Dayton Art Insititute 2019 Community Report

2019

COMMUNITY REPORT

2019

THE YEAR IN REVIEW What an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experience in 2019―celebrating the centennial of the Dayton Art Institute’s founding! From its humble beginnings in a house at the corner of Monument and St. Clair in downtown Dayton in 1919, the DAI has grown to be one of the region’s premier fine arts museums.

Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate that milestone!

As part of the museum’s centennial celebrations, we held two community open house events, as well as more than “100 Happenings for 100 Years” (in total more than 200 happenings!). In addition, our Curatorial Department programmed an amazing suite of Special and Focus Exhibitions, including a showcase of art from Dayton-area collectors.

The two centennial open house events brought together individuals from throughout our diverse community. More than 3,200 guests attended the Centennial Birthday Party in April. The highlight of the event was a “Happy Birthday” sing-along in the packed Shaw Gothic Cloister. In October, we held a community festival called Arts, Beats and Eats. Although rain dampened the festivities somewhat, more than 1,500 people spent an afternoon at the DAI, enjoying food, music and great art.

In total, more than 116,000 people visited the museum in 2019, taking in a fantastic array of Special and Focus Exhibitions presented by our Curatorial team, our amazing, world-class collection, and the many events and programs we host throughout the year.

Museum renovations and gallery reinterpretation continued during our centennial celebrations. The longawaited restoration of the Grand Staircase and historic front hillside began in 2019. As we rang in 2020, LRT

Restoration Technologies completed the final concrete pours for the new stairs, and we anticipate reopening the staircase in the spring. Renovation of the museum balcony was also completed, with new, energy-efficient and ADA-compliant doors, as well as new safety railings, making the balcony accessible to the public for the first time in many years. In the galleries, the newly reinterpreted Bonbright Gallery of African Art was re-opened in 2019.

Our two largest fundraisers, Art Ball and Oktoberfest, received fantastic support from the community. These important fundraisers generated significant revenue for museum operations: $169,564 for Art Ball and $446,592 for Oktoberfest (net revenue)! Bourbon & Bubbles has grown into a third signature event and is now one of the hottest tickets in town. In 2019, the event sold out once again, with 610 people attending.

The 2020 event sold out in less than two weeks of its mid-January on-sale date!

Our Centennial Campaign, which continues through the end of 2020, has raised nearly 60 percent of its $27M goal. If you have contributed to the campaign, thank you! If you have not yet made a contribution, we encourage you to help build a solid foundation for our next 100 years by making a gift.

We are pleased to present this Community Report as an overview of our 2019 centennial and thank you for your continued support of this Dayton treasure. We hope you will join us throughout 2020 as we begin the museum’s second century!

Best Regards,

Michael R. Roediger, MSLD, CFRE Director and CEO

Brock Anderson III Chair, Board of Trustees

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS

TRUSTEES

Chair Brock Anderson III CEO Bonbright Distributors

Jessica Barry Owner & President The Modern College of Design

Vice-Chair Stephen Allaire Executive Director MasTec Transmission and Substation Group

Linda Black-Kurek President Liberty Health Care Corporation

Treasurer Daniel Davis Senior Vice President and Sales Manager of Commercial Banking Group PNC Bank Secretary Mark Shaker President Shaker Strategic Solutions Immediate Past Chair Julie Liss-Katz * President JLK Strategies

Linda Caron, Ph.D. Dean, College of Liberal Arts Wright State University Mark Conway Partner Thompson Hine Michael Cronin Executive Vice President Dayton Freight Lines, Inc. Renate Frydman, Ph.D. Community Volunteer

Rachel Goodspeed Director of Veterans Relations CareSource Richard Haas Senior Vice President Kettering Health Network Jennifer Harrison Partner in Charge, Dayton Office TAFT/ Stacey Lawson VP, Human Services Miami Valley Hospital Dr. Jeffrey Mikutis Surgical Director Dayton Children’s Hospital Nora Newsock Community Volunteer Amos L. Otis President & CEO SoBran, Inc.

