The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum The Year In Review 2020

 
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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum The Year In Review 2020
The Aldrich     The Year
Contemporary   In Review
Art Museum          2020
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum The Year In Review 2020
Board of Trustees
Eric Diefenbach
Chair
                               Contents
Diana Bowes
Vice-Chair
Linda M. Dugan
Treasurer
                                Page 3    Letter from the Chair
Claude K. Amadeo
Secretary                       Page 5 		 Letter from the Executive Director
Janine Brown
                                Page 6 The Year in Review—2020 Exhibitions
Gail Gluckman
Michael Joo                     Page 8 Frank Stella’s 56-Year History with The Aldrich
Patricia Kemp
                                Page 10                  The Year Ahead—2021 Exhibitions
Kristina Larson
Neil Marcus                     Page 12		 Artist Interview—Karla Knight
Amy Pal
                                Page 14   Artist Interview—Tim Prentice
Julie Phillips
Andrew J. Pitts                 Page 16                  Financial Overview
Kathleen O’Grady
                                Page 18                  Report of Gifts—Donors
Chair Emerita
Georganne Aldrich Heller        Page 22                  Report of Gifts—Members
Honorary Trustee
                                Page 25                  In the Galleries
Martin Sosnoff
Trustee Emeritus                Page 26                  In an Instant: Polaroids for The Aldrich

                                Page 28
                                        2020 Public Programs and Education
Cybele Maylone
Executive Director

Larry Aldrich (1906-2001)
Founder

Aldrich Council
Sonia Attkiss
Christine Boris
Justin Christopher Carafotes
Rachel Carr Goulding            Cover: Genesis
                                Belanger
                                Seasonal Switch, 2020
George Mueller                  Courtesy of the artist
                                and Perrotin
                                Photo: Pauline Shapiro
Ernest and Josie Newborn        Left: Karla Knight

Sonia Skindrud                  Road Trip (OUM-3)
                                (detail), 2020
                                Courtesy of the artist
Rachel Sondheimer
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum The Year In Review 2020
Letter from
                                                                       the Chair
                                                               The annual report affords an opportunity to reflect on the prior year and to thank the many who helped to make
                                                               it possible. Writing this in early 2021, I suspect we will all be reflecting on 2020 for some time but it’s already
                                                               clear that the Museum accomplished much last year to be proud of, and has much to be thankful for as well.

                                                               While The Aldrich continued to embrace the steady and thorough work it is known for — presenting
                                                               exhibitions developed over years, complimented by ambitious publications, and supported by engaging
                                                               programs — last year the Museum demonstrated just how nimble and flexible it can be working with artists
                                                               in real time to engage the world around us. Untethered by a permanent collection and always collaborating
                                                               with living artists, The Aldrich proved well-suited for last year’s challenges.

      (top left, clockwise)                                    When the Museum needed face masks for staff for our reopening, Senior Curator Amy Smith-Stewart proposed
      Rudy Shepherd
                                                               commissioning handmade masks by an artist, and Laleh Khorramian’s BEAKSHIELD project for was born. The
      Jacob Blake, 29 years old shot seven times in the back
      and paralyzed by Kenosha, WI police while three of his
                                                               Aldrich also commissioned Lucia Hierro, Byron Kim, Rudy Shepherd, and Oasa DuVerney to create works
      children sat in the backseat of his car, 2020            for our postcard series that spoke to the year as it unfolded and brought art into the homes of our audience.
      Courtesy of the artist
                                                               Hierro’s work, produced in the pandemic’s early days, reminded us of the importance of hygiene; Kim’s work
      Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle
      (installation view), The Aldrich Contemporary Art        alluded to the ever-present Zoom; Shepherd’s work depicted Jacob Blake, shot by police in Kenosha, WI last
      Museum, September 21, 2020 to May 9, 2021, Photo:
      Guillaume Ziccarelli                                     August, and DuVerney reminded us of the power of poetry.
      Eric Diefenbach, Chair of the Board, The Aldrich
      Contemporary Art Musuem                                  These special projects were only possible because of the incredible generosity and continued
      Lucia Hierro                                             engagement of the artists above and the many others at the heart of The Aldrich and our mission. The
      Cleanliness Is Close To Godliness, 2020
      Courtesy of the artist and Latchkey Gallery, New York    Museum’s current exhibition, Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey, is an excellent example of the relationships
                                                               developed and sustained between The Aldrich and today’s artists. Stella first exhibited at The Aldrich in
                                                               1965 and has returned to the Museum again and again to present his work over the last 56 years.

                                                               The Aldrich’s collaborations with artists are thoughtfully managed by Exhibitions Director Richard
                                                               Klein and Smith-Stewart, whose deep relationships and continued discovery and exploration of the
                                                               contemporary art landscape are central to The Aldrich’s vibrancy. Their work, and the work of everyone
                                                               on the Museum’s staff, were critical to our successes in 2020 and I thank them all for their incredible
                                                               dedication to the institution over the past year.

                                                               Our Executive Director Cybele Maylone tackled the unexpected challenges of her second full year at
                                                               The Aldrich with unflappable determination, steely-eyed focus, and calm grace. She has proven to be
                                                               an inspirational leader. I also have the privilege and luck to work with a talented and committed Board
                                                               of Trustees, whose focus and determination were instrumental in navigating the year’s choppy waters.

                                                               Finally, I sincerely thank The Aldrich’s visitors and friends, both live and virtual, old and new, near and
                                                               far, who supported the Museum this past year. The incredible generosity of our diverse audiences
                                                               provided the critical sustenance essential to continuing our mission. We look forward to welcoming
                                                               you to experience the exhibitions and programs The Aldrich has in store for 2021.

                                                               Sincerely,

                                                               Eric Diefenbach
                                                               Chair of the Board

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Letter from the
                                                             Executive Director
                                                     What a year it was…. None of us could have predicted what the year 2020 would have meant for The
                                                     Aldrich, or for the world, but despite incredible challenges the Museum remained a vital and vibrant
                                                     place—both in person and online—during an unparalleled time.

                                                     As always, the life of the Museum revolves around artists. The Aldrich’s closure from mid-March through
                                                     the end of June upended many projects that had been in the works for years and we scrambled to
                                                     reschedule, expand, or reconfigure exhibitions with very little sense of what lay ahead. The artists in
                                                     this year’s program rode the waves of a tumultuous spring and we were thrilled to eventually welcome
                                                     visitors back in person to see Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle, Frank Stella’s Stars, A
                                                     Survey, Rudy Shepherd: Somebody’s Child, and Twenty Twenty.

                                                     The Aldrich’s commitment to the art and artists of our time felt even more urgent this year, as the events
                                                     of the world around us continued to shift under our feet. Because the Museum works with artists in real
                                                     time, our exhibitions and programs saw the world reflected back to us as the year unfolded. Not only was
                                                     this notable in the prescient exhibition Twenty Twenty, a group exhibition featuring seven artists, which
                                                     was conceived to respond to the Presidential election but expanded as the pandemic and social unrest
                                                     gripped the world, but also in Somebody’s Child, which brought Rudy Shepherd’s watercolor portraits of
                                                     Black and brown victims of police violence to our walls, and the commissioned face masks by artist Laleh
                                                     Khorramian worn by Museum Attendants in the galleries. These exhibitions and projects would have
                                                     been ambitious under the most normal of circumstances but pulling them off this year was a testament
                                                     to the Museum’s incredible staff and the unwavering partnership of the artists.

