Wex Reflections: 2006-2007 in Review

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Wex Reflections 2006–2007 IN REVIEW

The monumental scale and playful subject of Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog sculpture made it one of the most talked-about pieces in the popular Shiny exhibition.

ARTNews called the show a “provocative and giddy sampler” that “suggested the way contemporary culture encourages narcissism and the public appetite for bling.”

Director’s Message The Year in Pictures Art at Work…and Play Exceptional Artistry Research and Education Outreach and Engagement What’s New—What’s Better Wexner Center Programs 2006–07 Philanthrophy at Work— Our Donors Wexner Center Staff and Volunteers

Director’s Message

Art at Work...and Play

I first saw the gorgeous Louise Lawler photograph that graces our cover not here at the Wexner Center itself but in a gallerist’s booth at the 2007 Basel Art Fair. I quickly realized that Louise must have snapped the image while she was at the center to install her work in Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), her large solo exhibition last fall, as well as in Shiny, a group exhibition that ran concurrently with it and featured Jeff Koons’s dazzling Balloon Dog. In fact, we had conceived the Shiny exhibition as a provocative complement to the Lawler survey, as both were in large measure about reflecting—literally and figuratively— the peculiar habits and predilections of the art world.

Little did we know that the juxtaposition of these two exhibitions (and the inclusion of Louise’s own work in Shiny) would inspire her to create a new piece! Upon encountering this brilliant image, I was arrested in my footsteps by a sudden though gratifying flash of recognition, and was yet again reminded of the remarkably generative creative energy that regularly pulses through the Wexner Center.

And how fitting that this particular new work literally reflects the spectacular and unique architectural attributes of the Wexner Center building, yet another nod to the successful completion of the renovation that had so preoccupied the years 2002 to 2005! After the full-tilt excitement of last year’s Wex Wide Open season, the center’s staff might easily have been tempted to settle back into a slower, quieter rhythm for 2006–07. Happily, what passes for “normal” around here is anything but languorous or calm: the ever-surprising and stimulating work—and play—of art being conceived, created, presented, and experienced by receptive audiences ensures an always breathless pace, albeit an invigorating one for staff, trustees, and patrons alike.

Several long-term artists’ projects came to outstanding fruition, among them exhibitions by Sadie Benning and Zoe Leonard that both had their roots in extended artists’ residencies and featured new work created under the auspices of the center’s commitment to the artistic process. Bill Frisell’s hypnotic and nuanced music inspired by the photographs of Mike Disfarmer was also several years in the making, growing from a conversation between Frisell and Chuck Helm, the center’s director of performing arts. Then there’s the unmatched persistence of José Oubrerie, whose quest to at last complete a building he began as an assistant to famed architect Le Corbusier in 1960 was chronicled in our Architecture Interruptus exhibition. Anne Bogart and the SITI Company continued their longstanding relationship not just with the Wexner Center but with Ohio State, conducting a teaching residency in the university’s theater department before rehearsing and premiering Radio Macbeth, a spirited adaptation of Shakespeare inspired by Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre radio plays, at the center. And our powerful exhibition Chris Marker: Staring Back is itself a tribute to the decade-plus correspondence between the artist and Bill Horrigan, our director of media arts, which began when the artist received a Wexner Center Residency Award in 1994.

We are indeed gratified that many of these projects have gone on, or will go on, to captivate audiences far beyond the Wexner Center. Frisell and his collaborators, Jenny Scheinman and Greg Leisz, are taking the Disfarmer project on tour in the fall of 2007 and the spring of 2008. Radio Macbeth was featured (in a work-in-progress showing) at the Under the Radar festival at New York City’s prestigious Public Theater and went on to receive enthusiastic reviews at the 2007 International Festival of Art and Ideas in New Haven. Photographs from Zoe Leonard’s Analogue were exhibited at the monumental Documenta 12 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, this summer and will be included in upcoming exhibitions by the artist in Nice, France, and Winterthur, Switzerland. Play Pause, the exquisite video that Sadie Benning created over a three-year period working in the center’s Art & Technology postproduction studio and premiered in her exhibition here, will screen at Dia in New York City in September.

And Marker’s phenomenal exhibition Staring Back will be seen in New York in September before traveling to Zurich and possibly other cities in 2008. As these examples suggest, the faith and generosity of Wexner Center trustees, donors, members, and project sponsors time and again produces powerful works of art that continue to resonate and reverberate across the globe and for future generations, while

Laurent Maillaud, cultural attachÊ at the French Consulate in Chicago, toured the exhibition of French filmmaker Chris Marker’s Staring Back with Director Sherri Geldin.

Wexner Center visitors enjoy Staring Back, which will travel to New York in September 2007 and later to Zurich and possibly other cities.

simultaneously reflecting the unique creative laboratory that the center has become in its short history.

Audiences begin their own remarkable journeys at the Wexner Center: voyages of discovery as visitors young and old encounter new ideas and experiences; pilgrimages to see favorite artists or works firsthand or study them in more depth; and occasional forays from safe, familiar territory into terrain that is more challenging but, for that very reason, potentially more rewarding to explore. Some undertook such travels through gallery tours, films, performances, or school programs, such as the Pages arts and literacy initiative, which this year expanded beyond pilot status to encompass work with five area high schools. Other visitors followed the peripatetic mental musings of author and cultural commentator Greil Marcus, whose Lambert Lecture wove references to literature, film, music, and politics into a tapestry of American identity. Film programs such as Out@Wex and the New Documentary series paved the way for conversations about some of the most significant local and global issues facing our society. Race Matters, this year’s Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change, engaged our audience in a lively discussion with five eloquent voices—those of legal scholar and columnist Patricia Williams, author Lynne Tillman, jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, artist Kerry James Marshall, and Columbus gallerist Talle Bamazi. And it would be nearly impossible to imagine a more distinguished creative “brain-trust” than the roster of those who spoke at the Wexner Center last year, including visual artists Louise Lawler, Andrea Fraser, Frank Stella, and Glenn Ligon; architects Thom Mayne and Wolf D. Prix; film directors Guy Maddin and Kelly Reichardt; cinematographer Ellen Kuras; playwrights/theater directors Young Jean Lee and Cynthia Hopkins; and Pulitzer Prize–winning authors Margo Jefferson and David McCullough.

The entire year was shaped by our ever-growing commitment to engage with people of all ages and backgrounds in innovative and dynamic new ways.

Interactive artists’ projects in our lobby created by Charles Long and Robert Beck turned the tables and invited audiences to be the artists. Outreach to Latino and Asian communities in central Ohio brought many first-time visitors to the New Argentine Cinema film series and the performances of Young Jean Lee’s Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven—and laid groundwork for return visits. Creative marketing efforts—many involving electronic communiqués—targeted and cultivated particular audience segments, especially “the young and the restless,” who thronged to our

Next@Wex music events in record numbers. Similarly, our film program drew its highest audience ever to a rich array of stellar screenings seen only at the Wexner Center. Simultaneously, enhancements on our web site enriched the experiences of “virtual” visitors with frequently posted podcasts, downloadable mixtapes, a very active Wex-blog, and the development of a new page accessible only by our members.

The combination of all these efforts definitely had an impact. As but a few examples, over 700 students, faculty, and community members attended the Architecture Interruptus symposium; more than 600 came for Thom Mayne’s Glimcher Lecture, and over the course of the year, some 35 performances or film screenings sold out to capacity crowds. But numbers tell only a fraction of any story, so we’re pleased to bring you our year in pictures on the following pages.

Each one of those pictures has been made possible by the generosity of the Wexner Center’s members and donors, trustees and staff, volunteers and community ambassadors. We’re especially proud to celebrate new and increased donors from near and far. One new endowment fund, created through a gift from Anita and Michael Goldberg of the Columbus-based Rite Rug Company in support of the center’s education and family programs, has helped the center surpass $10 million in endowed funds, a modest yet significant benchmark for a still relatively young cultural organization. Another, and ongoing, highlight of our development efforts involves the kind of public and private, local and international partnerships that so often come together to fund the center’s endeavors.

A perfect example is found in the diverse array of sponsors for the Architecture Interruptus exhibition and its catalogue, including the international business and technology consulting firm Capgemini (based in Paris) and the Columbus-based (though international) architectural and engineering group NBBJ; the Chicagobased Graham Foundation; New York patrons Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown; and a host of other individuals, companies, and university colleagues who contributed to the realization of this ambitious show.

Please join us in celebrating these and so many other contributions that have allowed the Wexner Center to once again enjoy a spectacular year. We hope that as you peruse the pages that follow, you will agree that this was a season well worth reflection. Please know of my abundant thanks for your engagement, encouragement, and exceptional support.

Sherri Geldin June 2007

Art at Work… and Play

Artists and audiences alike nourish their creativity at the Wexner Center.

“The arts can bring a community together in conversation and celebration, but few communities are as fortunate as Columbus with our Wexner Center for the Arts.”

—michael b. coleman, mayor of columbus

Artists of all ages made their mark on the chalkboard walls that extended from Robert Beck’s dust exhibition into the lower lobby.

At the spring opening celebration (inset) Beck (center) and Zoe Leonard (right) visited with Wexner Center members and other special guests.

When Glenn Ligon came to the Wexner Center to install his Some Changes exhibition, he created a spectacular mural on site and met with local high school students.

“More than anything, perhaps, Ligon’s work leaves the viewer astonished,” wrote a critic in Columbus’s weekly, the Other Paper.

Kids, families, students, and even the most serious adults couldn’t resist the chance to shape the pristine clay of Charles Long’s 100 lbs. of Clay, which brightened the lower lobby from winter into spring.

“I try to picture what went on in Disfarmer’s mind. How did he really feel about the people in this town?

What was he thinking? What did he see? We’ll never know—but, as I write the music, I’d like to imagine it coming from his point of view.

The sound of him looking through the lens.”

Bill Frisell

Guitarist Bill Frisell’s Musical Portraits from Heber Springs was inspired by the life, work, and subjects of Mike Disfarmer, an eccentric photographer who worked in Arkansas in the 1940s and 1950s. The Wexner Center commissioned the project and hosted its premiere performances, and Performing Arts Director Charles Helm first showed the images to Frisell. “I told Bill that the pictures reminded me of the feeling I heard in the music he was working on...and asked if he thought there might be something in all of this for him.

Clearly there was.”

The artists of Youth Video OUTreach introduced a screening of 20 Straws, a collaborative project about their experiences as they come into their identities as out, gay youth, during Out @ Wex, a three-day festival of new queer filmmaking in March.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer described Frank Stella 1958 as a “magic” exhibition that “brings to life a fascinating minute just before everything snapped into focus for Stella.” An unexpected—but very memorable—thrill for

guests on a members’ tour led by curator Harry Cooper of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum (inset, right), was to hear insights and reminisces from a surprise visitor, Frank Stella himself (left).