LEADERSHIP TEAM Alexis Larsen, External Affairs Director Natasha Spears, Development Director Dave Stacy, Chief Financial Officer Jerry Smith, Ph.D., Chief Curator

& Director of Education Monica Walker, HR/Administration Director

Jeff Pizza General Manager White-Allen European Auto Group

Deborah Lieberman * Montgomery County Commissioner

Karen Spina Community Volunteer

Bob Nevin * DAI Endowment Committee Chair

Josh Stucky Owner Square One Salon & Spa

Cate Berger * DAI Associate Board President

Debbie Watts Robinson CEO Miami Valley Housing Opportunities, Inc. EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS James F. Dicke, II Chairman Emeritus * Chairman/CEO Crown Equipment Corporation

Daniel Sessions * Leadership Dayton Representative The Honorable Nan Whaley * Mayor, City of Dayton *Denotes Ex-Officio

2019 HIGHLIGHTS & PARTNERSHIPS HIGHLIGHTS Total museum attendance reached 116,725 people in 2019.

Dayton Art Institute celebrated the centennial of its founding in 2019, hosting two community open house events and more than 100 Happenings for 100 Years.

Centennial Birthday Party on April 7 drew more than 3,200 people.

Arts, Beats and Eats centennial festival on October 6 attracted more than 1,500 guests.

The museum’s Centennial Campaign, which continues through 2020, has raised nearly 60 percent of its $27M goal for museum endowment and capital improvements.

In addition to Special and Focus Exhibitions, DAI also continued to host the annual Yeck College Artist Fellow Exhibition, Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Exhibition, and Congressional Art Competition.

In the summer of 2019, the DAI revamped its admission pricing to one flat rate that now includes admission to the collection galleries, as well as all Special and Focus Exhibitions.

Art conservation efforts during the past year included:

The DAI presented three diverse Special Exhibitions to celebrate the museum’s centennial, bringing 28, 280 people to the museum: For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design Our Century: Dayton Area Collects

In conjunction with the launch of centennial celebrations, new museum logo and branding, designed in-house by External Affairs Director Alexis Larsen, were unveiled in February 2019.

Maker & Muse: Women and Early 20th-Century Art Jewelry

It was the museum’s first complete rebranding since the mid-1990s.

The new logo and branding received national recognition with an American Graphic Design Award and local recognition with a Hermes Award.

Renovations and improvements to the museum, as well as reinterpretation of the collection galleries continued, including:

Portrait of George Gage by Peter Paul Rubens Circe Mulling Wine by Gioacchino Assereto

In 2019, the DAI acquired a total of 170 artworks through museum purchases and generous donations.

Thanks in part to the hard work and dedication of the DAI’s Associate Board (32 couples, 64 members total), it was another successful year for the museum’s two biggest fundraisers, Art Ball and Oktoberfest: 754 people attended Art Ball, generating a net revenue of $169,564.

Dayton is fortunate to have so many art collectors in its vicinity, as was shown in the Special Exhibition, Our Century: Dayton Area Collects.

An expanded range of Focus Exhibitions, highlighting special loans and works from the museum’s collection, included:

Restoration of the historic Grand Staircase and front hillside, with a projected completion in the spring of 2020.

Dorothy Height’s Hats

Renovations to the museum balcony, including new, energyefficient and ADA compliant doors, as well as new safety railings.

Impressive: 100 Years of Japanese Prints at the DAI

Renovation and reinterpretation of the African gallery, which reopened as the Bonbright Gallery of African Art, thanks to a generous gift from the Anderson family, owners of Bonbright Distributors.

Portrait of a Widow by Ludovico Carracci

29,570 people attended Oktoberfest (including Friday’s Lederhosen Lunch and Preview Party), generating net revenue of $446,592.

The Lange Family Experiencenter featured Color, Line and Shape, a series of installations which explored foundational elements of art and opened in June 2019.

In the Company of Friends: The Kettering and Patterson Legacy

Monet & Impressionism The Moon Museum William Preston Mayfield Photographs Mona Lisa Today Art of Ernest Blumenschein Children enjoy experimenting with color at the light table in The Lange Family Experiencenter.

This was the 18th year for the Yeck College Artist Fellows program. Awardees exhibited their artwork in the museum and mentored a group of high school art students.

Awardees included:

Bourbon & Bubbles returned for a third year and sold out once again, with 610 people attending. The 2020 edition of Bourbon & Bubbles, to be held April 17, was sold out by January of this year!

The Dayton Art Institute was named a Best of Weddings Winner by the wedding planning website The Knot. Only the top five percent of the site’s featured vendors win this prestigious award!

Jacob Tate, Wright State University Claire Bowman, University of Dayton Madeline McCabe, University of Dayton Edward Steffanni, Mount Vernon Nazarene University Tracy Longley-Cook received the 2019 Pamela P. Houk Award for Excellence in Art Education. Tracy is a dedicated college-level instructor whose passion for the arts is only surpassed by her dedication to her students.