                                                     I would be remiss if I didn’t recognize our audience, who has gone along with us on this journey and
                                                     found new ways to engage with artists and the life of The Aldrich. For the time being we have said
            (top left, clockwise)
                                                     goodbye to our busy Third Saturday workshops in The Studio and in-person talks and tours, but we have
                                                     been thrilled to see the response to our virtual programming for children and families, at-home Aldrich
            Genesis Belanger
            You Never Know What You’re Gonna Get,    Creative Kit series, and commissioned artwork postcards. Additionally, our Sculpture Garden has
            2020
            Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin      become a place of respite during this difficult time, where we see families (and pets!) exploring works of
            Photo: Pauline Shapiro
                                                     art long before the Museum opens and into the evening after we close.
            Rudy Shepherd: Somebody’s Child
            (installation view), The Aldrich
            Contemporary Art Museum, July 18 to
            November 29, 2020, Courtesy of the
                                                     All of this is thanks to the incredible support that the Museum receives from our Board of Trustees and
            artist, Photo: Christopher E. Manning    the many individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies whose philanthropy is critical
            Cybele Maylone, Executive Director, in   in bringing The Aldrich to life. In this annual report we offer thanks to all of those who made our work in
            front of Genesis Belanger, Manifest
            Destiny (detail), 2020, Courtesy of      2020 possible and highlight some of the things we are looking forward to in the brighter days ahead.
            the artist and François Ghebaly, Los
            Angeles, Photo: Claire Ritz

            Andy Mister, Paris; Barcelona; La
                                                     All the best,
            Paz; Gaza; Beirut (left to right),
            all 2020, Courtesy of the artist and
            TURN Gallery, New York, Twenty Twenty
            (installation view), The Aldrich
            Contemporary Art Museum, October
            12, 2020 to March 14, 2021, Photo:
            Christopher E. Manning

            Aldrich Care Box, January 31 to
            December 31, 2021, Photo: Christopher
            E. Manning

                                                     Cybele Maylone
                                                     Executive Director

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                                                                                                                                   “In the beginning, in a certain way, you could say
                                                                                                                                   I owe everything to The Aldrich.” – Frank Stella in
                                                                                                                                   The Ridgefield Press, October 8, 2020

          Exhibitions

          Nari Ward: APOLLO / POLL                                                                                                        Weather Report
          June 12, 2019 to January 10, 2020                                                                                               October 6, 2019 to August 23, 2020
          Curated by Richard Klein and                                                                                                    Curated by Richard Klein
          Amy Smith-Stewart
          Sculpture Garden                                                                                                                Zoë Sheehan Saldaña: There Must Be
                                                                                                                                          Some Way Out of Here
          Tony Tasset: Deer                                                                                                               November 24, 2019 to October 4, 2020
          June 12, 2019 to July 20, 2020                                                                                                  Curated by Glenn Adamson
          Curated by Richard Klein and
          Amy Smith-Stewart                                                                                                               Rudy Shepherd: Somebody’s Child
          Sculpture Garden                                                                                                                July 18 to November 29, 2020
                                                                                                                                          Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart
          Tom Friedman: Hazmat Love
          May 7, 2019 to July 26, 2020                                                                                                    Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye
          Curated by Richard Klein and                                                                                                    of a Needle
          Amy Smith-Stewart                                                                                                               September 21, 2020 to May 9, 2021
          Sculpture Garden                                                                                                                Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart

          Radcliffe Bailey: Vessel III                                                                                                    Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey
          May 10, 2019 to July 26, 2020                                                                                                   Indoor Installation: September 21, 2020 to
          Curated by Richard Klein and                                                                                                    May 9, 2021
          Amy Smith-Stewart                                                                                                               Outdoor Installation: September 21, 2020
          Main Street Sculpture                                                                                                           to September 7, 2021
                                                                                                                                          Curated by Richard Klein and
          Eva LeWitt: Untitled (Mesh A–J)                                                                                                 Amy Smith-Stewart
          October 6, 2019 to August 23, 2020   (top to bottom)                            (top to bottom)
                                                                                                                                          Galleries, Sculpture Garden,
                                               Tony Tasset, Deer, 2015, Collection of     Frank Stella, Nessus and Dejanira
          Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart         Gregg Rechler and Mitchell Rechler,
                                               Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta,
                                                                                          (installation view), 2017, Courtesy
                                                                                          of the artist and Marianne Boesky
                                                                                                                                          and Main Street Sculpture
                                               Chicago, Photo: Christopher E. Manning     Gallery, New York and Aspen, Frank
                                                                                          Stella’s Stars: A Survey, The Aldrich
                                               Radcliffe Bailey, Vessel III, 2018,        Contemporary Art Museum, September
                                               Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman
                                               Gallery, New York © Radcliffe Bailey,
                                                                                          21, 2020 to May 9, 2021, © 2021 Frank
                                                                                          Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS),          Twenty Twenty
                                               Photo: Christopher E. Manning              New York. Photo: Jason Mandella

                                               Jennifer Steinkamp, Fly to Mars 2          Genesis Belanger
                                                                                                                                          October 12, 2020 to March 14, 2021
                                               (installation view), 2004, Courtesy
                                               of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New
                                               York, Hong Kong, and Seoul, Weather
                                                                                          Old Fashion, 2020
                                                                                          Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin
                                                                                          Photo: Pauline Shapiro
                                                                                                                                          Curated by Richard Klein
                                               Report, The Aldrich Contemporary Art
                                               Museum, October 6, 2019 to March 29,       Gil Scullion
                                               2020, Photo: Jason Mandella                Voter, 2019-2020
                                                                                          Courtesy of the artist

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Frank                                  Since The Aldrich’s founding in 1964,
                                             Frank Stella has participated in fifteen
                                             group shows, and yet, Frank Stella’s
                                                                                            founder of Gemini G.E.L. in Los
                                                                                            Angeles and later Tyler Graphics Ltd. in
                                                                                            Westchester County, New York. Amid

      Stella’s 56-
                                             Stars, A Survey marks the first exhibition     great excitement, two of the three prints
                                             dedicated solely to the artist at the          have returned fifty years later—Star of
                                             Museum. It is this kind of long-lasting        Persia I and II grace The Aldrich’s walls

      Year History
                                             relationship with artists—one that follows     yet again in Frank Stella’s Stars.
                                             their careers and ever-evolving bodies of
                                             work—that is a hallmark of The Aldrich’s       Before The Aldrich deaccessioned its

      with The
                                             exhibition program. Frank Stella’s Stars       collection in the 1980s in order to fully
                                             not only shines a light on the artist’s        dedicate itself to the presentation of
                                             recurring use of the star form for the first   contemporary art, Larry Aldrich and his
                                             time, but also underscores the decades-        wife, Wynn, owned two Stella paintings:

      Aldrich
                                             long history between the artist and            Khurasan Gate III, 1968, and Bam,
                                             the Museum, making for a momentous             1966. Khurasan Gate III, part of Stella’s   (top, bottom)

                                             occasion rooted in past and present.           infamous Protractor series, 1967–71,        Frank Stella, Louisiana Lottery Co., 1962 (left), Botafogo I, 1975
                                                                                                                                        (right), Changes (installation view), The Aldrich Contemporary Art
                                                                                            was on view in four exhibitions at The      Museum, May 22 to September 11, 1983, Courtesy of the artist © 2021
                                                                                                                                        Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
                                             In 1965, shortly after the newly               Aldrich between 1968 and 1978. Bam,
      By Caitlin Monachino,                  established Larry Aldrich Museum               one of Stella’s early shaped canvases,
                                                                                                                                        Frank Stella’s Stars: A Survey (installation view), The Aldrich
                                                                                                                                        Contemporary Art Museum, September 21, 2020 to May 9, 2021, Courtesy of
                                                                                                                                        the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen © 2021 Frank
                                             opened its doors, the exhibition Art           was presented in Exhibitions Fall 1973.
      Curatorial Assistant
                                                                                                                                        Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jason Mandella

