Creating New HorizonsCreating New HorizonsARTS FOR THE AGING

27TH ANNUAL GALA RECEPTIONOctober 27, 2015

Hosted at Anderson HouseThe American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati

Above: AFTA Founder Lolo Sarnoff in her sculpture garden.

Right: Maebell with self-portrait.

Cover Art: Rainbow in a Cloud, 2015, mixed-media. Created by Maebell, in AFTA Teaching Artist Carol Siegel’s AFTA workshops at Alexandria Adult Day Services Center, responding to the sculptures of Lolo Sarnoff.

Dear Friends,

It is with delight that we join you this evening to celebrate the richness the arts bring to all our lives—but especially to older adults with challenging health issues. We salute our dear departed friend, Lolo Sarnoff, who was a pioneer

in creative aging and whose indomitable spirit set Arts for the Aging on a path as a leader in this field. She knew intuitively what research is now proving—being involved in the arts is stimulating, rewarding, and “good medicine.”

We so appreciate the positive impact AFTA has in our community because it shares the healing power of the arts with vulnerable seniors and their caregivers. We are honored to be part of AFTA’s 27th Annual Gala and are gratified to know that generous supporters like you are helping sustain the life-changing arts programs AFTA provides throughout the metropolitan Washington community.

Thank you,

Olga and Bob Ryan

FROM THE GALA CHAIRS

On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the entire AFTA family, welcome to tonight’s Gala celebration, Creating New Horizons. This year marks AFTA’s 27th Annual Gala, and I am happy to report that AFTA is moving forward to carry out the mission our founder, Lolo Sarnoff, entrusted to AFTA, which provides life-enhancing and innovative experiences for older adults through the

arts. Our professional teaching artists engage frail and vulnerable seniors in workshops through a wide variety of arts, encourage healthy aging, and share the joy that comes from artistic expression, all while respecting the dignity of older adults, especially those with physical or cognitive impairments.

Thank you for sharing this evening with the AFTA family and for your support of this dynamic and pioneering program. I am especially grateful to Gala Chairs Olga and Bob Ryan, the Host Committee, my fellow AFTA Board Members, AFTA’s Director & CEO Janine Tursini, and our staff, teaching artists, and dedicated supporters and volunteers.

Congratulations to Trish and George Vradenburg, the recipients of the Lolo Sarnoff Founders Award, for their humanitarianism and

philanthropy, as well as their lifelong dedication to the arts.

I hope you have a wonderful evening, and thank you again for empowering AFTA to fulfill its mission, as AFTA brings its talents to assist with the challenges of healthy aging.

Sincerely,

T. Ryan Wilson, Chair, Board of Trustees

FROM THE AFTA BOARD CHAIR

“The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling

creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across

the United States. Funding these new projects like the one from Arts for the Aging represents an investment in both local

communities and our nation’s creative vitality.”–Jane Chu, Chairman,

National Endowment for the Arts

GALA CHAIRSOlga and Bob Ryan

HONORARY HOST DIPLOMATIC COMMITTEEHis Excellency the Ambassador of Austria Hans-Peter Manz

His Excellency the Ambassador of Barbados and Mrs. John Beale

Her Excellency the Ambassador of Bulgaria Elena Poptodorova

His Excellency the Ambassador of Croatia Josko Paro

His Excellency the Ambassador of Great Britain Sir Peter and Lady Westmacott

His Excellency the Ambassador of Italy and Mrs. Claudio Bisogniero

His Excellency the Ambassador of Japan and Mrs. Kenichiro Sasae

His Excellency the Ambassador of Luxembourg Jean-Louis Wolzfeld

His Excellency the Ambassador of Romania George Cristian Maior

His Excellency the Ambassador of Singapore Ashok Mirpuri

His Excellency the Ambassador of Slovenia Bozo Cerar

His Excellency the Ambassador of Sweden Björn Lyrvall

GALA LEADERSHIP

“ So many of us became supporters of AFTA because of our fondness and admiration for Lolo, and our appreciation of the remarkable life she

lived: her intelligence and bravery in World War II, her partnership in her husband’s life-saving work,

her creativity as a sculptor, her love of music and art, her caring for the right things…I applaud all the good AFTA has done. May it continue as a model locally, nationally, and internationally for improving the quality of life older adults

experience.”–Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the

Supreme Court of the United States

GALA HOST COMMITTEE Nicole d’Amecourt Mary BirdGloria BuckbergNancy Burgess Black, M.D., COL (ret.)

