ReportAnnual2021RTPI 1. Board Chair Letter 2. CEO Letter 3. RTPI Introduction 4. 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 Contents
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.
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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.
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.
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 Letter from our Board Chair Wilson D. Mudge
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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.
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.
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:
A Message from our CEO, Arthur Pearson
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.
Art that Matters to the Planet. More than a slogan, they’re words we live by.
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute
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In 2021, on the heels of a global pandemic and an electrical fire, RTPI adopted a bold, new strategic plan.
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RTPI Rising – Our Strategic Plan
• We will illuminate, inform and inspire through exhibitions at the nexus of art and environment.
RTPI Rising is the blueprint for realizing our full potential as a nature art museum of national significance.
• We will drive tourism to the greater Jamestown community.
• We will nurture the next generation of artists and conservationists.
• We will build the operational and financial capacity necessary to achieve our strategic plan goals.
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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 criticalchallengesconservationofour time, and inspires us to the creative solutions we need to meet those challenges.
Inform, Inspire and Illuminate Through Exhibitions
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Art of the Osprey
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
—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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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.
Nurture the Next Generation
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.
Thank you RTPI – this residency is going to influence my work throughout the rest of my career.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Grow Our Audience
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.
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.
as most museums struggle to return to pre-pandemic attendance levels, RTPI is on track to expand attendance further still.
Despite being open only half the year following recovery from an electrical fire, our attendance
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to Serve Our Community
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.
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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.
Grow a Robust and
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.
$1,400,000$400,000$500,000$150,000$45,000$50,000$255,000RTPI Foundation RTPI Board Leadership Gifts Lenna Foundation Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation AdditionalExpandedFoundationIndividualandBoardGiftsTOTALS $1,005,000$400,000$500,000$50,000$15,000$40,000 $194,500$50,000$50,000$15,000$79,500 $200,500$135,500$50,000$15,000 2021 2022 2023 3-Year Goal 15
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.
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.
Staff Spotlight Maria Ferguson, Collections Curator
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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.
Total Net Assets $5,316,215
Assets:
Balance Sheet
Liabilities and Net Assets:
Net Assets
Other Assets $73,679
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Current Assets $701,908
Long-Term Promises To Give Free Rent and Utilities $2,644,221 Investments (at fair value) $1,976,417
Audited 2021 Combined Financial Statements for
Total Assets $5,410,493
Total Liabilities and Net Assets $5,410,493
Total Liabilities $94,278
Property and Equipment (net) $14,268
Current Liabilities $94,278
With Donor Restrictions $3,990,532
Without Donor Restrictions $1,325,683
Development $132,613
Net Assets at Beginning of Year $5,011,866
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Forgiveness of PPP Loan $94,383
Fundraising $41,219
the Roger Tory Peterson Institute and Roger Tory Peterson Foundation
Change in Net Assets $304,349
Change in cash value of life insurance $362 Gain or (loss) on sale of assets $(2,800)
Revenues, support and gains (losses):
Contributions and Grants $904,221
Distributionsfromfundsheld by other $46,223
Expenses:
Program Services $839,899
Management and General $68,447
Other Income and Reimbursements $29,527
Total Revenue and Support $1,386,527
Museum Store (net of cost of goods sold) $41,736
Service Agreement Revenue $38,930
Investment Return $204,453
Total Expenses $1,082,178
Program Revenues $29,492
Change in Net Assets:
Net Assets at End of Year $5,316,215
Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets
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R. Q. Anderson Mary H. Blair
The Peterson Society recognizes those who annually contribute $4,000 or more and provide critical support for RTPI’s mission.
With Gratitude to Our 2021 Donors
Eirik A. T. Blom Mary Ellen Filhaber Scott Hoffman Gary GeorgeStanfordJohnsonJonesA.Post, Jr. Noble PhillipWilliamKayLeRoyEleanorProctorSanctuaryandAnneScharonSfetkoH.Wendel“Flip”D.Yates,Jr.
Donations in Memory of Jacqueline J. Anderson
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 Warren C. Blanchard, Jr. Diane M. Carlson William R. Hackney, III Barbara Yellig Lupfer Herb Siegel and Sydelle Sonkin Linda Goodridge Steckley and Pete Weitzel William Hall Wendel
William R. Hackney, III Lenna Foundation Tory and Janet Peterson Lee and Courtney Peterson Lynne Reading Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation
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Linda Goodridge Steckley and Pete Weitzel
Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation
$10,000 to $29,999
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Stanley A. Weeks Charitable Legacy Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation
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$4,000 to $9,999
Bereda Children’s Memorial Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation
Robert Berry
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Warren C. Blanchard, Jr. Diane M. Carlson Cummins Foundation
Mary Beth and Bob Metcalf
Mark and Donna Hampton Jennifer and George Harper Martin and Patty Idzik Charles and Gretchen Kingsley
Stephen Still and Terrie Tucker
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Jeff and Faye Contino
Kenneth and Barbara Adams Bill and Nancy Anderson
Susan Dilks
David and Sharon Beckman
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Erika and Jon Stanat
Henry R. and Julie C. Danielson
Judith J. Anderson Family Fund at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation
Janet ChautauquaChapmanBird, Tree & Garden Club
Ashley H. Peterson
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Dr. Patrick Collins and Karen Collins Bill and Carole Colter
Barbara J. Combs
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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.
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