2023 MoAD Annual Report

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ANNUAL REPORT

Letter from Monetta White

Dear Friends, 2023 has been a landmark year for MoAD (Museum of the African Diaspora), marked by significant growth and remarkable achievements. As we reflect on this past year, I am proud to present our 2023 Annual Report, a testament to the vibrant journey we’ve embarked upon, fueled by your generous support. Your contributions have been instrumental in our mission to stay true as a contemporary art museum that celebrates Black cultures, ignites challenging conversations, and inspires learning through the global lens of the African Diaspora. Your belief in our institution is not only an investment in MoAD’s present but also in its future. For this, we are profoundly grateful.

Engaging with and uplifting our community is MoAD’s passion and remains our core focus. Over the past year, we reached and inspired over 8,200 visitors through our 96 dynamic public programs, from artist talks to performances in partnership with SFJAZZ to our Cultural Critic-in-Residence Dr. Artel Great. But it is not just within our galleries that the magic happens; the impact of MoAD goes beyond the museum. In 2023 we reached over 2,000 youth and educators that discovered the power of art through MoAD in the Classroom, MoAD Teens Summer Program, and the numerous school tours who MoAD proudly hosted.

The year began on a high note with the welcoming of our inaugural Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs, Key Jo Lee, who joined the museum in January. Lee’s curatorial leadership has significantly positioned MoAD as a frontrunner in the global contemporary art scene. Her efforts expanded our reach to international artists, raising our caliber of art historical scholarship, and firmly aligning with our ambition to showcase a diverse array of talent. Lee’s debut exhibition, Spectrum: On Color & Contemporary Art, was a celebration of contemporary Black artists from around the world, exploring the nuanced role of color in their artwork. In tandem with this, we presented JoeSam: Text Messages, guest curated by Erin Jenoa Gilbert. JoeSam is a beloved artist who has lived and worked in San Francisco for over four decades. We are honored to have presented his first solo museum exhibition in San Francisco. Additionally, our Emerging Artist Program (EAP), spotlighted four phenomenal Bay Area artists – Ramekon O’Arwisters, Nimah Gobir, Salimatu Amabebe, and Lishan AZ – giving them their first solo museum exhibitions. I could not be prouder of the exhibitions and the talented artists we exhibited in 2023.

Thank you for believing in MoAD and for ensuring a safe space for Black art to be exhibited, explored, and appreciated. Your investment strengthens our abilities to meet our goals and overcome challenges through our amazing exhibitions and educational explorations. We have immense gratitude for your support and for you being a part of MoAD.

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Monetta White CEO and Executive Director

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WE WELCOMED

16,898 VISITORS The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion 10.05.22 - 3.5.23 In the fall of 2022, MoAD presented the first and only West Coast exhibition of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion. This exhibition highlighted the work of 15 contemporary fashion photographers—from London to Lagos, New York to Johannesburg—whose images present radically new perspectives on the medium of photography and art, race and beauty, and gender and power.

Curated by renowned New York curator and critic, Antwaun Sargent and organized

by Aperture, New York, the exhibition included over 100 select works from groundbreaking artists, including Tyler Mitchell, the first Black photographer hired to shoot a cover story for American Vogue.

The work of this international community of Black photographers has been widely viewed and is reinvigorating the contemporary visual vocabulary around beauty and the body with new vitality and substance.

Black Venus 4.5.23 - 8.20.23

EXHIBITIONS

Black Venus, curated by Aindrea Emelife, is an exhibition that surveys the legacy of Black women in visual culture—from fetishized colonial-era caricatures to the present-day reclamation of the rich complexity of Black womanhood by 18 artists (of numerous nationalities and with birth years spanning 1942 to 1997). This exhibition was a celebration of Black beauty, an investigation into the many faces of Black femininity and the shaping of Black women in the public consciousness—then and now.

