Museum of Performance & Design
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The Museum of Performance & Design, formerly the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, is located in San Francisco, California
in the historic War Memorial Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Avenue. The Museum collects and makes accessible, free of charge, materials about the performing arts
, with a special emphasis on documenting and preserving the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich and diverse performing arts heritage from the Gold Rush
to the present. The museum produces exhibitions, lectures, presentations and artist conversations as well as providing conservation and archival services to performing arts institutions; and initiating youth education programs. The Museum's collections include original artwork, costumes and other artifacts. The Museum also houses the archives of many local performing arts organizations, such as the San Francisco Ballet
and San Francisco Opera
, as well as the Stern Grove Festival
, the Ethnic Dance Festival, Pickle Family Circus
, and The Lamplighters.
in the 1940s and 1950s, searched second-hand shops, traveled to Europe to purchase dance artifacts, and in 1947, established the San Francisco Dance Archives. As the collection grew, it expanded to include all of the performing arts, and in 1975 moved into a branch of the San Francisco public library system as the Archives for the Performing Arts. In 1983, the growing collection was moved to the Opera House, giving the collection 1000 square feet (92.9 m²) for storage. At his passing, Mr. Hartley bequeathed his collection to the Archives. At that time, a board was developed and 2 full-time professional staff laid the groundwork toward the creation of an institution.
In 1989 the collection was moved to a larger facility in the Civic Center area. The facility underwent extensive renovation to accommodate the collection, and at the same time the organization took a new name: the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum. The collection continued to grow and in 1999 the Performing Arts Library moved to its present home in the Veterans Building in the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
. This larger space better accommodated the growing collection, expanded staff and ever increasing number of researchers using the resources. It also enabled the Museum to exhibit the collection and to hold lectures, classes and special events.
On the occasion of its 60th anniversary in 2007, the organization changed its name to the Museum of Performance & Design to more accurately reflect the organization’s growing mission. Located in the Veterans Building in San Francisco’s Civic Center, the organization continues to collect, preserve, and make available to the public–free of charge–its collection of 3.5 million items and its programs documenting the diverse cultural legacy of the performing arts in California
and beyond.
The Museum of Performance & Design is an independent nonprofit organization that relies on a variety of funding sources, including memberships, corporate, foundation and individual gifts. It is also funded in part by the Grants for the Arts program of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts
.
exhibitions. Along with a current exhibition, the museum offers a variety of permanent exhibitions in the hallway galleries along with ancillary exhibitions created by special guest curators. Permanent exhibitions include: "Maestro, Photographic Portraits by Tom Zimberoff",
"San Francisco Stage 1900", "San Francisco in Song", "Stars of the Early San Francisco Stage" and "150 Years of Dance in California".
Previous exhibitions include Enrico Banducci's
hungry i
: San Francisco's Legendary Nightclub (March - September 2007), In Character: Actors Acting (September 2006 - February 2007), Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era (February - August 2006), Irving Berlin's
Show Business: Broadway (July - December 2005), Painted Men: Chinese Opera
Backstage (March - June 2005), Madame Butterfly: From Puccini to Miss Saigon
(September 2004 - January 2005), America's Dance Treasures: The First 100 (February - May 2004), Kronos @ 30: Thirty Years of Kronos Quartet
(January - June 2003), Hirschfeld
: A Centennial Celebration. Treasures from the Hirschfeld Archive (July - December 2003) and With a Song in His Heart: A Celebration of Richard Rodgers
(April - September 2002).
, plays and libretti, radio interviews, videotapes, musical theater recordings, the Legacy Oral History program, theatrical design research materials, costume and set designs, personal papers of performers and patrons, as well as the archives of several local organizations. An online catalog contains a portion of the materials available at the Museum of Performance & Design Performing Arts Library. The Library is open to the public free of charge.
Archives:
The Library serves as the official archives for several of the areas most significant performing arts organizations past and present including: Grants for the Arts, Lamplighters, Loring Club, Merola Opera Program, Pickle Family Circus
, San Francisco Ballet
, San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, San Francisco Municipal Chorus, San Francisco Musical Club, San Francisco Opera
, Stern Grove Festival
, and others.
Reference Collection:
The reference collection includes published materials that support core subject areas in Special Collections, the Museum’s exhibitions, and existing major holdings such as sheet music and musical theater.
