FAN’S 25th Annual Meeting
Funding Art Network’s Annual Meeting and Grant Awards Presentation was held on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 1:00 pm EST on ZOOM. We awarded a total of $230,000 in grants for 21 programs which brings the total of funds awarded by FAN to over $5 million dollars.
FAN’S Presents March 16 2021, Russell Thomas: From Miami to the Met and Beyond .
A conversation led by Renee Rotta, Tanglewood Marketing Coordinator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
To quote the Wall Street Journal, “A voice that marries Wagnerian stamina and Italianate beauty.” The New York Times describes it as “a gorgeously burnished power.”Please join us to learn of Russell’s journey from his native Miami to the Metropolitan Opera and beyond.
FAN’S Presents February 2021 featured Threading the Needle: Live Theater in the Time of COVID
The first two COVID-compliant and Actors’ Equity approved staged productions in the US triumphed in the Berkshires last summer, navigating through shifting social distancing protocols, rapidly changing lockdown mandates, and Hurricane Isaias.
Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director of Barrington Stage Company, and Kate Maguire, Artistic Director and CEO of Berkshire Theatre Group, have battle-tested wisdom and remarkable stories to tell about how they pulled it off and what it all means for their art form, field and community. A conversation led by Deborah Margol.
FAN’S January 2021 Membership Meeting and 25th Anniversary Kick Off Celebration featured Xavier Cortada speaking about Sea Level Rise: How Art and Science Intersect.
Xavier Cortada is an artist and professor of practice at the University of Miami Department of Art and Art History. Over the past three decades, the Cuban-American artist has created art at the North and South poles and across 6 continents, including more than 75 public artworks and dozens of installations, collaborative murals and socially engaged projects.
The crux of Cortada’s work finds itself rooted in a deep conceptual engagement of his participants. Particularly environmentally focused, the work Cortada develops is intended to generate awareness and action towards issues of global climate change.
Learn more about Xavier and his work at www.cortada.com
FAN Members Create
December 15, 2020
Lea Lane, Author
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Listen to Lea Lane Podcast: Places I Remember | Travel Talk with Lea Lane
FAN Members Create: Book Presentation with Helene Berger
November 18, 2020
FAN Members Create
October 22, 2020
The Tuesday Memoir Group, An Anthology
Co-Authored by Jo Anne Bander, Rachel Blechman, Marian Del Vecchio, Joy Malakoff, Tamara Nixon & Judith Wurtman.
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FAN’S Virtual Event October 20, 2020 featured Lourdes Lopez
An evening with Lourdes Lopez, Artistic Directors of Miami City Ballet discussing MCB’s reimagined 35th Anniversary Season, including upcoming digital commissions. She was joined by soloist dancer Samantha Hope Galler.
Lourdes Lopez was born in Havana and raised in Miami. After studying dance at the School of American Ballet, she became Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet where she danced for George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. After her retirement, she joined WNBC-TV as a cultural arts reporter and taught at New York’s Ballet Academy East and at Barnard College. In 2002, she became the executive director of the George Balanchine Foundation and in 2007, she co-founded Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company with Christopher Wheeldon. She also co-founded the Cuban Artists Fund and then, in 2007, she was named artistic director of the Miami City Ballet. In 2014, she joined the board of the Ford Foundation and serves on The Kennedy Center Honors artist committee.
FAN Members Create
September 29, 2020
Marilyn Holifield, Author
Seven Sisters and a Brother, Friendship, Resistance and the Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960’s.
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