                                             of the ‘50s and ‘60s was mounted,              Composed of bands of color that meet
                                             showcasing a selection of works from the       at two points, Bam suggests the illusion          painting was later exhibited at The
                                             collection of the prominent art collector      of movement through three distinct                Aldrich in 1979 in the exhibition The
                                             Richard Brown Baker. On view in this           sections. The progression of these                Minimal Tradition, alongside works by
                                             show was a 10 x 9-inch colored pencil          illusory kinetic effects is evidenced in          Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, Robert
                                             and graphite drawing by Stella titled          Frank Stella’s Stars, as the star evolves         Morris, Mary Miss, Richard Serra, and
                                             Tetuan, 1963. Stella’s persistent practice     from two-dimensions to three.                     Jackie Winsor.
                                             in reproducing and recreating works at
                                             varying scales—which continues to this         The Aldrich’s history with Stella extends         Steadily exhibiting Stella’s work since
                                             day and is exemplified in Frank Stella’s       beyond the Museum’s own walls to                  its onset, The Aldrich has witnessed
                                             Stars—generated a larger, fluorescent          The Museum of Modern Art in New                   many seasons of the artist’s vehement
                                             translation of Tetuan in Tetuan II, 1964,      York. Dedicated to supporting new                 experimentation over the years,
                                             now part of The Glass House’s collection       and emerging artists, Larry Aldrich               presenting myriad works from multiple
                                             in nearby New Canaan, Connecticut.             established a purchase fund at MoMA in            of his acclaimed series. Tantamount to
                                                                                            1959 with the sole purpose of acquiring           the stars he creates, Stella’s prismatic
                                             Shortly after, in 1969, The Aldrich            works by American artists that were not           vitality is a wellspring of awe, and as
                                             presented Young Artists from the               already represented in their collection.          we look back through the artist’s long-
                                             Collection of Charles Cowles, which            The Marriage of Reason and Squalor                standing relationship with the Museum,
    Frank Stella, Star of Persia II, 1967,
    Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer,
                                             exhibited a set of three 1967 lithographs      II, 1959, one of Stella’s breakout Black          it is clear that Frank Stella’s Stars reveals
    Courtesy of the artist © 2021 Frank
    Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS),
                                             by Stella: Star of Persia I, Star of Persia    Paintings, was purchased by MoMA                  the breadth of the zealous exploration
    New York, Photo: Strode Photographic     II, and the Irving Blum Memorial Edition.      through the Larry Aldrich Foundation              central to his practice.
                                             These prints were made in collaboration        Fund—the first of many works by the
                                             with master printer Kenneth Tyler,             artist to enter their collection. The

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           Exhibitions

           Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye                                                                                        Tim Prentice: After the Mobile
           of a Needle                                                                                                              Indoor Installation: March 29 to
           September 21, 2020 to May 9, 2021                                                                                        October 4, 2021
           Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart                                                                                             Outdoor Installation: September 19, 2021
                                                                                                                                    to April 24, 2022
           Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey                                                                                           Curated by Richard Klein
           Indoor Installation: September 21, 2020
           to May 9, 2021                                                                                                           Clarity Haynes: Collective
           Outdoor Installation: September 21, 2020                                                                                 Transmission
           to September 7, 2021                                                                                                     April 28 to September 6, 2021
           Curated by Richard Klein and                                                                                             Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart
           Amy Smith-Stewart
           Galleries, Sculpture Garden, and Main                                                                                    Lucia Hierro: Marginal Costs
           Street Sculpture                                                                                                         June 9, 2021 to January 2, 2022
                                                                                                                                    Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart
           Twenty Twenty
           October 12, 2020 to March 14, 2021                                                                                       Hugo McCloud: from where i stand
           Curated by Richard Klein                                                                                                 June 9, 2021 to January 2, 2022
                                                                                                                                    Curated by Richard Klein
           Aldrich Care Box
           January 31 to December 31, 2021                                                                                          Karla Knight: Navigator
           Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart and                                                                                         October 17, 2021 to May 1, 2022
           Namulen Bayarsaihan                                                                                                      Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart

                                                      (top to bottom)                            (top to bottom)

                                                      William Powhida, Possibilities for         Lucia Hierro
                                                      Representation, 2020 (2/7/2021             Mandao 1, 2019
                                                      updated installation/detail, Joe Biden     Courtesy of the artist
                                                      (Democratic President Elect), 2020),       Photo: Freddie L. Rankin II
                                                      Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters
                                                      Gallery, New York, Twenty Twenty,          Hugo McCloud
                                                      The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,       5 on #7, 2019
                                                      October 12, 2020 to March 14, 2021,        Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody
                                                      Photo: Christopher E. Manning              © Hugo McCloud

                                                      Aldrich Care Box, January 31 to December   Karla Knight
                                                      31, 2021, Photo: Christopher E. Manning    Fleet 2 (Big Pink), 2020
                                                                                                 Courtesy of the artist
                                                      Tim Prentice, Large White Carpet, 2005,
                                                      Courtesy of the artist

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Artist                                                                                             Karla answered a few questions about
                                                                                                        her upcoming exhibition at The Aldrich.

     Interview:
                                                                                                    Q As a Connecticut-based artist, what
                                                                                                        does it mean to you to have an
                                                                                                        exhibition at The Aldrich?

     Karla                                                                                          A   As a Connecticut-based artist, I am
                                                                                                        thrilled to have a solo exhibition at

     Knight
                                                                                                        The Aldrich. Any artist living in this
                                                                                                        state would be! The Aldrich’s rich
                                                                                                        history of giving extraordinary artists
                                                                                                        their first museum shows is wonderful
                                                                                                        to be a part of. I live in Redding
                                                                                                        and have driven past the Museum
                                                                                                        countless times in the last 20 years.
                Karla Knight has spent the last forty years creating an impressive body of work         Dream come true.
                that spans painting, drawing, and photography. Navigator, her first institutional
                solo show, will take the form of a focused survey, charting the development         Q You’ll be debuting a new body of work
                of her far-seeing language over a four-decade-long career. Knight’s imagery is          you refer to as “tapestries” in your
                steeped in science, the occult, early twentieth century abstraction, Surrealism,        exhibition. What do you hope visitors
                and Native American art. Her visual language is purposefully impenetrable—              will take away from this new work?
                she offers no clues or methods to its decoding. For her, its true meaning must
                remain unnamed, as it is ultimately inspired by “the mysteries and absurdities      A   My new “tapestry” series is coming to
                of life.” Her dense paintings and works on paper swirl with graphic shapes,             fruition just in time for my Aldrich show. I
                diagrams, and ciphers that appear both archaic and spaced-aged.                         have been leading up to it for years. The
                                                                                                        tapestries are made of vintage seamless
                The exhibition will track the vast range and evolution of Knight’s pictographic         grain sacks sown together, then painted
                lexicon—the spaceships, floating orbs, and eyeballs, as well as the                     and drawn with my usual imagery, as well          (left)
                                                                                                                                                          Artist Karla Knight
                hieroglyphic-like lists, charts, codes, alphabets, and other invented symbols—          as some embroidery. They are influenced           (top, bottom)
                that embody these all-over compositions. Similar to the trailblazing abstract           by Native American art, specifically Lakota       Karla Knight
                                                                                                                                                          Spaceship Note (The Fantastic
                artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) and the far-sighted symbolist Agnes Pelton            winter counts, which were used as calendars       Universe), 2020
                                                                                                                                                          Courtesy of the artist
                (1881–1961), Knight’s enigmatic image databank channels a passionate                    of indigenous life and cosmology. In my           Karla Knight
                engagement with spiritual or nonphysical realms. The exhibition will also debut         case, I hope they act as windows into             Tapestry (detail), 2020
                                                                                                                                                          Courtesy of the artist
                an entirely new series, featuring what Knight refers to as “tapestries.” Using          otherworldly imagery and language, whose
                reclaimed cotton cut from circa 1940s–50s seed and grain bags purchased                 underlying system is not known.
                on eBay, Knight sews pieces together to form a patchwork composition.
                Unstretched, she draws and paints directly on the surface with flashe, colored      Q How do you stay inspired in the studio
                pencil, and graphite, while hand embroidering select sections. This exhibition,         and at home?
                organized by Senior Curator Amy Smith-Stewart, will open on October 17, 2021
                and will be on view through May 1, 2022.                                            A   I am inspired by the universe at all times,
                                                                                                        especially in the studio. My head is
                                                                                                        constantly full of cosmic information. It
                                                                                                        just flows out, regardless of location and
                                                                                                        circumstance.