Juxtaposed against archival depictions of Black women dating back to 1793, the contemporary works on view collectively created a global, cross-generational inves-

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I really enjoyed the exhibition, I’m definitely coming back with family and friends!

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tigation into Black women’s reclamation of agency amid the historical fetishization of the Black female body. The exhibition’s thematic foundation was the Hottentot Venus, a visual-culture archetype named for the assigned stage name of Saartje Baartman (born 1789 in South Africa). Enslaved

by Dutch colonizers and toured around Europe as part of a “freak show” due to her non-Western body type, caricatured depictions of her spread around the globe and indelibly catalyzed the Western exoticization and othering of Black women.

In Black Venus, archival depictions of Baartman and other historical Black women paired with the vibrant, narrative portraiture by some of today’s most influential Black image-makers whose work deals with layered narratives of Black femininity.

Alison Saar: To Sit A While

JoeSam.: Text Messages

4.5.23 - 4.30.23

9.27.23 - 3.3.24

”Don’t get up. Just sit a while and think.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.”

— Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry was a playwright, journalist, and activist. Her play A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway and has been revived on Broadway in 2004 and 2014.

Generations of Black theater, television and film artists were inspired by and cut their artistic teeth on her masterpiece.

In 2022, the Lorraine Hansberry Initiative launched a national tour of a sculpture of Hansberry’s likeness by Los Angeles-based artist, Alison Saar, and a unique scholarship to cover not the tuition, but the living expenses of women and non-binary BIPOC dramatic writers in graduate school to give them time to actually write.

Alison Saar’s work To Sit A While featured the figure of Hansberry surrounded by five bronze chairs, each representing a different aspect of her life and work. The lifesize chairs were an invitation to the public to do just that: to sit with her and think.

JoeSam. is a contemporary mixed media painter and installation artist. Born on August 17, 1938 in Harlem, New York, he received his B.A. degree in sociology in 1961 from St. Paul’s College in Virginia, his M.S. degree in educational psychology from Columbia University in New York, and his Ph.D. in education and psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

He is a self taught artist who has been practicing for over 40 years.

While a student at Columbia, he facilitated educational seminars for public school teachers and at the Floyd Patterson House in the East Village, a residential treatment facility for juvenile offenders. In 1976, committed to youth education and empowerment, JoeSam. was hired as director of the Head Start program for the City of San Francisco, California. While working full time, JoeSam. began the Black West Series and the Black Jazz Series. In 1985 he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and retired from education to be a full time artist. JoeSam. was named an artist-in-residence at San Francisco’s Learning through Education in the Arts Project (LEAP) in 1987. In 1999, he became a Djerassi Artist-in-Residence in Woodside, California and was awarded the Compton Foundation Fellowship. He executed commissioned artworks for several institutions including the San Francisco Mission Police Station Juvenile Facility, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Rosa Parks Metro Rail Station, and the Sharks Ice Center in San Jose, California.

His colorful compositions contain found materials from the streets of California.

Juxtaposing discarded elements such as bicycle wheels, cigarettes, plastic pipes and wooden blocks with archival images and news clippings, discordant colors in

large capital letters strewn across the canvas provide context clues to the message he wishes to convey. His works are political commentary on the continuous state of affairs in the Black community. Incited by the Jonestown Massacre of 1978 in which hundreds of African Americans were poisoned by cult leader Jim Jones, to the observation of the Black body on the auction block, to the Rodney King beating by the LAPD, to the Charleston shooting in which three men and six women were murdered at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, JoeSam. has referenced these events without calling the trauma or bloodshed to our collective memory.

He has been commissioned to create artwork for commercial purposes including The Invisible Hunters (1987), which was named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; and album covers for Bobby McFerrin’s Medicine Man (1990), Bennie Maupin

and Dr. Patrick Gleeson’s Driving While Black (1998), and Upsurge’s All Handson Deck (2000) and Chromatology (2004).