Her commitment to making educational programming accessible inspires her students and academic community.

Draw from the Collection rejoined the roster of adult programming with Curatorial Conversations, guest speakers and the Language of Art, which continued to offer a unique look at works in the collection as well as Special Exhibitions.

The DAI remains a popular wedding venue―no surprise, due to the beautiful cloisters and galleries.

It’s easy to feel romantic during the hugely popular event, Bourbon & Bubbles.

On March 31, 275 guests participated in an afternoon lecture and reception with Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, current National Chair and President of the National Council of Negro Women. The event commemorated the life and activism of Dorothy Height and was held in conjunction with the Focus Exhibition Dorothy Height’s Hats.

In 2019, 37 weddings and receptions were held at the museum, and an additional 69 corporate and non-profit rental events were also held at the museum.

More than 18,490 guests attended rental events at the museum during 2019.

As of February 2020, 43 weddings and 35 corporate/non-profit events have already been confirmed for 2020.

Dr. Johnetta B. Cole (top left) and the team from Grandview Medical Center pose for a photo on March 31.

Trivia Night at the DAI, launched in 2018, continued to be a popular new program.

The Bob Ross Auto Group Jazz & Beyond series celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2019.

A young guest explores art-making processes during ARTventures.

Our new adult program, Draw from the Collection, has been very popular―frequently filling to maximum capacity!

The new Teacher Open House held in January 2019 brought educators to the museum to learn more about education programming.

Trivia Night is a fun and light-hearted way to get to know art and your museum―and is hosted by the always glamorous Rubi Girls!

Smooth 1940s sounds delighted the audience during Bob Ross Auto Group Jazz and Beyond.

PARTNERSHIPS DAI partnered with Hillcrest Hearing, the audiology division of Southwest Ohio ENT, to install a hearing loop system in the recently renovated Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium.

As part of ongoing efforts to make the museum accessible to all in the Dayton community, the Dayton Art Institute has joined the Museums for All program and announced the creation of Art Connections, a special discounted family membership available for anyone who receives SNAP benefits.

Through a partnership with Dayton Metro Library, DAI family memberships are now available for checkout at all Dayton Metro Library branches. DAI memberships are also available for checkout at the Wright Memorial Public Library, Milton-Union Public Library and Troy-Miami County Public Library.

The museum’s ongoing “ReImagining Works” partnership with Dayton Metro Library continued in 2019. ReImagining Works invites local artists to use pieces from the DAI’s collection as inspiration for new artwork, which are installed at new or renovated Dayton Metro Library buildings.

ReImagining Works artwork has now been installed at 12 libraries, with five more branches still in progress.

Through a partnership with Dayton-based Real Art, the museum unveiled a new interactive display in Carl H. and Irene K. Dicke Gallery 222 that highlights the museum’s history, as well as recognizing the important contributions of the DAI’s many donors, sponsors and members. The interactive display won Best in Show at the recent Hermes Awards.

DAI partnered with The Rubi Girls for a special centennial benefit performance, The Rubi Girls Present: The Show of the Century, in the Mimi and Stuart Rose Auditorium on August 10.

The DAI’s Education Department continued its partnership with PNC Bank for the Passport to Kindergarten program. The annual Passport to Kindergarten family day event brought 782 children and their caregivers to the museum for an evening of themed activities on November 19.

Dayton Art Institute participated in the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) Art Museum Day in May. The event offered free general admission to the collection galleries.

The DAI partnered with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families and the Department of Defense to take part in Blue Star Museums, a program offering free admission to the nation’s active duty military personnel from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The museum continued as a partner in Bank of America’s Museums on Us ® program, offering Bank of America cardholders free general admission on the first weekend of each month.

Oktoberfest provides a safe, fun atmosphere to dance, drink and eat with friends, old and new!

The DAI continued partnerships with the University of Dayton, Wright State University, Sinclair Community College, and the Modern College of Design.

The DAI continued community partnerships with Congressman Michael Turner’s Office for the Congressional Art Exhibition, and the Dayton Holocaust Resource Center for the Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Exhibition.

Restoring the dramatic and sweeping front steps was a muchanticipated project that finally began during 2019.

Many local companies, organizations and not-for-profits hosted events and galas at the DAI in 2019.

