIER
American, 1910-2008 and 1908-2007
Two mugs with horse designs, c. 1960
Glazed redware
GIFT OF SUSAN STRICKLER
JOHN BADGER BACHELDER
American, 1825-1894
Amoskeag Falls, Manchester, N.H., 1856
Lithograph
GIFT OF THOMAS ADAMS
PAULUS BERENSOHN
American, 1933-2017
Bowl stoneware
ANONYMOUS GIFT
TOMIE DE PAOLA
American, 1934-2020
109 drawings for the following books:
An Early American Christmas (5)
Christopher, The Holy Giant (15)
David and Goliath (3)
Frida Kahlo: The Artist Who Painted
Herself (26)
George Washington’s Breakfast (1)
Get Dressed, Santa (8)
Haircuts for the Woolseys (1)
Hide-And-Seek All Week (18)
Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato (4)
Jamie O’Rourke and the Pooka (15)
The Holy Twins (10)
The Hunter and the Animals (3)
ANONYMOUS GIFT
TOMIE DE PAOLA
American, 1934-2020
21 drawings from the following books:
The Art Lesson
Christopher, The Holy Giant (2)
Francis, The Poor Man of Assisi
The Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica
The Hunter and the Animals: (2)
The Lady of Guadalupe
The Legend of Old Befana
The Legend of the Bluebonnet
Marianna May and Nursery
The Parables of Jesus
Petook: An Easter Story
The Quilt Story: (2)
Strega Nona Meets her Match (2)
Strega Nona Takes a Vacation (2)
Tattie’s River Journey
Tomie de Paola’s Book of Poems
GIFT OF CAROL PERERA WEINGEIST
JACK O’LEARY
American, 1918-1982
Shallow Bowl
porcelain
Vase
stoneware
Teapot stoneware
exhibitions
Distant Conversations 1: Ella Walker and Betty Woodman
JULY 15, 2023 – OCTOBER 22, 2023
The exhibition combines the work of British artist Ella Walker (b. 1993, lives and works in London, UK) and American artist Betty Woodman (1930-2018), who use art-historical references in their work to revisit a male-dominated history of Western art and subvert its dominant narrative.
Walker’s imagery, very much like Woodman’s, collapses conventional readings of time. Both artists blend multiple styles to develop a visual language that becomes uniquely their own.
The artistic dialogue between Walker and Woodman is recreated in the galleries by juxtaposing their work in a suggestive and poetic manner without rigid separations.
The exhibition features a dozen artworks by each artist, including ceramics, installations, canvases, and works on paper.
Fabricating Modernism: Prints from the School of Paris
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 – JANUARY 7, 2024
The artworks in this exhibition constitute a small portion of an extensive collection of prints committed to the Currier Museum of Art. Most of these prints are dated from after World War II and created by artists working in the United States and Paris.
Given the vast breadth of the collection, we have selected objects illustrating the collector’s passion for artists working in his beloved Paris, such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Sonia Delaunay, and Georges Rouault.
We are delighted to share with our community this initial selection of works, introducing them to this important and previously unseen private collection.
The School of Paris
The School of Paris (French: École de Paris) refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. Considered by many as the cultural capital of Europe, Paris was also one of the first global cities.
Its multicultural and polyglot art community included many Americans, like artists Gertrude Stein, Sam Francis, Al Held, and Joan Mitchell, along with writers James Baldwin and Ernest Hemingway, to name a few.
Support by Tamar Krichevsky and Mike Rosen.
Sanaa Gateja: Selected Works
OCTOBER 6, 2023 – JANUARY 14, 2024
Prior to becoming one of the most prominent artists in East Africa, Sanaa Gateja (Ugandan, b. 1950) studied interior design in Italy and jewelry design at Goldsmiths in London. His intricate works oscillate between abstraction and figuration.
Each composition is a new exploration, a novel exercise in shaping forms or patterns with color and vice versa. Gateja’s art is primarily created using beads made from recycled paper, which he rolls, dyes, and affixes to bark cloth. This signature technique has earned him the nickname “the Bead King” in his home country, and for the last thirty years, he has taught it to local communities and across the entire region.
For his skill-sharing, teaching, and mentoring, which has resulted in the creation of new employment opportunities in rural areas, the artist was awarded the 2016 Bayimba Honors for philanthropic work.
This exhibition closely follows his inclusion in the 58th Carnegie International and his first solo show, at Karma in New York City.
