Please join us for a spectacular evening in celebration and support of the museum's stellar exhibitions, film series, and programs. We are pleased to announce that this year we will be honoring UC Berkeley and Bay Area treasures, Sharon and Barclay Simpson. The night will include cocktails and delicious fare, with a sneak preview of the exhibition Create and many surprises.
Click here to visit the event page, see the auction items, and download an Absentee Bid form.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in the BAM/PFA Galleries
6 p.m. Cocktails and Exhibition Viewing
7:30 p.m. Dinner, Live Auction, and Surprises
Tecoah Bruce, Gala Chair
Ann Perrin, Gala Co-Chair
BAM/PFA would like to thank committee members for their generous support. We could not do it without you!
See the list of Gala Committee Members
HONORARY COMMITTEE
Paul Cortese
Carla & David Crane
Janet & William Cronk
Lois De Domenico
Wanda Kownacki &
John Holton
Penelope & Noel Nellis
Rosalyn M. Laudati &
James B. Pick
Joan Roebuck
Mary Jo & Arthur Shartsis
Roselyne Swig
Jean Wente
HOST COMMITTEE
Nancy & Joachim Bechtle
Rena Bransten
Tecoah & Thomas Bruce
Rochelle & Lorne Buchman
Hilary & Daniel Goldstine
Jane & Jeffrey Green
Florence & Leo Helzel
Maryellen & Frank Herringer
Catherine & James Koshland
Naomie & Charles Kremer
Yijing Zhu & Eric Li
Ann & Marc Perrin
Penelope Cooper &
Rena Rosenwasser
PATRON COMMITTEE
Allese & Simon Baker
Linda & James Boessenecker
Janice & Thomas Boyce
Catherine Coates
Carole & Robert Edelstein
Judith & Paul Gray
Katherine & Charles Greenberg
Nancy & Steven Oliver
Adolph Rosekrans
Judith & Bill Timken
Bobbi & Herb Wiltsek
Sheryl & Robert Wong
Christina Maslach &
Philip Zimbardo
FRIEND COMMITTEE
Kati & John Casida
June & Earl Cheit
Ann Hatch & Paul Discoe
Jacquelynn Baas & Rob Elder
Lawrence Rinder
Create will feature the work of over twenty Bay Area artists working in diverse media-including Attilio Crescenti, Judith Scott, William Scott, James Miles, John Patrick McKenzie, Evelyn Reyes, and Dan Miller-who have been associated with the three foremost centers for artists with developmental disabilities in the United States: San Francisco's Creativity Explored, Oakland's Creative Growth Art Center, and Richmond's National Institute of Art and Disabilities (NIAD). Create! will be the first exhibition to present work created in all three studios over the past twenty years and to consider how these remarkable artistic communities have promoted the creation of highly individual works and fostered the growth of these extraordinary artists.
Find out more about Create
Curated by Lawrence Rinder, director of BAM/PFA, with Matthew Higgs, director of White Columns, New York City, Create will highlight the exceptional work (including painting, sculpture, and works on paper) of over twenty artists. Though they developed independently, Creative Growth, Creativity Explored, and NIAD were all founded by a visionary couple, painter Florence Katz and psychologist Elias Katz. Among the first centers in the United States to focus on the creative practice of people with developmental disabilities, these institutions grew out of, and continue to thrive within, a particularly progressive social and political climate.
List of artists:
Mary Belknap
Jeremy Burleson
Attilio Crescenti
Daniel Green
Willie Harris
Carl Hendrickson
Michael Bernard Loggins
Dwight Mackintosh
John Patrick McKenzie
James Miles
Dan Miller
James Montgomery
Marlon Mullen
Bertha Otoya
Aurie Ramirez
Evelyn Reyes
Lance Rivers
Judith Scott
William Scott
William Tyler
Create will be on view at BAM/PFA from May 11 to September 25, 2011.
Create is curated by Lawrence Rinder, with Matthew Higgs, and has been made possible in part by Dr. James B. Pick and Dr. Rosalyn M. Laudati, and the continued support of the BAM/PFA Trustees.
For more information, please contact Sara Sackner at ssackner@berkeley.edu or (510) 643-2194.
Above: Evelyn Reyes, Carrots, 2009; oil pastel on paper; 11 15/16 x 16 3/8 in.; courtesy of the artist and Creativity Explored, San Francisco.