Exceptional Artistry

Remarkable arts from around the globe fill our stages, screens, and galleries.

Audiences here were able to see dancer/choreographers Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s zero degrees—one of the most acclaimed works on the international dance festival circuit—in its U.S. premiere and only U.S. performance thanks to the center’s active engagement in commissions and cocommissions. This charged project, coproduced by the Wexner Center, is a poetic investigation into the two dancers’ shared experiences as young Muslim men living in Europe and the contrasts of their dance styles.

Celebrated architect Thom Mayne winner of the 2005 Pritzker Prize, discussed his work and ideas in the 2007 DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Lecture. Mayne, who is an acclaimed theorist, designer, professor, and principal of the interdisciplinary design firm Morphosis in Santa Monica, California, visited with the Glimchers (inset, left) and Director Sherri Geldin, before the lecture.

According to a Pittsburgh weekly, Pittsburgh City Paper, the Wexner Center’s Next @ Wex series is “America’s top model for how modern music should be respected equally with the other ‘high’ arts.” Acts range from high-profile favorites, like Conor Oberst and his Bright Eyes ensemble, pictured here, to newly emergent talents.

Ellen Kuras was the focus of the center’s first visiting filmmaker retrospective to highlight the work and role of a cinematographer.

One of the America’s most sought-after cinematographers, she has teamed with such acclaimed and diverse filmmakers as Michel Gondry, Rebecca

Miller, and Spike Lee to create some of the most memorable films of the past two decades. The series included Gondry’s 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and a wide-ranging conversation between Kuras and Curator David Filipi.

Two of the most innovative forces in contemporary theater brought new shows to the Wexner Center in 2006–07: Young Jean Lee, whose breakthrough Songs of Dragons Flying to Heaven is a pointed and very funny tour-de-force about cultural identity and assimilation, and Cynthia Hopkins, whose Must Don’t Whip ’Um offers a high-spirited musical about memory, storytelling, and the friction between artistic ideals and commercialism.

Many of the video works shown in The Box received production support from the Wexner Center’s Art & Tech program, among them Julia Scher’s No, I Never LipSync’d—completed in the center’s Art & Tech studio in 2004 and shown in The Box in October—which uses the gambit of lip-syncing both to speak from the heart and to channel the sentiments of others.

Moviegoers routinely find films they could see no where else in Columbus (or central Ohio) at the Wexner Center. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, a humanistic (if dark) comedy about an ailing man’s journey through the Romanian healthcare establishment, topped a number of critics’ year-end “best-of ” lists nationally but played no where else in the region.

Film and soccer fans made Zidane: A 21stCentury Portrait—Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno’s sensational cinematic spectacle about French soccer god Zinedine Zidane—a surprise hit in four soldout screenings.

Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), our exhibition of work by Louise Lawler, landed on the cover of Art in America and interested viewers from across the country. When

Lawler (center) came to campus to speak about her work in November, she also visited with Wexner Center patrons, including Columbus-based artist Ann Hamilton.

“In conceptually and visually elegant work both old and new, installed at the Wexner Center with great care and sensitivity to its eccentric architecture, Louise Lawler illuminates the business of showing and owning art.” —kirsten swenson, art in america

Zoe Leonard’s Analogue, developed in part as a 2003–4 Wexner Center Residency Award project, opened at the Wexner Center in May 2006 and at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, in June.

Holland Cotter of the New York Times, who saw the photographs in Germany, says they show how “cultural worlds at once come together and dissolve before our eyes.”

The Wexner Center is committed to bringing outstanding artistic experiences to young audiences, and we aim to keep the standards for our International Performing Arts Series for Families and Columbus International Children’s Film Festival as high as for our performing arts

and film/video programs in general. Enchanting works such as My Heart Is a Penguin (left) by the Belgian company Pantalone and the film Mongolian Ping Pong make that possible. As the Columbus Dispatch wrote about the film festival, these series give “a face and a voice to global peoples.”

An April series introduced local filmgoers to Céline and Julie Go Boating, Paris Belongs to Us, and other classics by French director Jacques Rivette, perhaps the least known to American audiences of the founding members of the French New Wave.

Rivette, now 79 and still working, once said, “I like film to be an adventure, for those who make it and those who see it.”

Research and Education

Life-long learning and essential research are both vital components of the Wexner Center.

“Higher education at public universities such as Ohio State opens the gateway to the future for thousands of students each year.

The Wexner Center for the Arts strives to enhance those students’ educational experiences by providing a hub for free expression, independent thinking, and vital interactions among global cultures and academic disciplines in the arts and far beyond.”

Leslie H. Wexner Chair, Wexner Center Foundation Chairman, Limited Brands

Residencies heighten educational opportunities for Wexner Center audiences and the university community alike. The SITI Company, this year’s performing arts residency artists, came to town in February to finalize Radio Macbeth and present the show’s world premiere. The company

also participated in its fifth in-depth teaching residency with Ohio State’s Department of Theatre.

Associate Professor Jeanine Thompson notes that students consider working with the company “grueling, terrifying, exhilarating, and inspirational”—a major highlight of their time on campus.

Architecture Interruptus let viewers trace the story of a new architectural landmark: the Church of Saint Pierre, in Firminy, France. The building was designed by pivotal 20th-century architect Le Corbusier with a young associate, José Oubrerie, in the early 1960s. Oubrerie (pictured), a professor at Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture, completed the project in 2006, after years of delays and interruptions.

The exhibition and an accompanying day-long symposium examined the interaction of the two architects’ ideas.

In the past year, the Wexner Center published six exhibition catalogues—a record! These books document and continue the explorations that produce our exhibitions and make them available to readers and viewers around the world. A writer for Vertigo, a British film magazine, dubbed the catalogue of Chris Marker’s Staring Back “a magnificent publication.”

The Wexner Center is pleased to host many projects and presentations in partnership with our colleagues at Ohio State. One of the most intriguing in 2006–07 was The Beanfield, a two-year public art project created by artist Michael Mercil as part of the Living Culture Initiative in Ohio State’s Department of Art in partnership with the Wexner Center and the Social Responsibility Initiative in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

Deborah Stratman, one of this year’s Wexner Center Residency Award recipients in media arts, is among a small coterie of filmmakers who remain committed to working in 16mm film. As a result of her residency, the Wexner Center is now the proud owner of a Steenbeck 16mm film editor from the 1980s. It’s quite a change from the digital equipment more typically used in Art & Tech, but a step back in time was the best way to support this artist’s creative research.

Sadie Benning, best known for her innovative videos, showed large-scale paintings in Suspended Animation, her first fullscale museum exhibition.

Benning (below, left) shared her perspective on her work in a conversation with noted poet and writer Eileen Myles. High school students in the Pages

art and literacy program responded to Benning’s imagery with writing of their own. Dionne Custer, Wexner Center educator for school programs, told Alive, a Columbus weekly, that “writing is a great way for the students to fully process in-depth explorations of the arts.”

Teenagers learn and get creative in the Art & Environment course and its Interventions exhibition, wexLab workshops on “circuit-bending,” and teenArts fusion workshops, like the one in which Benjamin Zitsman honed his video skills. His I Work at Cinnabon was the top prize winner in the Youth Division of this year’s Ohio Short Film & Video Showcase.

Our Student Docent program, new this year, is open to graduate and undergraduate students from any academic department from any local college or university. Students earn academic credit for participating in an extensive training program and, when they complete the program successfully, can be paid for each tour they lead.

Outreach and Engagement

Community initiatives at the Wexner Center involve diverse audiences in spirited discussions and fresh cultural discoveries.

In the April Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change, a panel of distinguished artists and writers discussed the issues of cultural conflict, identity politics, and expressive freedom that are at the forefront of Glenn Ligon’s

work—and our current sociopolitical climate.

Columnist Patricia Williams and visual artist residency artist Kerry James Marshall (inset, right) visited with moderator Maurice Stevens in the Wexner Center Store.

“The Wexner Center is invaluable to the cultural landscape of my life.”

—opalnotfilms.blogspot.com

Puppetry workshops and a festival of movies and videos exploring the world of Jim Henson made the Wexner Center the place to be for families during two weekends in March.

Lee Fisher, Ohio’s lieutenant governor, talked about the importance of the arts in community development at a corporate breakfast at the Wexner Center in May. Fisher told a large gathering of business and cultural leaders that “people are looking for places that are thriving, vibrant, where their imagination is fueled.”

Fisher and the attendees agreed that the Wexner Center and other local arts organizations play a vital role in helping businesses attract and retain highly qualified employees.

Pictured: Lee Fisher (at podium); Suzanne Scrutton and M. Reneé Bostick with Deputy Director Jack Jackson; Ted Celeste,Tom Katzenmeyer, Bruce Soll, Phil Urban, and Dave Aronowitz (left to right).

The Wexner Center is committed to being a place where people can gather to explore and discuss the complicated and controversial issues that shape the contradictory world in which we live. The many documentary films on our schedule— including Our Daily Bread, an eye-opening look at where our food comes from—help keep the conversations lively and informed.

When the center presented the series New Argentine Cinema: Four Directors last winter, we strived to extend a special invitation to Spanishspeakers from throughout greater Columbus area. We

Ohio State students come to the center with their classes and their friends, for films, lectures, snacks, and special student events like an annual party during

ran ads in Spanish, pitched stories to Fronteras (a Spanishlanguage newspaper), worked with the Latino Empowerment Outreach Network, and shared information through new and existing community

partners. The series brought many new and repeat visitors to see films by Lucrecia Martel, Martín Rejtman, Fabián Bielinsky, and Carlos Sorin. Pictured Martel’s La Cienaga.

Welcome Week. Wexner Center T-shirts, made possible by a gift from Limited Brands, were a very popular bonus gift at this year’s party.

State Fare, our first juried visual arts exhibition and the first specifically designed to focus on artists from this region, attracted almost 500 entries from 99 different municipalities in Ohio. Visitors heard about

the exhibited works directly from artists Mark Harris, Tracy Featherstone, and Rain Harris on our first cellphone tour, and Francis Strickland, Ohio’s first lady, welcomed callers to the exhibition.

“I love the Wexner Performance Space. Love it, love it, love it.

It’s such an intimate environment, the sightlines are great, and it makes every show feel like it’s an exclusive secret engagement.”

