Inside Out Issue 3

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CROSS PURPOSES a fresh look at THE ARTS OF THE MISSIONS

inspired install ations MICHAEL C. MCmillen’ s riveting retrospective

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s we ring in the holidays and a season rich with cultural traditions, we also reflect on the amazing year we’ve had at the Oakland Museum of California. The past few months have been ones of great activity, and plans are under way for the next phase of our transformation, which includes the reinvention of our Gallery of California Natural Sciences and new education facilities. You’ll find a review of our activities in the enclosed annual report, and we hope you’ll take great pride in what you have helped make possible at OMCA through your valued support.

In the coming months, we will turn our attention to California’s cultural heritage. Our next major exhibition— Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest: The Arts of the Missions of Northern New Spain, 1600–1821—will offer visitors a rare opportunity to see the extraordinary artworks and artifacts from the missions of California, the Southwest United States, and northern Mexico. We are the only California venue for this international exhibition, and we are providing a companion presentation of contemporary work that reflects current spiritual discourse.

Finally, we will explore the influence of personal custom and heritage in the work of artist Michael C. McMillen.

Drawing on his background in set design, McMillen creates installations that become magical worlds in their own right.

You won’t need to wait for the exhibition’s opening this spring to witness the wonder of his work, as visitors can see the installation in progress, beginning in late January.

On behalf of the staff and Board of OMCA, we wish you a happy holiday season and look forward to celebrating our shared cultural traditions with you in 2011!

Lori Fogarty Executive Director

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We are also delighted to continue our annual Lunar New Year Celebration, an intergenerational celebration highlighting the practices of New Year festivities in various Asian cultures. And, as has been our institutional practice, we recognize the history of African American cultures through programs that extend for more than just one month’s worth of commemoration.

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Articles of Faith

Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest is a stunning exhibition of rare artworks made by and for the missions of northern New Spain. Plus: Contemporary artists grapple with similar themes—colonialism, conversion, culture clash—in a special companion show organized by OMCA.

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Annual Report July 2008–June 2010

During a period of significant transformation, OMCA has redefined what it means to be an engaged and relevant museum today.

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16 38 Million Stories

Looking for unique gifts this holiday season? OMCA can help.

An exciting collaboration between Cal State East Bay and OMCA gives students a historic opportunity.

5 Gallery News Updates, acquisitions, and a behind-the-scenes look at the renovation of the Gallery of California Natural Sciences.

6 Special Events OMCA’s upcoming programs celebrate the cultural traditions of our diverse communities.

17 Member Spotlight Life is an adventure—especially if you belong to all three Museum guilds.

18 Calendar A guide to OMCA’s exhibitions, events, and programs.

14 Thought Leaders Chief Curator of Art Philip Linhares speaks with acclaimed installation artist Michael C. McMillen about his new fortyyear survey retrospective, Train of Thought.

The Story of California. The Story of You.

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Editor: Kelly A. Koski

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Presents of Mind We make holiday shopping easy this season, with inspired selections at the OMCA Store and the gift of Museum membership The OMCA Store offers a trove of unusual treasures for all members of the family. Here are a few items for your shopping list: Jewelry: Look for gorgeous new pieces by local designers Vanessa Mellet (who created the necklace pictured above), Lauren Wolf, and Mark Poulin.

Books: Check out the companion books to OMCA’s latest exhibitions: PIXAR: 25 Years of Animation and The Marvelous Museum: A Project by Mark Dion.

Special-edition prints: To commemorate The Marvelous Museum exhibition, artist Mark Dion has created a limited-edition etching, Giraffe (left). Available framed or unframed.

Just for kids: The younger set will enjoy scribbling on Modern Twist’s washable placemats or playing with recycled fire trucks from Bay Area Green Toys.

Something for everyone: The OMCA Store gift card, available in any amount.

Give the Gift of OMCA Celebrate this festive time of year by sharing your enthusiasm for OMCA. Membership to the Museum is a unique gift that gives those you care about an all-access pass to California art, history, and natural sciences. Recipients receive a membership welcome packet and a greeting card with your special message.

And we have a gift for you, too! Receive an Is It Art? mug or OMCA water canteen—yours free when you give the gift of OMCA. Visit museumca.org/membership for details.

Opening Season Sponsors:

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Gallery Ne ws

The Gallery of California Art In the coming months visitors to the Gallery of California Art will see several changes, as new acquisitions are exhibited and artwork is rotated. Among the upcoming highlights are a tall chest by sculptor John Cederquist and new works in the Edwards Family f.64 Photography Gallery. And later this spring, visitors can expect to see exciting changes in both the Dorothea Lange Gallery and the Society of Six installation.

The Gallery of California History Visitors will get an up close look at the art of moviemaking when the History Gallery presents its new interactive exhibit, Creative Hollywood. For those who’ve ever wondered what it’s like to design a costume, animate a film, or add sound effects to movies, this is a notto-be-missed opportunity. Creative Hollywood will also feature a collection of rare movie posters, including a 1948 stock sheet designed to promote Warner Bros. cartoons, in which Bugs Bunny is depicted as an animator drawing the Looney Tunes gang.

What’s more, the Gallery will offer a second interactive exhibit, entitled Story Studio, in which visitors can record and share their California stories.The History Department has also recently acquired several new works, including a collection of clothing, ephemera, publications, and photographs from the Minuteman Project, a controversial movement that patrols the U.S. border with Mexico to prevent illegal immigration.

The Gallery of California Natural Sciences Though not due to reopen until 2012, the Gallery of California Natural Sciences is buzzing with activity. In addition to the challenges of de-installing the Gallery so that demolition and new construction can begin, the Natural Sciences team is busy formulating and prototyping innovative ways to tell the story of California’s biological diversity.

But visitors don’t have to wait until 2012 to get a taste of OMCA’s Natural Sciences collection. Beginning in August, the Museum’s Great Hall will be home to A Walk in the Wild: Continuing John Muir’s Journey, a major interdisciplinary exhibition celebrating the life and work of the great naturalist. On display will be some of Muir’s field notes, sketches, and items he picked up during his travels throughout California, as well as views of “modern-day Muirs,” naturalists and adventurers who are exploring and helping to preserve the state.

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Making Changes OMCA’s galleries are continually being reenergized with new works and ideas. Plus a sneak peek at a new show celebrating the great naturalist John Muir.

Clockwise from top left: Photograph by Steven Joseph, Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 2009; a 1948 Warner Bros. poster; John Cederquist, Auntie Macasser Goes West, 1984.

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Action and Interaction

OMCA celebrates California’s diversity with an engaging series of programs and events

Honoring African American history Speaking with Carolee Smith, OMCA’s history interpretive specialist, it’s impossible to ignore her overflowing enthusiasm for honoring black history at the Museum. “This year, we have an overarching theme to give Black History Month real legs,” she says. “We’re centering it on the ideas of resilience, resistance, and renewal in terms of the black experience in California.”

The celebration kicks off with a special Family Explorations! event called “The Art of Storytelling: From MLK to Obama” on January 16. For more details on OMCA’s Black History Month programming, which runs from January 16 through the end of February, visit museumca.org.

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O Zone comes into its own Last fall, the Museum launched O Zone, a series of after-hours events that offer a stimulating fusion of ideas, performances, and revelry. Music, dancing, guest authors and artists, and gallery tours have made these Friday happenings a smash success—and have established the Museum as the ultimate “zone” in downtown Oakland for intellectual inspiration and social celebration.

This year’s final O Zone, on December 10, is about the art of giving, from partnering with Toys for Tots to making creative gifts. The evening will include a talk by a Pixar artist and a screening of WALL•E. Dancers and music lovers will enjoy live performances as well as OMCA’s new “Make Your Move” program, which invites visitors to explore movement as a way to enhance experiencing art in the galleries—a body-mind connection exercise, led by former San Francisco Ballet Principal Dancer Muriel Maffre, that is sure to bring out your creativity!

In February, OMCA ushers in a new era of quarterly O Zones. The February event—which will have extended hours until midnight—honors Black History Month with “Soundtrack: The Drum.” Exploring the instrument’s role in African American music and beyond, the evening will be an over-the-top celebration of irresistible rhythms.

And don’t miss a sneak peek of Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest, before it opens to the public the next day.

O Zone takes place on December 10 from 5 to 9 p.m. and February 25 from 5 p.m. to midnight. For more information, visit museumca.org.

A pan-Asian new year One of OMCA’s most popular events, the Lunar New Year Celebration, returns on February 13 for its tenth year at the Museum. The festival attracts thousands of visitors each year, says OMCA Family Programs Coordinator Snowy Tung, who calls the event “a demonstration of what’s at the heart of our mission.”

