Art that Matters to the Planet - RTPI 2021 Annual Report

Contents 1.

Board Chair Letter

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CEO Letter

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RTPI Introduction

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RTPI Rising – Our Strategic Plan

5. Inform, Inspire and Illuminate Through Exhibitions 9. This is What We Mean by Art that Matters to the Planet 11. Nurture the Next Generation 13. Grow Our Audience to Serve Our Community 15. Grow a Robust and Sustainable Organization 17. 2021 Financial Statements 19. 2021 Donors 25. Board and Staff

RTPI 2021 Annual Report

A Letter from our Board Chair Wilson D. Mudge Like the woods and fields of Chautauqua County, RTPI is a special place for me. Alongside close family friends and mentors, my mother worked for many years as a volunteer and later a curator of the collection here, helping to preserve and share with our community Roger Tory Peterson’s tremendous legacy of art that fosters understanding and reverence of the natural world we share. As the newly-elected Board Chair, I’m excited to help RTPI not only carry on that tradition, but achieve much more of our potential to illuminate, inform, and inspire.

Our task now is to bring life to the bold strategic vision we recently adopted - RTPI Rising. With the goal to become a museum of regional and national significance for Art that Matters to the Planet, we are committed to developing the organizational capacity to meet that vision.

My own goals for the next year and beyond include further engaging and expanding our board, with broad, active representation from our own community as well as passionate art and nature advocates from around the country, and building the financial resources we need to fulfill our mission. To that end, as described in this report, we are in the second year of our three-year Phoenix Fund campaign to raise $1.4 million – or more – to support our development as a strong, effective, and resilient organization.

We appreciate the support of our many steadfast friends, and look forward to welcoming many more of you to join us as we keep on rising.

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Roger’s art still matters to the planet.

For almost 90 years, Roger’s field guides have been the gold standard for connecting people with the natural world in deep and meaningful ways.

A Message from our CEO, Arthur Pearson On July 16, RTPI hosted its first-ever Summer Soiree at the Lodge. On a perfect summer evening, more than a hundred guests joined us for a gourmet dinner and a selection of wines from the oldest estate winery in New York.

Our guest speaker, James Prosek, shared how the field guides of Roger Tory Peterson inspired him to his career as an artist, writer and conservationist. In my remarks, I shared the words of Manish Bapna, President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council: Today, I believe that advocates like me must join forces with artists, writers and musicians, whose work reaches millions of people, touches hearts, changes perspectives and shapes our culture. The environmental movement needs artists of every stripe just as much as it needs lawyers, scientists and activists.

We couldn’t agree more. Trained as an artist, Roger Tory Peterson understood the power of art to inform, inspire and illuminate people about the natural world. The experience of using his illustrated field guides has helped millions of people across the globe really see the natural world. To be inspired by it. To fall in love with it.

As the living embodiment of the Peterson Field Guide, RTPI is committed to nurturing the next generation of artists who are equally passionate about using their artistry to illuminate the beauty of nature, to confront environmental challenges, and to inspire us to be better stewards of the earth.

Art that Matters to the Planet. More than a slogan, they’re words we live by.

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The Roger Tory Peterson Institute RTPI is the living embodiment of the Peterson Field Guide.

Like the field guide, we are a trusted source of information.

Like the field guide, we use art as the lens through which to engage with the natural world.

Through world-class exhibitions and programs, RTPI illuminates the beauty of nature; challenges us to confront environmental issues of regional, national and global concern; and inspires us to preserve the earth’s biodiversity – with a particular emphasis on the natural area wonders of Western New York.

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RTPI Rising – Our Strategic Plan In 2021, on the heels of a global pandemic and an electrical fire, RTPI adopted a bold, new strategic plan.

RTPI Rising is the blueprint for realizing our full potential as a nature art museum of national significance.

• We will illuminate, inform and inspire through exhibitions at the nexus of art and environment.

• We will nurture the next generation of artists and conservationists.

• We will drive tourism to the greater Jamestown community.

• We will build the operational and financial capacity necessary to achieve our strategic plan goals.