During his four (1975-2015) decades in San Francisco he forged life-long friendships with other Bay Area painters including Robert Colescott, Joe Overstreet, Raymond Saunders, Arthur Monroe and Mary Lovelace O’Neal.

This exhibition, the first museum exhibition in San Francisco, featured approximately 20 mixed media paintings from key series produced between 1985 and 2020 from the artist’s personal collection and private collections.

The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison Through Art and Poetry 9.27.23 - 3.3.24 The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison Through Art and Poetry was a visual art exhibition curated from within the Central California Women’s Facility at Chowchilla (CCWF) by Tomiekia Johnson and Chantell-Jeannette Black of Empowerment Avenue in partnership with MoAD and Flyaway Productions. Through the work of five visual artists and two poets, the exhibition made visible the invisible women in prison through their own words and images—building empathy and empowering viewers to take action.

The online exhibition, which featured artworks, poems, and a zine, also included an opportunity for viewers to write letters to the artists and a call to action for those who would like to advocate for change.

This exhibition originated as part of Flyaway Productions’ multi-year exploration of the experiences of people impacted by incarceration. The partnership between Flyaway Productions, Empowerment Avenue (EA) and Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) began in 2020 with the digital exhibition Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice from Prison, curated from prison

by Rahsaan Thomas (Executive Director of EA) and composed of artworks by men at San Quentin. The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison Through Art and Poetry is a repeat collaboration focused on the experiences of women from the Central California Women’s Facility, curated from that prison by Chantell-Jeannette Black and Tomiekia Johnson. The exhibition was one facet of Flyaway’s project If I Give You My Sorrows, which explores women’s complex relationships to their beds.

Spectrum: On Color & Contemporary Art 9.27.23 - 3.3.24 How do artists use color to guide our perception? In this exhibition, curated by Key Jo Lee, MoAD’s inaugural Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs, a multigenerational and international group of contemporary Black artists illuminated the importance of color to both the form and content of their work. Through a series of thematic couplings and groupings, each visitor explored how each artist employs color to convey mood, identity, architecture, event, etc.

The exhibition was accompanied by digital and analog educational tools and programs meant to equip our audiences with new and/or refined questions and language with which to engage contemporary Black art through color.

Participating artists included: Tariku Shiferaw Stacey Gillian Abe Sheena Rose Mildred Thompson Barkley Hendricks Manyaku Mashilo Delita Martin Tawny Chatmon Rashid Johnson Richard Mayhew Gabriel Mills Felandus Thames

EMERGING ARTISTS PROGRAM 2023

Ramekon O’Arwisters: Freeform and Razor-Sharp 4.27.23 - 6.11.23 In this exhibition, MoAD selected key sculptures from O’Arwisters’ studio that spanned several years of his formal experimentations and placed them in conversation with his additional practice of blackand-white photography. As an extension of his conceptual process, these self-portraits employ a transference of materials from O’Arwisters’ sculptures to create a sharp and intimate dialogue with his own body.

Nimah Gobir: Holding Space 6.14.23 - 8.20.23 Holding Space unveiled a suite of smalland large-scale figurative paintings that uplift home, homemaking, and belonging in the context of immigrant narratives.

Through depictions of family members and loved ones in everyday situations, Holding Space humanized the Black experience and paid homage to Black families.

Embroidery, pattern, and textile motifs conveyed the layered expressive textures inherent to family homes. This exhibition was a meditation on how homes are places that hold secrets, histories, and vestiges of loved ones.

Salimatu Amabebe: SON 9.27.23 - 12.10.23 In SON, Salimatu Amabebe opened the door to reconsider the relationship between home, memory, and metamorphosis. The deep red interior, reminiscent of blood, invited reflection on the domestic space as one of close kinship ties, yet subject to dynamic change.

The pewter casts in the space drew from the artist’s personal archive to preserve but also to probe the inherited lessons from his father including masculinity and movement. We observed how the inexactness of repetition acts as a productive improvisation of self-creation. Such gaps demonstrate how the memories we hold in our bodies enable performative acts of transfiguration and imagination. SON was Amabebe’s first solo museum exhibition.