RTA Ride to Art–Fueling Education, an ongoing partnership with the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, provided free door-to-door bus transportation for underserved schools and youth learning centers.

Our beautiful collection galleries engage and delight our visitors.

DAI partnered with WYSO to bring the popular concert Such a Night: The Last Waltz Live back to the Rose Auditorium.

DAI partnered with PechaKucha Dayton to present PK Night Dayton Volume 38 in the Rose Auditorium.

It was standing-room in the Mimi & Stuart Rose Auditorium during the PK Night Dayton Volume 38.

Our Centennial Community events were fantastic ‘friendraisers’ and brought many families to the museum for the first time.

Highlights from the DAI's

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The DAI celebrated its centennial with “100 Happenings for 100 Years”―a list that grew to more than 200 programs and events by the end of the centennial in February 2020!

1. Impressive: 100 Years of Japanese Prints at the DAI, throughout 2019 2. Centennial Loan: Chinese Ritual Wine Vessel, throughout 2019 3. Centennial Loan: Stone Sculpture of

Bodhisattva, throughout 2019 4. Centennial Loan: Stuart Davis, Untitled (Black and White Variation on Windshield Mirror), 1955–1956, throughout 2019 5. For America: Paintings form the National Academy of Design, February 23 through June 2 6. DAI Annual Meeting & Community Report, February 28 7. ARTventures: Form and Balance, February 28 8. Trivia Night, March 1 9. Draw from the Collection, March 3 10. Tiny Thursdays, March 7 11. Draw from the Collection, March 7 12. ARTventures: Painting for America, March 9 13. Tiny Thursdays, March 14 14.Bob Ross Auto Group Jazz and Beyond: Classic Jazz Stompers, March 14 15. Skinner Pipe Organ Concert, March 14 16. Homeschool Intersections, March 15 17. Tiny Thursdays, March 21 18. Curatorial Conversations, Asian Centennial Loans, March 21 19. Dorothy Height’s Hats Exhibition, March 23 through July 21 20. ARTventures: Mini Mosaic, March 23 21. Draw from the Collection, March 24 22. Tiny Thursday, March 28 23. Draw from the Collection, March 28 24. Skinner Pipe Organ Concert, March 28 25. Language of Art, On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry, March 30 25. An Afternoon with Dr. Johnetta Cole, March 31 26. Bob Ross Auto Group Jazz and Beyond: Kick-N-Flava, April 4 27. Draw from the Collection, Value and Rhythm, April 4 28. Tiny Thursdays, April 4 29. Happy Birthday DAI: Centennial Community Day, April 7 30. Congressional Art Competition, April 11 through May 5 31. Tiny Thursdays, April 11 32. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, April 11 33. Bourbon & Bubbles, April 12 34. ARTventures: Basic Bookmaking, April 13 35. Tiny Thursdays, April 18 36. Homeschool Intersections, April 19 37. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, April 25 38. Tiny Thursdays, April 25 39. Auditorium Talk about For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design, April 25 40. ARTventures: Art Camp Sampler April 27

41. Draw from the Collection, April 28 42. Tiny Thursdays, May 2 40. Tiny Thursdays, May 9 43. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, May 9 44. Yeck College Artist Fellow Exhibition

Opening Reception, May 9 45. ARTventures: Printmaking, May 11 46. Monet and Impressionism, May 11 through Aug. 25 47. Tiny Thursdays, May 16 48. Homeschool Intersections, May 17 49. 2019 Yeck College Artist Fellow

Exhibition, May 9 through August 18 50. Art Museum Day, May 18 51. Language of Art, Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir, Dorothy Irene Height May 18 52. Tiny Thursdays, May 23 53. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, May 23 54. An Evening Discussion on Race

Relations, May 23 55. ARTventures: Impressionist Landscape, May 25 56. Tiny Thursdays, May 30 57. Auditorium talk, Monet and Impressionism, May 30 58. Object of the Month: Joy of the Waters, June 1 59. Art Ball, June 8 60. In the Company of Friends: The Kettering and Patterson Legacy, June 12, 2019 through May 17, 2020 61. Color, Line, and Shape in The Lange Family Experiencenter, June 12 through December 1 62. Tiny Thursdays, June 13 63. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, June 13 64. Object of the Month: Joy of the Waters, June 15 65. Grandview Community Day, June 16 66. Summer Art Camp, June 17 through August 9 67. Tiny Thursdays, June 20 68. Object of the Month: Joy of the Waters, June 20 69. ARTventures: Decorative Clay Relief Tiles, June 22 70. Tiny Thursdays, June 27 71. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, June 27 72. Our Century: Dayton Area Collects, June 29 through September 22 73. “Rauschenberg, E.A.T. and the Moon Museum: Apollo XII’s Secret Art Mission”, June 29 74. The Moon Museum, June 29 through September 8 75. Dayton Metro Library DAI Checkout Partnership July 1 through September 30 76. DAI Historical Marker Dedication