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Inform, Inspire and Illuminate Through Exhibitions Each year, RTPI hosts three major nature art exhibitions that matter to the planet. Each exhibition illuminates the beauty and wonder of nature, informs about the critical conservation challenges of our time, and inspires us to the creative solutions we need to meet those challenges.

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Art of the Osprey

Art that Matters to the Planet

Art of the Osprey June 3 – July 25, 2021

Jun – Aug 2021

Aug – Oct 2021

Photographs by Roger Tory Peterson and Dr. Jeanne Wiebenga explored the near extinction of ospreys and their amazing recovery following the banning of DDT.

The juried exhibition of 60 works by the Society of Animal Artists celebrated the resiliency of nature in the face of pollution, climate change and the illegal wildlife trade.

The near extinction and hopeful recovery of a global raptor

Art That Matters To The Planet rtpi.org Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @RTPInstitute Photo by Jeanne Wiebenga

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Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @RTPInstitute The Mountaineer by Morgane Antoine

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Thomas Mangelsen:

Art of the Field Guide

A Life in the Wild

Thomas D. Mangelsen: A Life in the Wild November 6, 2021 – April 10, 2022

Apr – July 2022

Nov 2021 – April 2022

Mountain Outlaw, 2016, Thomas D. Mangelsen

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Forty large-scale photographs drew viewers into the worlds of bison, bears, birds and other iconic wildlife species who struggle for survival in the face of 21st century challenges.

April 27 through July 17, 2022

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Featuring the original field guide art of Roger Tory Peterson and David Allen Sibley, the exhibition explored how field guides uniquely marry art, design, and science to satisfy a deep human need for connection with the natural world.

Art that Matters to the Planet

Curious by Nature: Works by Charley and Edie Harper

July 27 – Oct. 30, 2022

Nov. 2022 – March 2023

July – Oct 2022 In a world of exceptional natural beauty and overwhelming environmental challenges, the 15 artists featured in this juried exhibition make the case that art not only matters, it is essential for creating a better world.

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Charley and Edie Harper’s signature style of ‘minimal realism’ captures the spirit of their subjects and allows us to see nature, and our place in it, in a whole new way.

COOL CARDINAL 1974, Oil on canvas, 17.5 x 5.5", Gift of the estate of Perry Halley

CURIOUS

BY NATURE Works by Charley and Edie Harper Nov. 12, 2022 — March 5, 2023 Organized by Springfield Museum of Art and Fowler Artistic LLC

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This is What We Mean by Art that Matters to the Planet We opened the 2021 exhibition season with Art of the Osprey. It featured osprey photos by Roger Tory Peterson and Dr. Jeanne Wiebenga. Taken 70 years apart, their photos bookend an exceptional tale of near-extinction and ongoing recovery.

Roger was among the first to identify DDT as the reason populations of ospreys, bald eagles and many other bird species were plummeting. Along with Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, Roger successfully petitioned the United States Government to ban DDT. This initiated a slow but steady recovery of ospreys and other birds, which continues to this day.

Jeanne Wiebenga captured this success story in her photos of a young osprey pair raising their first chick on a nesting platform at Loomis Goose Creek Preserve, owned and stewarded by the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy.

During the run of the exhibition at RTPI, many individuals contributed to a special fund to install additional nesting platforms in the region.

The first platforms were installed during the summer of 2022 at McCrea Point Park and Jones Memorial Park.

From June through September 2022, Dr. Wiebenga’s osprey photos, along with information panels from the Art of the Osprey exhibition, were exhibited in the Athenaeum Hotel on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution.

At this time of rapid loss of global biodiversity due to human negligence in caring for the world, we can celebrate the story of the recovery of ospreys as the result of the acknowledgement and correction of past mistakes. This gives me hope – perhaps it is not too late to repair much of the damage done to our magnificent planet earth.

—Jeanne Wiebenga

We hate to lose the last of the ospreys. I just could not live without birds.

—Roger Tory Peterson testimony before a Senate Subcommittee investigating the harm of DDT, 1964.