Special Collections:
The special collections include materials which document individuals, productions, organizations, and/or genres significant to performing arts in California, with particular emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area. This includes the biographical files on individual actors, dancers, musicians, composers, conductors, choreographers, singers and other performing artists who have performed in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush
to the present, personal papers of performers, patrons, and creators including Lew Christensen
and Gisella Caccialanza, Phil Elwood, Alexander Fried, Anna Halprin
, Calvin Simmons, Michael Smuin
, and Gladys Swarthout
, and others, theater film archives of theater performances in the Bay Area from the mid-80’s to the present including ACT, Berkeley Repertory, San Jose Repertory, American Musical Theater of San Jose, 42nd Street Moon
, California Shakespeare Festival, and others and the photographic collections including Kurt Herbert Adler
, Lillian Bauer, Donald Coney, Thomas Curran, Edgar Foster Daniels, Harry Jew, Katherine Kahrs, Chester Kessler, Henri McDowell, Bob McLeod, Robert Millard, John Morrissey
, Alexander Murray, Ida Nevis, Ira Nowinski
, Ron Scherl, Bernard Taper, Enid Thompson, Tom Zimberoff, Chris Wahlberg, Max Waldman, Wylie Wong, and others.
Theatrical Design Research Collection: contains more than 10,000 books, periodicals, fashion plates, hand-colored engravings and 35 volumes of postcards documenting centuries of theatrical costumes, theater architecture, set and costume design, masks, and fashion and clothing ranging from Japanese kimono to African tribal dress, including the work of Boris Aronson
, Cecil Beaton
, Eugene Berman
, Stewart Chaney, Elizabeth Dalton, Iris de Luce, Judith Dolan, Julian Dove, Raul Du Bois, Roger Furse, Howard Greer
, Russell Hartley, Jesse Hollis, Eiko Ishioka
, Romaine Johnston, Willa Kim
, Peter Larkin, Oliver Messel
, Beni Montresor
, William Pitkin
, Peter Rice
, Douglas Russell
, Irene Sharaff
, Antonio Sotomayor, Jose Varona, Tony Walton
, Walter Watson, and others.
(2005), Gordon Getty
(2006), and Diane B. Wilsey (2007).
The 2008 recipients were Mr & Mrs. George F. Jewett, Jr., philanthropists to a wide variety of institutions, including the San Francisco Ballet
, Museum of Performance & Design, San Francisco Symphony
, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
. The Luncheon May 1, 2008 was held at the Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco. Honorary Co-Chairs were Chris and Warren Hellman
, the Patron Committee Co-Chairs were June Lilienthal and Therese Post, and the event’s General Chair was Toby Rose.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
in the historic War Memorial Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Avenue. The Museum collects and makes accessible, free of charge, materials about the performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
, with a special emphasis on documenting and preserving the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich and diverse performing arts heritage from the Gold Rush
Gold rush
A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area that has had a dramatic discovery of gold. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere.In the 19th and early...
to the present. The museum produces exhibitions, lectures, presentations and artist conversations as well as providing conservation and archival services to performing arts institutions; and initiating youth education programs. The Museum's collections include original artwork, costumes and other artifacts. The Museum also houses the archives of many local performing arts organizations, such as the San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet
The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
and San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...
, as well as the Stern Grove Festival
Stern Grove Festival
Established in 1938, the Stern Grove Festival is an admission-free series of performing arts events held during the summer months at the Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove, a eucalyptus-wooded natural amphitheater on a site at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard, about two miles south of Golden Gate Park...
, the Ethnic Dance Festival, Pickle Family Circus
Pickle Family Circus
The Pickle Family Circus was a small circus founded in 1974 in San Francisco, California, USA. The circus formed an important part of the renewal of the American circus. They also influenced the creation of Cirque du Soleil in Montreal...
, and The Lamplighters.
