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Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation
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Overview
The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, operator of the Watermill Center, seeks to develop new approaches to the arts; to provide young people with opportunities for artistic growth; and to document the work of its Artistic Director, Robert Wilson, and his contemporaries. In addition to the Watermill Center, the Foundation manages the Robert Wilson Archive and the Watermill Collection. The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization chartered in 1969 in the State of New York.
Key People

Board of Directors
Stanley Stairs, Esq., Chairman, Stairs Dillenbeck Finley, New York
Irving Benson, Vice Chairman, Patron of the Arts, New York
Alain Coblence, Esq., Secretary, Coblence & Associates, New York
William Kornreich, Treasurer, Kornreich NIA Insurance, New York
Robert Wilson, Artistic Director, New York
Dianne Benson, Patron of the Arts, East Hampton, New York
Pierre Berge, Fondation Pierre Berge Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France
Giancarla Berti, Patron of the Arts, Milan, Italy
William Campbell, JPMorgan Chase, New York
Dorothy Cullman in memoriam
Helene David-Weill, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Lisa de Kooning, Patron of the Arts, Easthampton, New York
Simon de Pury, Phillips, de Pury & Partners, New York
Charles Fabius, Fabius LLC, New York
Roger Ferris, Roger Ferris + Partners, Westport, Connecticut
Jolmer Gerritse, Laaken Asset Management, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Susan D. Goodman, Goodman & Company, New York
Philip Glass, Composer, New York
Gabriele Henkel, Henkel Industries, Dusseldorf, Germany
Holm Keller, Leuphana Universitat, Luneburg, Germany
Jan Kengelbach, Alix Partners, New York
Lummi Kieren, Robert Wilson Stiftung, Hamburg, Germany
Ann Lewis, Patron of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
Sylvia Mazzola, Patron of the Arts, New York
Lyndon Olson, Jr., CitiBank, New York
Joel-Andre Ornstein, Euristates, Inc., New York
Tatiana Platt, Patron of the Arts, New York
Katharine Rayner, Patron of the Arts, New York
Roberta Sherman, Patron of the Arts, Seattle

Artistic Selection Committee

Marina Abramovic, Performance Artist, Serbia
Marie-Claude Beaud, Curator and Director of the Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Jonathan Safran Foer, Writer, USA
Alanna Heiss, Director, Director, WPS1, USA
Jurgen Kluge, Director, McKinsey and Company, Inc., Germany
Xavier Le Roy, Choreographer and Performer, France
Albert Maysles, Filmmaker, USA
Michael Morris, Co-Director, Artangel, and Director, Cultural Industry UK
Gerard Mortier, General Manager of the Opera de Paris and General Manager elect of the New York City Opera, Belgium
Ida Nicolaisen, Anthropologist and President of the United Nations Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues, Denmark
John Rockwell, Journalist, USA
Christoph Schlingensief, Filmmaker, Visual Artist and Theater and Opera Director, Germany
Richard Sennett, Sociologist and Cultural Critic, New York University and London School of Economics, USA
Nike Wagner, Artistic Director, Kunstfest Weimar, Germany

Board of Advisors
Giorgio Armani
Pierre Berge
Christophe de Menil
Christoph Eschenbach
Betty Freeman
Philip Glass
Donna Karan
Thomas Krens
Annie Leibovitz
Gerard Mortier
Jessye Norman
Maren Otto
Michael Otto
Claude Pompidou in memoriam
Lou Reed
Isabella Rossellini
Richard Serra
Cindy Sherman
Tom Waits
Richard von Weizsäcker

Community Board
Maeera Mougin, Chair
Maria Pessino, Honorary Chair
Ruth Appelhoff
Dianne Benson
Michael Braverman
Chip Dineen
Eileen Ekstract
Kimberly Goff
Roberta O. Hunter
Tom Kochie
Jack  L. Larsen
Laurie Lambrecht
Susan Lazarus-Reimen
Lys Marigold
Christophe de Menil
Sara Nightingale
Geoffrey Nimmer
Clifton Nordmeier
Elka Rifkin
Carole Rosenberg
Mark  D. Shug
Elizabeth Debarto Skinner
Jonathan Snow

Supporting Artists
Marina Abramovic
Louise Bourgeois
Henri Cartier-Bresson in memorian
Cecily Brown
John Chamberlain
Francesco Clemente
Chuck Close
Nan Goldin
Douglas Gordon
David Hockney
Jenny Holzer
Alex Katz
Anselm Kiefer
William Kentridge
Willem de Kooning Foundation
Annie Leibovitz
Sol LeWitt in memoriam
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Jonathon Meese
Shirin Neshat
Enoc Perez
Elizabeth Peyton
James Rosenquist
Lisa Ruyter
David Salle
Dana Schutz
Andres Serrano
Cindy Sherman
Joel Sternfeld
Wolfgang Stiller
James Turrell

Affiliates/Products/Brands
Special Events
Media Coverage
Connections
Internal Links
1.Image Gallery: Watermill Center 2011 Summer Benefit
2.Calendar: The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation - 15th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit
External Links
Contact
The Watermill Center
39 Watermill Towd Road
Watermill, New York 11976
631 726 4628


The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation
55 Washington Street, Suite 216
Brooklyn, New York 11201
212 253 7484
Category
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