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Artist                                                                                             Tim answered a few questions about his
                                                                                                        exhibition and working with The Aldrich.

     Interview:
                                                                                                    Q As a Connecticut-based artist, what
                                                                                                        does it mean to you to have an
                                                                                                        exhibition at The Aldrich?

     Tim                                                                                            A   I was invited by The Aldrich to
                                                                                                        participate in a group show in 1995

     Prentice
                                                                                                        and expressed my gratitude by filling
                                                                                                        one of the galleries with a blizzard of
                                                                                                        yellow turkey feathers. I am thrilled that
                                                                                                        the Museum thinks well enough of my
                                                                                                        current work to invite me back.
                                                                                                        As a Connecticut based artist I can’t
                                                                                                        think of a higher honor in the state than
                Tim Prentice (b. 1930) is known for his innovative work in the field of motion          to have a show at The Aldrich.
                in sculpture. Prentice has been a resident of Connecticut since 1975, and
                After the Mobile marks his first solo museum exhibition since 1999. The title       Q How do you expect visitors’ experiences
                of the exhibition refers to Alexander Calder, a former Connecticut resident             of your work change between the indoor
                who in the 1930s adopted the term mobile at the urging of Marcel Duchamp                galleries and Sculpture Garden?
                to describe his balanced, moving wind-driven constructions. Calder’s
                playful Mobiles, and later George Rickey’s delicately balanced minimalist,          A   The indoor works must be lightly
                kinetic sculpture, each defined their time. Prentice’s contribution to the              constructed in order to catch the
                field strongly relates to the rise in the past half century of systems theory,          gentlest air currents to best effect.
                the understanding that cohesive systems are interrelated and independent                Pieces that are exposed to the
                parts are resilient to external disruption, having the ability to move but always       unpredictability of the weather must
                returning to their original form. Prentice’s seemingly complex but simple               perform at two widely spaced extremes:
                systems of bent, articulated wire and metal or plastic planes are incredibly            to show interesting movement on a calm
                sensitive to moving air and seem to be extremely fragile, but are actually              day and also be able to stand up against
                quite robust, giving in to the wind’s force, but always recovering with their           the violence of a gale force wind.
                motion revealing the rippling and fluid patterns of moving air.
                                                                                                    Q How do you stay inspired in the studio
                After the Mobile, organized by Exhibitions Director Richard Klein, will feature         and at home?
                twenty indoor works, five outdoor works, and a video portrait of the artist,
                presented both in the Museum’s galleries and Sculpture Garden, with the             A   Deadlines.
                indoor exhibition on view from March 29 to October 4, 2021, and the outdoor
                installation on view from September 19, 2021 to April 24, 2022.                                                                         (left)
                                                                                                                                                        Artist Tim Prentice

                                                                                                                                                        (top, bottom)
                                                                                                                                                        Tim Prentice
                                                                                                                                                        Square Square, 2016
                                                                                                                                                        Courtesy of Prentice Colbert

                                                                                                                                                        Tim Prentice
                                                                                                                                                        Two Yellow Zingers, 1997
                                                                                                                                                        Courtesy of Tim Prentice

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2020                                                                     FY19 REVENUE
                                                                                    Endowment Revenue                $1,681,931
                                                                                                                                                     FY19 EXPENSES
                                                                                                                                                     Exhibitions                 $721,393

           Financial
                                                                                    Grants and Contributions          $587,208                       Programs                    $369,620
                                                                                    Events                            $365,035                       Facilities                  $323,336

           Overview
                                                                                    Admissions and Programs           $106,683                       General & Administrative    $468,272
                                                                                    Gift Shop, Retail, and Rentals      $72,396                      Development                 $443,311
                                                                                                                                                     Marketing                   $360,601
                                                                                    Total                            $2,813,255                      Retail & Rentals              $9,337
                                                                                                                                                     Events                       $90,385

           The impact of COVID-19 was deeply felt at The                                                                                             Total                      $2,813,255
           Aldrich in 2020, both in our mission and in the
           bottom line. The staff and board moved swiftly
           following the Museum’s closure in March to
           recast projections and reduce expenses, while                            FY20 REVENUE                                                  FY20 EXPENSES
           finding support from government entities like the
           Small Business Administration. While expenses                        l   Endowment Revenue                $1,207,526                 l Exhibitions                    $628,524
           were down and government support was up, the                         l   Grants and Contributions          $822,165                  l Programs                       $302,760
           Museum also received an incredible response from                     l   Events                            $227,902                  l Facilities                     $268,272
           individual donors. Despite being closed for over 3
           months, membership numbers between 2019 and                          l   Admissions and Programs             $52,352                 l General & Administrative       $449,062
           2020 remained steady. The Museum also received                       l   Gift Shop, Retail, and Rentals      $62,651                 l Development                    $357,068
           several new, significant gifts from individuals and                                                                                  l Marketing                      $335,990
           family foundations in 2020, part of The Aldrich’s
           continued effort to increase contributed revenue.                        Total                            $2,372,597                 l Retail & Rentals                 $9,008
                                                                                                                                                l Events                          $21,913
           The Museum’s 2020 budget was 15% less than
           2019, and that reduction helped the Museum
           to continue to reduce our dependence on the                                                                                               Total                      $2,372,597
           endowment. And while expenses were watched
           closely, The Aldrich also remained focused on         FY20 REVENUE                                         FY20 EXPENSES
           our mission as a platform for artists, increasing                                                                             0.4%   1%
           commissions, honoraria, and opportunities during
           an incredibly challenging year.
                                                                           2% 3%

                                                                    10%                                                            14%
                                                                                                                                                              26%

                                                                                                                           15%

                                                                                                       51%

                                                                  35%                                                                                           13%

                                                                                                                                  19%
                                                                                                                                                     11%

