meet our honorees
Amanda Williams is an artist who uses ideas around color and architecture to explore the intersection of race and the built environment. Her public art work titled What Black Is This, You Say? was the inaugural work in our Groundworks series and ran from 2021–2024. An illustrated anthology accompanying WBITYS? is forthcoming, and will be published through MIT Press.
Her work is in several permanent collections including the MoMA, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Amanda is co-author of a forthcoming permanent monument to Shirley Chisholm in Brooklyn. Her breakthrough series, Color(ed) Theory was named as one of the world’s 25 most significant works of postwar architecture by the New York Times. Amanda serves on the boards of the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and is a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective. Williams has been widely recognized, most recently being named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She lives and works in Chicago.
Annabelle Selldorf is the Principal and Founder of Selldorf Architects, an architecture and design practice that has created public and private spaces since 1988. Selldorf and her firm have participated in several Storefront initiatives including Measure, Letters to the Developer, and OfficeUS. Selldorf's clients in the cultural field include: the Clark Art Institute, David Zwirner, the Frick Collection, Gagosian, Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks, Hauser & Wirth, the Jewish Museum New York, Luma Arles, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The National Gallery London, Neue Galerie New York, Venice Art Biennale, and the Whitney Museum.
Selldorf is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the Board of the Architectural League of New York, the World Monuments Fund, the Chinati Foundation, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She is the recipient of the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Recently, she was described as the Architect of Our Moment in Vogue, and the Art World's Favorite Architect in Cultured.
Tom Finkelpearl is a curator and writer who has held several institutional roles during his extensive career in the arts. At MoMA PS1 he served as an Administrator and Curator, at the Queens Museum he was the Executive Director, and at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs he was the Public Art Program Director, then Commissioner. Among his many curatorial projects is one of Storefront’s earliest exhibitions, After Tilted Arc, 1985, which responded to the controversy surrounding Richard Serra’s Titled Arc.
Currently Finkelpearl is writing a book about the state of North American art museums alongside artist and educator Pablo Helguera, and he is a curator of the Whitney Museum’s forthcoming exhibition on Christine Sun Kim, which is slated to open in early 2025. He is a Social Practice Teaching Scholar-in-Residence at City University of New York.
join the circle
The Storefront Circle is a year-long initiative that supports programs, publications, and exhibitions. This special group of individuals comes together to help advance Storefront’s important mission and is among our biggest supporters.
Additionally, this group serves as Storefront’s host committee at our Gala and is invited to intimate events with the honorees throughout the year. Joining the Storefront Circle is a unique opportunity to engage on a personal level with Storefront’s closest community.
All Storefront Circle members receive exclusive Storefront merch and acknowledgement in all Gala materials, as well as a mention in our institutional support credit line for programs.
Visionary - $25,000 Join the Circle
– One table with premier location at the Storefront Gala (14 people)
– Invitation to intimate events with honorees throughout the year (4 people)
– Exclusive Storefront merch
Council - $20,000 Join the Circle
– One table with premier location at the Storefront Gala (12 people)
– Invitation to intimate events with honorees throughout the year (4 people)
– Exclusive Storefront merch
Leader - $15,000 Join the Circle
– One table with premier location at the Storefront Gala (10 people)
– Invitation to intimate events with honorees throughout the year (4 people)
– Exclusive Storefront merch
Benefactor - $10,000 Join the Circle
– One table at the Storefront Gala (8 people)
– Invitation to intimate events with honorees throughout the year (2 people)
– Exclusive Storefront merch
Patron - $5,000 Join the Circle
– Two tickets to the Storefront Gala (2 people)
– Invitation to intimate events with honorees throughout the year (2 people)
– Exclusive Storefront merch
individual tickets
Individual - $1,500 Buy Tickets
– One ticket to the Storefront Gala (1 person)
– Exclusive Storefront merch
circle members
LEADER
Justin Beal and Jane Hait
Ben Blad and Kevin Gan
Helen Brown Bechtel
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Natasha Jen/Pentagram
BENEFACTOR
Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky
Frida Escobedo
Tom Finkelpearl
Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown
Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri
Christian Nyampeta and Mary Wang
Christian Pineda and Laura Lafón
Annabelle Selldorf
James von Klemperer/KPF
SK Development & CB Developers
PATRON
Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip Aarons
Jane and Bob Anspach/Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation
Sarah Arison
Eugenia Braniff/Colección FEMSA
Giuliana Bruno and Andrew Fierberg
Casey Kaplan Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
David Zwirner Gallery
Victoria Espinosa
EvensonBest
Mark Fletcher
Flos
Belmont Freeman
Ephraim Gildor
Galerie Gisela Capitain
Agnes Gund
Brett Herschenfeld
Steven Holl and Dimitra Tsachrelia
Lauren Kogod and David Smiley
Michael A. Manfredi and Marion Weiss
Toshiko Mori and James Carpenter
Neugerriemschneider
Paratus Group
Paula Cooper Gallery
Petzel Gallery
PPOW
Linda Pollak and Sandro Marpillero
Pryor Cashman LLP
re:arc institute
Reddymade
Sylvia Smith
Marc Tsurumaki and Carmen Lenzi
Gordon VeneKlasen
Dasha Zhukova Niarchos
*As of August 30, 2024
Graphic Design: Natasha Jen / Pentagram