Mission
The mission of the Museum of Performance & Design is to educate people of all ages about the impact and value of the performing arts in their lives through exhibitions, programming, and research. In addition the Museum collects, preserves, and makes accessible performance and design materials that reflect our diverse culture.History
More than sixty years ago, Russell Hartley started a private collection in his home with the purpose of collecting and preserving material documenting the history of dance. Mr. Hartley, who was both a dancer and costume designer for the San Francisco BalletSan Francisco Ballet
The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
in the 1940s and 1950s, searched second-hand shops, traveled to Europe to purchase dance artifacts, and in 1947, established the San Francisco Dance Archives. As the collection grew, it expanded to include all of the performing arts, and in 1975 moved into a branch of the San Francisco public library system as the Archives for the Performing Arts. In 1983, the growing collection was moved to the Opera House, giving the collection 1000 square feet (92.9 m²) for storage. At his passing, Mr. Hartley bequeathed his collection to the Archives. At that time, a board was developed and 2 full-time professional staff laid the groundwork toward the creation of an institution.
In 1989 the collection was moved to a larger facility in the Civic Center area. The facility underwent extensive renovation to accommodate the collection, and at the same time the organization took a new name: the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum. The collection continued to grow and in 1999 the Performing Arts Library moved to its present home in the Veterans Building in the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center is located in San Francisco, California, and is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. It covers three hectares in San Francisco's Civic Center Historic District with 7,500 seats in its several venues...
. This larger space better accommodated the growing collection, expanded staff and ever increasing number of researchers using the resources. It also enabled the Museum to exhibit the collection and to hold lectures, classes and special events.
On the occasion of its 60th anniversary in 2007, the organization changed its name to the Museum of Performance & Design to more accurately reflect the organization’s growing mission. Located in the Veterans Building in San Francisco’s Civic Center, the organization continues to collect, preserve, and make available to the public–free of charge–its collection of 3.5 million items and its programs documenting the diverse cultural legacy of the performing arts in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
and beyond.
The Museum of Performance & Design is an independent nonprofit organization that relies on a variety of funding sources, including memberships, corporate, foundation and individual gifts. It is also funded in part by the Grants for the Arts program of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
.
Exhibitions
The museum gallery opened its doors in March 2008 with a new 2000 sq ft (185.8 m²) space dedicated to performing artsPerforming arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
exhibitions. Along with a current exhibition, the museum offers a variety of permanent exhibitions in the hallway galleries along with ancillary exhibitions created by special guest curators. Permanent exhibitions include: "Maestro, Photographic Portraits by Tom Zimberoff",
"San Francisco Stage 1900", "San Francisco in Song", "Stars of the Early San Francisco Stage" and "150 Years of Dance in California".
Previous exhibitions include Enrico Banducci's
Enrico Banducci
Enrico Banducci was an American impresario. Banducci operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were...
hungry i
Hungry i
The hungry i was originally a nightclub in North Beach, San Francisco. It was launched by Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, who sold it to Enrico Banducci in 1950.-The name:How the club's name came about is something of a mystery...
: San Francisco's Legendary Nightclub (March - September 2007), In Character: Actors Acting (September 2006 - February 2007), Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era (February - August 2006), Irving Berlin's
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
Show Business: Broadway (July - December 2005), Painted Men: Chinese Opera
Chinese opera
Chinese opera is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back as far as the third century CE...
Backstage (March - June 2005), Madame Butterfly: From Puccini to Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...
(September 2004 - January 2005), America's Dance Treasures: The First 100 (February - May 2004), Kronos @ 30: Thirty Years of Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan...
(January - June 2003), Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld
Albert "Al" Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist best known for his simple black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.-Personal life:Born in St...
: A Centennial Celebration. Treasures from the Hirschfeld Archive (July - December 2003) and With a Song in His Heart: A Celebration of Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
(April - September 2002).
Performing Arts Library
The Museum of Performance & Design Performing Arts Library is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making available to the public materials documenting a broad spectrum of the live performing arts and theatrical design. The more than three million items in the Archives, Reference Collection, Special Collections, and Theatrical Design Collection include books, periodicals, playbills, clippings, photographs, posters, sheet musicSheet music
Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols; like its analogs—books, pamphlets, etc.—the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens...
, plays and libretti, radio interviews, videotapes, musical theater recordings, the Legacy Oral History program, theatrical design research materials, costume and set designs, personal papers of performers and patrons, as well as the archives of several local organizations. An online catalog contains a portion of the materials available at the Museum of Performance & Design Performing Arts Library. The Library is open to the public free of charge.