16   2020 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW                                                                                                                                           2020 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW   17
Report of                                                                                                               Report of
           Gifts–Donors                                                                                                            Gifts–Donors
           2020 presented some significant challenges for The             Donors                             The O’Grady Foundation           Raymond Learsy                     Carol LeWitt
           Aldrich, and fundraising was no exception. Our spring          This list reflects all gifts,      Julie Phillips                   Josie and Ernest Newborn           Christine and Philip Lodewick
           gala—the Museum’s largest fundraiser of the year—was           including Contemporary Council     Kirsten and Andrew Pitts         Rachel Renchner-Kelly and Justin   Lisi and Neil Marcus
           cancelled, along with an event being planned for the Fall.     memberships and above, made        Ridgefield Thrift Shop            Christopher Carafotes             Annie Milligan
           In addition, many of the ways that we connected with           to The Aldrich between January     Speyer Family Foundation         Ridgefield Education Foundation    The Milton and Sally Avery Arts
           our supporters evaporated overnight. Gone were visits          1 and December 31, 2020.           Wagner Foundation                Marion and Steve Ryan                Foundation Inc.
           to artist studios and in-person gallery tours, events that     Membership listings begin on                                        Marion and Bill Seibold            Joanne and Mike Murray
           were suddenly replaced by Zoom everything.                     page 22.                           Patron                           Sonia Skindrud and Bill Covell     Nina W. Werblow Charitable Trust
                                                                                                             Diane Allen                      Cynthia Smith                      Annette and Daniel J. O’Brien
           While we searched for a way forward, our community             Philanthropist                     Sonia and Keith Attkiss          Sabina and Harlan Stone            Frances and Wallace Palmer
           of supporters showed just how important The Aldrich is         The Amadeo Family                  Pam and Jack Baker                                                  Anna Phillips
           to them. A spring fundraising campaign generated 40            Diana Bowes and James Torrey       Jenn and Greg Ezring             Friend                             Emma Phillips
           gifts, almost half from first-time donors. Motivated by this   Connecticut Humanities             Michele Gage                     Sabeth and Aaron Albert            Jen Posner
           generosity, members of our Board matched these gifts,          Department of Economic             The Gage Fund                    Andrew J. and Christine C. Hall    Isabelle Schiavi and Andres
           motivating other Trustees to do the same throughout the         and Community Development,        Sarah Gondell and Jean-Jacques    Foundation                          Recoder
           year. When our gala was officially cancelled, donors who        Connecticut Office of the Arts     Chaltiel                        Nancy and Ian Ashken               Carla Shen and Christopher Schott
           had bought tickets and tables to the event generously          Eric Diefenbach and                Martha and Rich Handler          Ashken Family Charitable           Susie and Gary Singer
           turned those gifts into direct contributions. And 9             James Keith Brown                 Jack Shainman Gallery             Foundation                        Sara and Joshua Slocum
           months after the pandemic began, our Fall annual appeal        The Leir Foundation                Jill and Peter Kraus             Eve Biddle and Josh Frankel        Talbott and Carter Simonds
           saw a 55% increase over 2019.                                                                     Kraus Family Foundation          Elena Bowes and Ken McPhail          Foundation
                                                                          Leader                             New England Foundation for       Gretchen and Lance Bylow           Maya and Robert Tichio
           We are so grateful to the people, foundations, and             Anne S. Richardson Fund             the Arts                        Bobbi and Barry Coller             Wadsworth Lewis Trust
           corporations listed here, whose support of The Aldrich         Institute of Museum and Library    Elizabeth and Edward O’Reilly    Roberta and Steven Denning         Amanda Weiss and Tobey Ritz
           during this incredibly challenging time was truly                Services                         Madeleine K. Rudin               Patricia and Wayne Devoe           Audrey and Richard Zinman
           extraordinary. Thank you!                                      National Endowment for the Arts    Ruth | Catone                    Robert E. Diefenbach
                                                                                                             Sarah Tod Fund                   Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz           Sustainer
                                                                          Benefactor                         Hermina Seiden and Martin        Carol and Dave Foster              Jeannette Montgomery Barron
                                                                          Janine Brown and Peter Weinbach     Margulies                       George Galbraith                    and James Barron
                                                                          The Coby Foundation                Elena Shulman                    Sunny and Brad Goldberg            Lori and John Berisford
                                                                          Anita and Nick Donofrio            Rachel and Joseph Sondheimer     Agnes Gund                         Eryn Bingle
                                                                          Linda and Michael Dugan            Julia Vlock                      Christine and Andrew Hall          Melinda and Brian Carroll
                                                                          Kathryn T. Farley, Ph.D.           Julia S. Vlock Charitable Fund   Thomas Harris                      Janis and Charles Cecil
                                                                          Gail and David Gluckman                                             David Hochberg                     Mariah Chase
                                                                          Liz and Steven Goldstone           Sponsor                          Nancy Moore Hulnick and            Peter Colwell
                                                                          The Goldstone Family Foundation    Georgia and Charlie Adams         Donald Hulnick                    Adrienne Conzelman
                                                                          Rachel Carr Goulding and Peter     Bank of America                  Sacha Janke and Andrew             Petah Coyne and Lamar Hall
                                                                            Goulding                         Deborah Barnett-Brandt and        McCormack                         Sue Davis-Gillis
                                                                          Highurst Foundation                 Robert Brandt                   Meagan and Alexander Julian        Jeff Dreiblatt
                                                                          Josef and Anni Albers Foundation   Matthew Berler                   Mary Kenealy and Richard Klein     Ashlea Ebeling and Craig Bloom
                                                                          Patricia and Lawrence Kemp         Christine and Jeffrey Boris      Ellen Kern                         Melissa and Trevor Fetter
                                                                          Kristina and Philip Larson         Fairfield County Bank            Laura and Dale Kutnick             Vida Foubister
                                                                          Richard Mumby                      Helena Hernmarck                 Kutnick Foundation                 Elizabeth Fuller
                                                                          Kathleen O’Grady                   J.P.Morgan                       LatchKey Gallery                   Janna Greene

18   REPORT OF GIFTS–DONORS                                                                                                                                                      REPORT OF GIFTS–DONORS              19
Report of                                                                                                                   Report of
           Gifts–Donors                                                                                                                Gifts–Donors
           Joshua Grey                    Audrey Conrad                     Supporter                            Cyriaco Lopes                      Donna and Nicolas Cheftel         In-Kind Support
           Mark Grimmer                   Vanessa and Jonathan Curry        Steven and Ann Ames                  Jane R. Lubin                      Catherine Courter and Craig       Ancona’s Wines & Liquors
           Heather Gaudio Fine Art        Jacqueline and Michael Duke       Katherine and Brandon Barone         Kathy Lynch and Jonathan Clapp      Intinarelli                      Genesis Belanger
           Kimberly Henrikson             Christina and Woodson Duncan      Michael Barraco                      Virginia McDonald                  Amanda Curtin and Jonathan        Connecticut Cottages &
           Rebecca Hoblin                 Elizabeth Essner                  Videen and Christopher Bennett       Michel de Montaigne Giving Fund     Winn                              Gardens (CTC&G)
           Gillian and Simon Hornby       Catherine and Michael Farello     Nathalie Berger                      Caroline Moore                     Erin Dodd                         Crozier
           Jaclyn and Brian Hyla          Colin Fernandes                   Sophie Bielders                      Robert Nixon                       Ecka Blaire Faulds                Claire Gladstone and David
           Randye Kaplan and Gerald       Sandi Haber Fifield               Louise Blackburn and Bennett         Cebert Noonan                      Pasquale Festa                     Gelfman
            Blitstein                     Hilary and Sean Flanagan            Blackburn                          Ester Partegàs                     Barbara and Michael Fisher        Rachel Carr Goulding and Peter
           Kitty and Jack Keane           Francesca Furio                   Susie and Wessel Boshoff             Heather and Todd Payne             Gina Furnari                       Goulding
           Joan and Steven Kraus          Ginny Gold                        Jen and Matt Breitfelder             Pam and Eric Pooley                Anne Giroux                       HamletHub
           Miriam G. Martinez and Roger   Marcia and Mark Goldstein         Keri and Nick Cappiello              Nancy Delman Portnoy               Alva Greenberg                    Lucia Hierro
            Restaino                      Helen and William Gore            Debra Carideo                        Madison Potter and Christopher     Naomee Guest                      Michael Joo
           Allison and Stuart Meyler      Margaret and Stuart Gray          Erika Chamberlain                      Preston                          Barbara Hager                     Eva LeWitt
           Norma and Sheldon Minkowitz    Francis Greenburger               Allen Chang                          Pam Robey                          Mary Harold                       Christopher Lockhart
           Caitlin Monachino              Francis Greenburger Charitable    Roz Chast and William Franzen        Linda Rost and Diederik van        Georganne Aldrich Heller          Macaroni Kid
           Kenneth Naigus                   Fund                            Jeanette and Walter Ciciora            Renesse                          Samantha Heller                   Caitlin Monachino
           Adam and Glori Norwitt         Jeffrey Grove and Clint Smith     Jennifer Cohen                       Lynne and Gil Scullion             Peter Lutz                        Polaroid USA
           Rachael Palacios               Annette and Peter Grueterich      Barbara and Robert Covell            Rick Shaefer                       Katherine Malin and Bruce Smith   James Prosek
           Jean and Jim Prusko            Holly Lapine                      Randie and Robert Creamer            Elizabeth and William Siemers      Dorothy McClure                   Rosamund Purcell
           Connor Rossner                 Emily and Michael Leighton        Emily Devoe and Bradley Gehan        Olivia Song                        Nicole McDonough                  Ramona
           Scott Sanders                  Alexandra Lunt                    Laurie Donlon                        Kate Tabner and Michael            Alexander Mir                     Peter Stewart
           Pam Schafler                   Cybele Maylone and Steven Seltz   Kelly Dougherty                        Boardman                         Cecilia Moy-Fradet                TypoGraphic Services, Inc.
           Gary Staudt                    Josephine Mayo                    Kathryn Emmett and David Golub       Christie Tashjian                  Amy Pal and Kevin Manley          WSHU Public Radio Group
           Allison and Jon Stockel        Sean Mellyn                       Jacquelyn Etling                     Jessica and Briggs Tobin           Alexandra Pearl
           Margaret Sullivan and Rick     Gregory Miller and Michael        Francine Even and Roger Brouard      Abigail Wattley and Kevin          Shaunna and Thierry Prissert      Matching Gifts Companies
            Lawrence                       Wiener                           Rachel Feinberg                        Kingman                          Adriana Reis                      Alliance Bernstein Matching Gift
           Margaret and James von         Helen Mills and Gary              Susan Finkelstein                    Tracy and Jonathan Wendell         Diane Rosenblatt                    Program
            Riesemann                      Tannenbaum                       Lesley Flanigan and Tristan Perich   Claire Werner and Justus O’Brien   Jackie and Howard Rosenstein      Benevity
           Sandra Whiteley and Russell    Larkin Nash                       Eleanor and Brian Flatow             Susan and Alan Winsor              Hilary Saltus                     Greenlight Capital
            Maylone                       Anita and Arnold Newman           David Flinchbaugh                    Nancy and Michael Yurgeles         Sally and Jack Sanders            IBM Matching Gifts
           Bernice Wollman and Warren     Robin and John Phillips           Sharon Flynn                                                            Michael Schwarzchild              Strada Education Network
            Rubin                         Linda Pilgrim                     Wendy Goidell                        Contributor                        Suzan Shutan-Almeida and Mario    Synchrony
                                          Ragnar Poulsen                    Joann Graham                         Anne and Art Aaronson               Almeida
           Donor                          Ashley and Stephen Prymas         Christine Grounds                    Gail and Jack Abrams               Dee Strilowich
           Dalal and Zachary Arnold       Kim and Andrew Purcell            Deirdre and Jon Halper               Susan Ahlstrom                     Marion L. Ward
           The Ashforth Family            Sue and Alan Ravitz               Harriett Hanlon and Mark Riser       Pamela Arciero and A. Stephen      Carey and Doug Weber
           Brooke Bento and Thomas        Stop & Shop                       Ginny Hutchins                        Lanza                             Aaron Williams
            Robinson                      Merry Thornton and Brian Murphy   Ayumi Ishii                          Alyson Baker and Zach Hadlock
           Betsy and Alfred Bergman       James Tilney                      Barbara and Charles Jennes           Bruce Barry
           Josée Bienvenu                 Marci and Edward Tregurtha        Gina Keidong                         Nancy Bowen
           Christine Bosco                Kathryn Yarrington                Lisa Kirk                            Arden Byrne
           Paula Burton                   Torrance York and Greg Walters    Marjeta and Edward Lederman          Michael Cady