Co-curated by Salimatu Amabebe & Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs & PublicPrograms at MoAD. Text by Luke Williams, Emerging Artists Program Fellow.

Lishan AZ: Eugene’s Cove 12.13.23 - 3.3.24 In 1919, at a segregated beach on the south side of Chicago, 17-year-old Eugene Williams was killed by a white gang after he accidentally floated across the color line. Eugene’s Cove explores the relationship between Black folks and water by imagining an underwater world where those we thought drowned sank and became something more. Drawing on mythology and historical events from across the diaspora, through 35mm film photography, soundscape, installation, and video, this exhibit immersed the viewer in a world in which Eugene’s laughter rang out, taunting, “You tried to drown me, but I’m just down here thriving.”

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RAMEKON RESIDENCIES, AWARDS O’ARWISTERS & PUBLIC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

As you can surely are we without artists in imagine, it’s not easy our story? It being an artist. No one is a very poitheir courage, said it would be. The gnant quesauthenticity, immense indifference tion. Artists is insurmountable innovation, and in are extremely and, at times, quite important in their independence. incapacitating. Howcreating art ever, when people that explores Ramekon O’Arwisters care about you and our universal your creative vision, histories in one is embraced; one creative ways feels appreciated; that unites one feels accepted everyone in and accomplished. This is how I feel our shared humanity, in our universal about MoAD. Early this year, I had story. Hundreds of artists have done my first one-person museum exsuch creative exploration though hibition at Museum of the African exhibitions, performances, artist’s Diaspora. The only Black museum talks, panel discussions, poetry in the Bay Area provided exhibition reading, and more at MoAD. For me, space and financial support for my artistically telling my story in such creativity. It is very important for me an important museum is extremely to absolutely trust my creativity; it is empowering, fulfilling, and non-stop also quite empowering for the leadaffirming. What does it mean to be ership and curatorial department of successful? What does it mean to an established museum, like MoAD “make it?” What does it mean to to acknowledge my artistic endeavstrive and not just “get by?” For ors. It is difficult to remain sane in an me, it means to be honestly acever increasingly insane world, and knowledged, financially supported, for a Black, queer artist, like myself, and emotionally affirmed by those sanity is made more difficult when who look like me. Museum of the subtle and not-so subtle cultural and African Diaspora supports artists in societal messages bombarded one their courage, authenticity, innovawith negativity, feelings of unwortion, and in their independence. I thiness, and disappointment. Howam very grateful to the leadership, ever, at MoAD, my “otherness” was board members, trustees, and staff not something to avoid, but a world at MoAD for allowing me to be who I view to engage and support. My am, and for providing a platform for story is included in the infinite, and me to be who I need to become. non-stop phenomenally rich stories Thank you. of the African diaspora. Everyone is ­— Ramekon O’Arwisters the story; the story is everyone. Who

2023 Poets-in-Residence Ashia Ajani and Thea Matthews

8,200 ATTENDEES 2023

RESIDENCIES, RESIDENCIES, AWARDS AWARDS & & PUBLIC PROGRAM PUBLIC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS

Chef-in-Residence

African Literary Award

MoAD’s Chef-in-Residence program, the first of its kind in a contemporary art museum, has been seminal in creating space for people of color to give voice to crucial issues around food justice, climate justice, and social justice while nurturing a love of healthy foods, creativity, and community.

From its very first offering, a panel discussion entitled Black Women, Food, and Power, to the widely lauded Black Food Summit in September 2022, the program brings together hundreds of leading Black chefs, writers, scholars, activists, artists, and other creatives to advance the health and well-being of the African Diaspora. The 2023 Chef-in-Residence is Jocelyn Jackson.