Rose Marie Harris Caponio and Joseph Caponio

Peter and Anne ColasanteEsther CoopersmithPortia Davidson Jan Du PlainPaul du Quenoy, Ph.D. and Irina du Quenoy, Ph.D.

Bill Dunlap and Linda BurgessSøren and Pernille ElbechGunilla L. Girardo and Luther K. Ivery

Nancy HarrisJulius and Ann KaplanEva LambCarolyn Laurenzano and Tony Morrell

Janet LambertSusan Carmel LehrmanMonique Summers-Mally and Gerhard Mally

Kuni MatsudaDorn C. McGrath, Jr. Ph.D.Connie and Tony MorellaLiliana PulvirentiDeb PushRhoda SeptiliciLorena Sevilla SomozaSheila SwitzerDebby TollVladimir and Suzanne TolstoyAnne L. Howard-Tristani and Dennis Tristani

Alexandra Villard de BorchgraveWilliam Weber, Esq.Jean WighamSusan WranikCatherine Wyler and Richard Rymland

GALA LEADERSHIP

PLATINUM, $10,000A & D Custom Framing, Inc.F & P Fine Art

GOLD, $5,000+The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati Geppetto Catering, Inc.

FOUNDING CIRCLE, $1,000Grace Bender/Dorothy G. Bender FoundationDon and Nancy BlissSusanne and Clayton EisingerWilson Felder and Laura StottlemyerKensington Park Senior LivingSusan Carmel LehrmanCarol and Earl RavenalCatherine Wyler and Richard Rymland

SILVER, $500Robert N. Alfandre FamilyBob and Jan BlancatoPeter BuffingtonEagle BankGabriela ComanElinor GinzlerNancy HarrisNancy and Dick HavlikMeredith and Benjamin JenkinsToni A. RitzenbergOlga and Bob RyanJudith A. SalernoWalter WellsJean WighamT. Ryan Wilson

As of 10/21/15

GALA SPONSORS

Arts for the Aging, Inc. (AFTA)27th Annual Gala ReceptionCreating New Horizons

Silent Auction, 6:00–9:00 p.m.Original sculptures by Lolo Sarnoff and vintage jewelry from her collection; exhibited works by older adults in AFTA programs

Sponsors’ Reception, 6:00–7:00 p.m.Welcome–Ambassador Donald T. Bliss (Ret.), AFTA Trustee

Performance Introduction–Janine Tursini, AFTA Director and CEO, for Selections from The Great American Songbook

Gala In The Ballroom, 7:00–10:00 p.m.Remarks & Presentations begin at 7:45 p.m.

Welcome–T. Ryan Wilson, Esq., Chairman, AFTA Board of Trustees

Opening Remarks–Olga and Bob Ryan, Gala Chairs

Program Introductions–Janine Tursini, AFTA Director and CEO

Spiral Light Dance Performance

Testimonial: Kimberly Taylor, Therapeutic Recreation Manager, Alexandria Adult Day Services Center

Benefits of Arts Participation: Jehan (Gigi) El-Bayoumi, MD, FACP, Gerontologist, The George Washington University

Presentation of 7th Lolo Sarnoff Founder’s Award: Dorothy Kosinski, Ph.D., Director, The Phillips Collection

Remarks from the Honorees: Trish and George Vradenburg, Co-Founders, USAgainstAlzheimer’s

Live Auction–Peter Colasante, Owner, L’Enfant Galerie

Closing Acknowledgments–Janine Tursini

Silent Auction closes at 9:00 p.m.

WELCOME

The spark behind the award is the Swiss-German artist, scientist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and AFTA Founder Lolo Sarnoff. Because of her vision and creativity and that of outstanding Lolo Sarnoff Award recipients, our world is a better place for the arts and for humanity.