20   REPORT OF GIFTS–DONORS                                                                                                                                                           REPORT OF GIFTS–DONORS             21
Report of                                                                                                                      Report of
           Gifts–Members                                                                                                                  Gifts–Members
                                              Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz             Kathryn T. Farley, Ph.D.         Pam Schafler                        Leana and Will Fisher                   Pam Robey
           Membership                         Jeanne Donovan Fisher                Vida Foubister                   Isabelle Schiavi and Andres         Hilary and Sean Flanagan                Rochelle and Mark Rosenberg
           This list reflects all paid        Thomas Harris                        Elizabeth Fuller                   Recoder                           Riley Flanagan-Brown                    Gualberto Ruano
           Aldrich memberships received       Randye Kaplan and Gerald Blitstein   Michele Gage                     Hermina Seiden and Martin           Lesley Flanigan and Tristan Perich      Marcia Ryan and Neil Farrow
           between January 1 and              Joan and Steven Kraus                George Galbraith                   Margulies                         Eleanor and Brian Flatow                Michelle Schaffer
           December 31, 2020                  Miriam G. Martinez and Roger         Ginny Gold                       Carla Shen and Christopher Schott   Penelope Forman                         Kimberly and Christopher Schmitt
                                               Restaino                            Marcia and Mark Goldstein        Elena Shulman                       Meghan and Dave Friedland               Tracy and Jonathan Seem
           Aldrich Collects                   Joanne and Mike Murray               Liz and Steven Goldstone         Talbott and Carter Simonds          Damon Gergar                            Mary Ann Sherry and Michael
           Deborah Barnett-Brandt and         Jen Posner                           Sarah Gomer and Christopher      Gary Staudt                         Elizabeth Getter and David Groff          Bresnan
             Robert Brandt                    Alison Pratt and Todd Forrest          Lockhart                       Peter Stewart                       Lisa and Nicholas Gillis                Ashley and Kevin Slane
           Matthew Berler                     Amelie Sanchez                       Janna Greene                     Allison and Jon Stockel             Margaret and Stuart Gray                Jennifer Soudagar and Ian Tesar
           Diana Bowes and James Torrey                                            Mark Grimmer                     Margaret Sullivan and Rick          Joshua Grey                             Alla Stremlin-Avidon and George
           Linda and Michael Dugan            Young Patrons Circle                 Melanie Grossbard                  Lawrence                          Ellen and Bob Grimes                     Avidon
           Jenn and Greg Ezring               Brooke Bento and Thomas              Jeffrey Grove and Clint Smith    Merry Thornton and Brian Murphy     Harriet Hanlon and Mark Riser           Justine Tassitano
           Sarah Gondell and Jean-Jacques      Robinson                            Agnes Gund                       Maya and Robert Tichio              Lin and Stephen Jamison                 Alan Taylor
             Chaltiel                         Vanessa and Jonathan Curry           Christine and Andrew Hall        Mary Tobin and Richard Bauer        Julie and Richard Jochum                Michael Tocci
           Anna Phillips                      Catherine Lewandowski                Martha and Rich Handler          Julia Vlock                         Sandy and Brad Johnson                  Cynthia and Stanley Twardy
           Rachel Renchner-Kelly and Justin   Alexandra Lunt                       Kimberly Henrikson               Margaret and James von              Laura and Samuel Kaplan                 Abigail Wattley and Kevin
             Christopher Carafotes            Emma Phillips                        Gillian and Simon Hornby           Riesemann                         Elke Katz                                 Kingman
           Marion and Steve Ryan                                                   Nancy Moore Hulnick and Donald   Margot Wilbanks                     Nancy and John Katz                     Ann Williams and Andrzej
           Marion and Bill Seibold            Contemporary Council                   Hulnick                                                            Linda and Jeff Krulwich                  Tymowski
           Cynthia Smith                      Diane Allen                          Meagan and Alexander Julian      Family                              The Lordi Family                        Jessica Williams and David Brown
           Rachel and Joseph Sondheimer       Pam and Jack Baker                   Sameea Kasim                     Heidi and Steve Aishman             Catherine and Joe Magnano               Torrance York and Greg Walters
           Sabina and Harlan Stone            Jeannette Montgomery Barron          Kitty and Jack Keane             Amanda Almstead                     Molley Maloney and John Lord
                                               and James Barron                    Ellen Kern                       Laurie and Peter Bachmann           Ruth Mannes                             Dual Friend
           Collectors Circle                  Tish Beitzel and Robert              Jill and Peter Kraus             Katherine and Brandon Barone        Pina and Louis Manzone                  David Bedell
           Elena Adams                         Vredenburgh                         Jennifer and John Labriola       Meredith and Michael Bergmann       Teresa McManus and Brian                Claudia Caffuzzi and Thomas
           Georgia and Charlie Adams          Betsy and Alfred Bergman             Emily and Michael Leighton       Marnie Berk and Jon Silvan           Truskowski                              Flory
           Sabeth and Aaron Albert            Eve Biddle and Josh Frankel          Carol LeWitt                     Susan Betterly                      John McNamara                           Elizabeth Cogan
           Carol and Dave Foster              David Black                          Christine and Philip Lodewick    Sarah and Mark Blandford            Leigh Montville                         Anne Cox and John Koster
           Sunny and Brad Goldberg            Tiffany Black                        Allison and Stuart Meyler        Susie and Wessel Boshoff            Caroline and David Moore                Nina and David Diefenbach
           Helena Hernmarck                   Christine Bosco                      Annie Milligan                   Jennifer and Ken Caron              Joanna and Charles Moschos              Peter Diefenbach and Michael
           Nancy Jacobowitz                   Elena Bowes and Ken McPhail          Norma and Sheldon Minkowitz      Becky and Matt Carpenter            Adelaide and George Mueller              Caravetta
           Sacha Janke and Andrew             Gretchen and Lance Bylow             Richard Mumby                    Jen Cilia                           Francine Normann                        Michele Ellerin-Diefenbach and
            McCormack                         Melinda and Brian Carroll            Anita and Arnold Newman          Amanda and Robert Cordano           Elizabeth and David Nowak                E. Michael Diefenbach
           Dawn Learsy                        Mariah Chase                         Elizabeth and Edward O’Reilly    Amanda Curtin and Jonathan          Katherine and William Nowak             Lauren Festa
           Raymond Learsy                     Bobbi and Barry Coller               Frances and Wallace Palmer        Winn                               Marnie and John Olson                   Sara Gooyandeh
           Susie and Gary Singer              Audrey Conrad                        James Perakis                    Melissa DeMeo and Christopher       Eliot and Will Patty                    Mary and Jim Himes
           Sara and Joshua Slocum             Petah Coyne and Lamar Hall           Robin and John Phillips           Belden                             Amy Piantaggini                         Lesley and Kevin Lambton
           Audrey and Richard Zinman          Patricia and Wayne Devoe             Linda Pilgrim                    Jennifer and Arny DiLaura           Roberta Poretta                         Erika Long and Mark Braithwaite
                                              Robert E. Diefenbach                 Jean and Jim Prusko              Elizabeth and Alfred DiMaio         Cynthia Quell Puches and Emory          Caitlin Mulkeen
           Collaborators Circle               Jeff Dreiblatt                       Kim and Andrew Purcell           Hans Dorsinville                      Puches                                Jean Nadell
           Lori and John Berisford            Ashlea Ebeling and Craig Bloom       Sue and Alan Ravitz              Lori Cochran Dougall                Shira and Allen Purkiss                 Barbara O’Shea
           Emily Corrigan                     Elizabeth Essner                     Madeleine K. Rudin               Meta Ann and David Ela              Kristin Quell-Garguilo and Mike         Maize Pelusio
           Amanda Dranow                      Catherine and Michael Farello        Scott Sanders                    Ruth and Rich Feldman                 Garguilo                              Mary Pytko