Presented by MoAD, the African Literary Award recognizes an African author who has produced a work of literary excellence and taken a leadership role in promoting writing and literacy in their local communities. The award is granted to an author whose work has been read by the Museum’s African Book Club. In September 2022, author Rémy Ngamije was selected as the inaugural African Literary Award recipient for his book An Eternal Audience of One and his community literary initiatives in his home country of Namibia. In 2023 Nigerian writer Eloghosa Osunde, author of Vagabonds!, was selected as the African Literary Award finalist.

Poets-in-Residence

Cultural Critic-in-Residence

Founded in 2018, the MoAD Poets-in-Residence program provides writers with opportunities to respond to contemporary art of the African Diaspora and extend the reach of the museum through public programs and school-based writing workshops. This annual four-month paid residency provides two poets of African descent the opportunity to pursue their own writing projects, in addition to responding to MoAD’s current exhibitions.

Over the course of the program, the selected residents develop and host poetry workshops for the high school students in the Spoken Arts Department of Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco.

The 2023 Poets-in-Residence were Ashia Ajani and Thea Matthews.

Launched in January 2023, MoAD’s Cultural Critic-in-Residence program connects film, scholarship, visual and pop culture in an exciting and novel approach. The Museum’s inaugural Cultural Critic-in-Residence is acclaimed filmmaker, author, and scholar Dr. Artel Great. Dr. Great is an intellectual and creative force who transcends boundaries and defies conventional categorization. His publically-engaged scholarship contributes to the production of knowledge in Black cinema and visual culture and Black cultural theory. Through this residency, Dr. Artel Great engages filmmakers, historians, scholars, media experts, artists, and cultural producers and local, national, and international audiences through virtual and in-person programming.

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I N TO U RS Chef-in-Residence Jocelyn Jackson presents Diaspora Dinner 2023 One of MoAD’s signature Chef-in-Residence programs, the Diaspora Dinner featured a deliciously curated menu of international cuisine, lively entertainment, and an insightful conversation between two of America’s Top Chefs, Rahanna Bisseret Martinez and Carla Hall. Hosted at the beautiful Southeast Community center in the Bayview, this special event also highlighted the publication of Bisseret Martinez’s debut cookbook, Flavor + Us.

Curator Talk | The New Black Vanguard: Antwaun Sargent in conversation with Rikki Byrd Following the day-long Engage Symposium, this conversation featured Antwaun Sargent, curator of the exhibition The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion. Together with fashion scholar Rikki Byrd, Sargent reflected on the themes, aspirations, and legacy of this acclaimed traveling exhibition.

Diaspora Dinner with Chef in Residence Jocelyn Jackson, Chef Carla Hall, and Rahanna Bisseret Martinez

Poetry Reading | Black Fire This Time Featuring live readings and a community dialogue with 13 Black poets, this program highlighted the publication of the critically-acclaimed anthology Black Fire This Time, Vol. 1. Celebrating the history and legacy of the Black Arts Movement, this anthology contains the work of over 100 Black poets and writers and the last living legends of the movement.

Artist Talk | Alison Saar in Conversation with Evie Shockley

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In celebration of playwright Lorraine Hansberry, artist Alison Saar paid homage to Hansberry with the installation To Sit A While (on view at MoAD April 5-May 1, 2023). Bridging visual art and

I’m very impressed with the content and space MoAD is presenting. This is my second time attending an event.

I am going to become a member for sure.

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poetry, this dynamic conversation paired Saar with poet Evie Shockley, whose collection, suddenly we, features Saar’s artwork on the cover.

Conversation | Curating from the Inside: Women Exposing Prison through Art and Poetry Celebrating the launch of the digital exhibition The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison through Art and Poetry on MoAD’s website, this hybrid program explored the challenges faced by women at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla where both the co-curators and all of the artists for this exhibition reside, while uplifting the empowerment that telling their own stories can bring.

This program and the exhibition were created in partnership with Flyaway Productions and Empowerment Avenue.