Previous award winners: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; Irving Fields, pianist, composer and arranger; Carmel Quinn, singer, storyteller and comedienne; Jerome Barry, performance artist, master teacher, founder of Embassy Series; Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection; Ambassador Donald T. Bliss (ret.), author, humanitarian and philanthropist.

2015 RECIPIENTS TRISH AND GEORGE VRADENBURG

For their humanitarianism and philanthropy, dedication to addressing the impact of Alzheimer’s Disease, and lifelong engagement in the arts.

Trish Vradenburg is Vice-Chair of USAgainstAlzheimer’s, which she co-founded

in October 2010. Trish began her career in Washington, D.C. as a speechwriter in the U.S. Senate. She has written for various television shows, including Designing Women, Family Ties, and Kate and Allie. Trish’s novel, Liberated Lady, was chosen as Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections and has been translated into three foreign languages. As a journalist, she has written extensively for the New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Women’s Day. Surviving Grace, Trish’s quasi-autobiographical play, was produced at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and Off Broadway at the Union Square Theater. It is now being performed

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at various community theaters throughout the country, as well as in Portuguese in Brazil. She serves on the Council of Theater J, and on the board of the Vradenburg Foundation. She presently writes three blogs. Trish lists her marital status as “happy.”

George Vradenburg is the Chairman and Co-Founder of USAgainstAlzheimer’s (USA2), an education and advocacy campaign committed to mobilizing America to stop Alzheimer’s, and convener of the Global CEO Initiative (CEOi) on Alzheimer’s Disease, the only industry coalition dedicated to stopping Alzheimer’s. Through his USA2 work, George has brought together powerful voices to escalate the fight against Alzheimer’s–as co-convener of Leaders Engaged on Alzheimer’s Disease (LEAD) (a network of 60+ major Alzheimer’s-serving organizations from the not-for-profit, foundation, academic, corporate and government sectors). As a result of his USA2 work, George was appointed to the World Dementia Council by the UK Secretary of State for Health in March, 2014. In 2011, he was named by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to serve on the National Alzheimer’s Advisory Council to advise on the first-of-its-kind National Alzheimer’s Strategic Plan. Among other efforts, George has testified twice before Congress about the global Alzheimer’s pandemic; has conceived and supported the Alzheimer’s Study Group; and, through the Vradenburg Foundation, has supported the Alzheimer’s Disease International World Alzheimer’s Reports and the NIH’s Global Alzheimer’s Research Summit. George was appointed to the bipartisan Commission on Long-Term Care in 2013. Before his retirement, George served in senior executive positions at AOL/Time Warner, Fox and CBS. George is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of Washington. George received his B.A. from Oberlin College, magna cum laude, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude.

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PERFORMERS

PETER BURROUGHS Singer/Actor, AFTA Teaching ArtistB.M. in Music from Ithaca College; M.M. in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland, College Park. A versatile singing actor, Peter’s repertoire encompasses opera, oratorio, musical theatre, Shakespeare, traditional art song recital, zarzuela and the dance music of Latin

America. He debuted in 1999 with The Washington National Opera and has since performed with the company extensively. In addition to his work with AFTA, Burroughs is an Artist Mentor for the Washington National Opera, helping grade school students write and produce original operas. He also develops outreach programs with the Spanish Dance Society of Washington, D.C. Peter leads the AFTA workshops “La Movida” and “Co-Operation.”

CARLOS CÉSAR RODRÍGUEZ PianistCarlos César Rodríguez made his recital debut in his native Venezuela at age 5 and made his orchestral debut as soloist at age 11. Soon after he arrived in the United States to continue his music studies, Mr. Rodríguez was a finalist in the New York Philharmonic Young People’s Competition. At age 21 he made his Weill Recital

Hall at Carnegie Hall debut. Mr. Rodríguez has performed in major venues such as the John F. Kennedy Center; the White House and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C.; Merkin Hall and the Americas Society in New York City; and the Royal Palace of Music in Salzburg, Austria. As a chamber music artist he has become a regular member of the Garth Newel Chamber Music Festival. As a collaborative artist Mr. Rodríguez has worked with Jessye Norman, Denyce Graves and Placido Domingo. As a concert-artist he has toured Europe and performed concerti and solo recitals throughout the Americas.