22   REPORT OF GIFTS–MEMBERS                                                                                                                                                                 REPORT OF GIFTS–MEMBERS               2325
Report of                                                                                                          Highlights
           Gifts–Members                                                                                                      from 2020
           Jessica and Briggs Tobin           Ursula and Kenneth Olsen          Peter Colwell
           Cathy Vanaria and Mark Savoia      Lois and Richard Pace             Kimberly England
           Maria Vanoni and Richard Heyman    Steven Paggioli and Olaf Soltau   Bonnie and Tom Figgatt
           Juliana Han Witt and Jared Witt    Wendy Roseberry and Brian         Barbara and Michael Fisher
                                               Whelan                           Edward Fleischli
           Library                            Linda Rost and Diederik van       Matty and Andrew Fruchtman
           Brewster Public Library              Renesse                         April Garston
           Danbury Public Library             Pamela Salvatore                  Charles Geiger
           Ferguson Public Library            Eliza Shanley-Carone and James    Anne Giroux
           Kent Public Library                  Carone                          Mary Harold
           Lewisboro Library                  Meryl and Henry Silverstein       Joseph Heyman
           Mahopac Public Library             Melinda and Donald Weber          Debra Keiser
           Mark Twain Library                 Lois and Gilbert Weingarten       Elaine Kelemen
           Ossining Public Library            Susan and Alan Winsor             Diane Kerner
           Poughkeepsie Public Library                                          Niki and Jeffrey Ketchman
           The Pound Ridge Library            Friend                            Wanda Kosinski
           Southbury Public Library           Paula Burton                      Jane Lubin and Riaz Lalani
           Westport Public Library            Nicole Carney                     Ann Magnin and Michael Stein
           Wilton Public Library              Jane and Charles Crawford         Cindy Mahan
                                              Robert Diefenbach Jr.             Ann and Thomas Maher
           Dual Senior                        Monica Johnson                    Meryl Marcus
           Kathy and John Abbott              Nicholas Lechich                  Cynthia Mas
           Laura and Elliott Agisim           Claudia Menezes                   Bonnie Mausolf
           Pamela Arciero and A. Stephen      Robert Nixon                      Virginia McDonald
             Lanza                            Elayne Prince                     Mary McGowan
           Susan Ault and Peter Authier       Claire and Cotten Seiler          Meredith Mulhearn
           Lynn and Vincent Balzano           Katherine Sokol                   Randi Nussbaum
           Mary and Donald Bostwick           Ursula Tan                        Roseann Press
           Cyndy and Tim Byrnes                                                 Ronald Rendell
           Deborah Carlson and Errol Antzis   Artist, Educator, Senior,         Karen Royce
           Linda and John Costa               Student                           James Russell
           Marjorie and Bill Davidson         Susan Abken                       Christie Salomon
           Karin and Christopher Fallon       Lewis Andrews                     Robin Simon
           James Featherstone                 Lynne Aubert                      Janet Slom
           Susan and David Frail              Mitchell Banks                    Karen Stewart
           Helen and William Gore             Nina and Richard Bentley          Debra Teitsworth
           William Gratz and James Bruno      Thomas Biederer                   Dana Tolbert
           Sally and Frank Greene             Eleanor Blake                     Kathleen Trestka
           Phylllis Hattis                    Michael Boodro                    Viviana Tul
           Susan Kelley and William Roy       Lucienne Buckner                  Debra Turkat                   Visitor in Rudy Shepherd: Somebody’s
           Susan and Lawrence Lapine          Art Caplan                        Dawn Watson                    Child, The Aldrich Contemporary Art
                                                                                                               Museum, July 18 to November 29, 2020,
           Kathy Lynch and Jonathan Clapp     Darby Cardonsky                   Diane Wendel                   Photo: Claire Ritz

           Helen Mills and Gary Tannenbaum    Erika Chamberlain                 Molly Williams                 Visitors in Genesis Belanger: Through
                                                                                                               the Eye of a Needle, The Aldrich
           Kathleen and Robert Moriarty       Donna and Nicolas Cheftel         Dolores York                   Contemporary Art Museum, September 21,
                                                                                                               2020 to May 9, 2021, Photos: Claire Ritz
           Marsha and George Nichols          Naomi Clark

24   REPORT OF GIFTS–MEMBERS                                                                                                                              IN THE GALLERIES   2527
In an
                                     The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum           Participating Artist List
                                     was profoundly impacted by the
                                     COVID-19 pandemic, with significant           Huma Bhabha
                                     losses to critical revenue streams. As a

     Instant:
                                                                                   Janet Biggs
                                     virtual fundraiser, the Museum launched       Sebastiaan Bremer
                                     In an Instant: Polaroids for The Aldrich,     David Brooks
                                     from July 6 to 13, 2020 on a dedicated        Marti Cormand