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Activation & Artist Talks | Salimatu Amabebe: Sun Home In conjunction with Emerging Artist Program Awardee Salimatu Amabebe’s exhibition SON, this performance and activation featured artists Zekarias Musele Thompson, Styles Alexander, and Gabriele Christian and was followed by an artist talk with Salimatu Amabebe in conversation with artist Tahirah Rasheed. Incorporating sound, music, and movement, this activation expanded upon the exhibition themes of SON, exploring the relationship between home, memory, and metamorphosis.

1,491 SERVED YOUTH & TEACHERS

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EDUCATION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS MoAD Engage Symposium Keynote Speaker - Antwaun Sargent

MoAD in the Classroom

MoAD Teens

MoAD in the Classroom is an arts-based, visual literacy and cultural studies program for third-grade classrooms located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A MoAD Educator makes two trips to the classroom and the students make two visits to the museum. While in the classroom, MoAD Educators teach students about museum themes, current exhibitions, and visual arts vocabulary.

During the museum visits, students view current art exhibitions, learn how to view and talk about art, and participate in hands-on art activities. Following the initial classroom and museum visits, each class participates in four supplementary classroom visits from teaching artists, during which students complete project-based artwork, serving as a summary evaluation of what students learned throughout the program. As a culminating event, students display and present their work to peers, family members, and other friends beyond the classroom.

MoAD Teens is a dynamic five-week program that seamlessly blends structured learning with hands-on, paid work experience to empower aspiring young artist professionals on their path to success. Students explore diverse art career pathways, learn while earning (participants are paid $18.50/hr), gain transferable skills, and work collaboratively with MoAD Teaching Artists.

In 2023, 20 Bay Area teens worked for 12 hours per week for 5 weeks (60 total hours) and each earned $1,110.

On view at MoAD September 27, 2023 through March 3, 2024, Old Roots, New Leaves was a group, mixed-media exhibition curated by ten youth artists in MoAD’s first teen-led art exhibition. The artists reside in the San Francisco Bay Area and are deeply connected to many global cultures. From East Africa to Sierra Leone to Arkansas to the Dominican Republic, each artist uniquely honors their cultural legacies in both old and new environments. Through textiles, sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and photography, this exhibition provided a space for young people to reflect on how their personal experiences with culture and traditions impact their artistic practice.

VIRTUAL PROGRAMS 2023

In the Artist’s Studio

Art As We See It

Each month, MoAD staff members visited some of our favorite artists in their studios to see what they were currently working on and how their work has changed since the onset of Covid-19. This was a rare opportunity to hear from artists directly from their studios. We followed all talks with an audience Q&A.

This series of conversations by MoAD docents celebrates the art and rhythms of the African diaspora by pairing visual art with music. Our docents search online archives to bring selected artworks and pair each piece with music. Participants are invited to join the discussion via chat as they consider style, inspiration, political and cultural context, and highlight the textures and rhythms of art and music.

Thank you for continuing MoAD’s virtual programming— I very much appreciate these learning opportunities. The presenters are terrific — they share their expertise with enthusiasm.

Thank you!

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TOURS

Black Girls in Art Spaces group tour

FINANCIALS 2023 REVENUES Corporations

$590,012

Earned Income

$969,584

Foundations

$674,000

Government

$1,551,437

Individuals

$2,220,321 $5,612,425

EXPENSES Capital Expenditures

$29,841

Designated Operating Reserve

$537,672

Fundraising

$1,088,214

Management General

$730,708

Program Funding

$3,225,990

$5,612,425

Autumn Breon performing at the Afropolitan Ball

Board Treasurer Eric McDonnell at the Afropolitan Ball

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS This list reflects gifts received between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Sheeka Arbuthnot, Chief Development Officer, at sarbuthnot@moadsf.org.