Lunar New Year is a revered time for numerous East and Southeast Asian peoples. Chinese, Korean, and Japanese practices are among the cultural traditions to be spotlighted at this year’s event. Taiko drumming performances, martial arts exhibitions, storytelling, and a lion dance—“to bring good luck,” says Tung—will keep kids, families, and friends entertained and informed throughout the afternoon.

OMCA’s Asian Pacific Advisory Council—made up of representatives from local Asian communities—helps shape the celebration’s intercultural emphasis. Council members advise on important customs in their communities as well as the most relevant types of programming.

“Our goal is to explore connections between diverse Asian cultures and their contributions to the Californian and American mosaics,” says Tung.

The Lunar New Year Celebration and Other Asian Traditions family day will take place on February 13, from noon to 4:30 p.m.

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Faith With the aim of converting indigenous peoples to Roman Catholicism,

the missions of northern New Spain were filled with splendors—and fraught with conflict.

A new exhibition of historic artworks illuminates the tensions, traditions, and talents behind the mission enterprise.

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Opening spread: Luis de Mena, Virgin of Light with Native Devotees, 1769–1772. This spread, clockwise from above: Cristóbal de Villalpando, The Mystical City of God, 1706; José de Mota, Our Lady of Joys, 1711; Anonymous, Virgin of Loreto, mid-18th century; Anonymous, Chumash, Basketry Bowl with Heraldic Designs, early 19th century.

It’s the rare Californian who hasn’t visited at least one of the state’s Spanish colonial missions or studied them in school. When Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest: The Arts of the Missions of Northern New Spain, 1600–1821 opens in the Oakland Museum of California’s Great Hall on February 26, audiences will have an unprecedented opportunity to explore the larger cultural and historical context in which the rich, expressive arts of those missions developed.

“Although many aspects of the history of the missions have been studied, very little attention has been paid to the paintings, sculptures, and other objects that were sent to the missions or made there during the Spanish period,” says curator Clara Bargellini, Ph.D., of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Bargellini spent more than ten years planning the exhibition with curator Michael Komanecky, Ph.D., of the Farnsworth Art Museum, under the auspices of Mexico City’s Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, in collaboration with four other institutions.

Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest includes more than 110 objects drawn from collections and religious institutions in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. It is the first exhibition to bring together artworks from all the regions of northern New Spain, an area that included not only present-day California but also Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and Florida, as well as the Mexican states of Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora, Durango, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Baja California.

From the time Hernán Cortés captured Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in 1521 and members of religious orders began arriving in New Spain, conversion to Roman Catholicism was central to the goals of colonization. The

Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest opened at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in 2009 and traveled to the San Antonio Museum of Art, Puebla’s Museo Amparo, and the Centro Cultural de Tijuana before arriving at OMCA, its final stop. The show will remain open through May 29.

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mission enterprise proceeded in three phases. “Franciscan friars took part in the first Spanish expeditions northward from Mexico City, and before the end of the century they had established missions in New Mexico,” explains Bargellini. “In 1591, the Jesuits reached Sinaloa on the Pacific Coast and began the establishment of a mission system that would eventually reach the Northwest Territories. When the Jesuits were expelled in 1767, the Franciscans remained as practically the only missionaries in the North.” During the final stage of mission work, these Franciscan friars, led by Fray Junípero Serra, founded the twentyone missions of Alta California between 1769 and 1823.

The shadow cast by the fraught relationship between the Spanish colonizers and the indigenous peoples they sought to convert underlies the exhibition. Some of the oldest objects in the show are maps and studies—often produced by the missionaries—of Native languages and cultures. In the California missions in particular, Native artisanship was especially present, and indigenous techniques such as basketry, wood, and shell work from the California missions survive today.

Much of the other work in the exhibition was created by fine artists in Mexico City, by master craftsmen in the different

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Opposite page, top: Joseph Rubio, Antiphonal (Choir Book), c. 1800. Bottom (and on cover): Anonymous, probably Chumash, Tabernacle, 1789.

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Artists reinterpret the legacy of the Spanish conquest + Half a millennium has passed since

Above: Alma Lopez, Our Lady, 1999. Right: Ester Hernandez, Wanted, 2010.

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the Spanish conquest of California, but its indelible impact continues to inspire and provoke contemporary artists and thinkers.

To illuminate contemporary perspectives on this highly charged subject, OMCA is presenting a companion installation to Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest, in which artists offer new takes on age-old themes, legacies, and iconographies.

“The Spanish conquest is not a simple history, and it’s not a dead time period,” says Louise Pubols, chief curator of history. “This show is our way of bringing the story forward. Some visitors may find certain works difficult or unsettling, but as a museum, we need to be a safe place where people can ask unsafe questions.”

Many of the artists in the contemporary section are self-identified Chicanos and Native Californians. Their work is deliberately provocative and searingly relevant, such as a new print by Ester Hernandez that depicts the Virgin of

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Guadalupe as a terrorist wanted for giving aid to illegal immigrants. Other featured artists include Alma Lopez, Marian Martinez, and Harry Fonseca.

“Some of the artwork is critical, and some is devotional,” says Drew Johnson, associate curator of photography, who organized the exhibit. “Our goal is to offer divergent points of view, as a kind of coda to Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest.”

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regions of the missions, by artisans in Europe and Asia, and by the missionaries themselves. Paintings and sculptures of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and various martyrs were central images inside the mission churches and were believed to have protective, mystical powers. Rich liturgical vestments and ceremonial objects of valuable materials such as silver were used in the mass and other religious rituals. As the mission enterprise grew, so too did the splendor of the altarpieces and other objects used in the missions; the level of monumentality and complexity reached its apex in some of the churches of Alta California.

“Art is about how individuals express themselves within cultural traditions—for themselves and for others,” says Bargellini. “The missions were contested ground in many different ways, and the art produced in or for them can help us understand what different people—missionaries, colonists, and different indigenous groups— may have been feeling and thinking at the time the missions were established and continued to function.”

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The Missions in Context The shadow cast by the fraught relationship between THE spanish colonizers and the indigenous peoples they sought to convert underlies the exhibition.

This exhibit was originally organized by the Mandato Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso. The Mandato Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso receives financial support and is composed of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CNCA), and the Gobierno del Distrito Federal (GDF). The organizers and museum participants express their deepest appreciation to CNCA, the UNAM, the INAH, and the INBA for their generous collaboration. Furthermore, the organizers recognize the valuable support provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, which is dedicated to promoting the exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States for national and international audiences.

By recognizing the importance of experiencing original works of art, the foundation provides opportunities for interaction and study, beginning with the introduction and growth of its own art collection in Chicago. To continue the cross-cultural dialogue over American Art, the foundation supports and collaborates on innovative exhibitions, as well as investigative and educational programs. Inherent in these activities is the conviction that art has the potential, at the same time, to distinguish and unite cultures. Additional support for the project came from the United States Embassy in Mexico and the UNAM-PAPYT. This exhibition has been made possible locally by generous grants from the Goldsbury Foundation, the William and Salomé Scanlan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional support came from Myfe White Moore. The Oakland Museum of California presentation is made possible in part by generous support from the Oakland Museum Women’s Board and the OMCA History Guild.

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After viewing Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest, visitors may be curious to learn more about the Spaniards’ enormous impact on California. A visit to the Gallery of California History, which offers a wealth of contextual information, will answer many of their questions.

For example, The Spaniards Take This Land, an interactive exhibit in the Gallery, engages visitors to learn about the diversity of things and ideas the Spanish brought with them to California.

There is information on the many physical items they introduced, including plants, animals, and crafts, as well as explanations of how the Spanish influenced law, economics, and religion. The Gallery also features many artifacts from the mission era, including portraits, weapons, tools, and maps.

“One thing that visitors often find very intriguing is our large map of the Spanish empire,” says Louise Pubols, chief curator of history. “The map puts California in a global context. And many people realize for the first time that California was only a small part of a much larger empire.”

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A Conversation With Michael C. MCMillen

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MM: Absolutely. I grew up in Santa Monica, and my father was a scenic artist in Hollywood. I learned how to construct things by watching him. Later, I got into film work, too, as a model maker. I made props and miniature sets for various films, including Blade Runner and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

PL: In this issue, we are exploring cultural traditions, and it seems that your work has been influenced by the tradition of the Hollywood film industry.

PL: How did you get interested in creating installations?

MM: As a kid, one of my favorite things was to find old radios and other discarded equipment. I’d deconstruct them and build fantasy machines to play with. I always felt that given the right context forgotten things have a whole new life waiting for them. I guess you could say I was a recycler before it was fashionable.