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SPIRAL LIGHTTOBIAS WERNER Cellist, AFTA Teaching ArtistTobias was the cellist in residence and co-artistic director at Garth Newel Music Center from 1999 until 2012. He is the music director at The Chamber Music Conference of the East, artistic director of VERGE ensemble in residence at the Washington Conservatory of Music, teaches at Georgetown

University, and is an Arts for the Aging, Inc. (AFTA) teaching artist. He has performed at the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, Villa Musica Mainz, the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop, the Vail Valley Bravo! Colorado Music Festival, the Maui Classical Music Festival, in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Strathmore Hall, the Phillips Collection, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the New York Society for Ethical Culture, and at Bargemusic. Tobias has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the US, France, Germany, and Romania, and recent performances have included the concertos of Dvorák, Elgar, Haydn, and Boccherini. He has recorded on the ECM, Darbringhaus & Grimm, Bayer Records, and Orfeo labels. Recent CD releases include Piano Quartets by Mozart, Brahms, Dvorák, and Martinu with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, the Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach, and theSonatas for Piano and Cello by Beethoven with Victor Asuncion. Tobias studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg in Germany, and at Boston University. His teachers have included Andrés Díaz, Christoph Henkel, and Xavier Gagnepain. He plays on an 1844 J.F. Pressenda cello.

“Through singing, dancing, poetry writing, storytelling and

painting, frail seniors, many with physical and cognitive limitations, experience the

dignity and joy of creative self-expression. That is what is truly unique about AFTA’s and Lolo’s vision. We have learned a lot over the past quarter century

as a pioneer in the field of creative aging.”

–Ambassador Donald T. Bliss (Retired); Trustee, Arts for the Aging, Inc.

JUDITH BAUER Dancer, Quicksilver MemberAfter a lifetime of watching dance, Judith is happy to be able to participate in making dance. She began to do so ten years ago at age seventy as a way to deal with a series of health issues. Her primary interest is improvisational dance, because it keeps you mentally sharp and requires

you to focus on responding to others in your dance space. Judith joined Quicksilver, AFTA’s Senior Improv Dance Company, five years ago. She cherishes the friends she has made and appreciates the opportunity through AFTA to bring joy to frail seniors in both day programs and residential facilities. In her professional life, Judith worked as a consumer economist, led workshops in business communication, and was a local historian. Although retired, she still facilitates the occasional meeting or retreat and is active in her local church community. She dances whenever and wherever she can.

HANNAH WHITLEY DancerSince the age of four, Hannah Whitley has been expressing herself through creative movement and dance. She studied dance for most of her life in North Carolina, where she performed with various companies. Movement enriched her life and her connections in such a way

that she realized a big part of her path was to create healing and transformational opportunities for others through this modality.

Hannah is a practicing dance/movement therapist in the D.C. area. She continues to cultivate awareness and connection through expressive movement in her work as both a dancer and dance/movement therapist. Hannah loves working collaboratively. She finds meaning in the movement connections we experience every day.

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NANCY HAVLIK Choreographer, AFTA Teaching ArtistB.S. and M.A. in Speech, Northwestern University. Nancy Havlik has directed and choreographed for the past 25 years. She formed the 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation Dance Performance Group in 1989 as a vehicle to explore her own choreographic ideas with

a small group of dancers and musicians. Through the Company her choreography has been performed extensively in the Washington, D.C. area at venues including Dance Place, Joy of Motion, Montgomery College, Jewish Community Center, Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mt. Vernon College and the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Her work has been shown in New York City at Joyce Soho, WAX, the Construction Company and in Eastern Europe. (Czech Republic and Slovakia). She has directed site-work performances all over the metro D.C. area in places as varied as C&O Canal, the Building Museum, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Josephine Butler Center and the Torpedo Factory Arts Center. She participated in the Capital Fringe Festival for three years and recently presented performances at Flashpoint Mead Theatre and at Woolly Mammoth Melton Rehearsal Hall. She has received grants from Maryland State Arts Council, the Montgomery County Arts Council and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Nancy teaches creative movement and intergenerational workshops for older adults through Arts for the Aging, Inc. (AFTA). Her AFTA program “Moving Art” has received a 2011 Met Life grant to present a series of workshops for older adults in collaboration with Donna McKee combing visual art and creative movement. Nancy also directs Quicksilver, AFTA’s award-winning Senior Improv Dance Company, with violinist Anthony Hyatt.