VISIONARY

Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock City and County of San Francisco Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS)

INNOVATOR

California Arts Council CommonSpirit Crankstart Foundation Footlocker LISC Jill Cowan and Stephen Davis Kaiser Permanente KHR Family Fund NBA Foundation San Francisco Grants for the Arts

CHAMPION

Anonymous CSAA Insurance Group Gilead Sciences Lisa P. and Ken Jackson San Francisco Foundation Westridge Foundation

BENEFACTOR

Schatzie Allen Jefferson and Family Wayee Chu and Ethan Beard

Karen Jenkins-Johnson and Kevin Johnson Kelson Foundation Kimball Foundation William and Shannon Nash Pacific Gas and Electric Company Beryl and James Potter Salesforce State of California US Bank Robin and Carl D. Washington Wells Fargo Foundation

ADVOCATE

Justin Bayless Bernard Osher Foundation Bloomberg Philanthropies Annette Blum and Michael Pearson Alicia and Mark Carter Jay C. Cowan Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan Dodge & Cox Elisa Durrette and Ruth McFarlane Harry and Michele Elam FivePoint Communities Peggy W. Forbes and Harry Bremond Greenberg Traurig Dorothy Lathan Lisa Pritzker Family Foundation Neiman Marcus

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS (continued)

New Paradigm Capital Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Siebert Williams Shank & Co Tiffany Stevenson Denise Vohra Warner Music Group Diane B. Wilsey Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation Yerba Buena Community Benefit District

CURATOR

Katie and Rodger Allen Amplitude Jennifer Brody Eugene and Sonya Clark-Herrera Brook Dooley Tom Emrich and Jonathan Carver Moore Maya Forbes and Marc Wolodarsky Julie Goldman and Robert M. Rosner Gordon D. and Tameka Greenwood Akieva and Martin Jacobs Kim and Daniel Johnson Vimbayi Kajese and Tawanda Sibanda Tonia and Adam Karr The Lilly Awards Foundation Marin Community Foundation Vincent McCarley Bryan and Tara Meehan Hydra Mendoza and Eric McDonnell Pam Moore Jared Newberry and Marilena Morales Sonjia and Gregory Redmond Julius Robinson Madalene and L. Wade Rose Jessica Silverman Bonita Stewart Cheryl and Charles Ward Michael and Gina Warren Barry L. Williams and Lalita Tademy Ammanuel Zegeye Zlot Buell & Associates

COLLECTOR

Vernon Anderson The Archie-Brown Springboard Fund Brenda Berlin Susan E. Brown Wanda and Karl Cole-Frieman Julia Collins Michele Crumes Ingrid and Monte Ford Valerie Francis Nilka and Maik Klasen National Black Programming Consortium Monifa Porter Mike & Kelly Smith Pandora Thomas David and Susan Tunnell Deirdre Visser Harold Wallace Dorian Webb and Keith M. Spears Rhonda Williams Robin Wright

DOCENT

Anonymous Francine Anthony Lawrence Bancroft Denise Bradley-Tyson Heidy Braverman and David Skinner James & Bernice Brown Family Fund Nancy Bussani Rosemarie and Ronald Clark Derek & Ramona Coates Eric Coles Paula and Charles M. Collins Molly Coye Charles Desmarais Lisa Finley Lennon Matthew Finney Debra Flores Holly J. Friar Stanlee Gatti

Charlie Goldberg Mary and Steve Gorski Maia J. Harris Alisahah Jackson Sonja Johnson Kara Kelly and Rahsaan Thompson Lillian and Joseph Murphy Charitable Trust Adam Maggio Sarah Manyika Ladipo Karesha A. McGee Donita Murphy Oral History Center Sherri Pittman Theresa Power and Ken Seeger Jennifer Roberts Tonya Russell Hilary Sarnor Andre Scott Emily Scott Francine O. Shakir Joel and Deborah Skidmore Rishika and Marc Spears Greg Stern Gerald Vurek Wayne C. and Vanessa Washington Eileen and Thurman V. White Monetta White and David Lawrence Jean-Mary Widmaer Kathy J. Williams Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