Support provided by the Kimon & Anne Zachos Exhibition Fund.
Heart of a Museum
OCTOBER 19, 2023 – FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Saya Woolfalk’s (American, b. 1979) commission for the Currier Museum of Art investigates the history of the institution and revisits its iconography and original design.
The mosaics adorning the former main entrance of the Currier (designed by Salvatore Lascari in 1929–1930) constitute the starting point for this new installation by Woolfalk, which reimagines the Western art canon’s singular cultural perspective.
The artwork conceived by the artist for the Currier combines video projections, sculptural forms made of glass, wallpaper, and sound –creating an immersive environment where the viewer is invited to voyage, rest, and meditate as if in a sensorial temple.
About the Artist
Born in Japan and based in New York City, Woolfalk’s multimedia work investigates race relations, sexuality, and multiculturalism through the lenses of hybridity.
Generously supported by Pamela A. Harvey.
Toward the New: A Journey into Abstraction
NOVEMBER 16, 2023 – MARCH 31, 2024
In its enduring commitment to reinterpreting its museum holdings and proposing new perspectives, the Currier Museum of Art presents a new collection-based exhibition looking at the long journey toward abstraction that encompasses its many manifestations.
Many painters celebrated the physical properties of paint for its own sake – its thickness, texture, color – beyond its historic role as a transmitter of visual information, while sculptors used modern materials and industrial processes. Artists featured in this exhibition employed a variety of tools for inspiration, including complex compositional formulas, bold geometric forms, experiments in visual perception and arbitrary color, and the unconscious.
Many of the Currier’s all-time favorites are included in the show, such as Pablo Picasso’s Woman Seated in a Chair (1941), Josef Albers’s Homage to the Square: Early Rising I (1961), Alexander Calder’s Petit Disque Jaune (1967), and Joan Mitchell’s Cous-cous (1961–1962).
Generously supported by Carol Almeda-Morrow and Joseph Morrow II and by John F. Swope.
Stories of the Sea
FEBRUARY 1, 2024 – NOVEMBER 3, 2024
The Currier is thrilled to present Stories of the Sea, a new show that brings together a number of extraordinary loans with a wide array of artworks and objects from the museum’s permanent collection in order to explore various maritime themes.
The selection spans the 16th century to the present day, and includes dramatic seascapes painted in the Romantic tradition; images of steamers and transoceanic travels, referencing migration and tourism; representations of harbors and shipyards; and poetic tributes to the hardships endured by men working at sea.
Stories of the Sea also looks at the ways in which women have been conventionally depicted by the Western art canon in relation to the sea. Although at times seductive and mysterious, as in the case of mermaids and mythological sea monsters, women are more often presented as melancholic and pensive, waiting in anguish ashore for the return of their men. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Cross by the Sea, Canada (1932), one of the most beloved paintings in the Currier’s collection, stands out in this section.
Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
FEBRUARY 23, 2024 – MAY 27, 2024
Organized by the New Britain Museum of American Art and The Museum Box, Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) features 15 works on paper by Kara Walker.
In 2005, Walker worked in collaboration with the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies in New York to produce Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), a portfolio of 15 prints that considers experiences of racism toward African Americans that were absent or only alluded to in historical representations of the Civil War.
Each print in the portfolio is an enlargement of a woodcut plate from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Chicago, 1862), overlaid with Walker’s silkscreen cutout figures rendered in solid black silhouette. She surfaces race and gender-based biases, highlights profound sociopolitical inequalities, and brings to the fore a silenced history of violence that complicate the initial narrative.
This exhibition constitutes an important opportunity to revisit the history of the antebellum South and the ensuing Civil War through the contemporary lenses of race, slavery, gender, and politics.
All works courtesy of the New Britain Museum of American Art. This exhibition is generously supported by Emily Leff in memory of James L Davis, III. Additional support by Benjamin and Karina Kelley.
I live a journey of a thousand years: Raphael Barontini
MARCH 7, 2024 – JUNE 23, 2024
The exhibition comprises about twenty works and is Raphaël Barontini’s largest presentation to date at a US institution. Closely following the commission entitled We Could be Heroes at the Panthéon in Paris – part of the Carte blanche series organized by France’s National Monuments Center – the exhibition at the Currier features La Bataille de Vertières (2023) as its centerpiece, a monumental 65-foot-wide painting that first premiered inside the Panthéon and will be on view in the US for the first time.