Gala performance costumes designed by Katy Kincade

(January 9, 1916 – November 9, 2014)

“Do today as much as possible,” Lolo declared as her mantra, “tomorrow may never come.”

Born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1916, Lili-Charlotte Sarnoff was first called ‘Lolo’ by her brother who was disappointed he did not get the male sibling he was promised. Remarkably driven, she bridged worlds throughout her lifetime as a Swiss-German artist,

scientist, philanthropist, collector, and self-described “hausfrau” (housewife). Inspired by her mother, the sculptress Martha von Hirsch, and maternal grandfather Louis Koch who was one of Germany’s great jewelers, Lolo studied at the Reimann Art School in Berlin, where her class graduated a year early in 1936 under the looming conflict of war. Undaunted, she went on to study art history at the University of Florence in Italy. There she met an American doctoral student named Stephen D. Heineman whom she would marry. At the war’s onset, Lolo and her parents, Willy and Martha Dreyfus, relocated to Switzerland where Lolo joined the Swiss Red Cross motor corps, driving provisions into the mountains to prepare for a possible German invasion. Heineman’s draft in 1940 into the U.S. Armed Forces brought Lolo next to Manhattan, where she served as a Red Cross Nurse at Bellevue Hospital. Challenging traditional gender roles in medicine at that time, at Bellevue she became the assistant to celebrated doctor, Stanley J. Sarnoff, who became her second husband in 1948.

This started a decades-long partnership that resulted in heart and circulatory system discoveries. The couple lived in Boston during the early years of their marriage, where Stanley was associate professor of physiology at Harvard University. Lolo received a rare appointment for women at that time from the Dean of

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Harvard’s School of Public Health. She became a research assistant to investigate treatments for endemic diseases. In the 1950s, the Sarnoffs relocated to Bethesda, Maryland, when Dr. Sarnoff established the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology at the National Institutes of Health. Lolo continued work as a research associate at the National Heart Institute. They remained in Bethesda for the rest of their lives.

Together Stanley and Lolo co-invented the electrophrenic respirator, a pioneering medical invention that replaced the iron lung in the treatment of bulbar polio and saved the life of their daughter Dana; they co-authored important papers in the field of cardiology and circulation; and they found their own medical firm, Rodana Research Corporation, named after their children Robert and Dana (Lolo became its president). Later called Survival Technology, Inc. (STI), its most famous invention was the automatic injector first used by the military as an antidote to nerve gas. Today it is ancestor to the Epi-Pen which treats allergic reactions.

Lolo earned extraordinary prestige for her comprehensive knowledge of science. She delivered lectures internationally and again defied gender roles. In 1961 she was named among the annual American Men of Science—10 years before the publication added “Women” to its title. When Stanley resigned from NIH and assumed presidency of STI, Lolo was able to turn attention back to her artistic roots. She never forgot science and medicine but called it forth in the body of excellent work to come.

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In Barnard, Vermont, the family’s beloved second home, Lolo began a ground-breaking career creating sculptures using plexiglass, fiber optics, stainless steel and aluminum. Much like her character, they are strong materials that reflect light beautifully. Throughout her career as an artist, Lolo exhibited widely. Her works are held in private museums and collections internationally. The Flame, her favorite, has been on permanent exhibition in the Kennedy Center Opera House since its opening in 1971.