I also had a really powerful experience in 1957, when I was 11. My grandmother, my father, and I took the train cross-country. I had never traveled before, and it opened my eyes. To this day, I still draw inspirations from that trip. At the end of the trip, we went to Coney Island, and

hen Michael C. McMillen: Train of Thought opens in the Gallery of California Art this April, it will be a major milestone in the longtime collaboration between the artist, Michael C. McMillen, and curator, Philip Linhares. McMillen, a visual artist known for his profoundly evocative installations, and Linhares, OMCA’s chief curator of art, met more than three decades ago—and have partnered on many exhibitions and adventures ever since. Their latest joint effort, Train of Thought (parts of which will be on view as early as January), is a retrospective survey of forty years of McMillen’s work, featuring installations, sculptures, paintings, drawings, miniatures, and films. Here, Linhares asks McMillen about the traditions that inform his extraordinary creations.

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The acclaimed installation artist discusses his passion for creating transformative and engrossing experiences

From left: Artist Michael C. McMillen, Lighthouse (Hotel New Empire), 2010. Below: Train of Thought, 1990.

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between the larger pieces, you’ve worked on smaller sculptures, paintings, even miniature tableaux.

MM: Full-scale installations are very labor intensive. They take a lot of time and space and are hard to place, so I couldn’t do them all the time. Thus, I started playing with those wide-angle lenses you put into doors, and I realized that I could create the illusion of a whole room in a tiny space. By changing the optics, I could subvert the viewer’s sense of scale. I was condensing the space, but viewers still felt they could enter into the piece.

I remember seeing sensational tableaux, outrageous depictions of famous murders, with red enamel paint for blood. I was fascinated by the power of these strange and disturbing displays. Years later, I tapped into that source as a legitimate way of conveying feelings to an audience.

PL: What attracts you to the tableau format?

MM: I love the way it immerses viewers with all their senses.

My goal has always been to create an altered sense of reality. I want viewers to come away from the experience seeing the world in a slightly different way.

PL: We met in 1975, when I invited you to show at the San Francisco Art Institute. I believe our third show together was in 1991, when we installed Pavilion of Rain and other works right here at OMCA. MM: That was one of my favorite shows. It came together very harmoniously. In room after room, there were different things to encounter and think about.

PL: And now we will be reinstalling Pavilion of Rain at OMCA as part of this retrospective survey of your career. I’m hoping that the children who came to see it in 1991 will be parents now, and they’ll bring their kids to see it.

MM: And I’m hoping these kids will drag their parents back to see it again, so they can keep reexperiencing it.

PL: Could you describe your first big piece, The Traveling Mystery Museum?

MM: I wanted to make a piece that was like one of those absurd, homemade roadside museums, a place way off the radar. So, I included things like a bottle of water from the Titanic’s iceberg. I showed evidence of a Japanese invasion of Oregon. I had a fortune-telling mouse who read tarot cards for a nickel. Actually, it was the mummified remains of a mouse in an antique-looking gumball machine, and it was labeled “Out of Order.” Another absurd display.

PL: That piece was the beginning of a series of largescale installations—Inner City, Central Meridian, Aristotle’s Cage—all the way up to your latest one, Lighthouse, in which a derelict building, like a faded old hotel you might find in Brighton, hovers over a pool of water, with films projected on a billboard. And in

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Public History 101 Cal State East Bay students score high marks for creating an OMCA exhibit—and advancing the Museum’s tradition of community engagement

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“Cal State East Bay’s relationship with the Museum has grown into incredible cuttingedge scholarship.

It’s a new frontier in museum studies and just works fabulously.”

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in-win propositions may be rare, but the story about the fruitful collaboration between California State University East Bay and OMCA in creating the Cultures in Contact exhibit is exactly that sort of tale.

Just ask Linda L. Ivey, Ph.D., assistant professor of history at the Hayward campus and its coordinator of public history and internships. After participating in one of the Museum’s community feedback sessions prior to the Gallery of California History’s recent reopening, she “pitched the idea of having the course work for an entire class directed toward a project for the Museum,” says Ivey. “I had students that needed practical experience. The Museum needed researchers from California’s diverse communities. It’s a perfect fit.”

The project kicked off in the fall of 2008. Professor Ivey wove the collaboration into her Introduction to Public History class. Students conducted research and worked with Ivey and Adam Nilsen, OMCA’s project liaison, to develop exhibit proposals. The budding historians recorded interviews, recommended artifacts, and wrote related term papers. The resulting exhibit—a component of the still-evolving Gallery of California History—is slated to open in 2011.

From OMCA’s perspective, the collaboration has enlivened the Gallery of California History with a new level of community engagement.

From the point of view of Cal State East Bay and its public history students, the experience has advanced academic acumen and interest—and even résumés. (A student, Dorothea Crosbie-Taylor, landed a job at OMCA, first as an exhibit assistant and now as the community liaison.) “We’re showing students that scholarship is about real-world and everyday experience,” says Ivey. “They realize that their own families, their own stories, are history makers. It brings history alive.”

Indeed, the project has been so successful that the initiative is now expanding to other Cal State campuses, thanks to a grant awarded to OMCA by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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N Guild by Association

For Nona Hungate, an OMCA membership is just the beginning of her involvement with the Museum

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ona Hungate has always been an early adopter.

You’ll find a ZENN electric vehicle in her driveway, and she trained programmers on two of IBM’s earlier computers in the late ’60s. So, is it any surprise that she’s been a member of OMCA since the very beginning?

“I lived in Berkeley when the Museum opened in 1969,” says Hungate, who studied philosophy at Cal at the time. “I joined right away.”

After college, Hungate pursued the budding field of computer science, followed by a career teaching math and interdisciplinary studies at Chabot College. When she retired, in 1998, Hungate remained as active as ever, performing with the Berkeley Chorus and eventually turning her focus back to OMCA. She wasted little time getting involved, first as a Natural Sciences docent, then with the Museum guilds.

“I knew that the Art, History, and Natural Science Guilds

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support the Museum,” she says.

“So, I wanted to try them all out.”

In addition to meeting fellow guild members who share her interests, Hungate enjoyed many outings, such as visiting Point Richmond’s Hotel Mac with the History Guild, a trip to Italy with the Art Guild, and an adventure in Trinidad and Tobago with the Natural Sciences Guild.

Hungate has always loved the arts—she’s dabbled in watercolors and stained glass—and that passion has led her to explore not just the wonders of California, but around the world. “Art is an important part of life,” she says. “After all, where would we be without beauty?”

In recognition of the role OMCA and the Museum guilds play in her life, Hungate became a Heritage Society member, listing the Museum as a beneficiary in her will.

“It’s great to have a museum that celebrates California,” she says.

“And Oakland is a wonderful place for it to be.”

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exhibitions, events, and programs December Dec. 10 • O Zone: Re-Gifting Hear artists who worked on Pixar’s WALL•E, and watch the film. Dance to live music and do your holiday shopping at the OMCA Store. All ages welcome.

5–9 p.m.

Dec. 12 • Storytelling at the Chevron History Hangout Learn about holiday traditions from around the world. For kids five to twelve years old. 1–3 p.m.

Dec. 19 • Family Explorations!

You’ve Got a Friend in Us Join a workshop with Pixar’s Matthew Luhn, and learn about the making of the Toy Story films. Watch Pixar shorts, and enjoy music and dance. Made possible by Chevron. 12–4 p.m.

January Jan. 7 • Gallery Talk Featuring artist David Best.

6:30–7:30 p.m.

Jan. 14 • Gallery Talk Featuring artist James Melchert. 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Jan. 16 • Family Explorations!

The Art of Storytelling: From Martin Luther King Jr. to President Obama Celebrate Dr. King’s birthday with storytellers and musicians. Made possible by Chevron. 1–4 p.m.

Jan. 20 • Lecture Associate Curator of Aquatic Biology Christopher Richard speaks about the mysterious waterways of San Francisco, past and present. 12:30 p.m.

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Jan. 21 • Gallery Talk Featuring artist Mike Henderson. 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Jan. 22 • Member Appreciation Day Museum-wide event celebrating members. 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

Jan. 24 • California Leader Lunch Donor Forum members are invited to a special lunch with visionary architect Craig Hartman. 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

Jan. 28 • Gallery Talk Featuring artist Carmen Lomas Garza. 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Jan. 30 • White Elephant Preview Sale Tickets to this special sale are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

333 Lancaster St., Oakland.

February Feb. 4 • Gallery Talk Featuring artist Amy Evans McClure. 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Feb. 11 • Gallery Talk Featuring artist M. Louise Stanley. 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Feb. 13 • Lunar New Year Celebration and Other Asian Traditions Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with activities that reflect diverse Asian New Year traditions.

Presented with DEAF Media.

12–4:30 p.m.

Feb. 18 • Gallery Talk Featuring artist Squeak Carnwath. 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Give the Gift of OMCA

White Elephant Preview Sale

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Purchase online, by phone (510-238-6614), or at OMCA. For more details, visit museumca.org/membership.