The exhibition title paraphrases a passage from the poem Calendrier lagunaire, published in 1982 by the late Martinican author and politician Aimé Césaire, which reads: “I dwell in a thousand-year journey.”
This is a journey that Barontini feels he is living, alongside those whose life experiences result from uprooting and displacement, and whose identities have been forged by encounters with other cultures through processes of creolization. These processes were described by Martinique-born French philosopher Édouard Glissant as a complex entanglement of different cultures forced into cohabitation, as in the case of the Antilles and other countries in the Caribbean.
La Bataille de Vertières is complemented by recent work from US private collections and several new pieces created specifically for the Currier Museum.
This exhibition is generously supported by M. Christine Dwyer and Michael Huxtable.
Distant Conversations 2: Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe
APRIL 13, 2024 – SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe: A Distant Conversation is a new exhibition that pairs the work of painter Filippo de Pisis (Italian, 1896–1956) and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946–1989) as part of Distant Conversations, a series that features artists engaging in intergenerational dialogues across barriers of time and space.
The Currier brings together 42 artworks by de Pisis, between paintings and works on paper, in what is effectively the largest exhibition of his work ever staged on US soil. His artworks will be displayed in tandem with 38 photographs by Mapplethorpe.
This exhibition is generously supported by Jay Surdukowski. Additional support by the Kimon and Anne Zachos Exhibition Fund. Support by Tamar Krichevsky and Mike Rosen.
Elisabeth Kley: Cymodocea
MAY 16, 2024 – AUGUST 25, 2024
Elisabeth Kley’s new installation, titled Cymodocea – a sea grass that lives in warm water that is increasingly diffused due to global warming – combines her signature ceramic sculptures with wall paintings, effectively creating an environment rich with references that span classical times to the history of modernism. This striking black-andwhite installation will be interspersed with a selection of Kley’s bold works on paper, giving further insight into how the artist consistently explored the history of decoration and patterns throughout her career.
In 2019, Kley stated: “I spend hours in museums obsessively photographing anything I might use. […] I’ve found inspiration in sources including Coptic and Islamic textiles, Fortuny and Wiener Werkstätte design and South Pacific tapa cloth. Right now, I’m concentrating on Greece and Rome, mixed in with ancient Egypt.” Much of these influences will be incorporated into her installation at the Currier.
The exhibition is generously supported by Outer Space Arts in Concord, NH. Elisabeth Kley is represented by CANADA (NYC).
donors and members
CURRIER SOCIETY
COLLECTOR’S CIRCLE
DONATIONS
$15,000 AND ABOVE
Michael and Anna Costa
Andy Crews
Stephen Duprey
M. Christine Dwyer and Michael Huxtable
Bonnie and William Greiner
Pamela A. Harvey
Ben and Karina Kelley
Jim Knowles
Suzanne and Laurence S. Knowlton Jr
Patricia Sullivan Meyers
Peter and Robin Milnes
John and Françoise Morison
Michael E. Muller
Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley
John F. Swope
Anonymous
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
DONATIONS
$10,000 AND ABOVE
Carol Almeda-Morrow
Pamela Diamantis and Morey Goodman
David and Dorothea Jensen
Emily Leff
Anne Lovett and Steve Woodsum
Susan and John Lynch
Jessica McKeon
Greg Soghikian
Susan Strickler
Jay Surdukowski
CURATOR’S CIRCLE
DONATIONS
$5,000 AND ABOVE
Rick and Renee Botnick
Emily and Wilson Brunkhurst
Michael J. Duffy II and Stephen C. Cornish
Jonathan P. Formanek
Karen and Joseph Graham
Elizabeth and Ralph F. Holmes, in honor of the Educators at the Currier
Museum of Art
David and Susan Odland
Patrick and Kendra O’Donnell