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Nurture the Next Generation Like Roger Tory Peterson, Artist Alex Warnick was born in Jamestown. Like Roger, she fell in love with both birds and art at a young age.

My interest in birds began as a little girl watching my brother draw a cardinal from the cover of an old Peterson field guide. In elementary school I would draw birds on poster boards, write reports to accompany them, and even create meticulous mobiles of the undersides of hawks to hang above my bed.

Like Roger, Alex pursued art as the way to share her love of birds. Roger spent five years between the Arts Students League of New York and the National Academy of Design. Alex graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho with a BA in integrated studio art.

In May 2022, Alex spent a week at RTPI as our inaugural artist-in-residence, with full access to the Peterson Collection – the largest collection of Roger’s original art, films and photos, along with his personal library, bird specimens and personal papers.

Alex’s residency coincided with The Art of the Field Guide, providing her the rare opportunity to study the original field guide art of Roger Tory Peterson and David Allen Sibley side by side.

Thank you RTPI – this residency is going to influence my work throughout the rest of my career.

In 2023, some of Alex’s art will be included in the spring exhibition, featuring women artists whose artistic practices explore the beauty and wonder of birds.

Since then, I have pursued a path in natural history art inspired by antique natural history illustrations.

I hope my artwork will introduce many others to the significance and beauty of birds so that birds can benefit the lives of people, and in turn, people can benefit the lives of birds.

Left: Carolina Parakeet and Cypress watercolor and gouache

Right: Alex Warnick is a natural history artist based in Columbus, Indiana

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Grow Our Audience A primary goal of the Jamestown Urban Design Plan 2.0 (2019) is to strengthen Jamestown as a cultural destination…an economic engine for the region, and a place that makes the community proud.

This aligns with RTPI’s strategic plan, which calls for driv[ing] tourism to the greater Jamestown community.

Emerging from Covid, however, museums throughout the country have been struggling to return to pre-pandemic attendance levels.

In 2020, most museums – including RTPI – experienced major declines in attendance. In 2021, many museums made partial progress toward recovering their former audiences. RTPI, on the other hand, exceeded expectations.

Museum Attendance as a Percentage of 2019 Baseline 2019 Baseline

2020 Actual

2021 Actual

2022 Projected 205

200 180

In 2022, even as most museums struggle to return to pre-pandemic attendance levels, RTPI is on track to expand attendance further still.

170 160 140 120 100

100

80 60

46

80

40 20

40

0

Roger Tory Peterson Institute

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Despite being open only half the year following recovery from an electrical fire, our attendance skyrocketed.

Museums–National Average

to Serve Our Community

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Grow a Robust and RTPI Rising is bold and ambitious. In support of our new strategic plan, we launched the Phoenix Fund, an equally bold and ambitious campaign to raise $1.4 million.

In the first year of the campaign, we raised a little over $1 million – thanks to leadership gifts from our board of directors, the Lenna Foundation, the Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation and the RTPI Foundation. Support from individual donors is equally important.

In 2021, individuals generously gave $40,000 more than the year before. As RTPI grows over the next couple of years, we are inviting our individual donors to grow with us.

With the support we’ve received already, RTPI was able to establish a $500,000 building reserve fund. The Lodge at RTPI is beautiful and well-built. To keep it that way we must invest in regular capital improvements and be financially prepared in case of an emergency.

2021

2022

2023

3-Year Goal

RTPI Foundation

$500,000

$500,000

RTPI Board Leadership Gifts

$400,000

$400,000

Lenna Foundation

$50,000

$50,000

$50,000

$150,000

Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation

$15,000

$15,000

$15,000

$ 45,000

Additional Foundation Expanded Individual and Board Gifts

$40,000

$50,000

$ 50,000

$79,500 $135,500

$255,000

TOTALS $1,005,000 $194,500 $200,500 $1,400,000

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Sustainable Organization The balance of the campaign is to help us build and sustain the staff needed to achieve our primary goal of becoming a nature art museum of national significance. Since January 2021, RTPI’s staff is all but entirely new. Without exception, everyone is highly qualified and totally committed to realizing the goals of our new strategic vision.