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January 30, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

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Left: Anonymous, Pieta, early 18th century.

L ef t t o ri g h t : Gre g Habib y I ma g es ; S eminario A r q uidiocesano , C h i h ua h ua , C h i h ua h ua [ C N C A - D G S M P C ]

Feb. 24 • Exhibition Preview/ Reception Donor Forum members are invited to preview Splendors of Faith/ Scars of Conquest. 6–8 p.m.

Feb. 25 • O Zone: Soundtrack—The Drum Enjoy programs that beat the drum of the African diaspora, and get a sneak preview of Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest. 5 p.m.–12 a.m.

Feb. 26 • Exhibition Preview Members are invited to preview Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest. 9–11 a.m.

Feb. 26 • Splendors of Faith/ Scars of Conquest: The Arts of the Missions of Northern New Spain, 1600–1821 Through May 29.

Feb. 27 • California Futures: Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest Contemporary reflections of the

Spanish conquest. Join us for lively discourse and a special musical event. 2–4 p.m.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

OMCA Highlight Tours Fridays and Saturdays at 1 p.m.

March

PIXAR: 25 Years of Animation Through Jan. 9.

Docent Tours of the Gallery of California Art Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Mar. 5–6 • White Elephant Sale Proceeds from this huge sale, sponsored by the Oakland Museum Women’s Board, support OMCA’s exhibitions and programs. 333 Lancaster St., Oakland. Free shuttle from Fruitvale BART. Free. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Visit whiteelephantsale.org.

Pencil to Pixel Explore contemporary animation in this off-site show at the Oakland Airport. Through Feb. 11.

Docent Tours of the Gallery of California History Sundays at 3 p.m.

Mar. 20 • Family Explorations!

Discover California in the Art and History Galleries. Bring the family for an interactive program that encourages creativity. 1–4 p.m.

Architecture Tours by the Council on Architecture First Sunday of every month at 1 p.m.

The Marvelous Museum: A Project by Mark Dion Through Mar. 6.

Note that events and programs are subject to change. For updated listings, please visit museumca.org.

ONGOING EVENTS

Mar. 26 • Member Morning Members-only viewing and tour of Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest. 9–11 a.m.

Toy Story: Giving the Gift of Play OMCA and other Bay Area museums have partnered with Toys for Tots to help our communities this holiday season. Make a difference in someone’s life by dropping off your toy donation at the Museum.

Donations accepted through December 20. For more information, visit museumca.org.

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Tuesday

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Thursday

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Friday

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t is with great pleasure that I write to you as chair of the board of the Oakland Museum of California Foundation to report on the activities of the Museum for the past two fiscal years: July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009, and July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010.

This has been a period of significant transformation for the Museum, as we have renovated and reinstalled the Galleries of California Art and California History, commenced de-installation and redesign of our Gallery of California Natural Sciences, revamped public spaces to enhance the visitor experience, learned new ways to engage the public in galleries that inspire inquiry and hands-on involvement, and created new programs to reach our broad and diverse audiences. And we have done all of this while remaining open to the public for a majority of the two years.

We could not have accomplished such achievements without the assistance of so many and their belief in our mission and dedication to our future. In particular I want to acknowledge Congresswoman Barbara Lee for her faithful support and Mayor Ron Dellums, the Oakland City Council, and the Oakland City Administration, who share in the governance and support of the Museum.

My colleagues on the Oakland Museum of California Foundation board of trustees have also demonstrated their support and leadership of the institution by their enthusiastic engagement throughout the community.

But most of all, I want to thank you for making the Oakland Museum of California your museum.

Lance A. Gyorfi Chair, Board of Trustees

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When we started the process of the physical transformation of OMCA in 2008, we didn’t know that the world would be facing the impending economic upheaval that would have such a terrible impact on so many individuals and institutions. I am proud to say that through your generous support and OMCA’s sound fiscal management, we ended both fiscal year 2009 and 2010 with a surplus, while raising an incredible $62.2 million toward the Museum of California Campaign for the renovation and reinstallation of our facilities and galleries. Of that goal, $35 million came from private support from more than 1,500 individuals and institutions throughout California.

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Recent OMCA shows explored timely, fascinating, and diverse subjects, appealing to all Californians

Engaging Exhibitions

t o p t o bo t t om : J ulius S h ulman P h o t ogra p h y A rc h ive , R esearc h L ibrar y a t t h e G e t t y R esearc h I ns t i t u t e ; M . L ee F a t h erree

Julius Shulman, Case Study House No. 21 (Pierre Koenig, architect, Los Angeles), 1958.

Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury May–August 2008 This special exhibition, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art, featured a jazz lounge, video programming, a period art gallery of hardedge abstract paintings, photography, and an interactive timeline that highlighted culture and history in the 1950s. Birth of the Cool examined the dynamic community of artists who overlapped and interacted in Southern California at midcentury—including Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, and Helen Lundeberg.

Cool Remixed: Bay Area Urban Art + Culture Now May–August 2008 This exhibition continued the conversation about what’s “cool” by putting a contemporary spin on the Birth of the Cool exhibition. Featuring graffiti, DJ LeiLizZle, lounges, street fashion, scraper bikes, video, and skate culture, the exhibition included multimedia artwork that incorporated everything

from sneakers to car hoods. Museum curators worked with students and local artists to sample and mix today’s art, music, design, fashion, and culture.

ranger William C. Tweed celebrated the beauty of our national parks while sounding an alarm about the threat of environmental degradation.

L.A. PAINT October 2008–March 2009 A survey of sixty works by eleven artists who reflect the diversity of style, medium, and content in current Southern California painting. Chief Curator of Art Phil Linhares traveled 1,500 miles through the Southland to select representative artists.

Culture Chronicles: Student Collages April–August 2009 Students from Oakland High’s Visual Arts Academy presented mixedmedia collages reflecting diverse cultural heritages.

Evolution of a Sacred Space: Días de los Muertos 2008 October–December 2008 The 2008 Días de los Muertos exhibition, guest curated by Fernando Hernández, explored the traditions used to honor the dead in this Mesoamerican practice. More than forty people from the East Bay Art Collaborative created unique boxes that became niches in a columbarium that Hernández constructed for the exhibition.

Future of Sequoias: Sustaining Parklands in the 21st Century February–August 2009 Panoramic photographs

by Jeff Jones and commentary by retired park

Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object April–August 2009 This survey of forty works from the past fifteen years reflected Squeak Carnwath’s groundbreaking artistry and stature as one of California’s leading artists. Her motifs reflect

personal and universal themes, with each meticulously applied layer of paint carrying meaning and inquiry.

The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present May–August 2009 This exhibition examined the overlooked history of African contributions to Mexican culture. In 1609, Yanga, an African leader, founded the first free African township in the Americas—almost a century after Africans first arrived in Mexico in 1519. The exhibition featured paintings, photographs, sculpture, masks, musical instruments, and other examples of art and popular culture.

Squeak Carnwath, In Pursuit of Happiness, 2000. Art ©Squeak Carnwath/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

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Programs for Everyone A sampling of OMCA’S many special events, which kept visitors of all ages and stages entertained and informed

Fifteenth Community Celebration for the Days of the Dead October 2008 Hands-on craft activities, demonstrations, music, dance, ceremonia, food vendors, and a mercado.

Fungus Fair December 2008 Presented by OMCA and the Mycological Society of San Francisco. Visitors saw hundreds of freshly gathered local specimens, tasted recipes from renowned local chefs, and learned to identify and prepare safe and savory species.

Martin Luther King Jr. Community Day: A King and an Emperor January 2009 The similarities between the lives of Dr. King and political activist, singer,

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and actor Paul Robeson were highlighted in a talk

by Paul Von Blum, senior lecturer in African American Studies at UCLA.

special welcome was extended to families with adopted, mixed-race, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender members.

Family Explorations!

Lunar New Year Celebration and Other Asian Traditions January 2009 Families joined OMCA for a fortune-filled event to welcome the Year of the Ox, with lion and dragon dancing, traditional music, dance, martial arts, arts and craft activities, and a New Year’s parade.

EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival April 2009 The juried 2009 EarthDance collection included twelve short films that celebrated the relationship between people and the natural world.

Members’ Preview PARTY! February 2009 Members caught a sneak peek of the exhibition Future of Sequoias: Sustaining Parklands in the 21st Century and met photographer Jeff Jones and writer William C. Tweed.

Family Explorations!

California Families March 2009 Participants enjoyed a day of hands-on activities, storytelling by folks from the Oakland Public Library, and more. A

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Up Close and Personal with Ben Jealous: Visions for America April 2009 Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of

Colored People, shared his vision for addressing California’s minority unemployment, job training, at-risk youth, and police brutality.

