Phoenix Art Museum

“The museum has a membership program that currently has 11,615 members. Regular members and circles members, each get one vote”

“Members of the governing body (board of trustees) are nominated by the museum's nominating committee and then are voted upon by the the museum membership.”

“The return will be provided to each board member to read and each will be given the opportunity to ask questions.”

“The museum's guidelines for professional practices questionnaire and compliance agreement is required to be completed and signed by trustees, presidents of support organizations, museum director, division heads, department heads, and all accounting staff annually. This process is done every year in september. The completed and signed agreements are reviewed by human resources manager for completeness. Any question that arises is discussed with the individual signing the agreement.”

“Data from other museums is used to evaluate compensation for the ceo, including from the american association of museum directors. The executive committee makes the decision. For determining the compensation of other officers or key employees, comparisons are made with other museums. Decisions made during budget process.”

“The organization financial statements are available on the website and the organization makes its governing documents and conflict of interest policy available upon request.”

“Mission statement phoenix art museum is a vibrant destination connecting people to great art from around the world to enrich their lives and communities. This vision is supported by four strategic pillars which are: 1. Exceptional art - to celebrate the highest quality visual art through outstanding exhibitions, acquisitions and collection stewardship. 2. Enrichment and learning - to create a nationally recognized model for enhancing experience of the visual arts through interpretation, engaged learning, and enrichment. 3. Broad audience - to attract the broadest possible audience to the museum as consistent and enthusiastic participants. 4. Fiscal stability and organizational excellence - to achieve and maintain a strong financial foundation.”

“Andy warhol: "portraits" phoenix art museum is proud to present andy warhol: portraits, an exhibition organized by and featuring original works from the andy warhol museum, one of the four carnegie museums of pittsburgh. As an artist, andy warhol's unique visual language tells the story of an artist fascinated with the phenomena of fame and celebrity. This exhibition features warhol's depictions of the persona that forever embedded celebrities like marilyn monroe, sylvester stallone and prince - to name a few - into america's cultural conscience as well as several of his self-portraits including silkscreen works, polaroids of the artist in drag, and family photographs of a young warhol. Often cited as an icon of the pop art movement, warhol's visual explorations span almost every available medium: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film and even music. Andy warhol: portraits includes nearly 200 portraits, paintings and drawings produced by warhol from the 1940s to the 1980s. More than 25 years after his death, warhol remains undeniably one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. This comprehensive exhibition of portraiture by warhol debuted at the andy warhol museum in spring 2010 and is on view at phoenix art museum for the first time in the southwest.”

“Leonardo da vinci's "codex leicester and the power of observation" there's no question that leonardo da vinci (1452-1519) was one of the most intriguing people to ever live. Brilliant in the arts, sciences, and engineering, leonardo da vinci was driven by a deep sense of curiosity about the world around him, recording his observations on numerous pages of paper, which were later gathered and bound as manuscripts, or codices. The only manuscript by leonardo in an american collection, the codex leicester (pronounced "less-ter") consists of 18 double-page and doubled-sided sheets (72 pages total), and its presentation at phoenix art museum will be the first time a work by the hand of leonardo himself will be on view in arizona. Leonardo's active mind and working method are defined in this exhibition by three primary characteristics: curiosity, direct observation, and thinking on paper. These characteristics are vital parts of the creative process and they pave the way toward great discoveries and inventions. This exhibition of leonardo's codex leicester will be groundbreaking in its approach of bringing leonardo into a broad artistic context that explores his continuing influence on artists into our own time. Included in the exhibition will be carefully selected works of art by a diverse group of artists who shared aspects of leonardo's practices, including leonardo's italian renaissance contemporary jacopo de' barbari, 19th-century painters claude monet and gustave courbet, photographers ansel adams, edward weston, eadweard muybridge and harold edgerton, and living artists kiki smith, tony foster and bill viola. In the 21st century, video artist bill viola has stressed the value of watching movement in extremely slow motion, while often making reference to art of the past. Viola's the raft, 2004, is a video installation in which an assembled group of individuals are subjected to high pressure water hoses, allowing the scene to slowly reveal the effects.”

“Antonio berni, "juanito and romona" early in his career, argentinean artist antonio berni (1905-1981) was widely recognized throughout latin america as a pioneering painter of his own strain of "new realism." his paintings of the 1930s and 1940s feature themes of social injustice painted in an innovative realist style that draws emotional impact from sensitive depictions of the downtrodden. In the mid-1950s, motivated by the social distress and poverty he witnessed amid his country's rapid industrialization and parallel socio-political upheavals, berni abandoned painting for a more visceral artistic medium: assemblage. In 1958, he began a series of works that chronicled the tales of two fictional characters, juanito laguna and ramona montiel. Juanito was a boy who left his home in the countryside to seek work in buenos aires and ended up living in poverty in the city's outskirts in the so-called villas miserias (misery towns or shantytowns). Ramona, on the other hand, was a middle-class teenager who was lured into a life of high-society prostitution by the promise of expensive gifts and a life of luxurious decadence. Berni continued working with these two invented characters almost exclusively until 1977, constructing narratives of their lives using trash, machine parts, and other discards from everyday life. This link between materials used and the fictional worlds depicted-the substance and the subject-might be characterized as "material realism." this series developed into a social narrative on industrialization and poverty, underscoring disparities between the wealthy argentine aristocracy and the "juanitos" of the slums, and condemning the lurid life of high-society prostitution. Berni gave a voice to the voiceless. Although he was a tremendously influential artist in latin america, berni's works are not well known in the united states. This exhibition will remedy that, featuring 98 objects that span a variety of media, including assemblage, sculpture, works on paper and a selection of the artist's sketchbooks and printing plates. In addition, several of his monstruos (monsters) will also be featured, assemblage sculptures that depict the characters that haunt juanito's and ramona's nightmares. Antonio berni: juanito and ramona is the first exhibition to focus on this iconic series created by berni and is the first berni exhibition organized by a u.s. Museum in nearly fifty years.”

“Acquisition of fine art -283,919. Supplemental retirement -375,000.”

“The organization has not changed its oversight process for the audit or its selection process for independent auditors during the year.”