     Polaroids
                                     microsite, where over two dozen artists       Petah Coyne
                                     created new work to sustain the Museum        Michael De Feo
                                     in its mission of serving emerging and        Jeanne Finley
                                     under-recognized artists.                     Kate Gilmore

     for The
                                                                                   Jessica Jackson Hutchins
                                     The Museum sent thirty-one artists            Lisa Kereszi
                                     Polaroid cameras and asked them to            Joyce Kozloff
                                     return eight photographs each. The artists    Michelle Lopez

     Aldrich
                                     responded with glorious creativity, making    Anissa Mack
                                     work that was fun, serious, moving, and       Suzanne McClelland
                                     provocative. The works for sale were made     Richard McGuire
                                     within the constraints of the Polaroid        Sean Mellyn
                                     medium and their working spaces while         Jason Middlebrook
                                     sheltering in place. Each work was priced     David Opdyke
                                     at $175, unframed.                            Frank Poor
                                                                                   Hayal Pozanti
                                     In solidarity with the movement to end        Peggy Preheim
                                     systemic racism and in recognition of         Rosamond Purcell
                                     the crucial importance of Black artists       David Scanavino
                                     to a vibrant and healthy arts community,      Michelle Segre
                                     The Aldrich contributed $5,000 from In        Alyson Shotz
                                     an Instant to Black Art Futures Fund, a       Tony Tasset
                                     philanthropic fund that supports Black arts   Penelope Umbrico
                                     organizations.                                Cheryl Van Hooven
                                                                                   Allan Wexler
                                                                                   B. Wurtz
                                                                                                                         (left)
                                                                                                                         Michael De Feo
                                                                                                                         Untitled, June 11, 2020
                                                                                                                         Courtesy of the artist

                                                                                                                         (top, bottom)
                                                                                                                         B. Wurtz
                                                                                                                         Untitled, 2020
                                                                                                                         Courtesy of the artist and Metro
                                                                                                                         Pictures, New York

                                                                                                                         Hayal Pozanti
                                                                                                                         23 (KAMGU) – IN THE GARDEN, June 8, 2020
                                                                                                                         Courtesy of the artist and Jessica
                                                                                                                         Silverman Gallery

26   IN AN INSTANT: POLAROIDS FOR THE ALDRICH                                                              IN AN INSTANT: POLAROIDS FOR THE ALDRICH                 27
2020
                                              At the beginning of 2020, we were               performance, and the audio plays employ
                                              preparing numerous live performances,           humor and time-travel to activate ongoing
                                              talks, and workshops with exhibiting            social and political debates over racism,

     Public
                                              artists and museum educators, offering          fascism, and gender equality, featuring
                                              our audience opportunities to connect,          local historical figures including women’s
                                              learn, and find inspiration. Artist Risa        suffragist Alice Paul and former Connecticut

     Programs
                                              Puno joined our award-winning Common            NAACP President William Webb.
                                              Ground program, a museum/classroom-
                                              based artist residency for middle school        Other new commissioned artist projects
                                              students. In March, Madeline Hollander’s

     and
                                                                                              include the participatory ILSSA Ballot
                                              performance Your Move was presented             for Twenty Twenty, by Emily Larned
                                              to an intimate audience in the Museum’s         and Bridget Elmer, and Scores for the
                                              galleries on the occasion of Eva LeWitt’s       Stars, by Ander Mikalson. These projects

     Education
                                              solo exhibition Untitled (Mesh A-J), and on     mark a shift for Aldrich Education, as
                                              the eve of impending pandemic closures.         we expand our support for artists and
                                                                                              increase audience participation. Our latest
                                              Later in March, we pivoted all of our public    initiative is the Aldrich Care Box, inspired
                                              programming online, launching free              by isolation, social distancing, and video
     By Namulen Bayarsaihan,                  family programs including mindfulness,          fatigue, prompting us to commission
                                              poetry, and tours, as well as Aldrich-at-       new tactile works from five artists around
     Director of Education                    Home activities for free download. We           themes of care and grief. A limited edition
                                              re-imagined our adult programs virtually,       of five boxes are offered for temporary
                                              including conversations with exhibiting         circulation to the public in 2021, extending
                                              artists, curators, and staff. We held limited   a unique opportunity to handle works of
                                              in-person programs outdoors, including          contemporary art in the comfort of home.
                                              a live performance by Weather Report
                                              artist Sean Salstrom and a two-part             As museum educators, we are committed
                                              concert series in the Sculpture Garden          to building empathy and incorporating
                                              in collaboration with the Ridgefield            anti-racist, inclusive, socially-responsible
                                              Symphony Orchestra. The Aldrich Teen            practices both personally and
                                              Fellows continued to meet virtually each        professionally. We take this opportunity
                                              week, creating collaborative projects,          to thank our team of remarkable educators
                                              including a ‘zine, video interview, film        for transforming our public programming
     (top to bottom)                          presentation and more, all inspired by the      during this unprecedented time, as well as
     Child holding artwork                    exhibitions on view.                            the artists, schools, community partners
     Aldrich Teen Fellows
                                                                                              who share in this work, and our wonderful
     Madeline Hollander, Your Move,           The Teen Fellows also co-wrote and              participating audience.
     performed on March 12, 2020, in Eva
     LeWitt’s Untitled (Mesh A–J) (site-      performed in the final episode of Hindsight
     specific installation view, detail),
     2019, The Aldrich Contemporary Art       is, a three-part dramatic podcast series
     Museum, October 6, 2019 to August 23,
     2020, Courtesy of the artist and VI,     we commissioned from Piti Theatre Co.,
     VII, Oslo, Photo: Emily Devoe
                                              alongside the Twenty Twenty exhibition.
     Emily Larned and Bridget Elmer: ILSSA
     Ballot for Twenty Twenty (installation   The podcast format was a clever
     view), November 3, 2020 to March 14,
     2021, Photo: Claire Ritz                 response to COVID-19 limitations on live

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Staff Listing

Cybele Maylone,             Fundraising and             Will Landowne
Executive Director         The Year
                            Membership
                            Betty Stolpen Weiner
                                                        Jack O’Neill
                                                        Tessa Rosenstein
Education                  In Review
                            Director of Development     Hannah Hurricane
Namulen Bayarsaihan         Kris Honeycutt               Sanchez
Director of Education       Head of Membership
Lorena Sferlazza             and Annual Giving          Museum Guides
Education Assistant         Jamie Pearl                 Susie Buckley
                            Head of Special Events      Lisa Canter
Exhibitions                  and Rentals                Dayne Encarnaction
Richard Klein                                           Brenda Finkel
Exhibitions Director        Marketing and               Carole Glaser
Amy Smith-Stewart           Communications              Barb Jennes
Senior Curator              Emily Devoe                 Holly Lapine
Mary Kenealy                Director of Marketing and   Cecilia Moy-Fradet
Registrar                    Communications             Angela Rountos
Chris Manning               Gretchen Kraus
Head of Exhibitions and     Design Director             Teaching Artists
 Facilities                 Claire Ritz                 Oasa DuVerney
Caitlin Monachino           Digital Media Assistant     Risa Puno
Curatorial Assistant and                                Zoë Sheehan Saldaña
 Publications Manager       Visitor Services
Barbara Toplin              Claudia Lonkin              Educators
Volunteer Archivist         Visitor Experience          Jennifer Chun
                             Coordinator                Justin Christopher
Finance                     Brianna Halek                 Carafotes
Jacqueline Duke             Visitor Experience          Alanna Fagan
Director of Finance and      Assistant                  Hilary Nordholm
 Administration                                         Alissa Siegal
Jen Wieland                 Museum Attendants           Anabel Siegal
Accountant                  Debby Carideo               Lisa Scroggins
                            Sarah Carideo
                            Haley Conde
                            Jack Coyle
                            Betsy Davidson
                            Seamus Edson
                            Suzane Filipe
                            Christine Flannery
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