Staff Spotlight

Maria Ferguson, Collections Curator A native of nearby Erie, PA, Maria holds a master’s degree in Art History and Museum Studies. With experience caring for museum collections, she is leading RTPI’s effort to become accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Channeling her own passion for art and nature, Maria leads RTPI’s curatorial team in developing each year’s schedule of exhibitions and programs.

As a long-time art lover and museum nerd, I’m inspired by the power of both to transform people’s lives. I feel fortunate to be in a position in which I can share extraordinary artworks with visitors, and in which I can see firsthand how people are inspired by them.

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Audited 2021 Combined Financial Statements for Balance Sheet Assets: Current Assets Property and Equipment (net)

Liabilities and Net Assets: $701,908 $14,268

Long-Term Promises To Give Free Rent and Utilities

$2,644,221

Investments (at fair value)

$1,976,417

Other Assets

$73,679

Total Assets

$5,410,493

Current Liabilities

$94,278

Total Liabilities

$94,278

Net Assets Without Donor Restrictions

$1,325,683

With Donor Restrictions

$3,990,532

Total Net Assets

$5,316,215

Total Liabilities and Net Assets

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$5,410,493

the Roger Tory Peterson Institute and Roger Tory Peterson Foundation Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets Revenues, support and gains (losses):

Expenses:

Contributions and Grants

$904,221

Program Services

Investment Return

$204,453

Management and General

Service Agreement Revenue

$38,930

Development

Program Revenues

$29,492

Fundraising

$839,899 $68,447 $132,613 $41,219

Distributions from funds held by other

$46,223

Museum Store (net of cost of goods sold)

$41,736

Other Income and Reimbursements

$29,527

Change in Net Assets

Forgiveness of PPP Loan

$94,383

Net Assets at Beginning of Year

$5,011,866

Net Assets at End of Year

$5,316,215

Total Expenses

Change in cash value of life insurance Gain or (loss) on sale of assets Total Revenue and Support

$362

$1,082,178

Change in Net Assets: $304,349

$(2,800) $1,386,527

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With Gratitude to Our 2021 Donors Peterson Society Members

Donations in Memory of

The Peterson Society recognizes those who annually contribute $4,000 or more and provide critical support for RTPI’s mission.

R. Q. Anderson

Stanford Jones

The Phoenix Fund was established to provide the resources to expand staff capacity and meet the goals of the new strategic plan RTPI Rising

Robert Berry

George A. Post, Jr.

William R. Hackney, III

Warren C. Blanchard, Jr.

Noble Proctor

Lenna Foundation

Diane M. Carlson

Eleanor Sanctuary

Tory and Janet Peterson

William R. Hackney, III

LeRoy and Anne Scharon

Lee and Courtney Peterson

Barbara Yellig Lupfer

Kay Sfetko

Lynne Reading

Herb Siegel and Sydelle Sonkin

William H. Wendel

Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation

Linda Goodridge Steckley and Pete Weitzel

Phillip “Flip” D. Yates, Jr.

William Hall Wendel

Jacqueline J. Anderson Mary H. Blair Eirik A. T. Blom Mary Ellen Filhaber Scott Hoffman Gary Johnson

Donations in Honor of Joseph R. Baglia Lee Davis and Rick Kirkman Mary Anne Harp Jane Johnson Twan Leenders Linda Pierce RTPI Staff Jeanne Wiebenga

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Phoenix Fund Leadership Gifts

2021 Annual Fund Donors $30,000 and above

$10,000 to $29,999

$4,000 to $9,999

William R. Hackney, III

Mary Blair

The Lenna Foundation

Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Bereda Children’s Memorial Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Lee and Courtney Peterson Tory and Janet Peterson

Robert Berry

C. Malcolm and Jeanette M. Nichols Roger Tory Peterson Institute Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Warren C. Blanchard, Jr.

Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation

Irene B. Eckberg R.T.P.I. Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Stanley A. Weeks Charitable Legacy Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Diane M. Carlson Cummins Foundation

Barbara Yellig Lupfer Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies - Herb Siegel and Sydelle Sonkin Linda Goodridge Steckley and Pete Weitzel William Hall Wendel

$1,000 to $3,999

Ranjit K. Laha, M.D. and Sarojini Laha

Laurie Barrera

Deborah A. Andersen

Constance Barton

David and Sharon Beckman

G. Dewey and Myrna E. Spencer Larson Memorial Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Craig Hoskins Caldwell

Mary Beth and Bob Metcalf

David H. and Martha Carnahan

Ashley H. Peterson

Ayako Cone Henry R. and Julie C. Danielson

Roger Tory Peterson Institute Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Founation

Pat and Michael Dennehey

H. Chase and Mary Putnam

Renate Bob

Jack and Donna Jones Fahlen

Douglas L. Schutte

Mark and Beth Bonner

Cornelia B. Ferguson

Stephen Still and Terrie Tucker

Jon and Barbara Boone

Allen R. and Margaret H. Findlay Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Robert and Patricia Sundell Environmental Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Twig and Barbara Branch

Gebbie Foundation

Dr. Peter Walter

Dr. Katherine Groninger

Anonymous

G.P. Johnson

$100 to $499

Madeline Miles

Bruce D. Battler Caroline V. Bissell Sally Black Star Lynn Blanchard Loren and Jane Bly

John M. Brubaker Joe and Shari Buteau Carrie Cadwell Brown David and Lynne Campbell Ron and Priscilla Carlson

Kenneth and Barbara Adams

J. Marlin Casker

Bill and Nancy Anderson

Paul E. Cawein

Chris and Amy Anderson

Christopher Chaffee and Susan Hegel

Cynthia Rose Anderson

David Chapin

John and Elizabeth Anderson

Janet Chapman

John E. and Barbara L. Anderson

Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden Club

Trust for Wildlife

Judith J. Anderson Family Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Adrienne Childs

Dr. Marilyn Zagora and Robert Oddy

Mitchell Anderson

$500 to $999

Thomas J. Anderson

Wilson and Amy Mudge Arthur and Susan Pearson Lynne H. Reading Sandra Rothenberg Erika and Jon Stanat Dr. Jeanne Wiebenga

Samuel Alessi Stephen F. Boulay Nancy Colalillo Michael and Dorothy DeSha Mark and Donna Hampton

E. Thomas Arnn Carol and Richard Aron Ellen B. Avril Kathleen N. Scharon Azzaro Bill and Wendy Bale

Amy Choboy and Pamela Rossotto James and Jill Coffrin Fred and Vanne D. Cohen Dr. Patrick Collins and Karen Collins Bill and Carole Colter Barbara J. Combs Charles Conaway Jeff and Faye Contino

Jennifer and George Harper

Robert S. and Je’Anne Bargar Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

Martin and Patty Idzik

James and Beth Barnes

David and Margaret Desha

Charles and Gretchen Kingsley

R.D. Barnes

Susan Dilks

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Wendy Culver and Kathie Herron

Carol M. Drake, CPA Spencer Drake Kelly Farrell Dubois A.P. Duffy William G. Ebersbach Helen G. Ebersole Bruce and Joan Erickson Jane and Dennis Eshbaugh Mark and Pat Evans Len and Carole Faulk Melvin L. Feather Ted and Deborah First Kay Fugagli Bob and Marion Gibbon Dr. Robert L. Gingell and Marjorie Gingell Marjorie L. Girth Betty A. Glatz Doreen S. Gould Lynette Green Lyndon and Melanie Gritters Fred and Becky Habenicht Judy and Bruce Hagadorn Jon and Lane Hagberg

Richard C. and Bridget B. Johnson

Peter Miraglia

Dr. Greg Jones and Sue Jones

William Montgomery

Henry G. Kammerer

Arthur Morris

Nancy and Norm Karp

Sally Myers

Rolland and Jane Kidder

Roger H. and Martha D. Nelson

Patricia L. King

Gary and Drina Nemes

Jim Kirkhoff

Becky and Steve Nystrom

Arthur Klebanoff

Lori Nystrom

Denise Schalleur Klein

Linda O’Brien

Rob Kocur

G.L. Olson, Inc.