Ceremony, July 2 77. Object of the Month, Korean Bridal Bowl, July 6 78. Tiny Thursdays, July 11 79. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, July 11 80. Bob Ross Auto Group Jazz and Beyond: Duante Beddingfield, July 11 81. ARTventures: Artist Trading Cards and Miniature Art Collection, July 13 82. Tiny Thursdays, July 18 83. Object of the Month, Korean Bridal Bowl, July 18 84. Trivia Night, July 19 85. Object of the Month, Korean Bridal Bowl, July 20 86. Tiny Thursdays, July 25 87. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, July 25 88. ARTventures: Outer Space Creatures, July 27 89. Tiny Thursdays, August 1 90. Draw from the Collection, August 1 91. Object of the Month, Portrait of a

Woman, August 3 92. Language of Art: The Traitor’s Niche, Ismail Kadare, August 3 93. Draw from the Collection, August 4 94. Tiny Thursdays, August 8 95. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance,

August 8

96. Bob Ross Auto Group Jazz and Beyond: Laney and the Tramps, featuring the Queen City Sisters, August 8 97. ARTventures: Kente Cloth Inspired Batik Drawings, August 10 98. The Rubi Girls Present: The SHOW of the CENTURY, August 10 99. Tiny Thursdays, August 15 100. Object of the Month, Portrait of a

Woman, August 15 101. Curatorial Conversations, The Art of Collecting, August 15 102. Object of the Month, Portrait of a

Woman, August 17 103. Tiny Thursdays, August 22 104. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, August 22 105. Draw from the Collection, August 22 106. ARTventures: Japanese Ink Painting, August 24 107. Draw from the Collection, August 25 108. Tiny Thursdays, August 29 109. Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Exhibition, August 31 through December 2 110. $5 Thursdays, Sept. 5 111. Tiny Thursdays, September 5 112. Object of the Month, Portrait of Mrs Henry Ainslie, née Agnes Ford, with her son Henry, September 7 113. Tiny Thursdays, September 12 114. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, September 12 115. ARTventures: Peace Prints, September 14 116. Draw from the Collection, September 15 117. Tiny Thursdays, September 19 118. Object of the Month, Portrait of Mrs Henry Ainslie, née Agnes Ford, with her son Henry, September 19 119. Mona Lisa Today, September 21, 2019 through February 23, 2020 120. William Mayfield Photographs,

September 21 through December 29 121. Object of the Month, Portrait of Mrs Henry Ainslie, née Agnes Ford, with her son Henry, September 21 122. Oktoberfest Lederhosen Lunch,

September 27 123. Oktoberfest Preview Party, September 27 124. Oktoberfest, September 28 & 29 125. Tiny Thursdays, October 3 126. $5 Thursdays, October 3 127. Object of the Month, Dayton Painter Amphora, October 5 128. Arts, Beats & Eats: Fall Community Open House, October 6 129. Tiny Thursdays, October 10 130. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, October 10 131. Bob Ross Auto Group Jazz and

Beyond: Joe Policastro Trio, October 10 132. ARTventures: Georgia O’Keeffe

Inspired Leaf Collage, October 12 133. Draw from the Collection, October 13 134. Tiny Thursdays, October 17 135. Object of the Month, Dayton Painter Amphora, October 17 136. Object of the Month, Dayton Painter Amphora, October 19 137. Tiny Thursdays, October 24 138. Draw from the Collection, October 24 139. Skinner Pipe Organ Performance, October 24 140. Maker and Muse: Women and Early Twentieth-Century Art Jewelry, October 25 through January 19, 2020 150. ARTventures: A-musing Art Jewelry, October 26 151. Halloween Spook-tacular Organ

Concert, October 27 152. Draw from the Collection, October 27 153. Tiny Thursdays, October 31 154. Object of the Month, Jaguar Effigy Metate, November 2 155. Draw from the Collection, November 3