Elizabeth Richter and Matthew Stover
Bill Stelling and William Siroty
William W. Upton
Patricia Wentworth and Mark Fagan
Anonymous
FRIEND’S CIRCLE
DONATIONS
$1,500 AND ABOVE
Douglas and Ellen Benjamin
Eleanor Briggs
Howard and Joan Brodsky
Leo and Eileen Brunk
Jeanine Chau
Jon Cohen
Peter Conrad and Janice Marchut Conrad
James and Ann Conway
Dan and Lisa Cronin
Harte and Ann Crow
Diane Davidson and William Weidacher
Roger Dignard
Patrick Duffy and Jaye Gibson
Denise D. Dyer
Ryan and Shannon Earley
Dr. Louis I. Fink and Dr. Pamela L. Grich, in honor of Elizabeth B. Richter
Meghan and Jason Fleming
Robert A. Hechtel
John David and Terry Heinzmann
Richard and Janice Higgins
Marilyn and Alan Hoffman
Pauline A. Ikawa
Randy and Tina Kinard
Alan and Ellen Korpi
Tamar Krichevsky and Mike Rosen
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Karen Matthews
Bruce McColl and Rane Hall
Andy and Linda McLane
Lawrence Morgan
David J. and Kathleen R. Murray
Peter Nelson
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Robert Oot and Carol Robey
Mark and Kathryn Parenti
Thomas and Barbara Putnam
Judith and John Ransmeier
Leslie Richardson and Steven Lionel
Gary Samson
F. Doyle Skeels and Karen Wendell
Steven A. Solomon
Tom and Chris Stevens
Richard and Ann Thorner
Lori Tiernan
James E. Townsend
Judy Unger-Clark and John Clark
Lisa and Alex Walker
Todd Wheatley
Dr. Jim Wolcott and Mrs. Jocelyn
Jerry-Wolcott
Dov Zakheim and Deborah Bing
FOUNDATIONS
Arbella Insurance Foundation
The Benevity Community Impact Fund
Norwin S. and Elizabeth N. Bean Foundation
Bird Control Services, Inc.
The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston City of Manchester
Ray and Olga Cote Fund
The Currier Fund
Arthur and Olive Dobles Foundation
The Duffy Educational Fund
The Greenspan Foundation
E. Fay Jones Conservancy
Lincoln Financial Foundation
Henry Lord Scholarship Fund
Asbjorn Lunde Foundation
NH Charitable Foundation
NH State Council on the Arts
Oleonda Jameson Trust
Omron Foundation, Inc.
Pamela Diamantis and Morey Goodman
Swimming With a Mission, Inc.
TD Charitable Foundation
Town Fair Tire Foundation
Vermont Mutual Insurance Foundation
COMPANIES
3W Design Inc.
Art Bridges Incorporated
Baker Newman & Noyes
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of New England
Catholic Medical Center
CGI Business Solutions
Citizens Bank
Concord Public Library Consuelo’s LLC
Don Quijote Restaurant Inc.
The Duprey Companies
Eisenberg Vital & Ryze
Energy Controls of NH LLC
Fidelity Investments
Fiduciary Trust of New England
Fine Homes Group International
Granite State Poker Alliance, LLC.
The Gyro Spot Food Truck
Hannaford Supermarkets
Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Kelley Family Properties
M&T Bank
Milestone Engineering and Construction, Inc.
Northeast Delta Dental
Optisure Risk Partners LLC.
Outer Space
Prime, Buchholz & Associates, Inc.
Red Oak Apartment Homes, LLC
Red River Theatres Service Credit Union
Shaheen & Gordon, P.A.
Shaw’s
Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green
St. Mary’s Bank
Wieczorek Insurance
MATCHING GIFTS
Medtronic
HENRY MELVILLE FULLER SOCIETY
Robert and Nancy Baker
Warren G. Bender
Eleanor Briggs
Wayne Cardoza
Marston Chase
Peter Conrad and Janice Marchut Conrad
Raymond G. and Olga Cote
Pamela Diamantis and Morey Goodman
Patrick Duffy and Jaye Gibson
M. Christine Dwyer and Michael Huxtable
Tom and Peg Gaillard
May Gruber
Pamela A. Harvey
Donald Logan and Patricia Howard
David and Dorothea Jensen
Denise M. Johnson
Tamar Krichevsky and Mike Rosen
Irene R. Lover
Francis Mason, Ph.D.
John F. McCarthy
Jean P. McMillen
John and Françoise Morison
Thomas and Barbara Putnam
Ms. Emily J. Savery
Harry and Barbara Shepler
Steven A. Solomon
Susan Strickler
Jay Surdukowski
John F. Swope
Bill* and Jean Tallman
Richard and Ann Thorner
William W. Upton
Joan H. White*
Helen* and Sumner Winebaum*
Marjorie Milne Winston*
Dr. and Mrs. Harry Wollman
Kimon* and Anne Zachos*
*Deceased. Omissions possible.