—chris deville, alive blog

The Next @ Wex series has introduced new crowds of music lovers—from fans of freak folk or sweet indie pop to aficionados of danceable mash-ups or the rawest metal sounds—to the Wexner Center. “Easily one of the best shows I have been to in my time in Columbus. It was a freaking blast” wrote one enthusiast about the Girl Talk concert on the Wexner Center’s MySpace page. Album signings, including one with Peter Bjorn and John (above), bring new shoppers into the Wexner Center Store, too.

What’s New— What’s Better

We’re still making improvements, outside, inside, and online.

The festivities spread all along the Wexner Center plaza when we screened Monster on the Campus outside as part of the B-Movie Mania series in August 2006. In June 2007, we expanded the idea and launched the Wex Drive-in, a series of outdoor film screenings paired with informal social gatherings.

In collaboration with our partners at Resource Interactive, we’ve developed a new “member-only” area of our web site, with exclusive content including photo galleries, first-listen

podcasts, and the ability to create a personalized calendar of events. Check out the new look of the Wexner Center Store’s online presence, too.

A system of digital and video signage has replaced more traditional signs in the Wexner Center’s lobby. The system features promotions for upcoming events and donor recognition, as well as directories of current programs. In-kind gifts from Verizon Business and Mills James Productions make the signage system possible.

We’ve enriched our web site with podcasts and video interviews and enhanced our event pages with trailers, music videos,

and more links than ever before. More than 1500 people downloaded our first mix tape. Others heard our programmers

The Wexner Center and Cameron Mitchell Catering Company entered into a new creative partnership with the opening of Cam’s on Campus, a destination café on the center’s lower level.

The casual menu features fresh sandwiches and wraps,

preview upcoming events or talk with visiting artists, and sampled the eclectic commentary on the Wexblog.

organic rice bowls, soups, salads, smoothies, coffee and espresso (including free trade coffee), and fresh baked goods. A wireless hot spot, Cam’s on Campus is the perfect place for a delicious meal, a refreshing break, or a relaxing study session.

Exhibitions

Education and Public Programs

Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance April 7, 2006–August 6, 2006

Sadie Benning Suspended Animation January 26, 2007–April 15, 2007

Organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Exhibition made possible by Target. Generous support was provided by Maharam. Additional funding provided by The Coby Foundation, Ltd., Stephen McKay, Inc. Furthermore: a program of the M. Kaplan Fund, Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown, and Foster-Miller, Inc.

Catalogue published by the Wexner Center and distributed by DAP.

Diptych: Jockum Nordstrom and Mindy Shapero April 7, 2006–August 6, 2006 Catalogue brochure published by the Wexner Center.

William Kentridge 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès April 7, 2006–August 6, 2006 Brochure published by the Wexner Center.

Shiny September 16, 2006–December 31, 2006 Works by Jeff Koons, Josiah McElheny, Michael Minelli, Mai-Thu Perret, and Kelley Walker.

Catalogue brochure published by the Wexner Center.

Louise Lawler Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back) September 16, 2006–December 31, 2006 Catalogue published by the Wexner Center and distributed by MIT Press.

Frank Stella 1958 September 16, 2006–December 31, 2006 Organized by the Harvard University Art Museums. The exhibition and tour funded in part through the generosity of John and Frances Bowes, Lief D. Rosenblatt, the NBT Charitable Trust, Manson Benedict, National Endowment for the Arts, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Broad Art Foundation, Jessie Lie Farber, David Mirvish, and A. Bernard Ackerman.

Architecture Interruptus José Oubrerie and Le Corbusier’s Church at Firminy January 26, 2007–April 15, 2007 Major support provided by Capgemini, NBBJ, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Catalogue made possible by a generous gift from Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown. Additional exhibition support provided by Cityspace and Infiniti of Columbus, auto·des·sys, The Columbus Chapter of The American Institute of Architects, Robert and Sally Wandel, Merilynn and Tom Kaplin, James and Linda Miller, and Myers Financial Services LLC. Catalogue published by the Wexner Center and distributed by DAP.

Charles Long 100 lbs. of Clay Janurary 26, 2007–April 15, 2007 From the Collection of the Orange County Museum of Art; Museum Purchase.

Glenn Ligon Some Changes January 26, 2007–April 15, 2007

SCHOOL PROGRAMS Tours for school groups (Grades K–12) Expanded Classroom: Contemporary Art in Practice (pilot program, Grades K–12) Morning Stories (Grades K–5)

Organized by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.

Exhibition and tour presented with the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace Walter Goldsmith Foundation, Peter Norton Family Foundation, Albert & Temmy Latner Foundation, and Toby Devan Lewis. Additional support provided by Hal Jackman Foundation, Judy Schulich, The Broad Art Foundation, Gregory R. Miller, The Drake Hotel, The Linda Pace Foundation and Dr. Kenneth Montague.

ArtVentures (Grade 4)

Chris Marker Staring Back May 12, 2007–August 12, 2007

Goodbye Mr. Muffin(Grades 1–6)

Catalogue published by the Wexner Center and distributed by MIT Press. Exhibition scheduled to travel to Peter Blum Gallery in New York and Museum für Gestaltung (Museum of Design), Zurich.

Robert Beck dust May 12, 2007–August 12, 2007

International Children’s Film Festival School Screenings (Grades K–8) International School Performances me me me (Grades 3–6) Luna of the Tree and My Heart Is a Penguin (Grades K–6) Pages: An Art and Writing Program (Grades 9–12) Art & Environment (Grades 11–12) Exhibition: Interventions Students Respond to the Environment May 31–June 5 World View (pilot program, Grades 9–12)

Catalogue published by the Wexner Center and distributed by DAP.

State Fare: Three Ohio Artists Tracy Featherstone Mark Harris Rain Harris May 12, 2007–August 12, 2007 Catalogue brochure published by the Wexner Center. Jurors: Elizabeth Armstrong (Orange County Museum of Art); Elizabeth Smith (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago); Hamza Walker (Renaissance Society, University of Chicago). Guest curator: Sean Foley. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Zoe Leonard Analogue May 12, 2007–August 12, 2007 Wexner Center Galleries Catalogue published by the Wexner Center and distributed by MIT Press. Analogue project made possible by the Wexner Center Residency Award program and by funding from Creative Capital Foundation. Additional support for the Wexner Center residency and exhibition provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Nimoy Foundation, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

WEXNER CENTER RESIDENCY AWARD ARTIST 2006–07 Kerry James Marshall

WORKSHOPS FOR EDUCATORS Teacher Open House September 21 Reading Photographs Teacher In-Service Day October 20 Theater in the Classroom January 20 Video in the Classroom February 10 Strategies for Meaning Making in Art March 8 Addressing Gender and Sexuality through the Arts March 31 FAMILY AND YOUTH PROGRAMS Summer Youth Workshops 2006 Summer Youth Workshops 2007 Young Arts: Shiny Happy People October 22 Young Arts: Puppet Productions March 17 & 24 VideoVenture Nov 4

Programs from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007

Columbus International Children’s Film Festival November 30–December 3 (See complete list on the film pages)

Megan Cavanaugh Novak (Architecture Interruptus) March 2

Selected Cosponsored Programs

International Performing Arts Series for Families

Maurice Stevens (Glenn Ligon: Some Changes) March 9

me me me…

DynamO Théâtre (Canada) January 20

Jennifer Lange (Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation) March 27

Two-year public art project created by artist Michael Mercil as part of the Living Culture Initiative in Ohio State’s Department of Art in partnership with the Wexner Center and the Social Responsibility Initiative in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

My Heart Is a Penguin Luna of the Tree Pantalone (Belgium) February 23–25

José Oubrerie (Architecture Interruptus) April 5

Goodbye Mr. Muffin Teater Refleksíon (Denmark) May 6 TeenArts Fusion 2006 TeenArts Fusion 2007 TeenArts FusionFest 2006 August 11 wexLab_Videocast October 14 wexLab_Electronic Toy Tones With Beatrix*Jar March 2 wexLab_VideoMix With Liv Gjestvang and Julia Applegate April 7 wexLab_VideoSlam April 7 Ohio Short Film & Video Showcase Youth Division May 12 SELECTED ADULT PUBLIC PROGRAMS Group exhibition tours Walk-in exhibition tours Architecture Interruptus Symposium: Le Corbusier and José Oubrerie’s Church at Firminy January 26 Two sessions: Historical Implications with speakers Barry Bergdoll, Stanislaus von Moos, and Kenneth Frampton, Columbia University; moderated by Aron Vinegar. Contemporary Currents with speakers Aaron Betsky, Wolf D. Prix, Scott Cohen, moderated by Jeffrey Kipnis.

Selected Education Programs for Members Talk and Tour with Harry Cooper October 3 Talk and Tour with Shelly Casto February 6 Endowed Lectures/Programs Thom Mayne DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Lecture February 27 Presented with support from the DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Program Fund. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture.

Greil Marcus Lambert Family Lecture March 7 Made possible by generous support from the Lambert Family Lecture Series Endowment Fund.

Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change Race Matters April 10 Panel discussion with Columbus gallerist Talle Bamazi, 2006–07 Wexner Center Residency Award recipient Kerry James Marshall, jazz pianist Jason Moran, novelist Lynne Tillman, and columnist Patricia Williams. Moderator: Maurice Stevens. Made possible in part by a lead endowment gift from an anonymous donor.

Artists’ Talks and Conversations Shiny Artists’ Panel Discussion September 15 With artists Rachel Harrison, Mike Minelli, Josiah McElheny, and Mai-Thu Perret and Chief Curator of Exhibitions Helen Molesworth.

Louise Lawler & Andrea Fraser (conversation and performances

by Fraser) November 8

Art & Ideas Gallery Talks

Sadie Benning with Eileen Myles February 8

Harry Cooper (Frank Stella 1958) October 3

Cory Arcangel January 10

Kai Hammermeister (Shiny) October 13

Glenn Ligon with Darby English February 22

Helen Molesworth (Shiny and Twice Untitled and Other Pictures) November 3

Robert Beck May 23

The Beanfield Spring 2006–Autumn 2007

GLBT Awareness Week Panel Discussion, Reception, and Film Tying the Knot (Jim de Seve, 2003) January 16 Cosponsored by GLBT Student Services, the Multicultural Center, Out in America, and the Wexner Center.

Future of Moderate Republicanism Roundtable Discussion January 30 Panel discussion, book signing, and reception.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies, College of Humanities, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, and Wexner Center.

Margo Jefferson On Michael Jackson March 1 Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Theatre.

Technology Expanding the Horizon A Reinterpretation and Investigation of the Landscape March 29–30 Two-day symposium with participants including Vito Acconci, Erwin Wurm, and cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art with support from the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs.