156. Tiny Thursdays, November 7 157. $5 Thursdays, Nov. 7 158. Draw from the Collection, November 7 159. ARTventures: Art in Motion, November 9 160. Maker & Muse Talk: Elyse Zorn Karlin, November 9 161. Tiny Thursdays, November 14 162. Bob Ross Auto Group Jazz and

Beyond: Puzzle of Light, November 14 163. Auditorium Talk: The History of DAI, November 17 164. Art of Ernst Blumenschein, November 16, 2019 through February 23, 2020 165. Object of the Month, Jaguar Effigy Metate, November 16 166. Language of Art: The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St. Clair, November 16 167. Tiny Thursdays, November 21 168. Object of the Month, Jaguar Effigy Metate, November 21 169. ARTventures: Food for Thought— Imaginary Still Life Drawing, November 23 170. Draw from the Collection, November 24 171. Such a Night: The Last Waltz Live,

November 27 & 29 172. Tiny Thursdays, December 5 173. $5 Thursdays, December 5 174. Curatorial Conversations: Mona Lisa Today, December 5 175. Object of the Month, Allegory of the Four Seasons, December 7 176. Tiny Thursdays, December 12 177. Curatorial Conversations: William

Preston Mayfield Photographs, December 12 178. Color, Line, and Shape Part 2 in The Lange Family Experiencenter, December 14, 2019 through April, 2020 178. ARTventures, December 14 179. Tiny Thursdays, December 19 180. Object of the Month, Allegory of the Four Seasons, December 19 181. Object of the Month, Allegory of the Four Seasons, December 21 182. Tiny Thursdays, December 26 183. ARTventures: Abstract Expressions, December 28 184. Object of the Month, Untitled,

January 4, 2020 185. Draw from the Collection, January 5, 2020 186. Works by Daniel Blau, January 8, 2020 through April 19, 2020 187. Teacher Open House, January 9, 2020 188. Tiny Thursdays, January 9, 2020 189. ARTventures, January 9, 2020 190. Tiny Thursdays, January 16, 2020 191. Object of the Month, Untitled, January 16, 2020 192. Home School Intersections, January 17, 2020 193. Object of the Month, Untitled, January 18, 2020 194. Photographs from the Collection, January 18, 2020 through April 19, 2020 195. Draw from the Collection, January 19, 2020 196. Tiny Thursdays, January 23, 2020 197. ARTventures, January 25, 2020 198. Tiny Thursdays, January 30, 2020 199. Object of the Month, Homage to Painting, February1, 2020 200. Draw from the Collection, February 2, 2020 201. Object of the Month, Homage to Painting, February15, 2020 202. Draw from the Collection, February16, 2020 203. Object of the Month, Homage to Painting, February20, 2020 204. Home School Intersections, February 21, 2020 205. Samurai, Ghosts, and Lovers: Yoshitoshi’s Complete 100 Aspects of the Moon, February 22 – May 3, 2020 206. ARTventures, February 22, 2020 207. DAI Annual Meeting & Community Report, February27, 2020

For America:

SUPPORT

February 23–June 2, 2019

RIGHT: Utagawa Kunisada III (Japanese, 1848–1920), Actors Ichikawa Sadanji I as Sanjiro Uzaemon and Nakamura Fukusuke III as Yatsuyashi Tayū, 1888, woodblock print, ink and color on paper. Promised Gift of Charles Knickerbocker

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hone Mr. & Mrs. William Lukens Mr. Charles D. Berry Mr. Charles Knickerbocker and Ms. Susan DeLuca Mr. Donald M. Spindler Mr. Robert S. Malcom Mr. Thomas W. Kern Mr. William S.Yeck Mrs. Anne F. Johnson Mrs. Florence Tannenbaum Mrs. Jacqueline Lockwood Mrs. Margie M.Yowell Ms. Carolyn Sommerich Ms. Elise Monnin Ms. Linda Lombard and Mr. Paul Marshall Ohio Arts Council Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission Old Scratch Pizza Oregon Printing Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation Perfection Group Pickrel Schaeffer & Ebeling Co. L.P.A. PNC Premier Health Real Art Design Group Rubi Girls Rumpke Consolidated Co., Inc. Scenic Solutions Schueler Group Square One Salon & Spa Surdyk, Dowd & Turner Co. LPA Taft/ The Berry Family Foundation The Dayton Chapter of The Links, Inc. The Modern College of Design The Requarth Co. The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation The Virginia W. Kettering Foundation University of Dayton US Bank Vectren Wells Fargo WesBanco Bank, Inc. Westminster Financial White Allen Family of Dealerships WilmerHale Winsupply, Inc. Woodard Development