trustees, staff, and guild
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OFFICERS
Stephen Duprey, President
Jay Surdukowski, Vice President
Thomas Silvia, Treasurer
TRUSTEES
Carol Almeda-Morrow
Rick Botnick
Michael N. Costa
Pamela Diamantis
M. Christine Dwyer
Jeffrey D. Gilbert
Pauline Ikawa
David Jensen
Ben Kelley
Laurence Knowlton
Tracy Kozak
Emily Leff
Susan Lynch
Jessica McKeon
Peter Milnes
John H. Morison
Bill Stelling
William Upton
Patricia Wentworth
EMERITI
Patrick Duffy
Kendra O’Donnell
John F. Swope
STAFF
Nadiya Abdi
Kenneth Abrahms
Jeffrey Allen
Mustafa Alrais
Elisabeth Auffant
Larissa Bazarova
Jane Beaulieu
Corinne Benfield
Lauren Boisvert
Brad Bousquet
Hunter Boyce
Beth Brisson
Carole Caldwell
Caroline Cannata
Nathan Caryl
Alexandra Cave
Chris Chakas
Judith Chakas
Brendan Chatfield
Lucille Chmura
Matthew Dadmun
Esther De Hollander
Tami Despres
Pamela DiFloures
Kayla Doan
Shannon Dodge
Nicole Doherty
Emmett Donlon
Melissa Dunham
Kathleen Erkkila
Claire Fadness
Lorenzo Fusi
Camille Gibson
Nicole Goodwin
DAVID Goudreault
Ella Grablewski
Isaac Grablewski
Oliver Grablewski
Karen Graham
Daniel Griffin
Henry Griffin
Lauren Hellman
Jeanne Herz
Andrew Huang
Barbara Jaus
Alana Johanson
William Johnston
Donna Karolian
Samantha Kimball
Anushka Koirala
Valerie Laker
Molly Lastra
Anne Lederhos
Barbara Liesenbein
Charles Lippman
Corie Lyford
Matthew MacDonald
John Maguire
Eric Maille
Erin Manning
Megan Marcotte
Mark Martin
Bruce McColl
Eve McColl
Iris McColl
Patrick McKeown
Denise Monaghan
Rachel Montroy
Zachary Moore
Aubrey Mueller
Mark Nelson
Layla Neveu
Alexandra Nichols
Kristine Nyhan
John O’Shaughnessy
Rachael O’Shaughnessy
Ava Ostrander
Karen Papineau
Jessica Pappathan
Patricia Perkins-Wiley
Michelle Peterson
Kathryn Pritchard
Melissa Richard
Lori Rollason
Holly Rousseau
July Rubiano Madrid
Majed Sabri
Valeria Sakwa
Carolin Sanchez
Nicholas Signorelli
Ronald Sklutas
Holly Sloane
Nicole Snyder
Kashi Somayeh
Kaitlin Stanton
Mingyi Sun
Kurt Sundstrom
Cole Tortorice
Nya Trudelle
Tony Valentin
Kathryn Vozzella
Morgan Zick
GUILD
Arlene Amendolara
Dael Angelico-Hart
Scott Aquilina
Nancy Baker
James Bennett
Jane Bentas
Pauline Bogaert
Gloria Bouchard
Michael Chamberlain
Sarah Chamberlain
Sandra Chandonnet
Eleanor Chmiel
Donna Clougherty
Nancy Colageo
Mimi Crowley
Marilyn Davison
Roger Dignard
Julia DiStefano
Chelsea Donahue
Sally Douglass
Yvonne Dunham
Denise Dyer
David Feltus
Susan Feltus
Aletheia Fischer
Flo Fitzgerald
Michael Gfroerer
Frances Gray
Pam Harvey
Terry Heinzmann
John Herper
Jane Hills
Angela Hoke
Carolyn Hollman
Betsy Holmes
Pat Howard
Nancy Johnson
Saori Kanayama
Karina Kelley
Elizabeth Keroack
Tamar Krichevsky
Susanne Larkham
Kathi Levine
Barbara Liesenbein
Aline Lotter
Diane McEntee
Nancy McGaan
Judy McKenna
Josephine McMahon
Muriel McMillan
Chris McNamara
Pat Meyers
Heather Milliman-Phillips
Louise Monast
Daniel T Moran
Lawrence Morgan
Mary Morrison
Pat Morrison
Karen Moss
Peter Nelson
Suzanne Paquin
Pam Parrot
Ted Parrot
Hannah Perutz
Roland Pothier
Donna Potterfield
Geeta Prabhakar
Emily Preston
Judith Ransmeier
Patricia Reigstad
Ann Richardson
Ámbar Ruiz
Paul Sarcione
Dorothy Savery
Paula Schmida
Eileen Scullin
Sally Shea
Joan Sheldon
Barbara Shepler
Karen Smith
Jeanne Smith-Cripps
Jane Sobolov
Steve Solomon
Nancy Stewart
Dayna Talbot
Kate Thompson
Carol Tingleff
Jim Townsend
Sandra Townsend
Kimberlee Tyndall
Elizabeth Van Lauwe
Michelle Varga
Elizabeth Volpone
Harry Watt
Susan Woods
Nancy Zadravec
art &wellness programs
Expressions Through Art
Expressions Through Art provides a joyful and creative experience for people affected by cancer, in partnership with Elliot Hospital’s Solinsky Center for Cancer Care. Staff from the Currier and the Elliot facilitate discussions about art in our galleries and guide art-making. The program uses art as a conduit for respite and connection.
