Visionary: Celebrating Leadership in the Arts
October 07, 202411:00 am - 1:00 pm
ASL and CART (English and Spanish) available
Please note that this event takes place at The Four Seasons Hotel, 120 East Delaware Place.
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Visionary Luncheon featuring Laurie Simmons and Marilyn Minter in conversation with MCA Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn, October 2, 2023. Photo: Jeremy Lawson Photography, © MCA Chicago.
About the Event
Join us for a dynamic and in-depth conversation between artist Sarah Sze and the MCA’s Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn, and the presentation of the 2024 Arts Philanthropy Awards honoring BMO Bank N.A. for its support of arts education in Chicago, with Darrel Hackett, President and Chief Executive Officer, accepting the award on behalf of the bank. The 2024 Arts Philanthropy Awards also honor Darrel Hackett and MCA Trustee Nickol Hackett for their generous philanthropy in Chicago.
King Harris, the event cochair, is pleased to partner with the MCA’s Women’s Board to support and host this gathering.
For tickets or more information, please contact [email protected] or 312-397-3871.
English ASL interpretation and CART captioning in English and Spanish are available for this event.
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2024 Visionary Honorees
Artist Honoree
Sarah Sze
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Photo: Deborah Feingold.
Arts Philanthropy Honoree
Darrel and Nickol Hackett and BMO Bank N.A.
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Right to left: Photo: Jovanka Novakovic; Image courtesy of Nickol Hackett.
About Our Honorees
About the Artist
Sarah Sze gleans objects and images from worlds both physical and digital, assembling them into complex multimedia works that shift scale between microscopic observation and macroscopic perspective on the infinite. Sze’s body of work spans sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation, always addressing materiality, entropy, and temporality. With both force and delicacy, Sze’s art adeptly and dynamically captures moments of flux and precariousness.
Sze earned a BA from Yale University in 1991 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1997. The next year, she had her first solo institutional exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she presented Many a Slip (1999), a sprawling multimedia installation. Sze represented the United States at the 55th Venice Biennale with a solo pavilion presentation titled Triple Point. Other exhibitions include those at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2023); Storm King Art Center, New York (2021); Fondation Cartier Pour L’art Contemporain, Paris (2021); MOCA Toronto (2020); and Haus der Kunst, Munich (2017–18). She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003.
About the Philanthropy Honoree
The 2024 Arts Philanthropy Awards honor BMO Bank N.A. for its support of arts education in Chicago and its historical relationship with the MCA. Darrel Hackett, President and Chief Executive Officer, BMO Bank N.A., accepts the award on behalf of the bank.
The 2024 Arts Philanthropy Awards also honors Darrel Hackett and MCA Trustee Nickol Hackett for their generous philanthropy in Chicago. In addition to his leadership at BMO, Darrel serves on the Board of Directors for the Art Institute of Chicago, Rush University Medical Center, Kids First Chicago, and United Way of Metro Chicago. He is a member of the Federal Advisory Council, Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Trustees’ Committee of the Chicago Community Trust, the Executive Leadership Council, Economic Club of Chicago, and the Executives’ Club of Chicago.
Nickol has been Trustee of the MCA since 2016. Nickol is Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer at the Joyce Foundation, overseeing the investment program for endowment assets of $1 billion in support of the Foundation’s grant making. She serves on the board of directors of the First Women’s Bank and is part of the Harvard Business School Case Collection. Nickol is an avid supporter of civic and cultural engagement. She is Vice Chair of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and served on the Governance and Nominating Committee as well as the Investment Committee. She also supports various cultural institutions throughout the area.
Visionary Leadership
King Harris
MCA Board of Trustees
Visionary Cochair
Rachel Grund
MCA Women’s Board
President
Marlene Breslow-Blitstein
MCA Board of Trustees
MCA Women’s Board
Visionary Cochair
Susan Brunstrum
MCA Women’s Board
Visionary Cochair
Marcia Fraerman
MCA Women’s Board
Visionary Cochair
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Funding and Sponsorships
Presented by
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Major Sponsors
Anonymous
Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein
Nancy and Steven Crown
Kenneth C. Griffin
Agnes Gund
Carol Prins and John Hart/The Jessica Fund
Zell Family Foundation
Supporting Sponsors
Valerie Carberry and Richard Wright
Andi and Jim Gordon, The Edgewater Funds
Rachel and David Grund
Anne L. Kaplan
Susie Karkomi and Marvin Leavitt
Kovler Family Foundation
Liz and Eric Lefkofsky
Dr. Anita Blanchard and Martin Nesbitt
Cari and Michael Sacks
Karyn and Bill Silverstein
Liz Stiffel
Harris Family
Foundation
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Sponsors
Helyn Goldenberg and Michael Alper
Suzette Bross and Allan E. Bulley, III/Yumi and Douglas Ross
The Bluhm Family Foundation
Jennifer Brown
Susan Brunstrum/Marcia Fraerman
Cynthia Hunt and Philip Rudolph
Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel
Lydia Kutko
Gary Metzner/Sotheby’s
Melissa Grund Sarnoff and David Sarnoff
Robin Loewenberg Tebbe and Mark Tebbe
Ellen Wallace and Steven Gould