Robert Frederick Blum, Two Idlers, 1888–89, oil on canvas. National Academy of Design, New York. Courtesy American Federation of Arts

1st Connections ACCO Brands Arrow Wine Bladecutter’s, Inc. Lawn & Landscaping Blakeney Memorial Fund Bob Ross Auto Group Bonbright Distributors Burke Orthodontics Cavalier Distributing Crown Equipment Corporation Culture Works DANIS Dayton International Airport DP&L Foundation Dr. Milton F. Nathan & Ms. Ritva Williamson Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. Enterprise Roofing & Sheet Metal Equitas Health FotoFocus Frank M. Tait Foundation Fund Evaluation Group, LLC Gosiger, Inc. Grandview Hospital & Medical Center Heidelberg Distributing Company Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway James Free Jewelers Jessup Wealth Management Julian G. Lange Family Foundation #1 Key-Ads, Inc. KeyBank Lexus of Dayton Linda Black-Kurek Family Foundation Logos @ Work, LLC LWC Inc. M&M Title Company Marilyn McGervey Watkins Private Foundation Marion’s Piazza MetLife Miami Valley RTA Miriam Rosenthal Foundation for the Arts Montgomery County Arts & Cultural District Morgan Stanley Mr. & Mrs. Irvin G. Bieser, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James F. Dicke, III Mr. & Mrs. Jerry F. Tatar Mr. & Mrs. Rayman A. Coy Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Brethen

Paintings from the National Academy of Design

TOP LEFT: Robert Henri (American, 1865–1929), Miss Mary Patterson, about 1919, oil on canvas. Gift of Mary H. D. Swift and Family, 2018.6 BOTTOM LEFT: Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889), Hôtel de Ville, Paris, about 1860, albumen print.

Gift of Dr. Daveed D. Frazier, 2018.131

Thank you to the individuals, companies and foundations that gave generous contributions of $5,000 or more to the museum in 2019. Major donors included:

Our Century: Dayton Area Collects June 29–September 22, 2019

Maker & Muse

Women and Early 20th-Century Art Jewelry October 26, 2019–January 19, 2020 Maker & Muse:Women and Early Twentieth Century Art Jewelry was organizedby the Richard H. Driehaus Museum and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC.

Featuring more than 200 stunning examples of jewelry from Tiffany, Lalique and more!

LEFT: The Art Silver Shop, Pendant and Original Box, c. 1920. Sterling, amethyst.

Collection of Boice Lydell. Photograph

by John Faier, © 2014 The Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

RIGHT: The Artificers’ Guild, Pendant, c. 1900. Gold, silver, opal, sapphire, zircon, tourmaline, amethyst, almandine, garnet, moonstone, pearl. Collection of Richard H. Driehaus. Photograph by John Faier, © 2014 The Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

BY THE NUMBERS: 2019 ATTENDANCE Total museum attendance reached 116,725 people in 2019.

Museum membership included 716 new memberships, 283 rejoined and 3924 renewals in 2019.

TOTAL ATTENDANCE OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS* 2019: 116,725 2018: 104,855 2017: 116,700 2016: 114,600 2015: 123,000 *Attendance figures contain a +/- 5% margin of error.

2019 ATTENDANCE HIGHLIGHTS

Warm and rainy weather in 2019 didn’t prevent the crowds from coming out to Oktoberfest!

EXHIBITIONS: Special Exhibitions brought 28,280 people to the museum: For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design (February 23–June 2): 9,818 Our Century: Dayton Area Collects (June 29–September 2): 8,789 Maker & Muse: Women and Early 20th-Century Art Jewelry (October 25, 2019–January 19, 2020): 9,673

SPECIAL EVENTS: Art Ball: More than 750 Oktoberfest: 29,570 (including Preview Party & Lederhosen Lunch)

Our volunteers provide the DAI with valuable staffing for all our programming—and have an amazing time doing it!

Vectren Jazz & Beyond: 1,502 Bourbon & Bubbles: 610

EDUCATION: DAI educational programming brought 34,139 people to the museum: 20,716 people visited The Lange Family Experiecenter More than 1,721 caregivers and youth participated in family programming, including ARTventures, Tiny Thursdays and Homeschool Intersections The Art + Core Connections program, providing cross-curricular gallery and studio experiences, reached 3,171 area students Summer Art Camp: 216 Homeschool Intersections: 158 The Passport to Kindergarten family night brought 782 children and their caregivers to the museum

Children and families engage together in fun art-based activities during ARTventures.