Artists’ Talks

with Constance De Jong, Oliver Herring, Shahzia Sikander (cosponsored by the Department of Art); Harvey Pekar and Scott McCloud (cosponsored by Ohio State’s Cartoon Research Library); and Edgar Heap of Birds (cosponsored

by Ohio State’s Association of Graduate Students in Art Education).

Writers’ Readings

with Lynn Emanuel, Mary Gaitskill, and John Edgar Wideman (cosponsored by Ohio State’s Creative Writing Program, Department of English).

Read Aloud

programs held weekly during academic quarters (cosponsored by the University Libraries).

PROGRAMS FOR OHIO STATE STUDENTS Welcome Week Student Party September 19 OSU Movie Night at the Wex Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) February 9

Performing Arts

Don Byron Ivey Divey Trio featuring Jason Moran and Billy Hart September 29

Anja Lechner and Dino Saluzzi Music for Bandoneon and Cello April 27

Debashish Bhattacharya October 5

NEXT @ WEX

Akram Kahn/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui zero degrees

Vetiver with Lichens July 29

+ Preperformance Talk with Nina Berman U.S. premiere and exclusive U.S. performance.

Co-commissioned by the Wexner Center.

October 10 Tomasz Stanko Quartet October 15 Batsheva Mamootot October 17 The Foundry Theatre Major Bang Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb A Suspense Comedy with Magic October 26–29, 2006

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band with Black Ox Orkestar August 3 Nels Cline and Glenn Kotche September 22 Ladytron with CSS October 5 Matmos with So Percussion October 6

Compagnie Tche Tche Dimi November 9–11

José Gonzalez wth Nina Nastasia October 14

Presented by the Wexner Center in association with the King Arts Complex.

Deerhoof wth Fog October 26

Dafnis Prieto Absolute Quintet November 17 Young Jean Lee Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven + Q and A with the company after each performance

January 26–28 SITI Company Radio Macbeth February 15–18

Hot Chip and Mouse on Mars wth Lithops November 8 Califone plus films by Brent Green November 21 Peter Walker and Jack Rose November 30

World premiere. Coproduced by the Wexner Center and by SITI Company.

Scott Amendola Band February 2

World premiere.

Bill Frisell with Jenny Scheinman and Greg Leisz Musical Portraits from Heber Springs Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project March 3

Girl Talk and Times New Viking with Rot Wylder February 3

Commissioned by the Wexner Center.

Toumani Dibate’s Symmetric Orchestra March 24 Armitage Gone! Dance March 29 Presented by the Wexner Center in association with BalletMet Columbus.

Jacky Terrasson March 31 Cynthia Hopkins Must Don’t Whip ‘Um April 19–21

Rjd2 with Busdriver backed by AntiMC plus Happy Chichester March 9 Under Byen with Frida Hyvonen March 11 Clogs with Irena and Vojtech Havel April 03 Andrew Bird with Cortney Tidwell April 13 (Southern Theatre) Antibalas with Chin Chin May 1

Peter Bjorn and John with Fuyiya & Miyagi and Au Revoir Simone May 7 Animal Collective with Sir Richard Bishop May 14 Bright Eyes with Gillian Welch and Oakley Hall May 20 Tortoise with David Daniell June 14 WEXNER CENTER RESIDENCY AWARD ARTIST 2006–07 SITI Company COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS BalletMet Columbus New Works, New Space, New Steps September 16–30 Presented by the BalletMet in association with the Wexner Center.

Ujima Theatre Company Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

by August Wilson November 2–4 Presented by the King Arts Complex in association with the Wexner Center.

Media Arts and Film/Video SERIES B-Movie Hootenanny I Saw What You Did (William Castle, 1965) Guns, Girls, and Gangsters (Edward L. Cahn, 1959) Hootenanny Hoot (Gene Nelson, 1963) Monster on the Campus (Jack Arnold, 1958) Free outdoor screening The Human Vapor (Ishiro Honda, 1960) Return of the Fly (Edward Bernds, 1959) Live Fast, Die Young (Paul Henreid, 1959) Running Wild (Abner Biberman, 1955) The Girl in the Kremlin (Russell Birdwell, 1957) The Million Eyes of Sumuru (Lindsay Shonteff, 1967) The Vicious Breed (Arne Ragneborn, 1954) The Flame (Arne Ragneborn, 1956) July 6–August 10 College Football on Film The Male Animal (Elliott Nugent, 1942) The Freshman (Sam Taylor & Fred Newmeyer, 1925) Smith of Minnesota (Lew Landers, 1942) Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod, 1932) College Coach (William Wellman, 1933) September 26–29 Before Brokeback: Sex Hollywood-Style Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, 1943) The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932) The Children’s Hour (William Wyler, 1961) Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956) Pretty Baby (Louis Malle, 1978) The Moon Is Blue (Otto Preminger, 1953) Henry & June (Philip Kaufman, 1990) October 5–26 Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany Berlin—Schönhauser Corner (Gerhard Klein, 1957) The Gleiwitz Case (Gerhard Klein, 1961) The Legend of Paul and Paula (Heiner Carow, 1972) Born in ’45 (Jurgen Böttcher, 1966/90) Mother (Manfred Wekwerth & Harry Bremer, 1958) Selected Cartoons and Shorts (1984–1990) + Introduction to the series by John Davidson

October 4–25

Programs from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007

Retrospective: Ellen Kuras Summer of Sam (Spike Lee, 1999) I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron, 1996) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) Angela (Rebecca Miller, 1995) Geoffrey Beene 30 (Tom Kalin, 1993) Swoon (Tom Kalin, 1992) Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme, 2006) Blow (Ted Demme, 2001) 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee, 1997) + Conversation with Ellen Kuras and Dave Filipi

November 2–19 Columbus International Children’s Film Festival The Story of Xiaoyan (Fang Gangliang, China, 2005) Porco Rosso (The Crimson Pig) (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1992) UPA Cartoons (United Productions of America, U.S.A.) Lepel (Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Netherlands, 2005) Eve & the Fire Horse (Julia Kwan, Canada, 2005) Mongolian Ping Pong (Ning Hao, Mongolia, 2005) Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, U.S., 1936) Journey to Mars (Juan Pablo Zaramella, Argentina, 2005) Tainá: An Amazon Adventure (Sérgio Bloch, Tania Lamarca, Brazil, 2001) + Family tours of the Shiny exhibition, hands-on art projects, and a Sunday afternoon ice-cream social

November 30–Dec 3 New Argentine Cinema: Four Directors The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004) La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001) The Magic Gloves (Martín Rejtman, 2003) Silvia Prieto (Martín Rejtman, 1999) The Aura (Fabián Bielinsky, 2005) Nine Queens (Fabián Bielinsky, 2000) El Perro (Carlos Sorin, 2004) Intimate Stories (Carlos Sorin, 2002) January 5–26 Cinematheque: Kenji Mizoguchi Ugetsu (1953) Sisters of Gion (1936) Sansho the Bailiff (1954) Street of Shame (1956) The Life of Oharu (1952) Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) January 11–27

Reel China: New Chinese Documentaries Nostalgia (Shu Haolun, 2006) The Man (Hu Xinyu, 2003) Dr. Zhang (Huang Ruxiang, 2005) White Tower (Su Qing & Mi Na, 2003) Blossoming in the Wind (Sun Yuelin, 2005) Beautiful Men (Du Haibing, 2005) + Introduction to the series by Weihong Bao

February 1–22 Presented with the support of Ohio State’s East Asian Studies Center; part of the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial funded by the REC Foundation, New York.

Out @ Wex 20 Straws (Youth Video OUTreach, 2007) + Introduction by the filmmakers

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (Freida Lee Mock, 2006) Wild Tigers I Have Known (Cam Archer, 2006) Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, 1986) Lover Other (Barbara Hammer, 2005) The Man of My Life (Zabou Breitman, 2006) + Introduction by Marcus Hu, President of Strand Releasing, in conversation with Bill Horrigan

Puccini for Beginners (Maria Maggenti, 2006) + Receptions each evening

March 1–3 Promotional support provided by Out in Columbus and Outlook Weekly. Community Partner: Stonewall Columbus.

Muppets™, Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy Muppet Music Moments A Better World: Living in Harmony The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) Muppet History 101 Commercials & Experiments Muppet Fairytales The Art of Puppetry and Storytelling Dog City (Jim Henson, 1989) The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death (Jim Henson, 1987) The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Frank Oz, 1982) Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986) March 17 and 24 Series produced by The Jim Henson Legacy and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tour organizer: Irena Kovarova. Promotional support provided by Suburban News Publications.

Cinematheque: Jacques Rivette Céline & Julie Go Boating (1974) Up/Down/Fragile (1995) Paris Belongs to Us (1961) L’Amour fou (1968) La Belle noiseuse (1991)

Joan the Maid: Part I (The Battles) (1993) Joan the Maid: Part II (The Prisons) (1993) April 6–27 VISITING FILMMAKERS Laura Poitras My Country My Country (2006) September 12–13 (filmmaker introduction Sept. 13)

Rajko Grlic Border Post (2006) October 6 Kelly Reichardt Old Joy (2006)

+ Filmmaker conversation with Chris Stults

October 14 Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) October 24 Wu Tianming (director) and Luo Xueying (producer) The King of Masks (1996) November 14 Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Film Studies program.

John Canemaker Selected shorts November 16 Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design.

Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand 8 Bit (2006) January 17 Frederick Lewis Rockwell Kent (2006) April 4 Gary Hustwit Helvetica (2007) May 3–4 (filmmaker introduction May 3) Deborah Stratman Kings of the Sky (2004) May 17 Guy Maddin The Mind of Maddin Blood Money (Rowland Brown, 1933) Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)

Jack Smith Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (Mary Jordan, 2006) Flaming Creatures and other shorts February 10

Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 2005) December 8–9

Martin Arnold and Peter Tscherkassky Selected works March 28

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006) June 1–2

Stan Brakhage Selected works April 20 Optic Nerve Program One: Introduced by Ernie Gehr April 24 Program Two: Selected Works May 1 Programs presented in association with Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, an exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art.