Fortieth Annual California Wildflower Show May 2009 Visitors stopped by the show to admire hundreds of freshly collected native flowers and hear from a variety of experts.

A Conversation with Squeak Carnwath May 2009 Squeak Carnwath and artist Carrie Lederer, curator of exhibitions and programs at the Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, conducted a lively conver-

sation about art and the creative process.

The African Presence in México Community Opening May 2009 Cascada de Flores presented “The Tree and the Donkey Who Wanted to Sing,” a story that embraces the indigenous, Spanish, and African roots in Mexican music and dance; the Diamano Coura West African Dance Company performed; and cocurator Cesáreo Moreno presented a slide show about the exhibition.

Yanga Celebration August 2009 The Museum celebrated

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First Fridays After Five August 2008 A monthly event, the First Fridays After Five (FFAF) blues and jazz summer series continued with curator talks, gallery tours, live music, film screenings, and post-film discussions.

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Milestones: A LOOK AT OMCA’S MANY CAUSES FOR CELEBRATION • Record numbers at the 2008 Days of the Dead celebration; attendance surpasses 5,000.

• School programs serve 43,000 in 2008–2009.

• National Endowment for the Humanities awards OMCA $300,000 for the Gallery of California History reinstallation, April 2009.

• Museum receives Kresge Foundation challenge grant of $1 million to finish the campaign, April 2009.

• James Irvine Foundation awards OMCA its second Artistic Innovations grant of $600,000, July 2009.

• Museum closes to the public on August 23, 2009, to complete its ambitious renovation.

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the African leader Yanga and his impact on black culture in Mexico with music, dance, and film screenings. Visitors enjoyed exciting performances by the West African Music and Dance Ensemble, Son de la Tierra, and Los Utrera.

The festive celebration was presented in collaboration with the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and the Consulate General of Mexico, and was sponsored by Volaris.

California Inside and Out: Member/Insider Open House April 2010 Members arrived early and stayed late for a memorable day of art, history, and entertainment, celebrating the reopening of OMCA.

Visitors were delighted by live music, performances, and hands-on family activities as they explored the dramatically reinvented Galleries of California Art and History, enjoyed delicacies from the Blue Oak café, and browsed the new OMCA Store.

Opening Celebration Weekend May 2010 The newly transformed OMCA opened May 1, with thirty-one hours of continuous, round-theclock free programs and events. The festivities began at 11 a.m. in front of the new Oak Street entrance with a Native American Ohlone blessing, a marching band, and more. The nonstop celebration continued until 6 p.m. the next day.

Saturday evening and

overnight activities took on a more adult flavor, with dancing, food, a no-host bar, flashlight tours, and conversations on unique California topics—merging into early morning yoga. On Sunday, families took in dancing, drumming, juggling, a performance by the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, and more.

Second Fridays!

June 2010 OMCA stayed open until 9 p.m., and hundreds of guests enjoyed live music and dancing, spotlights on the Galleries of California Art and History, family activities, an artist meetand-greet, and a no-host bar in the Blue Oak café.

• Art Wall goes up on 10th Street.

• New OMCA brand rollout.

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Museum awarded National Science Foundation grant of $2.5 million for reinstallation of Natural Sciences Gallery, September 2009.

• Campaign goal reached, April 2010.

• Reopening: 31 Hours for the 31st State, May 1 and 2, 2010.

• As the fiscal year comes to an end on June 30, 2010, OMCA plans for a major installation of PIXAR: 25 Years of Animation.

The exhibition includes artwork from such beloved films as Finding Nemo, WALL•E , Up, and Pixar’s latest film, Toy Story 3.

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Miscellaneous Investment income

Concessions Contributions, grants, and bequests

Realized and unrealized gains Concessions Membership dues

Exhibition rental, admission, and education fees

Oakland Museum of California Foundation and City of Oakland

Personnel

Membership and development

Other

City of Oakland

Consolidated Financial Statements

Public information and marketing

Building operations and maintenance

Guilds and councils

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Art acquisitions

Exhibitions and programs

2009/2010 REVENUES • Contributions, grants, and bequests — $13,536,219 • City of Oakland — $6,911,754 • Exhibition rental, admission, and education fees — $865,606 • Guilds and councils — $1,002,704 • Membership dues — $501,362 • Concessions — $178,520 • Realized and unrealized gains — $717,018 • Investment income — $256,285 • Miscellaneous — $70,622 • Total revenues — $24,040,090

2009/2010 EXPENSES • Personnel — $4,377,150 • Exhibitions and programs — $13,771,149 • Other — $1,707,488 • Building operations and maintenance — $2,534,604 • Membership and development — $1,192,544 • Public information and marketing — $670,009 • Concessions — $313,035 • Art acquisitions — $119,054 • Total expenses — $24,685,033

2009/2010 change in net assets — ($644,943) OMCA reached each fiscal year end with a slight operating surplus, and the change in net assets represents the continued expenses incurred with the capital renovation. The overall Board-designated and permanently restricted endowment increased by more than $1 million, and our unrestricted net assets increased by nearly $1.4 million by June 30, 2010. OMCA incurred these solid financial results due to significant capital gifts, another successful gala, and keeping expenses within original budgetary guidelines. Complete copies of the OMCA Foundation’s financial statements (audited by Armanino McKenna LLP) may be obtained from the Accounting or Development offices. —Mark D. Medeiros, Deputy Director/CFO

Investment income

Miscellaneous

Concessions Membership dues

Art acquisitions Contributions, grants, and bequests

Personnel

Membership and development

Guilds and councils Exhibition rental, admission, and education fees

Concessions Public information and marketing

Building operations and maintenance Other

City of Oakland Exhibitions and programs

2008/2009 REVENUES • Contributions, grants, and bequests — $6,771,942 • City of Oakland — $6,384,889 • Exhibition rental, admission, and education fees — $1,391,086 • Guilds and councils ­— $969,019 • Membership dues — $447,163 • Concessions — $290,045 • Realized and unrealized gains — ($804,520) • Investment income — $146,804 • Miscellaneous — $182,259 • Total revenues — $15,778,687

2008/2009 change in net assets — ($699,848)

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2008/2009 EXPENSES • Personnel — $4,334,045 • Exhibitions and programs — $6,109,593 • Other — $1,812,542 • Building operations and maintenance — $2,050,844 • Membership and development — $966,414 • Public information and marketing — $654,810 • Concessions — $351,321 • Art acquisitions — $198,966 • Total expenses ­— $16,478,535

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Left to right: Anonymous, Saltillo Serape, c. 1860; Kem Weber, Airline Armchair, 1934–35.

RECENT acquisitions: the museum’s art, history, and natural sciences collections include the following new additions: ART All of Us or None Archive Collection of more than 22,000 political posters assembled by the late Michael Rossman between 1977 and 2008.

Fractional and Promised Gift of the Rossman Family (dual acquisition made by Art and History departments).

Richard Misrach Untitled, 2007.

Pigment print.

Gift of the Oakland Museum Women’s Board.

Squeak Carnwath Trying to Know Lost, 1997.

Oil and alkyd on canvas.

Gift of Katherine Ruttenberg.

Kem Weber Airline Armchair, 1934–35.

Birch, ash, and vinyl.

Art Acquisition Fund.

Barry McGee Untitled, 2010. Mixed-media assemblage.

Art Deaccession Fund.

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Tony Labat Big Peace IV, 2008.

Steel, paint.

Purchased with funds from the Edith F. Bondi 1966 gift to the children of Oakland, to mark her first 25 years since her escape from tyranny to the United States of America, and the Art Deaccession Fund.

Sam Durant Proposal for a Monument to Huey Newton at the Alameda County Courthouse, Oakland, CA, 2004. Bronze, stainless steel.

Gift of the artist and the Art Acquisition Fund.

Zhan Wang Gold Mountain Collection, 2007. Ore, stainless steel.

Partial purchase, Art Acquisition Fund.

Eleanor Antin Caught in the Act, 1973; The King, 1972; The Little Match Girl Ballet, 1975.

Three video works.

Art Acquisition Fund.

Trevor Paglen Nine Reconnaissance Satellites Over the Sonora Pass, 2008. C-Print.

Art Acquisition Fund.

Trevor Paglen DMSP 5B/F4 from Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation (Military Meteorologic Satellite; 1973—054A), 2009.

C-Print.

Art Acquisition Fund.

Isaac Wallace Baker Ephemera (portraits and notebooks on early California photography), c. 1853.

Gift of Thomas S. Horning.

Carleton Watkins Panorama of San Francisco, c. 1878. Albumen print.

Gift of Mr. Paul Sack.

Unknown (possibly Carleton Watkins) Panorama of Vallejo, California, c. 1875.

Albumen print panorama.