Archives:
The Library serves as the official archives for several of the areas most significant performing arts organizations past and present including: Grants for the Arts, Lamplighters, Loring Club, Merola Opera Program, Pickle Family Circus
Pickle Family Circus
The Pickle Family Circus was a small circus founded in 1974 in San Francisco, California, USA. The circus formed an important part of the renewal of the American circus. They also influenced the creation of Cirque du Soleil in Montreal...
, San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet
The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
, San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, San Francisco Municipal Chorus, San Francisco Musical Club, San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...
, Stern Grove Festival
Stern Grove Festival
Established in 1938, the Stern Grove Festival is an admission-free series of performing arts events held during the summer months at the Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove, a eucalyptus-wooded natural amphitheater on a site at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard, about two miles south of Golden Gate Park...
, and others.
Reference Collection:
The reference collection includes published materials that support core subject areas in Special Collections, the Museum’s exhibitions, and existing major holdings such as sheet music and musical theater.
Special Collections:
The special collections include materials which document individuals, productions, organizations, and/or genres significant to performing arts in California, with particular emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area. This includes the biographical files on individual actors, dancers, musicians, composers, conductors, choreographers, singers and other performing artists who have performed in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush
Gold rush
A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area that has had a dramatic discovery of gold. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere.In the 19th and early...
to the present, personal papers of performers, patrons, and creators including Lew Christensen
Lew Christensen
Lewellyn Farr "Lew" Christensen was a ballet dancer, choreographer and director for many companies. He was largely associated with George Balanchine and the San Francisco Ballet, which he directed from 1952–1984...
and Gisella Caccialanza, Phil Elwood, Alexander Fried, Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin helped pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as the breaker of modern dance. Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Robert Morris, collaborated and built a community based...
, Calvin Simmons, Michael Smuin
Michael Smuin
Michael Smuin was a ballet dancer, choreographer and theatre director. He was co-founder and director of his own dance company, the Smuin Ballet in San Francisco.-Biography:...
, and Gladys Swarthout
Gladys Swarthout
Gladys Swarthout was an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.-Career:...
, and others, theater film archives of theater performances in the Bay Area from the mid-80’s to the present including ACT, Berkeley Repertory, San Jose Repertory, American Musical Theater of San Jose, 42nd Street Moon
42nd Street Moon
42nd Street Moon is a professional theatre company in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in the preservation and presentation of early and lesser-known works by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern,...
, California Shakespeare Festival, and others and the photographic collections including Kurt Herbert Adler
Kurt Herbert Adler
Kurt Herbert Adler was an Austrian-born American conductor and opera house director.Adler was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family. His work in the field of music led him to become the assistant to Arturo Toscanini at the Salzburg Festival in 1936 and he also worked in Italy...
, Lillian Bauer, Donald Coney, Thomas Curran, Edgar Foster Daniels, Harry Jew, Katherine Kahrs, Chester Kessler, Henri McDowell, Bob McLeod, Robert Millard, John Morrissey
John Morrissey
John Morrissey , also known as Old Smoke, was an Irish bare-knuckle boxer and a gang member in New York in the 1850s and later became a Democratic State Senator and U.S. Congressman from New York, backed by Tammany Hall...
, Alexander Murray, Ida Nevis, Ira Nowinski
Ira Nowinski
Ira Nowinksi is an award-winning photographer. Nowinski earned a Master of Fine Art's degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973. From the late 1970s through the early 1980s, Nowinski served as the official photographer of the San Francisco Opera...
, Ron Scherl, Bernard Taper, Enid Thompson, Tom Zimberoff, Chris Wahlberg, Max Waldman, Wylie Wong, and others.
Theatrical Design Research Collection: contains more than 10,000 books, periodicals, fashion plates, hand-colored engravings and 35 volumes of postcards documenting centuries of theatrical costumes, theater architecture, set and costume design, masks, and fashion and clothing ranging from Japanese kimono to African tribal dress, including the work of Boris Aronson
Boris Aronson
Boris Aronson was an American scenic designer for Broadway and Yiddish theatre. He won the Tony Award for Scenic Design six times in his career.-Biography:...
, Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre...