IN-KIND

Adobe Systems Inc Brown Estate Vineyards Cadogan Tate Common Ground Spirits Daou Vineyards MasterClass Uncle Nearest

ESTATE & TRUSTS GIFTS

The Estate of Frankie J. and Maxwell Gillette

MATCHING GIFTS

Adobe Systems Inc. Blue Shield of California Chevron Matching Employee Funds CSAA Insurance Group Gates Foundation Google LinkedIn Corporation

ARTHUR AND TONI REMBE ROCK 2023

In 2023, philanthropists Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock made a transformative investment in MoAD with a leadership gift of $1,500,000. With this gift, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock ensure that MoAD’s critically-acclaimed exhibitions, educational initiatives, and public programs continue to amplify diverse voices in the contemporary art world.

“Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock have been supporters of MoAD since its inception.

Their expanded commitment to MoAD underscores the true importance of our work and helps set a new bar for what is possible for MoAD’s future,” says MoAD CEO Monetta White. “We are deeply grateful for the opportunities this leadership gift provides and thrilled to have such thoughtful and committed partners in the work we do to address America’s entrenched inequities.”

COLLABORATORS & PARTNERS 826 Valencia African Studies Association Aquarius Press Asian Art Museum Black Public Media blackwomxnhealing City Arts & Lectures Community Arts Stabilization Trust Community Music Center DCTV Empowerment Avenue Flyaway Productions Greywolf Press Heyday Books Jonathan Carver Moore Kaiser Permanente Litquake Lorraine Hansberry Theater Mark Rhoades Milkweed Editions Neiman Marcus Penguin Random House

POV/PBS Quiet Lightning Public Profit Ruth Asawa School For the Arts SFJAZZ Sistah Scifi The Italian Consulate UCSF REPAIR World Channel Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Youth Speaks

BOARD MEMBERS

L. Wade Rose - Board Chair Peggy Woodford Forbes - Vice Chair Eric McDonnell - Treasurer Julius Robinson - Secretary Jill Cowan Elisa Durrette Michelle Gaskill-Hames Vimbayi Kajese Beryl Potter Tiffany Stevenson Ammanuel Zegeye

STAFF

Monetta White - CEO and Executive Director Sheeka Arbuthnot - Chief Development Officer Philip Broadus - Chief Operating Officer Key Jo Lee - Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs Linda Spain de Bruin - Chief Financial Officer Dariane Beamon - Education Program Associate Sheleia J. Brooks - Visitor Experience Associate Demetri Broxton - Senior Director of Education Tinashe Chidarikire - Digital Content Manager Alicia Chow - Visitor Experience Associate Si Mon’ Emmett-Salah - Education Program Manager Tsedey Gebreyes - Senior Education Program Manager Elizabeth Gessel - Director of Public Programs Alex Jenney - Events Manager Kitsaun King - Development Manager Imani Lee - Visitor Experience Manager Jenna Littlejohn - Grants Manager Alia Lundy - Executive Administrator / Membership Manager

Nia McAllister - Senior Public Programs Manager Danyn Oakes - Marketing Project Coordinator Tamara Orozco - Director of Marketing and Communications Paul Plale - Brand Design Manager Mary Powers - Registrar Paul Rodriguez - Director of Operations Maya Sadler - Education Program Manager Maiyio Taylor-Jackson - Digital Marketing and Community Manager Dayonna Tucker - Membership Manager Luke Williams - Curatorial Fellow

TEACHING ARTISTS

Asual Aswad Viviana Carlos Feyi Ajayi-Dopemu Amelian Hamilton Aja Johnson Ramona Soto Aambr Newsome

INTERNS

Ryan Bardot Susan Singleton Léa Henaux Sumin Oh Suhyeon Kim Robyn Simpson Teresa Ahumada

DOCENTS

LuCurisa Hammork Rodney Paul Charlie Goldberg

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