Gift of Mr. Paul Sack.

Isaiah West Taber Chinese Accountant, Chinatown, San Francisco, c. 1880.

Albumen print.

Gift of Mr. Paul Sack.

Joe Deal Front Lawn (Watering) Phillips Ranch, California, 1984. Gelatin silver print.

Gift of Mr. Paul Sack.

Joel D. Levinson California Flea Market Portfolio, 1975-1977.

Twenty-six selenium-toned gelatin silver prints.

Gift of Mark, Annette, and Elizabeth Levinson.

Larry Keenan Forty Photographs of Bay Area Counterculture, 1960s.

Gelatin silver prints.

Art Acquisition Fund.

Manuel Neri Arcos de Geso IX, 1985.

Mixed media (plaster, dry pigment, wire, Styrofoam, burlap).

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lobdell.

Manuel Neri Mujer Pegada Series No. 7, 2006. Oiled bronze.

Gift of Michael Hackett.

Nathan Oliveira [Site One];[Site Two];[Site Three];[Site Four];[Site Five], 1982–1983. Five bronze sculptures.

Gift of Richard Newlin.

Oscar Galgiani Gold Canyon, 20th century.

Oil on canvas.

Acquired through funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Novy Jr. Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe Above Lake Tenaya, connecting views from Edward Weston to Eadweard Muybridge, 2002. Inkjet print.

Art Acquisition Fund.

Brian Fahlstrom Boundless Ways, 2008.

Oil on canvas.

Gift of the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and the Campbell/Thigpen Acquisition Fund.

Don Suggs Les Demoiselles D’Avignon (Patrimony Series), 2006.

Oil on canvas.

The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection.

Hyesook Park Untitled (Rain), 2007.

Mixed media on canvas.

Gift of Ronald Collins.

Mark Lere Wring, 1988. Aluminum with oil and graphite finish.

Gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson.

Peter Voulkos Untitled Vessel, c. 1952–53.

Glazed stoneware.

Gift of Pier Voulkos.

Isamu Noguchi Zenith Radio Corporation Radio Nurse, c. 1937.

Bakelite, metal, wire, cloth and glass.

Art Acquisition Fund.

HISTORY Frank La Pena We Are All Sacred, 2010.

Print on paper.

Museum purchase.

Cal Trans Highway Sign c. 2008. Laminated aluminum.

Gift of the California Department of Transportation, District II, CALTRANS, San Diego.

Movie Poster for The Sheriff’s Baby 1913. Print on paper.

Museum purchase.

Tule Boat, Traditional Central California Style

By Linda Yamane (Rumsien Ohlone), Jennifer Bates (Northern Sierra Miwok), and Andree Houser, 2010.

Tule and seagrass.

Gift of Linda Yamane, Jennifer Bates, and Andree Houser.

Calzoneras Made in California, c.1845–1865.

Wool, cotton, and silver.

Museum purchase.

NATURAL SCIENCES Two Female Grizzly Bear Skulls Originally collected from Alaska in the 1970s. Full biological and collection data provided by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Museum acquisition.

Richard Negus Shell Collection (more than 1,200 specimens) OMCA’s Natural Sciences Malacology Collections.

Funding for the purchase provided by the Oakland Museum Women’s Board.

Female Kodiak brown bear (grizzly), 1975.

Saltillo Serape Made in Saltillo, Mexico, c. 1860. Wool and cotton.

Museum purchase with funds from anonymous donor and the History Guild.

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OPENING SEASON SPONSORS Chevron The Clorox Company Oakland Museum Women’s Board Target Wells Fargo MAJOR PROJECT SUPPORT Fiscal year 2010 federal grant award secured with the assis tance of Representative Lee Institute of Museum and Library Services The James Irvine Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The following donors have contributed annual support for ongoing operations, exhibitions, and education programs between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2010. We thank them for their commitment and generosity.

INSTITUTIONAL FUNDERS Anonymous (2) Earl & Elizabeth Ash Foundation Aspiriant Atthowe Fine Arts Services Bank of the West Bay Alarm Company S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Bonhams & Butterfields Robert & Alice Bridges Foundation Cahill Contractors, Inc. Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design Citi, N.A. S. H. Cowell Foundation Dodge & Cox Investment Managers Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Foundation The East Bay Community Foundation Fitzgerald, Abbott and Beardsley LLP William G. Gilmore Foundation Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund

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Guardian Edge Technologies Walter and Elise Haas Fund Hanson Bridgett LLP William Randolph Hearst Foundation The Herrick Corporation Hildebrand, McLeod & Nelson, Inc. The Kahn Foundation Keker Family Foundation Koret Foundation The J. M. Long Foundation The Thomas J. Long Foundation Mark Cavagnero Associates Matson Navigation Company Joseph R. McMicking Foundation Mechanics Bank Montclair Woman’s Club Morrison & Foerster Foundation Oakland Museum Women’s Board OMCA Art Guild OMCA History Guild OMCA Natural Sciences Guild One California Foundation The Bernard Osher Foundation Pacific Gas and Electric Company Placer Partners Placzek Family Foundation Pixar Corporation PricewaterhouseCoopers Proven Management, Inc. Rotasa Foundation Rumsey Engineers, Inc. The San Francisco Foundation George H. Sandy Foundation Irene S. Scully Family Foundation Shorenstein Realty Services Stone and Youngberg The Morris Stulsaft Foundation The Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation Union Bank Wachovia The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts The Zellerbach Family Foundation INDIVIDUAL DONORS Sustainer Level Anonymous (2) Stephen and Susan Chamberlin

Poster from the All of Us or None Archive, which was collected between 1977 and 2008.

Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins Virginia Robinson Furth Wendy E. Jordan Barclay and Sharon Simpson Benefactor Level Anonymous (3) John and Gretchen Berggruen Agnes Bourne and James Luebbers Richard and Beth DeAtley Robin and Rich Edwards Ann O’Connor Hogland Haw Chan Jung Jacqueline and Steven Kane Nancy and Steven H. Oliver The Pease Family Fund Jon and Sonja Hoel Perkins Raymond Family Foundation Mary Ann and Steven Read Kathleen and T. Gary Rogers Philip D. and Shirley Dichek Schild Judith and William R. Timken Director Level Anonymous Lill and Frank Anderson Steven and Lori Anderson John and Susan Bowe Mr. and Mrs. Donald Chaiken Mr. and Mrs. Brian Cherry Michelle and Robert Friend Foundation Susan and John D. Gallo Lance and Katherine Gyorfi Joseph and Beth Hurwich Cindy and Jerry Johnston Duke and Daisy Kiehn Jean B. Levin Leah and Neil MacNeil

John L. McDonnell, Jr. Karen and John McGuinn William McIvor Barbara and Christopher M. McLain James R. Moore Mike Moye Richard Nagler and Sheila Sosnow Harold and Gertrud Parker Henrietta Ratcliff Marianne Buttner Robison Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Ryan Jeffrey Sloan and Anita I. Martinez Ann and Ellis M. Stephens James William Uren Alan and Jennifer Varela Jennifer Walker and Michael Keenan William and Patricia Weeden Clarence J. Weinmann Bruce and Patti Westphal Sheila Wishek Sandra and Steven F. Wolfe Evans and John Wyro Curator Level Anonymous Rollin and Millie Armer Alpha Mae Beamer Stephen and Dale Block Florence and John Bryan Ross and Lillian Cadenasso Helen McCleave Cake Jeanie and Dan Christopoulos Louise Harvey Clark Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Clark Christopher C. Curtis and Beverly Galloway Christopher and Kathryn Dann Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Dixon William D. Fidelholtz

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Jan and Maurice Holloway Linda Hart Huber Daryl and John Lillie Eleanor Moore Dawn D. Muller Diane Ososke Kathryn G. Riddell Ryder Family Foundation Harold and Anne Schnitzer Paul and Susan Schroeder Valerie and Norman Snart Nancy S. Sweetland Katie Tamony Carter and Mary Thacher Lida and Theodore S. Urban Penelope Wong and Tim Kochis Sheryl L. and Robert R. Wong Colleague Level Anonymous (5) Lauren and Steve Adams Joan and Paul Armstrong Mary Arnett Thomas and Marianne Aude Alan and Gay Auerbach Marion Avery Melvin and Barbara Bacher Suzanne and Ronald Bachman Jeff and Karen Banks Raymond and Betty Ann Barnett Jane Barrett and Morton McDonald Ophelia B. Basgal and Gary T. Fitschen Alvin Baum Bruce Beasley Edgar A. Benhard Carl Bergard Ken and Carla Betts Barbara G. Bigelow Mr. and Mrs. David Birka-White Nancy and Roger Boas Rena G. Bransten Barbara S. Bream Marlene K. Brown Thomas and Tecoah Bruce Bente and Gerald E. Buck Dana Buntrock and Leroy Howard Ted Buttner and Rosemary Chang Helen Kennedy Cahill Carol Carman May Chen and K. M. Tan June and Michael Cohen Joan and Clarence B. Coleman