Selections from TIE: The International Experimental Cinema Exposition + Introduction by TIE founder/director Christopher May

May 10 CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL FILMS Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004) July 7–8 Look Both Ways (Sarah Watt, 2005) July 14–15 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005) July 28–29 Little Jerusalem (Karin Albou, 2005) August 17–19 Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2005) September 7–8 Time to Leave (François Ozon, 2005) September 19–20 Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994) October 8

Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer, 2006) February 2–3

I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, 2006) June 22–23 CLASSICS The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948) + The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (Alfred Zeisler, 1936)

July 21–22 Halloween Horror Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) October 31 Classe Tous Risques (Claude Sautet, 1960) December 14 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) December 15–16 How to Survive the 1940s: Post-War Public Information Films from the U.K. (1946–50) February 23–24 Emil and the Detectives (Milton Rosmer, 1935) April 28 Chris Marker X 2 The Sixth Face of the Pentagon (codirected with François Reichenbach,1968) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer (1974) May 23 The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Müller, 1993) June 5

The Hermitage Dwellers (Aliona van der Horst, 2003) October 19

Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

May 24–25

Interkosmos and short films (Jim Finn, 2006) October 27

June 29–30

EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

Suite Habana (Fernando Pérez, 2003) November 8

+ Introduction by Guy Maddin to films he selected

Avant Gaming +Introduction to Super Mario Movie by artist Cory Arcangel

January 10

Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006) November 14–15 Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney 2005) November 28–29

+ La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

NEW DOCUMENTARIES This Land Is Your Land (Lori Cheatle & Daisy Wright, 2004) August 4–5 The Beauty Academy of Kabul (Liz Mermin, 2004) August 11–12

Programs from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007

Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (Fatih Akin, 2005) September 14

Rare Films from the Baseball Hall of Fame April 13–14

The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker, 2004) September 21–22

Program also presented by Dave Filipi at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Block Cinema, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, at Northwestern University.

Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005) January 23–24 + Operation Feed benefit screening May 21

Black Gold (Nick and Marc Francis, 2005) February 8–9 Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno, 2006) February 16–17 Matthew Barney: No Restraint (Alison Chernick, 2006) February 20 Into Great Silence (Philip Groning, 2006) March 8–9 Tintin et Moi (Anders Østergaard, 2003) March 14 Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Cartoon Research Library.

China Blue (Micha X. Peled, 2005) March 15–16 So Much, So Fast (Steven Ascher & Jeanne Jordan, 2006) March 22 Total Denial (Milena Kaneva, 2006) April 11 Will Eisner: The Spirit of an Artistic Pioneer (work in progress screening)

April 19 Cosponsored with Ohio State’s Cartoon Research Library.

Towards Mathilde (Claire Denis, 2005) May 18–19 Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, 2006) + Moment Musical (Bruce Checefsky, 2006)

June 8–9

Ohio Short Film & Video Showcase May 12 Secret Cinema An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954) August 11 The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg, 1953) + The Happiest Day of His Life (Ursula Burton, 2006) Introduced by Ursula and Gabrielle Burton

December 7 Privilege (Peter Watkins,1967) March 30 Queen Bee (Ranald MacDougall, 1955 May 5 Film Studies Lecture John Davidson Projecting Modernism After the Nazis February 2007 Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Film Studies Program.

Columbus Jewish Film Festival Opening Night What a Wonderful Place (Eyal Halfon, 2005) Paper Dolls (Tomer Heymann, 2006) + Reception

March 10 Critics Choice The Player (Robert Altman, 1992) Introduced by A. O. Scott March 29 Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Film Studies Program.

Wex Drive-in The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953) June 21, 2007

In the Pit (Juan Carlos Rulfo, 2006) June 14–15

The first of a series of outdoor screenings in the summer of 2007, all preceded by casual parties with complimentary refreshments and cash bar.

Sacco and Vanzetti (Peter Miller, 2005) June 26

MEMBER-ONLY SCREENINGS

SPECIAL EVENTS Banff Mountain Film Festival April 2 Ottawa International Animation Festival April 5

Radiant City (Gary Burns & Jim Brown, 2006) March 13 The Page Turner (Denis Dercourt, 2006) May 22

THE BOX Marie Losier July Electrocute Your Stars (2004) Ontological Cowboy (2005) Olivo Barbieri August site specific_ROMA 04 (2004) site specific_LAS VEGAS 05 (2005) site specific_SHANGHAI 04 (2005) Johanna Billing September Magical World (2005) Moyra Davey October Fifty Minutes (2006) Julia Scher No, I Never Lip-Sync’d (2004) Hiraki Sawa November Five short works Youth Videos December Cory Arcangel January I Shot Andy Warhol (2002) Pierre Huyghe February This is not a time for dreaming (2004) K8 Hardy and Wynne Greenwood March New Report, Unknown Artist (2006) Scott Stark April More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda (2001/2006) Paul Chan May Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law and Poetry (2006) Anri Sala June Untitled (2004) ARTISTS WHO WORKED IN ART & TECHNOLOGY Sadie Benning, Shawn Bennett, Alison Crocetta, K8 Hardy and Wynne Greenwood, Jennifer Reeder, William Jones, April Martin, Joseph Grigely, Lucy Raven, Deborah Stratman, Hope Tucker WEXNER CENTER RESIDENCY AWARD ARTISTS 2006–07 Jennifer Reeves Deborah Stratman

Philanthropy at Work— Our Donors The Wexner Center thanks all our contributors and members for their generosity. We are proud to receive support from The Ohio State University and from individuals, foundations, corporations, and public agencies in this community, across the nation, and around the world. This public/private collaboration enables the center to pursue and strengthen our mission to serve as a creative laboratory, a place where diverse audiences can discover the arts of our time and where artists can realize and share their work and vision.

CAPITAL AND ENDOWMENT GIFTS The following donors have established endowed or capital gifts to support the Wexner Center and our programs. Endowed funds may be created through direct donations or as part of your estate plan.

The Wexner Center for the Arts Building Fund Leslie H. Wexner in memory of Harry L. Wexner Permanent Endowment Su Au Arnold Preservation and Maintenance Fund for the Wexner Center and Mershon Auditorium The Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change Endowment The Doris Duke Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts William Fung Family Endowment Fund DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Program Fund The Goldberg/Rite Rug Endowment for Children’s Programs Carl E. Haas Trust The Lambert Family Lecture Series Endowment Limited Brands Real Estate Division Fund for Architecture and Design Programs Ethel Manley Long Fund The Ohio State University Class of 1934 Endowment Fund The Ohio State University Class of 1985 Endowment Fund The Jean E. Parish Endowment The Mark T. Tappen Fund Tuckerman Family Endowment for Children’s Programs Harrison Koppel Wexner Endowment for Children’s Programs Wexner Center Education Endowment Fund Wexner Center Foundation Trustees Endowment Fund SPECIAL PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS 2006–07 The following donors have made gifts or grants to support specific Wexner Center programs.

Abercrombie & Fitch AEP Ohio Altria Group, Inc. American Airlines/American Eagle American Electric Power American Institute of Architects—Columbus Chapter AutoDesSys Arts Midwest Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation The Blackwell Inn British Council

Capgemini Cardinal Health CitySpace Coca-Cola The Columbus Dispatch Columbus Jewish Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Barbara Fergus Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Greater Columbus Arts Council Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. Huntington Bank Infiniti of Columbus Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Martha Holden Jennings Foundation JP Morgan Chase Merilynn and Tom Kaplin Mary G. and C. Robert Kidder John S. Kobacker and Catherine Chapin Kobacker Bill and Sheila Lambert Limited Brands The McGraw-Hill Companies James and Linda Miller Morgan Stanley The Harry C. Moores Foundation Myers Financial Services LLC National Endowment for the Arts National Performance Network Nationwide NBBJ New England Foundation for the Arts / National Dance Project Nimoy Foundation Nordstrom Ohio Arts Council The Ohio State University College of Engineering Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Olentangy Village Apartments Ron and Ann Pizzuti The Puffin Foundation Resource Interactive Rohauer Collection Foundation, Inc. The Scotts Company Joyce and Charles Shenk TIAA-CREF Time Warner Cable The Trueman Family 121/4 Circle, an active group of Wexner Center members Univar USA Robert and Sally Wandel The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Abigail and Leslie Wexner Wolfe Associates, Inc. WWCD, CD101 Promotional Support C-BUS Magazine Columbus Alive The Columbus Dispatch C The Columbus Magazine The Other Paper Out in Columbus

Outlook Weekly Suburban News Publications Time Warner Cable Uniprint WWCD, CD101 WOSU Public Media CORPORATE COUNCIL The following corporations have made unrestricted gifts to the Wexner Center for the Arts and/or the Wexner Center Foundation. The foundation is a private, nonprofit partner of the university’s Board of Trustees, established to provide trustee guidance and financial support for the Wexner Center.

International Council: $100,000+ National Council: $50,000–$99,999 Trustees Council: $25,000–$49,999 Benefactors Council: $10,000–$24,999 Chairman’s Council: $5,000–$9,999 Investors Council:$2,500–$4,999 Corporate Partners Council: $1,000–$2,499 International Council Limited Brands PKT National Council Berglass Grayson Capgemini The Columbus Foundation Vada Beetler Memorial Fund William C. and Naoma W. Denison Fund Eileen M. and Josiah Brooks Heckert Fund Jean C. Huntington Fund Florence E. K. Hurd Fund Robert B. Hurst Fund Colucci & Umans Global Lead Management Consulting Mills/James Productions NCR and Teradata Triumph International Spiesshofer & Braun Kommanditgesellschaft Valco Associates, Inc. Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP Ward & Olivo Trustees Council Alliance Data Banc of America Securities LLC Camelot Management Corp./Infinity Management Corp.