, Eugene Berman
Eugène Berman
Eugène Berman and his brother Leonid Berman were Russian Neo-romantic painters and theater and opera designers.-Early years:Born in Russia, they fled the Russian revolution in 1918...
, Stewart Chaney, Elizabeth Dalton, Iris de Luce, Judith Dolan, Julian Dove, Raul Du Bois, Roger Furse, Howard Greer
Howard Greer
Howard Greer was a Hollywood fashion designer and a costume designer in the Golden Age of American cinema....
, Russell Hartley, Jesse Hollis, Eiko Ishioka
Eiko Ishioka
is an Oscar-winning costume designer, known for her work in stage, screen, advertising, and print media, and has been called "Japan’s leading art director and graphic designer," though she now works primarily in New York City....
, Romaine Johnston, Willa Kim
Willa Kim
Willa Kim is an American costume designer for stage, dance, and film.Kim was born in Los Angeles, California and is a 1935 graduate of Belmont High School where she excelled in art and was an art editor for the 1935 Campanile...
, Peter Larkin, Oliver Messel
Oliver Messel
Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel was an English artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century....
, Beni Montresor
Beni Montresor
Beni Montresor was a versatile Italian artist, opera and film director, set designer, author and children's book illustrator. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1965 for May I Bring a Friend?...
, William Pitkin
William Pitkin
William Pitkin was a colonial governor of the Connecticut Colony. Born to a politically prominent family in Hartford, he was first elected to the colonial assembly in 1728, where he served through 1734, the last two years as speaker of the house...
, Peter Rice
Peter Rice
Peter Rice was an Irish structural engineer.Born in 52 Brigid Street, Dundalk in County Louth, he spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk, and the villages of Gyles' Quay and Inniskeen. He was educated at the Queen's University of Belfast where he received his primary degree, and spent a...
, Douglas Russell
Douglas Russell
Douglas Albert Russell is an Olympic Champion butterfly swimmer from the United States, who won the first ever gold medal in the men's 100m butterfly - an event which made its debut at the 1968 Summer Olympics...
, Irene Sharaff
Irene Sharaff
Irene Sharaff was an American costume designer for stage and screen. Her work earned her five Academy Awards and a Tony Award.- Background :...
, Antonio Sotomayor, Jose Varona, Tony Walton
Tony Walton
Tony Walton is an English set and costume designer.Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noel Coward's Broadway production of Conversation Piece. Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s he designed for the New...
, Walter Watson, and others.
San Francisco Arts Medallion
The San Francisco Arts Medallion was created by the Museum, in 2005, to recognize those individuals whose leadership, actions, and generosity have benefited the cultural life of the Bay Area, especially in the performing arts. Recipients of the San Francisco Arts Medallion include Stanlee GattiStanlee Gatti
Stanley Ray Gatti , San Francisco's "resident creative genius," is among the first Americans to practice event design as visual art, and one of the best-known event planners in the country.- Origins :...
(2005), Gordon Getty
Gordon Getty
Gordon Peter Getty was born on December 20, 1934. He is the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's third wife. When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$2 billion trust...
(2006), and Diane B. Wilsey (2007).
The 2008 recipients were Mr & Mrs. George F. Jewett, Jr., philanthropists to a wide variety of institutions, including the San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet
The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
, Museum of Performance & Design, San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony
The San Francisco Symphony is an orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980, the orchestra has performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus are part of the organization...
, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
. The Luncheon May 1, 2008 was held at the Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco. Honorary Co-Chairs were Chris and Warren Hellman
Warren Hellman
F. Warren Hellman is a private equity investor and co-founder of Hellman & Friedman, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm...
, the Patron Committee Co-Chairs were June Lilienthal and Therese Post, and the event’s General Chair was Toby Rose.
Articles
- Gereben, Janos. "Arts Archive Boasts New Look." San Francisco Examiner
- Howard, Rachel. "S.F. Ballet's corps in awe of alumni." San Francisco Chronicle
- Kossman, Joshua. "Performing Arts Library In New Home, Seeking Boss." San Francisco Gate
- Rubin, Sylvia. "Arts Library Director Named." San Francisco Gate
- Upton, John. "Performing arts museum may raise curtain on new location." San Francisco Examiner
- Workman, Bill. "S.F. Arts Library Embraces American Musicals Collection." San Francisco Gate