Dr. John LaMancuso and Rhonda LaMancuso

Kim and Vicki Olson

Dr. Jim Laughner

Bob Patterson

Donald and Deborah Lauper

Drs. Robert A. and Veronica S. Petersen

Jonna and Fred Lazarus

Allen and Mary Peterson

Casey and Twan Leenders

Don and Anna Peterson

Edwin Deane and Judith Leonard

Gregory and Cindy Peterson

William D. Levin and Laureen Martin

Joan Peterson

Robert P. and Kathleen Long Ruth Lundin and Paul Hedberg Stan and Sara Lundine Mike and Barb Lyons Helen Mak and Marc Hersh

Randolph C. Oppenheimer, Esq.

Frank and Elizabeth Petiprin Jennifer K. Post Joel Potash, MD and Sandra Hurd Lisa Pratt Chuck and Ann Preston Carolyn Proctor

Jennifer Hebrank

James L. Marsey and Ellen Palmer Marsey

Rhoe B. and Sharron Henderson

Andi and Mike Mattei

Rosario and Marilyn Riotto

Christie Herbst

Tom and Jerolyn Mazur

Native Roots

Paul and Beth Higby

William C. Rowe

Sue Ellen Hirshman

Dr. Charles E. McChesney and Ruth Ann McChesney

Bob and Carol Hopper

Annette McCormick

David and Anita Sanctuary

Audrey A. Horbett

Michael and Maggie McElrath

Eugene J. Scarpulla

Terry and Kathleen Horner

Kristan McMahon

Curt and Joyce Sechler

Jamestown Garden Club

Jennifer McMaster Lumia

David and Betsy Shepherd

Gary and Kay Johnson

Jacqueline M. Milligan

Elaine Short

Miriam S. Reading and Richard R. Miller

Russell and Judith Sampson

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Robert Smith and Jan Lesniak

Nancy S. Ames

Priscilla Fairbank

Lee and Jennifer Stein

Margit Andreassen

Suzanne Foley

Josephine Stewart

Timothy and Beth Baird

Carol and Tony Gallo

Lois Strickler

Victoria Bauer

Jacqueline Courtney Swift

Thomas and Jane Becker

Dennis Galucki and Barbara Mierzwa

Stephen and Deborah Szwejbka

Marion Beckerink

Carolyn Taft Whitehead

Jaye H. Beebe

Craig D. Thompson and Ro Woodard

Andrea Benedett

Dr. Robert Ungerer and Bev Ungerer

Marjorie Benton

Unitarian Universalist Congregation

Mary Bogdan

Jeffrey and Michele Victor

Peter Bono

Mary J. Wagner

David Bragg

Mitchell Walker and Sarah Hoban

Mary S. Brickley

Priscilla Wall

Linda K. Bumbalo

Nancy Ward

Michael Campanella

Leslie E. Warren

Nancy Caputi

James Watson

Mary-Lou Cartledge

Donald L. and Elizabeth C. Watts

David and Barbara Chall

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Webster

Chautauqua County Amateur FM Association

Christine Wendel Delia Westerdahl Mary Jane Whaley Elizabeth Wheeler Christopher and Melinda Wolcott Glen and Janice Yeager Brenda Young Barbara B. Zuegel Anonymous

$1 to $99

Thomas and Connie Gauronski Terry Glover Clark Goetzmann Henry T. Golet Lisa Gould Jane Gram Dr. Thomas Greer and Sally Greer Joseph Grice Dr. Gael Grossman Lynne Gruel Vincent Gugino Sonya and Jim Gustafson Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Hanson, Jr. Mary Anne Harp Brett Harper

Richard and LaReine Clopper

Eleanor Harvey

John Connolly Jr.