Carreman Commercial Contractors Inc. Concept Creator Fashion Ltd. Corna/Kokosing Construction Company Cultech, Inc. Davis Polk & Wardwell The Forbes Company General Growth Properties, Inc. The Georgetown Company LT Custom Furnishings Inc. The Macerich Company MANCHU MBH Architects Microsoft Corporation Morgan Stanley

Nationwide Foundation Carole and Morton Olshan Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust Quad/Graphics SARK, Inc. (a division of Software Architects, Inc.) Simon Property Group The Taubman Company Ten Lions Limited Thibiant International, Inc. Tri Tech Laboratories, Inc. Vee Pak, Inc. Benefactors Council The Abreon Group Ace Style Intimate Apparel Inc. Amalean Group Joint Ventures American Airlines/American Eagle Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC Aronov Realty Artistic Carton Company AT&T Avery Dennison/RIS Barthco International, Inc. Bernardo Mfg. Brandix Lanka Limited Capital City Awning Capital Clothing Corporation Limited Caruso Affiliated Catterton Partners CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. CB Richard Ellis New York Central City Title Agency, Ltd. Citigroup Global Corporate and Investment Bank C. O. International Inc. Comosoft, Inc. Continental Real Estate Companies Continental Office Interests Cosmetic Essence, Inc. Diversified Distribution Systems, Inc. The Dreiseszun Group Elite Retail Services, Inc. Evans Mechwart Hambleton & Tilton Inc. Financo, Inc. Fitch Fontheim International, LLC Forest City Enterprises Forest City Ratner Companies Garlock Printing and Converting Corporation General Catalyst Glimcher Gregory Greenfield and Assoc., Ltd. Grunfeld Desiderio Lebowitz Silverman & Klestadt LLP Guest Supply, LLC Hansoll Textile Ltd. Hing Shing Looping Mfg. Co. Ltd. International Intimates Inc. JDA Software Group, Inc. Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate Jim Wilson and Associates Jones Day Julius Boos jr. GmbH & Co. KG Kenilworth Creations Korn/Ferry Internationall Live Technologies, Inc. Makalot Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matrix Psychological Services The MGHerring Group M/I Homes MOR PLASTICS INDUSTRIES Namyang Int’l Co., Ltd. New England Development Northstar Realty LLC O & S Holdings, LLC Parawin Industries Limited Pioneer Elastic P L Industries Poag & McEwan Lifestyle Centers Primacy Relocation Quebecor World RED Development, LLC Regina Miracle International Limited Anita and Michael Goldberg—Rite Rug Company and its founder, Duke Goldberg Sprint/Nextel, Inc. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P. Standard Chartered Bank Star Global (North America), Ltd. Steiner + Associates Stephen Gould Corp.

Tak Shing Trading Co. Ltd. Tefron Ltd. Time Warner Cable Triangle Worldwide The Trotman Company, Inc. United Peak Ltd. Ventura Enterprise Co. Inc. Verizon Business VF Intimates, L.P. Vornado Realty Trust Zorbit Resources, Inc. Chairman’s Council ABM Janitorial Services Accel Inc./Tara and David Abraham Acloché Alene Candles, Inc. Altria Group, Inc. AMPAC APL Logistics/APL Lines Asia Master International Ltd. AutoDesSys The Bank of New York Brickman The Cafaro Foundation Cameron Mitchell Restaurants CASTO CB Richard Ellis Centrum Properties, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc. Cochran Group, Inc. Colonial Properties Trust Commercial Cutting Cordano Associates and Sunrise Mall Associates Cosmetic Labs Cousins Properties Incorporated CrossCom National, LLC Dancor, Inc. Datavantage Corporation DAVACO David Hocker and Associates, Inc. DEBS Corporation

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Doris International, Inc. Eckinger Construction Co. Equal-Plus, Inc. Esquel Apparel Essential Ribbons, Inc. Experian Marketing Solutions FedEx Corporation Feldman Mall Properties, Inc. Fenwick & West LLP Fifth Third Bank Fragrance Resources, Inc. Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P. C. Frederic Fekkai Fred Olivieri Construction Company Gardner, Carton & Douglas Glavan Fehér Architects GlobalTech Industries, Inc. HDO Productions Heinz Glas USA, Inc. Hewlett Packard HSBC Global Industries, Inc. Infinity Management Corp.

Information Works, Inc. Integris Consulting Group Jaqua Beauty Jones Day Jones Lang LaSalle Joseph Freed and Associates LLC Kingmax Industrial Limited Kurimoto & Co., LTD Lambert Sheet Metal, Inc. Lee Hecht Harrison Lehigh Direct Lloyd Industries Inc. Long Perhrson Associates, LLC Maidenform, Inc. Mane U.S.A. McCall Design Group McKinsey & Company, Inc. McLean Packaging Corp M•Corporations, Inc. MC Packaging Corp.

Meacham & Apel Architects MJB Electric MOL (America) Inc. Multi-Color Corp—Quick Pak MyITgroup, Ltd. National City Nelson’s Seasonal Decor Next Model Management Nordol, Inc. Noyon N.A. Inc. Oakland Mall, LLC O. Berk Co., LLC Ochsendorf Promotions Ontario Potato and O.P.D.I. Logistics Onyx Packaging Corporation Orchard International Perez & Morris LLC Planes Companies Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP Poster Display Company Prairie Contractors, Inc. Precise Packaging Project Control Systems

Pyramid Controls Related Urban Development Robin Enterprises Ronis Brothers Manufacturers of Royal Forms Salans Sancoa International San Mar Laboratories, Inc. SEA, Ltd. Senn-Delaney Leadership Consulting Group Sharpstown Mall ShopperTrak RCT Mr. and Mrs. Michael Silverstein Sizeler Property Investors, Inc. South Coast Plaza Sovereign Logistics, Inc. Speer Mechanical Sterling Commerce Stingray Studios, Inc. Strategen Creative Partners The Superior Group Symrise, Inc. Transco Plastic Industries Troutman Sanders LLP Tyco/ADT Ulmer & Berne LLP Univar USA The Urban Apparel Group Urban Retail Properties Valley Lane Industries The Wasserstrom Company Whelan’s International Co. Inc. Whittmanhart, Inc. Wiedenbach-Brown Co., Inc. Wilmorite Management Group, LLC Xerox Corporation Investors Council Argix Direct—Source to Store Cameron Mitchell Restaurants Circle Visual, Inc. Coyote Management, L.P. Dove Building Services DowIndustries Fine Line Graphics FRCH Design Worldwide The Hennegan Company idx corporation Innovative Stone Interior Crafts, Inc. Intimark, S. A. Lee Smith & Associates Co. LPA The Mills Corporation Robertet Fragrances Ruggles Sign Company Seaquist Closures Steven Cox Flowers Corporate Partners Council Allegiance Development Ann Arbor Distribution, Inc. Avenue A/Razorfish Bernard Hodes Bravo Development, Inc. Jack Breard Cottingham Paper Co. Crown Metal Mfg. Co.

Cypress Equities, an affiliate of Staubach Company Da Yang Knitting Fty Ltd Davis Street Land Company The Estée Lauder Companies Fiber Seal of Central Ohio GK Development High Style Fashion Jet Lithocolor, Inc. Mokrynski Direct Pacific Textiles Limited Permit Resources, Inc. PictureAmerica Photography Regency Centers Spencer Technologies, Inc. Takasago International Corp. (USA) UCR Urban DONOR CIRCLES MEMBERS Donor Circles members belong to our highest categories of individual annual giving. They provide essential funding for all Wexner Center programs, while enjoying special member privileges year round.

Trustees Circle: $25,000+ Benefactors Circle: $10,000–$24,999 Armory Circle: $5,000–$9,999 Producers Circle: $2,500–$4,999 Director’s Circle: $1,500–$2,499 Vanguard Circle: $1,000–$1,499 Trustees Circle Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Mary G. and C. Robert Kidder John S. Kobacker and Catherine Chapin Kobacker Bill and Sheila Lambert Mark A. Morrow and Jeffrey D. Chaddock The Pizzuti Family Foundation Marshall Rose and Candice Bergen Joyce and Charles Shenk A. Alfred Taubman Trueman Family Foundation Abigail and Leslie Wexner Ann and John F. Wolfe Benefactors Circle Carol and David Aronowitz Loann W. Crane Barbara K. Fergus Nancy and Dave Gill Thomas F. Havens Linda I. Heasley and Stephen F. Coady Judy and Dick Ruhl Armory Circle Stacy and Dennis Armstrong Linda and Tom Hellman Donna and Larry James Raye Jean and John Johnson Mary and Tom Katzenmeyer Charlotte and Jack Kessler Nancy Kramer Nancy Wolfe Lane Bob and Bonnie Larson Ben Maiden

Robert Meister Marsha and Jeffrey Miro Lynne and John Muskoff Michael A. Petrecca and Dr. Heather Grant Lou Ann Moritz Ransom and H. R. Ransom Kaira Sturdivant Rouda and Harley Rouda, Jr. George A. Skestos Harry Slatkin Joy and Bruce Soll Joan and Press Southworth III Ric Wanetik and David Hagans Producers Circle Pamela and Jack Beeler Teresa and Brian Biernat Fran and Michael Bonadies Trish and John Cadwallader Ann and Ari Deshe Sherri Geldin DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Linda and Bob Gorman Lisal and Don Gorman James Henderson and Katherine Kuck Huguette and Dennis Hersch Una and Ken Hunter Penny and Rick Jackson Merilynn and Tom Kaplin Java and Mark Kitrick Nick LaHowchic and Diane Forrest Mary and Robert Lazarus Donna and Jay Margolis Charles McGuigan Karen and Neil Moss James E. Phillips Janet A. Radakovich and Paul Michael Schmucker Jane and Rich Ramsey Lynne and Martyn Redgrave Janice Roth Phyllis and Len Schlesinger Susan and Jerome Scott Heidi and Stefan Selig Linda B. and J. Scott Taylor Judy and Steve Tuckerman Donna and Charles Turlinski Arlene and Michael Weiss Ms. Sandra West and Dr. Stephen Hasley David J. White Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wobst Janice and Herbert Wolman Kathy and Fred Yaffe Director’s Circle Jakki and Jerry Allen Drs. Jamie and Steve Allen Melissa and Steven Baginski Maureen and David Baraky Jill and Kerry Beraud Jackie and Wendy Berkowitz Marlene and Joe Berwanger Janis and Michael Bloch Sally G. Blue Mrs. Andrew Broekema John and Laurie Buell Jeffrey and Michelle Byars Sandra L. Byers Jeffrey A. Byron and D. Kevin Hurst

Jeanie and Steven Carter Sheila A. Clark and Elizabeth A. Boster Sharon K. Cohodes Marjie and Jeffrey Coopersmith Steven Cox and Kerry Thompson Carole and Richard P. Crystal Rich Davis and Rick Fishel Lisa and Mark Ermine Pia Ferrario Kimberly and Neil Fiske Gigi and Sam Fried Kathleen and Edmund Gaydos Dareth Gerlach Marcie and Ivan Gilbert Teresa and Mark Giresi Senator and Mrs. John Glenn Roy Gottlieb, DDS Dedrea and Paul Gray Greater Columbus Arts Council Lori and David Greeley Tom Grote and Rick Neal Dr. Robert and Marcia Hershfield Cindy and Larry Hilsheimer Charleen Hinson Lisa and Alan Hinson Celeste and John Holschuh Todd Holstlaw David G. Horn and Victoria E. Powers Susan and David Hostetler Sue and Ford Huffman Rebecca and Sebastian Ibel Marci and Bill Ingram Jack Jackson and Robert Storbeck Maria and Kal Jagjiwan Susan and Michael Jeffries Amy and Matt Kallner Suzanne Karpus Morgan Kauffman Reneé and Ron Kauffman Keesha and Tom Keiser Sarah and Edward Kistner Connie J. Klema and Sherri Stephenson Karel and Jerry Kroos Cookie and Victor Krupman Denise Landman and Walter Palawsky Dr. and Mrs. Mark B. Landon Katherine S. LeVeque Elaine Lewin Deborah Countiss Lindsay Tony Logan and Mary Duffey Fran Luckoff and Elliott Luckoff Nancy and Tom Lurie Jacqueline Mahan and Adam Otcasek Peg Mativi and Donald Dick Valerie Merone Mary Beth and David R. Meuse Amy and Bob Milbourne Richard L. Miller Craig S. Myers Jacob Neal A. Mark Neuman Cicely Wylde-Oubrerie and José Oubrerie Helene and Rick Paul Floradelle A. Pfahl Mr. Douglas J. Preisse Sara Purcell and John Reagan