Lolo had an extraordinary heritage of collecting fine and decorative art. The granddaughter of the renowned jeweler Louis Koch, the daughter of banker Willy Dreyfus and the stepdaughter of Robert von Hirsch, a celebrated art collector, Lolo came to her work as a gifted artist and also as a connoisseur and collector of art naturally. Remnants of the collections of the von Hirsch and the Koch/Dreyfus families remained with Lolo in her home displayed “salon-style” along with masterworks and works of emerging artists, which she amassed over decades until her death at the age of 98 last year. These treasures and the conversations they evoked were cherished by so many in Washington circles who came to Lolo’s legendary parties.

Many in Washington know Lolo because she was a devotee of countless artistic and community endeavors. She helped establish The Foreign Students Service Council and held philanthropic and volunteer positions at landmark institutions such as the Washington National Opera, Washington Performing Arts

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Society, Washington Ballet, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran School of Art. She was an adored fixture in the cultural scene of Washington, and her dedication extended to others, like the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation, which today fosters leadership in its field.

After Stanley died in 1990, Lolo’s dog, Dara, became her constant companion helping her nearly forget that she was lonely. Her subsequent publication, “Dara: Autobiography of a Chesapeake Bay Retriever,” was transcribed by Lolo in the voice of her beloved rescue dog. The book promoted animal adoption and welfare through Dara’s Canine Foundation.

She was a faithful supporter of those who are vulnerable. In 1988, at the age of 72, Lolo founded greater Washington’s Arts for the Aging (AFTA). She was inspired by studies that showed less agitation and improved moods in seniors with Alzheimer’s disease who had taken part in art classes she conducted at the request of her long-time NIH colleagues. True to Lolo’s spirit, AFTA spreads joy, combats isolation, and improves the health and wellbeing of vulnerable older adults through the transformative power of arts engagement.

In addition to many accolades, honorary doctorates, and awards, Lolo Sarnoff was named by the French Government a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her dedication to science, the arts and cultural life in Washington in 2008.

With special thanks to Robbie Gordy and Christie’s Auction

House, New York.

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“The arts are crucial to life. Without them, one doesn’t live

fully. My acquaintance with Lolo Sarnoff began in the 1980s through our involvement with the Art Barn Gallery. When the board couldn’t reach consensus on starting a new program there

for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease—what was eventually to become AFTA—I branched off with Lolo to help in every way that I could with Arts for the Aging’s founding. I have

supported AFTA ever since!”–Dr. Carol Bird Ravenal,

Professor Emerita, College of Arts and Sciences, American University

AUCTION BIDDING INSTRUCTIONSLIVE AUCTION1) To enter a bid, raise your bid number on the back of your catalog while

facing the auctioneer.

2) The highest bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer and our volunteer spotters will be the purchaser. In the event of a dispute, the auctioneer has sole and final discretion as to who is the highest bidder.

3) All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges.

4) Item is sold “as is.”

5) The auctioneer reserves the right to withdraw the item from the auction if he deems there is no appropriate bid.

6) Please read and observe any additional auction instructions located on the auction tables and bid sheets.

7) Items must be paid for in full at “Check-Out” before the end of the event.

8) All bids are in U.S. Dollars.

9) Sculptures not taken home by winners on October 27 after the Gala will be temporarily stored at F&P Fine Art in McLean, Virginia. Contact F & P at 703-556-9777 to make arrangements to pick up sculptures.

SILENT AUCTION1) To enter a bid, write your bidding number (on the back of your

program) in the space next to the dollar amount.

2) Bidding increments are listed for each item. Bids which are not in that value, or a multiple of the value, will be voided.

3) If you wish to purchase the item outright for the amount listed at the bottom of the page, please write your bid number on the bid sheet in the appropriate location. Bidding for that item will cease.

4) Items must be paid for in full at “Check-Out” before the end of the event.

5) All bids are in U.S. Dollars.

7) None of the jewelry items are available to be delivered at a later date. Winners not present will be responsible for pick-up at the AFTA office. Call 301-255-0103.

8) Sculptures not taken home by winners on the night of the Gala will be temporarily stored at F&P Fine Art in McLean, Virginia.

9) If you are unable to take one of the sculptures with you this evening, you may make arrangements with F & P Fine Art for pick up at a later date. Contact F & P Fine Art at 703-556-9777 to make arrangements.