Natalie and Stephen Compagni-Portis Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cortese Dana Ann Corvin and Harris Weinberg Richard and Janet T. Cotter Sharon and L. Dale Crandall Frederick and Elizabeth Crockett Judy and Don Davis Michael and Eula Dean Thomas B. Debley and Mary Jane Holmes Lois De Domenico Sally DeWitt Donald and Hisae Dickey Mrs. Richard Diebenkorn Barbara E. Dittmann Joyce Elaine Dobbel Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Dodd Steven Douglas and Melissa Heller Dr. and Mrs. James F. Eggert Karen and David Eichler Jerome B. and Nancy Falk Robert and Elizabeth Fisher Edward J. Foster and Isabella Fahrney-Foster John and Liz Fowler Shelby and Frederick M. Gans Arlene and Jack Garfinkle Peter and Elaine Geffen Gloria Getty Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Gilbert Peter Gordon and Harlan Penn Reeve Gould Reyla Graber Bernice Greene Marshall and Anne Grodin Garrett Gruener and Amy Slater Annette and Andrew T. Hass, Jr. Ann McKeever Hatch George R. Heath, Jr. Florence B. and Leo B. Helzel Frederick Hertz and Randolph Langenbach I. Michael Heyman Mrs. Charles H. Hine Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hoelter Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hughes H. Nona Hungate Lon and Mary Israel Harvey L. Jones J. R. K. Kantor Beth and Fred L. Karren Laurence and Sandra C. Kessenick

Arron and Yuliya Klein Alan and Carol Koch Gerry and Howard J. Korth Ron and Elena Krause The Ray Lent Family Dr. and Mrs. Martin Lorber Love Cultivating Assets Fund Joan and Roger A. Mann Sumner and Hermine Marshall Lillian and Merrill Martin John W. and Dorothy McDonald Beverly McFadden Judith and Stuart McKee Margaret and Winton McKibben Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Meikle Leona W. Miu Roddy and Carlisle Moore Barbara K. Moran and Charlie Haas Marian and Robert L. Nielsen Shanna O’Hare Austin C. Olson Peter T. Paul Mr. and Mrs. Mike Podell Genevieve M. Prlain Pat and Robert Raburn Carolyn and Jerry Raffo Florence L. Resnikoff Nadine and Bob Ripley Barbara F. Roach Jeanette and Edward G. Roach Barbara and James M. Rockett Joan Roebuck Gary E. Roof and Douglas L. Light Robert Roth Sally and Michael G. Ruddy Sonya H. Ruehl Stuart Russell and Loy E. Sheflott Paul Sack and Shirley Davis Mr. and Mrs. James K.M. Saddler Andrea Saltzman Ken and Marjorie Sauer Dorothy and George Saxe Seavey Family Fund Katherine McKenney Shea and James Shea Dr. and Mrs. Jon F. P. Sigurdson Jean Simpson Deborah Calahan Smith Dorie and Randy Smith Edward and Anne Smith Mary and Daniel L. Smith Mary Perry Smith

Gail Splaver and Barbara Swarzenski John Steinmetz John Charles H. and Susan A. Stewart Nancy E. Stryble Maureen and Craig Sullivan Joann F. Sutro Nelcy Kornelia Tarics Jeanne L. Thomas Tides Foundation, advised by Teresa Burns Gunther and Andrew Gunther John A. Tuttle and Douglas A. Drummond Mr. and Mrs. John A. Van Beuren Eileen and James A. Vohs Dr. and Mrs. Edward E. Waller, Jr. Joan Warren-Grady Brian E. Washington and Beth Deane Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Weiner Jean R. Wente Michael Westall Tamara White and Steven McCanne Robert A. and Vicki L. Wilkins Faye Wilson David and Mary Wolff The Wood Foundation Virginia and Joe Woods Anita and Ronald C. Wornick Kathy and Phil Zimmerman Peter and Donna Zuber

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Marianna Stark and Sam Perry Robert R. Piper James and Ruth Reynolds Dr. and Mrs. Bud Rotermund Dennis K. Rothhaar and Miriam Steinbock Dr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Schmitz Curtis Scribner David A. Shapiro and Sharon L. Wheatley Wade and Virginia Sherwood Daniel M. Siegel and Anne B. Weills Cherida Collins Smith Molly B. Smith William and Joanne Somerville Mr. and Mrs. Steven Stone Ama Torrance and David Davies Mr. and Mrs. David Traverso Helen Tryon Jennifer Vetter Sponsor Level Anonymous (3) Ann Adams and Samuel Williams Ronald D. and Patricia Adler Mary and Harry W. Anderson Helen and Alan Appleford John Austin and Jacqueline Smalley Lynn Baranco Mr. and Mrs. Bill Beech Donald and Lone Beeson Sara and Robert Beles Geoffrey and Sally Bellenger Carol and Claude Benedix Richard Benefield and John Kunowski Sylvia and Garry Knox Bennett Estelle and Howard A. Bern Gail and Ralph Bernstein R.J. Bertero Family Fund Jennifer Biederbeck John and Marion Blackmer Beverly F. Blatt and David H. Filipek Barbara A. Boberg Arthur Bolter Anne and Daniel Bookin Margaret Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boyle Mary and Elizabeth Broderick Mr. and Mrs. William D. Buell Richard T. Buffler Alexander Byron and Nicole Maguire

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The Gerald K. Cahill & Kathleen S. King Fund of the Marin Community Foundation Christina Cansler Joelyn and Robert Carr-Fingerle Jim and Ann Carroll Terrance M. Carroll and Linda M. Dardarian Joanne Casey and Warren B.Wilson Kathleen Caskey James Chanin Eunice M. Childs Jim and Liz Clarke William A. Clemens Stuart and Joyce Clydesdale Catherine Coates Zeo and Terry Coddington Kathleen Cody and Steven Argyris Sandra and Michael Bard Coleman Joan and Fred Collignon Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Collins The Honorable and Mrs. John S. Cooper Robert Cooter and Blair Dean Tom and Jane Coulter Thaddeus Croyle Mr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Cullinane Rebecca and Charles W. Daggs Mr. and Mrs. Graham Davis Bruce De Benedictis and Caroline Kim Gloria F. Dehart Gennaro A. DeVito Jean Villar Dickow Michael and Patsy Dinstell Mary Elena Dochterman Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dong Mr. and Mrs. William A. Dost Maureen and Christina Duncan G. Pete Encinas Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Engh Mr. and Mrs. Richard Flynn Robin G. and Peter B. Frazier Anne Friedman Jennifer and Abe Friedman Nellie Chin Fung Charles and Dorothy R. Garber Craig and Rosemarie Garman Margo R. George Marilyn and Robert Gillespie Mark and Cathy Glazier Michael P. Go

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Mr. and Mrs. David Goldsmith Christine Gouig Jeannie Graham Sandra and Jeffrey Granett Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Green Eudice and Sheldon Greene Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Griffinger Linda C. Guerra Sharon Guthrie Bonnie and Earl S. Hamlin Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hammonds Penelope and Ulrich Hanan Jeff Hargreaves and Meg Levine Dr. and Mrs. Ken Harley Christie and John Hastings Warren Heckrotte Mr. and Mrs. John Henderson Joyce A. Hendy Kathy and Donald J. Heng, Jr. Adrienne and Donald H. Hillebrandt Connie and Bob Hosemann Jamie L. Huberman Leanna R. Hudson Heather Imboden and Andrew Blau Ginny and John James Eleanor Jardine Mr. and Mrs. Barry S. Jellison Ann Jenkins Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Jenkins Lucy John Judith and M. Dean Johnson Genevieve and Lou Katz Pat Kernighan and Paul Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kinczel Mr. and Mrs. George King Mr. and Mrs. Henry Klyce Estelle Knowland Cathy R. Kornblith and Judi Lewis Marion R. Kramer Doris U. Kretschmer and Douglas Vaughan Germaine La Berge Wayne Lamprey and Dena Watson-Lamprey Kathleen Landry Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Larsen Virginia Leach George and Nancy Leitmann Ellen and Barry Levine Jan H. Lewis Ann Livingston Beverly Livingston Bill and Marilyn Logan Arturo Maimoni