Kriena and Paul Raffin Janet and Vikram Rajadhyaksha Shyam and Ram Rajadhyaksha Subha Ramesh and Karen Turlay Kathy and Fred Ransier Michael Rayden and Diane Nye Edward Razek Michael R. Reese Diane D. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Jaquelin T. Robertson Cordelia W. Robinson and Dr. Grant Morrow Neil Rosenberg Betsy and Bryan Ross Charlotte and Bob Ross Donna Ruch Patti and Meade Rudasill Mr. and Mrs. L. Jack Ruscilli Ellen and David Ryan Susan Sachatello and Steve Procopio Marcy and Jonathan Schaffir J. Daniel Schmidt and Beverly Bethge Joan Schnee and Bill Menke Suzanne Scrutton and M. Reneé Bostick Thekla and Donald Shackelford Mark J. Shafer Ellen Siegel and Art Pollack Ginny Trethewey Mei and Alex Tsou Craig and Connie Tuckerman Sharen and Charles Turney Susan and Matthew Ungar Geoffroy van Raemdonck Mr. and Mrs. Paul Watkins Lynn and Mark Weikel Pamela and Edward White Douglas L. Williams Jennie and Mark Wilson Bea Wolper and Dick Emens Vanguard Circle Christine Beauchamp Todd Blumenthal Ms. Louise Bourgeois Carol L. Campbell Maria and John Capano College of the Arts, The Ohio State University Roxana and Bill Deadman Dr. William and Sara Jane DeHoff Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Sefton Faust II Mary L. and Richard Gray J. Ronald Green and Louisa Bertch Green Scott Henningsen and Kelly Mooney Gerald M. McCue Tibor and Gyongyi Nadasdy Mark and Rosanne Rosen Pegeen and David Rubinstein Lenore Schottenstein Annick P. Van der Moer Joan Wallick Angela Westwater and David Meitus Shirle Nesbitt Westwater

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP Members are critical to the life of the Wexner Center, contributing to the vitality of the contemporary arts while enjoying generous benefits. Memberships are also available at the Patron ($125), Household ($75+) and Friend ($50+) levels.

Fellows: $500–$999 Sponsors: $250–$499 Fellows Dana and Brent Adler Randy Arndt and Jeff Baker Anne Marie Blaire David Charlowe Bunny Clark Michele and Dan Cleary Mark Corna John Behal and Jim Elliott Jane Erickson and Jeremy Baskes Michael Flamm and Jennifer McNally Babette T. Gorman Marty Greenberg and Lois Ungar Anne and Robert H. Jeffrey II Audrey W. Kaiser Pamela Liebert Jeffrey and Kathy Lipps Mike and Sue Mahler James G. May and Mary Steed-May Jean Mervis Pierluigi Porcu Craige Roberts Tadd and Nancy Seitz Ray and Beth Silverstein Dr. L. Mark Dean and Ms. Malinda Susalla Bob Wood Alexandra and Chris Yessios Sponsors James P. Bach Mary Beth and Ron Berggren Judge & Mrs. Donald Calhoun, Jr. Josh A. Coldwell Gerald and Jill Dannemiller Bette and Jerry Dare Diane Deane Nicholas and Betsy DeFusco William and Anita Donaldson J. Patrick Doust David Filipi and Jennifer Masters Kristine A. Flaherty and Thomas E. Delach Julia and Timothy Fox Miriam Freimer and Edward Levine Jerry Friedman and Julie Robbins Judy and Jules L. Garel Gladys Geanekopulos Michael Gong Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gonsiorowski Nathan Gordon Lenore and Bernard Greenberg Louise B. Guthman Donald and Marilyn Harris Ann Heineman Christopher J. Henneforth Christopher and Pamela Hill Paul S. Hinders

Wexner Center Staff

Fred Holdridge Richard A. Hollingsworth and Elsie M. Sanchez Paul H. and Elizabeth K. Hysell Robert and Anita Jennings Ira and Debora Kane John and Rose Keller Kimbrel/Birkman Interior Design Robin M. Kumin Robert and Michele Leibengood Kimbely S. Lightle Michael and Jacqueline Loughry James I. Luck Jack R. Marchbanks Mattlin Foundation William and Julia McLemore Marta L. Morris Patricia T. Mueller Steven Niehoff Gerard Nuovo Xenia Palus Davies Sandy Pfening Susan and Mark Real Thomas and Lori Rosol Yoaz and Julie Saar Robert Salmen Michael and Patty Schiff Dr. W. Michael Sherman and Dr. Betty L. Rider Susan Simms and Bob Palmer Kazimierz Slomczynski and Jerzyna Slomczynska Karen Towslee Donn F. Vickers Jeffrey Taylor Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Tom Winters Lorraine C. Wright Edith Yamasaki and anonymous donors

We have made every effort to recognize all of our generous donors in this listing. If we have failed to acknowledge a gift accurately, please accept our apologies and call (614) 292-2620 so that we may include more accurate information in the future.

All lists reflect gifts in the past year and are current as of June 30, 2007.

DIRECTOR/DEPUTY DIRECTOR

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Sherri Geldin, Director Jack Jackson, Deputy Director Jim Petsche, Administrative Associate, Director’s Office Misty Ray, Office Associate

Victor Davis, Controller Scott Austin, Design Engineer Bill Barto, Mershon Auditorium Stage Manager Bruce Bartoo, Film/Video Theater Projectionist/ Manager Claudia Bonham, Contracts and Rental Facility Manager Kevin Hathaway, Senior Accountant Andy Hensler, Performance Space Manager Steve Jones, Design Engineer Ben Mamphey, Accountant John Smith, Technical Services Manager Mike Sullivan, Design Engineer

COMPUTER SERVICES Sherri Trayser, Senior Systems Manager Derrek Ludwig, Systems Specialist Don Nelson, Systems Specialist DEVELOPMENT Jeffery Byars, Director Kris Flaherty, Special Events Manager Nico Franano, Membership Manager Melissa Keeley, Graduate Associate Sankalp Shah, Graduate Associate Lisa Wente, Senior Development Officer, Proposal Services Amy Wharton, Senior Development Officer, Major Gifts Emily Wise, Graduate Associate Jeff Zelli, Program Assistant DESIGN Chris Jones, Director Erica Anderson, Graphic Designer Aileen Aquino, Graphic Designer Tim Jacoby, Graduate Associate EDUCATION Shelly Casto, Director Dionne Custer, Educator for School Programs Adelia Gregory, Graduate Associate Eliza Ho, Graduate Associate Tracie McCambridge, Educator for Teacher and Docent Programs Kendra Meyer, Educator for Youth Programs Sara Mitchell, Graduate Associate Betsy Pandora, Education Assistant Amanda Potter, Educator for Public and University Programs EXHIBITIONS Megan Cavanaugh, Head Registrar Rachel Choto, Graduate Associate Jill Davis, Exhibitions Manager Will Fugman, Preparator Pug Heller, Senior Preparator Mary Klie, Exhibitions Assistant Molly Reinhoudt, Graduate Associate Nancy Schindele, Curatorial Assistant Mark Van Fleet, Assistant Registrar Patrick Weber, Preparator FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING Jayne Williams, Assistant Director Megan Moore, Office Associate Tim Steele, Facility Foreman

HUMAN RESOURCES Peg Fochtman, Manager MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Jerry Dannemiller, Director Jessica Beshore, Graduate Associate Ann Bremner, Editor Joel Diaz, Outreach and Marketing Manager Robert Duffy, Web Editor Molly Krueger, Marketing and Communications Assistant Kathryn Padberg, Graduate Associate Tony Pellerite, Outreach and Marketing Assistant Erik Pepple, Media Relations Coordinator Karen Simonian, Director of Media and Public Relations MEDIA ARTS Bill Horrigan, Director Dave Filipi, Curator, Film and Video Paul Hill, Studio Editor Jennifer Lange, Associate Curator, Media Arts Mike Olenick, Studio Editor Chris Stults, Assistant Curator, Film and Video PATRON SERVICES Michele Mooney, Director Zachary Bodish, Assistant House Manager Chris Conti, Store Manager Helyn Dell, Assistant House Manager Madeline Khurma, House Manager Matt Reber, Assistant Store Manager Jennifer Scarbrough, Ticketing Services Manager Mark Spurgeon, Visitor Services Manager PERFORMING ARTS Chuck Helm, Director Annie Kloppenberg, Graduate Associate Barbara Thatcher, Performing Arts Assistant WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION Elaine Gounaris, Campaign Manager Sherri Leonard, Administration Manager

Special thanks also to all the Wexner Center’s student employees and part-time staff, as well as to the officers and staff of University Security Services.