Art of Hope
Art of Hope program provides art and mental health support for people whose family members suffer from substance-use disorder. Art of Hope engages participants in a welcoming, open-hearted setting through guided conversation in the galleries and a special art activity, using art as a conduit for generating understanding, awareness, and healing.
Memory Café
Memory Café is a joyful and creative experience for adults with earlystage memory loss, along with their caregivers. Held once a month in the museum, the Memory Café provides a supportive environment to experience art in a safe, friendly, and inclusive space. Each program includes educator-led conversations around art and artmaking activities.
Making Art Accessible
The Currier Museum has worked with teens and adults with developmental disabilities for over a decade. Our signature program, Making Art Accessible is a multimedia studio art class designed for these deserving individuals. Working in a lively and fun studio setting, students make works of art inspired by the Currier’s collections and visit the Currier’s galleries.The goal of Making Art Accessible is to foster a sense of well-being in each student and to create a community of mutually supportive students who enjoy making art together.
Programming for Immigrant and Refugee Children
The Currier Museum works with many organizations who resettle and support immigrant and refugee families in Manchester. We provide after-school art instruction for children of these families during the school year and extend their learning into vacation weeks by offering free enrollment in our Vacation Art Camps. During our Art Camps the children are with us for 30 hours of instruction each week and are provided free breakfast and lunch each day. This program is sponsored by Rise Private Wealth Management, AmeriHealth Caritas New Hampshire, Pamela Diamantis and Morey Goodman.
Creative Connections
Creative Connections for Teens supports students suffering with anxieties related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and related societal harms that adversely impact our most vulnerable populations. Each session provides students opportunities to connect through art-viewing, artmaking, and social time. Sessions are led by Currier educators and curators with the support of a school counselor, who emphasize personal creative development, respite, relationship building, and mindful awareness. Creative Connections for Teens is supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Art for Vets
Art for Vets is an art-focused program that offers unique and FREE opportunities for veterans, active service members, and their families to come together and experience the benefits of the creative experience.
frank lloyd wright homes
The Currier Museum is the only art museum in the world with two Frank Lloyd Wright homes. Accessible by guided tour, they are the only Wright buildings open to the public in New England. Both were built in the 1950s when Wright’s domestic architecture reshaped American home design. The Usonian Automatic and the Zimmerman House express two equally beautiful visions through their closely related designs and contrasting materials.
The Zimmerman House was commissioned by Isadore and Lucille Zimmerman in 1949. The twobedroom home embodies Wright’s Usonian architectural concepts. The compact design contrasts narrow passages with dramatic, open spaces that blend different functions, in a manner which predicts today’s open-plan homes. The house is constructed of brick and Georgia cypress, and retains its original furniture and garden, both designed by Wright.
Designed in 1955, the Kalil House is one of only seven Usonian Automatics ever constructed. Wright termed the style “automatic” because they were intended to be easily and quickly built. Toufic and Mildred Kalil were inspired to commission the house by their close friends and neighbors Isadore and Lucille Zimmerman, who had commissioned a Wright house a few years earlier on the same street.
financial report
FY24 Revenue $6,215,875
The release of restricted funds from our endowment supported exhibitions, student scholarships, programs, and operations.
FY24 Expenses $6,607,026
70% Programming
15% General & Administrative
15% Fundraising & Development
total grants in FY24. Roughly 50% of grant funding was for Art & Wellness programming.