Charles and Franca Haynes

Tom and Linda Cooper

Charles and Mary Hitchcock

Virginia H. Cox

David and Elona Hoffman

Nancy S. D’Arcy

Marty and Linda Hoffman

Helen L. Davis

Paul Hojnacki

Mark and Karen Davis

Lucy Howard

Joanne DeCarlo

Drs. Thomas and Patricia Hubbell

Elizabeth Drost

Amy Hudson

Constance Cryer Ecklund

Janice Isaman

Ann and Stephen Abdella

Bonnie Engberg

John and Carol Jablonski

Carol A. Adams

Christina L. Erickson

Louise and Joe Jencik

Ken and Suzanne Aldrich

Oliver and Barbara Erickson

Mark Jobes

Amazon Giving

Joan Eschner

Marilyn J. Johnson

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Pierce and Nancy Johnson

W. Charles Neal

Megan Sorenson

Dr. John Juriga and Frances Juriga

Marjorie Taylor Neel

Lee and Rebecca Spear

Carol L. Nile

A. Marie Sprayberry

Kent and Mary Nordwall

Kay R. Stahlman

Karen F. Ohta

Karen Blomquist Struckman

M.K. Peace

John and Marilyn Sundeen

Linda L. Pease

Jerry and Kay Swanson

Helen Peterson

Billie J. Szablewski

Douglas Pickard

Garrett Taylor

Jennifer and Daniel Pierce

Greg and Rebecca Van Tassel

Michael Pollock

Thomas and E. Gail Walder

Katharine Price

Daniel and Ann Walker

Albert ‘Skid’ and Mary Jane Proctor

Mr. and Mrs. Deforest Warn

Richard and Carol Lewis Mary Lee Lindros

Jim Qualls

Fred and Pearl Livingstone

Major Lincoln W. Quigley

Laurie Lowe

Warren Rammacher

Laura Marsala

Richard and Caran Redington

Vince Martonis

Carole Reeder

Barbara J. and Richard K. Mason

Renee Riczker

Gerald and Karen Mathewson

Carol Riniolo

Cheryl Mawhinney

Mark Robbins

Linda McClenahen

Leigh and Brian Rovegno

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Harley and Sharon Rusch

James and Florence McGuire

Richard B. Scheffler

Donald H. Miller

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Scott Schul

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Sally J. Jurkowski Dr. Rebecca Kimberly Steve Kirchner John Kohler Mary Laird Margaret Lane Deborah Lanni Elizabeth Lasser Larry L. Lee Sarah van Leer

James D. Watson Michael R. and Eileen R. Weishan Worthing L. West Kevin Whitaker James D. and Laura R. White M. Vaughn Wilson Dr. Steven Woodruff and Cheryl Woodruff Christine and Scott Worley Phyllis Wright Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous

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Meet Our Board and Staff Chris Anderson

Alberto Rey

Diane M. Carlson

Douglas L. Schutte

Vice-Chair and Nominating and Governance Committee Chair

Treasurer and Administration and Finance Committee Chair

Dr. Katherine Groninger

Erika N.D. Stanat

Exhibitions and Collections Committee Chair

Linda G. Steckley RTP Foundation Chair

Wilson D. Mudge Board Chair

Dr. Jeanne Wiebenga

Lee A. Peterson

Dr. Marilyn Zagora

Tory C. Peterson Lynne H. Reading Secretary

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JCC representative

Arthur Pearson, CEO Jana Ball, Visitor Experience Associate Amelia Duffee, Visitor Experience Associate Maria Ferguson, Collections Curator George Harper, Development & Communications Director Jennifer Harper, Collections Assistant Amy Hudson, Operations & Administration Assistant David Niles, Programs & Events Manager Justyne Preston, Visitor Experience Associate

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Legacy

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Roger Tory Peterson’s signature contribution to the arc of the American Conservation Movement was the modern field guide. Trained as an artist, Peterson understood the power of art to inform, inspire and illuminate people about the natural world. His illustrated field guides allowed for easy, accurate identification in the field. The experience of using the field guide has helped millions of people across the globe really see the natural world. To be inspired by it. To fall in love with it. Throughout his multifaceted career, Peterson helped us to see the challenges, too – the devastating impacts of pesticides, habitat loss and other environmental ills. He also demonstrated that each and every one of us can make a difference in protecting the earth’s diversity of plants and animals.