Volunteers

COMMUNITY DOCENTS Ellen O’Connell Bazzoli Dolores Blankenship Anja Brüggmann Shirley Calhoun Carole Dale Joshua Erb Joan Folpe Susie Gerald Herbert Gross Chris Hill Gisela Josenhans Susan Levin Rebecca Lowther Jean Mervis Montrez Karen Niles Patricia Pound Stephen Rigden Ellen Sheffield Jeri Sutton Joan Tallan Irene Tesfai Deborah Verona Gisela Vitt DONOR CIRCLES COUNCIL Judy Tuckerman, Chair Joyce Shenk, Vice Chair Jamie Keller Allen Sally Blue Trish Cadwallader Nancy Gill Jeffrey Glavan Lisa Hinson Rebecca Ibel Morgan Kauffman Mark Morrow Michael Reese Diane Reynolds Janice Roth Kaira Sturdivant Rouda Bobbie Ruch Mark Shafer Sandy West Fred and Kathy Yaffe 12¼ VOLUNTEERS Bling Ball Committee Alison Barret Haley Boehning Heather Davis Holly Davis Jessica Faller Ben Gibbons Elizabeth Hart Kim Hopcraft Sarah Irvin Nathan Kratt Elizabeth Lessner Jamie McGann Erin Moore Maren Roth Karac Ruleau Gretchen Schneider

Cheryl Shaeffer Cat Sheridan Mary Stuessy Steven Turley Chris Vaughan Jeff Yeager Friends of Bling John Angelo Ray Arébalo Lucinda Boeckman Brian Cheek Harold Chichester Andy Davis Tim Fulton Mike Gallicchio Kimberly Gibson Derrek Grosso Rebecca Ibel Jerry Johnson Chas Krider Mary Martineau Jacquie Mahan Marcy Mays Jason Ohlson Xenia Palus Patrick Preston Craig Robinson Jim Ressa Kaira Rouda Harley Rouda Pete Scantland Zachery Allan Starkey Abby Troxel Tom Young USHERS Dianne Adams Nicole Albanese Victoria Alexander Bill Allman Lisa Anfang Julia Backoff Chris Barr Brieanne Billman Dolores Blankenship Kate Boelky Shelley Bowden Derek Bower Diane Brant Monica Brown Laura Burchfield Erin Burke Constance Carroll Beverly Carter Don M. Catlett Vicki Chay-Wilkins Mel Chon Jessica Coleman Angela Collard Shirley Connell Esther Connors Patrick Copeland Melinda Courson Eugenia Craig Emily Current

Jo Ann Damon Galia Davidovitch Doris Davis Jack Davis Samantha Davis Erin Deignan Kathryn DeLong Jason Dembski Pauline Dickey Betsy Dimond Laura Dolle Mary Beth Donaldson Catherine Doran Jim Dorsey Nancy Dorsey Joan Droughton Angelo Pleze Edwards Jan Fox Nancy Francisco Erin Frankenfield Judy Fratantonio Carol French Lauren Frisk Peggy Frye Keren Ganin-Pinto Monique Ganucheau Audra Gatts Paul Gillilan Maria Gonzalez Rob Greathouse Bill Gresham Kate Grimshaw Jason Grove Sharon Growick Deborah Guy Devon Hague Rebecca Rose Hall Joanna Hammer Chris Heine Estelle Hess Timothy Hing Julia Hoehn Ursula Holloway Nick Holtkamp Kirsten Houck Dania Hurley Carolyn Inamura Naomi Jacobs Matt Jepsen Bill Johnson Taryn Jones Elise Kahl Susan Kallman Elizabeth Kane Olivia Karl Michael Kehlmeier Anand Khurma Gene Kim Katherine Kimmel Christina King Kristi Kloss Kartic Krishnamurthy Natalia Krutovskaya Cindy Lanese Julie Lapp Mary Lay

Faith Leibowitz Vivian Li Syd Lifshin Angelica Liu Holly C. Longfellow Rachelle Loubon Yangqiao Lu Justin Luna Heather Mackling Clemencia Marshall Anton Mates Robin Mates Richard McClure Anne McGorum Erin McGovern Corinne McKay Maxine Mendelson Joan M. Moore Clifford Morrissey Benjamin Moss Stephen Neola Caryn Neumann Lindsay Nichols Caitlin O’Donnell Jessica Palm Allison Parks Bijal Patel Ryan Pavlovicz Jim Perone Wendy Philips Joe Pimmel Jim Portman Jo Ann Price Marquita Queeley Peter Ray Loring Resler Michael Rex Virginia Reynolds Lisa Richardson Teresa Roberts John Roberts Tammy Roberts Robin Robinson Susan Roche Alisha Rohde Maggie Ryel-Lindsey Amy Schmidt Thomas Sharkey Sasha Shultz Jeanne Singleton Saba Sohail Jan Spangler Caitlin Stokes Julie Stone Amy Sugar-Carter Ana Teixeira Audra Terrell Pamela Thomas Sara Thomas Alondra Thompson Eileen Uland Julian Valencia Susan Van Ausdal Karthik Vazhkudai Mariona Vitans Jackie Wagner

Amjad Waheed Nino Walker Jen Washco Ann Washington Megan Wiegand Mike Wilkins Hertha Williams Katie Winterbottom Sara Wiseman Kim Wollam Shawn Wollam Barbara Woodall Wilma Yoder Katherine Yontz Burnham J. Young Jeff Zelli Sofia Zinkovskaya INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTEERS Jonathan Achor Shelley Bowden Don Catlett Patrick Copeland Catherin Doran Sara Eilert Susan Gregorek Meagan Grund Carolyn Hersch Joe Inglis Lisa Joseph Jackie Kemble Amber Ladd Caryn Neumann Alina Sumajin Pamela Thomas Sofia Zinkovskaya

Lists reflect staff and volunteer roles in 2006–07.

On the cover

Photo/Image Credits

Artist Louise Lawler captured the Wexner Center’s reflection in a Shiny surface while preparing her own concurrent exhibition, Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), at the Wexner Center.

Cover Louise Lawler Blue Dog, 2006/2007 Cibachrome mounted on ½” plywood 9½ x 11¼ inches Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures Gallery Director’s Message Nathaniel Robison: Shiny exhibition. Al Zanyk: Chris Marker: Staring Back exhibition. Jo McCulty: Director Sherri Geldin and Laurent Maillaud tour Chris Marker: Staring Back.

Art at Work and Play Chet Hey: Blackboard installation in the lower lobby in conjunction with Robert Beck’s dust. Al Zanyk: Artists Robert Beck and Zoe Leonard, spring exhibitions opening celebration.

Erica Anderson: Artist Glenn Ligon installing Untitled (Malcolm X), an onsite wall painting, as part of the Some Changes exhibition. Al Zanyk: Glenn Ligon with high school students. Kevin Fitzsimons: Charles Long’s 100 lbs. of Clay, with visitors and details. Jimmy Katz: Bill Frisell (inset). Michael Wilson: Bill Frisell with Jenny Scheinman and Greg Leisz, performing Musical Portraits from Heber Springs at the Wexner Center. Courtesy of Youth Video OUTreach: Youth Video OUTreach artists. Cory Piehowicz: Frank Stella 1958 exhibition. Nathan Robinson: Frank Stella (left) and Harry Cooper at the Members Talk and Tour of Frank Stella 1958.

Exceptional Artistry Tristam Kenton: Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in zero degrees. Kevin Fitzsimons: Thom Mayne at the Glimcher Lecture (background and inset). Roland Halbe: Recreation Center, University of Cincinnati, designed by Morphosis. Kim Rottmayer: Bright Eyes performing at the Wexner Center. Al Zanyk: Visiting Filmmaker Ellen Kuras in conversation with David Filipi. Courtesy Focus Features: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004). Carl Skutsch: Young Jean Lee, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center: Cynthia Hopkins, Must Don’t Whip ‘Um. Courtesy of Julia Scher: No, I Never Lip-Sync’d (Julia Scher, 2004). ©Tartan Films 2005: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005). Courtesy Anna Lena Films: Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, 2006). Cory Piehowicz: Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back). Al Zanyk: Louise Lawler (center) at the Wexner Center. Zoe Leonard: images from Analogue, courtesy of the artist.

Al Zanyk: Zoe Leonard: Analogue (installation view). © Annemie Augustijns: Pantalone, My Heart Is a Penguin. Courtesy First Run Features: Mongolian Ping Pong (Ning Hao, Mongolia, 2005).

Courtesy New Yorker Films: Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974).

Research and Education David Charlowe Design / PictureAmerica: Leslie and Abigail Wexner. Michael Brosilow: SITI Company, Radio Macbeth. Megan Nadolski: José Oubrerie in Architecture Interruptus. Aileen Aquino: Wexner Center exhibition catalogue. Amanda Potter: Michael Mercil and The Beanfield. Steve Badgett: Deborah Stratman at a Steenbeck file editor. Al Zanyk: students visit the exhibition Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation. Kevin Fitzsimons: Sadie Benning and Eileen Myles in conversation at the Wexner Center. Interventions, the Art & Environment exhibition at the Wexner Center. Courtesy of Beatrix*Jar: circuit-bending workshop. Courtesy of Benjamin Zitsman: I Work at Cinnabon (Benjamin Zitsman, 2006). Erica Anderson: Student docents during a training session.

Outreach and Engagement Al Zanyk: Race Matters, Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change, and panelists Kerry James Marshall, Patricia Williams, and Maurice Stevens in the Wexner Center Store (inset). Al Zanyk: Young artists enjoy puppetry workshops at the Wexner Center.

Photography courtesy of The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame Workshop: Jim Henson and Muppets™.

MUPPET, MUPPETS and the Muppets Characters are registered trademarks of The Muppets Studio, LLC. All rights reserved. © The Muppets Studio, LLC. for Muppets materials. Kevin Fitzsimons: Lee Fisher and guests at a corporate breakfast at the Wexner Center. Image from Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005). Courtesy New Yorker Films: La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001). Nathan Robinson: Welcome Week Student Party. Jerry Dannemiller: Students at the center. Erica Anderson: State Fare graphic. picturethesound.com: Peter Bjorn and John signing. Jerry Dannemiller: Girl Talk performing at the Wexner Center.

What’s New—What’s Better Al Zanyk: Wex Drive-in screening of The Big Heat and Cam’s on Campus (left). Erica Anderson: Cam’s on Campus (right).

Wexner Center for the Arts The Ohio State University 1871 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43210-1393 (614) 292-0330 wexarts.org

WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

WEXNER CENTER INTERNATIONAL ARTS ADVISORY COUNCIL

Leslie H. Wexner, Chair Karen A. Holbrook, Vice Chair C. Robert Kidder, President

Kutlug Ataman Petra Blaisse Iwona Blazwick Anne Bogart Ken Brecher Ian Buruma Maria de Corral Peter Gelb Susanne Ghez Yuko Hasegawa Philip Kaufman Barbara Kruger Phillip Lopate Bruce Mau Josiah McElheny Joseph Melillo Bebe Miller Michael Morris Jonathan Sehring Catharine R. Stimpson Lynne Tillman Billie Tsien John Vinci John Waters Lawrence Weschler

Trustees David M. Aronowitz Michael J. Canter Sherri Geldin Ann Gilbert Getty Michael P. Glimcher James E. Kunk Bill Lambert Ronald A. Pizzuti Marshall Rose Robert H. Schottenstein Joyce Shenk Alex Shumate A. Alfred Taubman Barbara Trueman Kevin E. Walker Ric Wanetik Abigail S. Wexner John F. Wolfe Ex Officio Karen A. Bell Barbara R. Snyder Bruce A. Soll Mark E. Vannatta

Lists reflect board and IAAC roles in 2006–07.