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Marrama Brendan J. McEntee and Susan Hill McEntee Mr. and Mrs. Ed McKnight Alison McLean Ruth and Denny A. McLeod Stephen and Emily Mendel Priscilla Miles Mr. and Mrs. Richard Misrach James and Juliane Monroe Rosa Montgomery-Turner and Terrence Montgomery Curtiss Moody Stephanie Mooers John and Margaret J. Mooney Barbara and Vernon Mowry Kathryn and Peter Muhs Garna G. Muller Mary Ellen Navas and Bob Archibald Gerald Newfarmer and Amy Paul Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nicolopoulos Richard and Carol Nitz Ellen D. Nott Genevieve Nygaard Susan Olson Joan Alex Passman Donald A. Patterson Courtenay A. Peddle and Pamela Magnuson-Peddle Mary Ann Poggetto Scipio and Barbara Porter Marilyn Proffitt Mr. and Mrs. David Pyle Peter and Lenore Raffo Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Rankin Thomas and Jocelyn Rankin Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ransom Paul B. Rauschelbach and Tracy Wheeler Frankie and Skip Rhodes Ronald and Joanne Richards Margaret Ricker Jerry T. Ridley Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Rinne Mariana Rivera David Roberts and Gail Simpson Susan E. Rogers Erminia Rose Melissa Anne Rosengard Carolyn K. Rosin Alfred Rossi Richard L. Schneider H. Mark Schulz Bruce and Teddy Schwab

Karen and Ross Scroggs Jacqueline Sellers Sarah E. Shaver Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Shortell Mrs. John Robert Shuman Mr. and Mrs. Brad Shuster David and Elisabeth Silberman Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Simmonds William Singman Donald Smart Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Smith Karen Smyda Beverly Solo Michael Sosin Robert and Ann Spears Judith M. Stanley Eric Steel Ruth and Alan L. Stein Ann Steppan Jane L. Stratton Mary B. Strauss Daniel Sullivan Toshi T. Suzuki Inge Svoboda Gloria Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Dennis E. Teeguarden Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Teekell Jeanne L. Thomas Howard Thornton and Robert Lieber Mr. and Mrs. Jon Thurston Mr. and Mrs. Louis Toepfer Joan F. Tornlof Karen Tsujimoto and William Lee Mr. and Mrs. C. Henry Veit Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Vurek Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Walls Arthur K. Weller Carter S. Wells Stacey Wells and Dan Reichl Chuck and Mary Ann Wenger Willy Werby Susan Zeman West J. A. Whitehouse Andrew M. and Billie Wiesenthal Phyllis Willett Velma K. Williams Thomas and Gretchen Worthington Mary Nell and Carl York G. Michael Yovino-Young and Alison J.F. Teeman William J. Zeile and Maria M. Yang Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ziegler

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BEQUESTS Anonymous (2) Estate of Bill Burke Estate of Grace T. Davis Samuel E. & Hilda S. Duff Trust Estate of Patricia Brown Hamrick Charles R. Inberg Trust Estate of Jean D. Jackson Edwin H. Lennette Fund at East Bay Community Foundation Robert G. Pierce through the California Community Foundation Jan R. Snipper Trust Wherry Family Trust HERITAGE SOCIETY The Heritage Society is a community of supporters that have included the Museum in their estate plans.

Their gifts ensure a strong, healthy OMCA for future generations.

Anonymous (40) Mary Arnett Mikki and Jerome Baer Steven and Cynthia Beckendorf Barbara M. Beery, Esq. Edgar A. Benhard Janet A. Berckefeldt David Blasquez George H. Block Jean Bullock Ross and Lillian Cadenasso Helen McCleave Cake Michael W. Caredis Stephen and Susan Chamberlin Gregg Cook and Victor Rosario Anne Curran Christine Marsh Donchin Marlynn R. Dykstra Gladys M. Eaton Robin and Rich Edwards Toni Ellis Helen Field Robin G. and Peter B. Frazier Kenneth A. Fuller Virginia Robinson Furth Patricia M. Gannon

Marcia R. Gerin Imogene B. Gieling Dawn B. Girard and George Kunio Uehara Reyla Graber Larry and Margaret Hauben Chuck and Bonnie Headlee Bea and Richard Heggie Janet Heter and Robert Carl Johnson Mrs. Charles Henri Hine Jim and Denny Hoelter Brian T. Hourican H. Nona Hungate Gabriella and E. Glenn Isaacson James R. and Mina L. Jenner Leslie Ann Jones J. R. K. Kantor Judith Kaye Mary Anne Kayiatos Nurjahan Khan-Hamilton Duke and Daisy Kiehn Bonnie McPherson Killip Virginia H. Kincaid Russell M. Kirk Helen L. Knopp Sue and Larry Kramer Marcia B. and Walter E. Levy Flossie Lewis Daryl Lillie Joellen and Peter Lippett Sumner and Hermine Marshall Yvonne and Jack McCredie Frances M. McGriff Winton and Margaret D. McKibben Stephen and Emily Mendel Trust David and Joyce Middleton Sandra M. Miraglia Taya Doro Mitchell Dick and Laurie Morrison Dawn D. Muller Maxine Nelson Shanna O’Hare Diane Ososke Wayne and Elaine Ove Margaret Ann Phillips Henrietta Ratcliff H. L. and Kathy Reis Florence L. Resnikoff Marie R. Rhein Suzanne B. Riess

Barbara Riley Deborah and Louis A. Roessler, III Richard C. Roistacher and Barbara Noble Shirley and Farrel L. Schell Philip D. and Shirley Dichek Schild William Seavey Katherine McKenney Shea Estelle L. Siegelaub Mary Perry Smith Molly B. Smith Shirley C. Smith Dorothy M. Snodgrass John Charles H. and Susan A. Stewart Mary B. Strauss Jeanne L. Thomas Charlotte M. Thompson Judith and William R. Timken Toby Tover-Krein Helen Tryon Joel and Joanne Vuylsteke Cherie Wetzel Rita Wieland Susan F. Williams Joye Wilson Lucille J. Wong Mary Nell and Carl York Joseph B. Young GOLDEN GALA 2010 We’d like to thank those companies and individuals who generously sponsored Golden Gala 2010.

Mother Lode Sponsors Ann and Jon Reynolds Pay Dirt Sponsors Susan and Stephen Chamberlin The Clorox Company Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan Mark Cavagnero Associates Pacific Gas and Electric Company Mary Ann and Steven Read Rumsey Engineers, Inc. Barclay and Sharon Simpson Roselyne Chroman Swig Jennifer Walker and Michael Keenan Amy Sullivan Wilcox and Kirby Wilcox

Ore Sponsors Aspiriant Bank of the West Bay Alarm Company Dale and Stephen Block Cahill Contractors, Inc. Citi, N.A. Beth and Richard DeAtley Melissa and Steven Douglas Robin and Rich Edwards Susan Enzle and Gene Savin The Honorable Judith Epstein and Joseph Epstein Fitzgerald, Abbott and Beardsley LLP Guardian Edge Technologies Katherine and Lance Gyorfi Hanson Bridgett LLP Angela and Tony Harris Helzel Family Foundation, Florence and Leo Helzel The Herrick Corporation Elizabeth and Ira Michael Heyman Hildebrand, McLeod & Nelson, Inc. Joan and Roger Mann Matson Navigation Company John L. McDonnell, Jr. Elaine McKeon Barbara and Christopher M. McLain PricewaterhouseCoopers Proven Management, Inc. Shorenstein Realty Services Stone and Youngberg Union Bank Wells Fargo Sandra and Steven Wolfe Sheryl and Robert Wong Nugget Sponsors Armanino McKenna LLP Beacon Pointe Advisors, LLC The Christopoulos Family First Republic Bank Virginia Robinson Furth Reeve Gould Ann McKeever Hatch and Paul Discoe Beth and Joe Hurwich Lucy A. John Carole and Redge Martin Anita Martinez and Jeffrey Sloan Senator Don Perata Nadine and Robert Ripley Barbara Roach and Arnold Kalmar

Melissa Rosengard Jeanne and Bill Ryan Dorothy and George Saxe Maureen and Craig Sullivan Barry Williams Kathy and Phil Zimmerman IN-KIND GIFTS The following contributors have provided in-kind gifts between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2010. We are grateful for their generosity.

Absolut Vodka Barefoot Winery Karen Bevels Custom Catering and Events Dolores and Jack Cakebread Cakebread Cellars Centerra Wine Company Christie’s Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan Chef Robert Dorsey III Douglas Parking, LLC Michael Endlich Hafner Vineyard Hartmann Studios Michael Keenan Keenan Winery Life Garden Barbara Llewellyn Catering and Events Macy’s Oakland Museum of California Foundation Board of Trustees Oakland Museum of California Foundation Páve Fine Jewelry Design Perbacco San Francisco Pixar Animation Studios Rutherford Winery Robert and Carol Schultz Shelby Designs & Illustrates Sunset Katie Tamony Trader Vic’s Margo True Jennifer Walker Bruce and Patti Westphal William T. Wiley Sandra and Steven Wolfe Sheryl and Robert Wong

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