Payment for all auction items should be made at the registration table. AFTA accepts credit cards (American Express, Visa, and Mastercard) or checks.

AUCTION BIDDING

Since AFTA’s inception in 1988, many visionary donors and funders have joined with us to bring high quality arts programs free of charge to frail and vulnerable older adults in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. These philanthropic individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies have also supported training for our gifted professional teaching artists, as well as our groundbreaking best practices and research initiatives. We want to express our profound gratitude to these most generous benefactors whose cumulative giving over the years demonstrates our shared belief that creative expression combats isolation and brings joy, community, and better health to seniors who need it most.

Pioneers, $1 Million+The late Lolo Sarnoff (Founder)

Visionaries, $300,000–$999,999Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County

Catalysts, $200,000–$299,999The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationMartha HealyMaryland State Arts Council

Innovators, $100,000–$199,999Donald and Nancy Bliss/The Bliss TrustUnited Way of the National Capital Area

Creators, $50,000–$99,999Clark-Winchcole FoundationJulia and Michael Connors/The Connors Family FoundationThe Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.John Edward Fowler Memorial FoundationPhilip L. Graham FundWilhelmina and the late Wallace HolladayAlidz and Zaven KhachaturianNancy Peery Marriott FoundationThe Meredith FoundationMontgomery County Department of RecreationJeanne Ruesch and the late Otto RueschThe Shaman Charitable FoundationJulia Somoza

AFTA’S TOP BENEFACTORS

Partners, $25,000–$49,999Mildred Winslow Ashcraft TrustWilliam and Lovida ColemanSusanne and Clayton EisingerHarman Family FoundationHeinz Family FoundationTania and James HosmerInvestcorp InternationalJ. Willard & Alice S. Marriott

FoundationKunihiro Matsuda

Dorn McGrathMead Family FoundationMetropolitan Life FoundationCarol and Earl RavenalDeborah Ratner Salzberg and

Michael SalzbergSusan and Richard SchumacherMary WeinmannWeissberg Foundation

Facilitators, $15,000–$24,999BB&TPatricia BushDorothy Jordan Chadwick

FundCherrie Wanner DoggettRichard DreyfusNancy DuntonThe Samuel R. Dweck

Foundation, Inc.Forest City WashingtonGlaxoSmithKlineHarold KeshishianDorree Lynn

The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation

The National Endowment for the Arts

Henry E. Niles Foundation, Inc.Renah Blair Rietzke Family and

Community FoundationRolls-Royce Motor Cars, Inc.Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond

FoundationDebby Toll and the late John TollAdrienne VasJoy Willing

Recent grantors for mission support include:

$35,000Philip L. Graham Fund

$25,000Arts and Humanities Council of

Montgomery CountyThe Connors Family

Foundation

$20,000+Maryland State Arts CouncilThe Morris and Gwendolyn

Cafritz FoundationThe Clark-Winchcole

FoundationWeissberg Foundation

$15,000Nancy Peery Marriott

Foundation

$10,000Arts and Humanities Council

of Montgomery County (Advancement Grant)

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation (Matching Grant)

National Endowment for the Arts

$7,500+John Edward Fowler Memorial

FoundationLouis H. Shaman Charitable

Foundation

$5,000Henry E. Niles FoundationThe J. Willard and Alice S.

Marriott FoundationWilliam E. Cross Foundation

$3,000+The Renah Blair Rietzke Family

and Community FoundationThe Rockville Rotary

FoundationRotary Foundation of

Washington, D.C.

$2,500The Sulica Fund

$1,000Arlington Community

FoundationThe Elno Family FoundationMontgomery County Council

(Matching Grant)Montgomery County

Executive’s BallSunTrust Bank

PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERSAFTA thanks these additional Partners, whose donations help to support weekly and bi-weekly programs at their centers:

Arlington Adult Day Services Center

Friends Club

Iona Adult Day Health, Wellness, and Arts Center

Rockville Nursing Home

MISSION SUPPORT

PHOTOS FROM AFTA PROGRAMS

Photos courtesy Stephanie Williams Photography

Arts for the Aging, Inc. (AFTA) offered its first program in 1988. It was conducted by founder and sculptor Lolo Sarnoff for 15 seniors in a local medical day health center. Since then AFTA has grown to bring a faculty of 15 teaching artists into 26 partner agencies across the D.C. metro region. Through frequent creative engagement, AFTA combats isolation and spreads joy to over 700 older adults each year in weekly and bi-weekly workshops.