ECONOMIC IMPACT & FINANCIAL RESULTS According to the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), 89% of Americans believe that museums provide important economic impacts back to their communities. The Dayton Art Institute has a far-reaching impact throughout the Dayton region: Using a calculator created by Americans for the Arts (www.artsusa.org), the Dayton Art Institute had an estimated economic impact of more than $8.5 million on the Dayton Metropolitan Area during 2019*.

In 2017, the AAM partnered with Oxford Economics to study the museum sector’s significant contribution to the U.S. economy. In Ohio, they found the statewide financial impact museums have on the economy totals $1.54 billion, supporting 25,973 jobs and providing $1.04 billion in wages and other income to Ohio residents. * Economic impact represents the total dollars spent by the DAI and its audiences. Event-related spending by arts and culture audiences is estimated using the average dollars spent per person by arts event attendees in similarly

Summer Art Camps offer children a unique opportunity to interact with our collection galleries and learn art-making techniques.

populated communities.

OPERATING REVENUE BY SOURCE FY 2019 (UNAUDITED) OPERATING FUND REVENUE (UNAUDITED): $ 4.8 MILLION Support from Invested Funds 26% 1 Curatorial, Exhibitions, & Education 16%

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Memberships 16% Museum Rentals 13% Special Events 13%

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General Fundraising 11%

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Museum Store & Leo Bistro 4%

Toe-tapping jazz gets everyone out on the dance floor!

Other 1%

Note 1: Includes support from Campaign funds for Centennial programs in 2019 Note 2: Includes admissions, fees, contributions, grants and sponsorships for these programs Note 3: Includes Annual Fund, Ohio Arts Council, Montgomery County Arts & Cultural District and other general gifts

OPERATING EXPENSE BY SOURCE FY 2019 (UNAUDITED) OPERATING FUND EXPENSES (UNAUDITED): $5.1 MILLION

Administration 13% Curatorial, Exhibitions, & Education 25% Guest Services 3% Museum Rentals 7% Marketing 5% General Fundraising 11% Museum Store & Leo Bistro 4% Facilities 22% Security 10%

Fancy dresses, tuxedoes, cocktails, dinner and dancing―Art Ball has it all for a one-of-a-kind night on the town.

GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday-Friday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Thursday, Extended hours until 8 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sunday, Noon – 5 p.m.

Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays.

GALLERY ADMISSION: Prices include admission to the Special Exhibition, all Focus Exhibitions, and the museum’s collection galleries.

MUSEUM MEMBERS: Free Adults: $15 Seniors (60+), Active Military & Groups (10+): $10 Students (18+ w/ID) & youth (ages 7–17): $5 Children (ages 6 & younger): Free CONNECT WITH US: daytonartinstitute.org Phone: 937-223-4ART (4278) Fax: 937-223-3140 info@daytonart.org

MISSION The Dayton Art Institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.

VISION The Dayton Art Institute is the premier visual arts destination for people of all ages and backgrounds in the Dayton region and beyond. With an internationally recognized collection, we are dedicated to collection stewardship, creative engagement, educational programming and superior guest experiences.

FRONT COVER: Young friends enjoying a fun day during the DAI’s Birthday Party. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Lander.

Operational funding provided in part by

EXPLORE A WORLD OF ART IN 2020!

Samurai, Ghosts and Lovers: Yoshitoshi’s Complete 100 Aspects of the Moon February 22–May 3

New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West May 30–September 13

Picasso to Hockney: Modern Art on Stage October 17, 2020– January 17, 2021

daytonartinstitute.org/exhibitions IMAGES, TOP: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892), Dawn moon and tumbling snow – Kobayashi Heihachirō, 1889, woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Museum purchase with funds provided by Jack Graef Jr., Linda Stein, Susan Shettler and their families in memory of Jack and Marilyn Graef, 2019.9.89 MIDDLE: Jan Matulka (American, born Czech, 1890–1972), Rodeo Rider, Santa Fe, about 1917-20, oil on canvas. Tia Collection, Santa Fe, N.M. BOTTOM: Natalia Gontcharova, Costume design for a Spanish dancer with oranges, ca. 1916. Graphite, gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ ADAGP, Paris