A faculty of teaching artists grounded in a diverse set of artistic disciplines is trained in our nationally recognized best-practices and supported for their work and expertise. The curricula are specially designed to provide health improvements and quality of life enhancements. They include painting, poetry, live instrumental music, dance, storytelling, intergenerational programs and more. Service is primarily focused on groups of seniors living with a broad range of physical and cognitive impairments in underserved adult day care centers, nursing homes, assisted living and community centers in the D.C. metropolitan area. To these primary groups, AFTA services are free of charge. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, community support is vital to Arts for the Aging’s cost-effective and innovative access to the transformative power of arts engagement.

Today, research shows that frequent professional arts engagements improve mental and physical health, longevity and overall quality of life in older adults. Practitioners nationwide are part of a growing field called creative aging, and AFTA is its front-runner as a trailblazer and a creator of best practices that can be replicated nationally. Over the past 27 years, AFTA has brought its signature weekly and bi-weekly Joy in Generation programs to older adults and has partnered with 62 senior centers locally, nationally and internationally to deliver its award-winning participatory arts workshops.

WHAT WE DO

“My father-in-law was in a nursing home for years, and

there was so little he could do. I visited him every day and wish there had been a joyful program

like Arts for the Aging’s there. Lolo Sarnoff created something so imaginative and needed for older people. My involvement

with AFTA helps me honor Lolo’s spirit by making sure

there is something creative and meaningful in the lives of those

who need it the most.”–Susie Eisinger, Vice-Chair of Arts for the Aging. Inc. and professional artist.

AFTA BOARD OF TRUSTEEST. Ryan Wilson, Esq., Chair

Alan Hermesch, Vice-Chair, Development-Communications

Kevin T. Bryan, Vice-Chair, Strategic Outreach and Partnerships, and Secretary

Susanne E. Eisinger, Vice-Chair, Volunteers

Nancy Havlik, Vice-Chair, Nominations

Gabriela I. Coman, Esq., Treasurer

Marla Bush, Assistant Secretary

Elinor Ginzler, Assistant Treasurer

Caroline A. A. Baker

Donald T. Bliss, Esq.

Joyce S. Hagel-Silverman, Ph.D.

Shahin Mafi

Jumana Qamruddin

Joan Ronnenberg

Don E. Wright

EX OFFICIO Bruce E. Matter, Esq., General Counsel

Janine Tursini, CEO

NATIONAL HONORARY ADVISORY COUNCILJerome Barry

Marie A. Bernard, M.D.

Nathan Billig, M.D.

Elaine Kotell Binder

Robert B. Blancato

Lilian Thomas Burwell

Thomye Cave

Yanira Cruz, Ph.D.

William R. Dunlap

Jehan El-Bayoumi, M.D.

Susan Lloyd-Graham

Steve Gurney

Matthew Hastings

Peter Jablow

Karyne Jones

Stuart Kandell, Ph.D.

Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan

Dorothy Kosinski, Ph.D.

Dorree Lynn, Ph.D.

William McSweeny

Susan Perlstein, M.S.W.

Carol Bird Ravenal, Ph.D.

Hans Riemer

Judy Rollins, Ph.D.

Judith Salerno, M.D.

Deborah Ratner Salzberg

Robert and Tricia Sarnoff

Susan J. Schumacher

FOUNDERLolo Sarnoff (1916 - 2014)

WHO WE ARE

AFTA STAFF & ASSOCIATESJanine Tursini, CEO

Brandi Rose, Program Director

Kathy Wilson, Administrator

Patricia Lieberman, Intern

Melanie Jarratt Wolfe, Philanthropy Consultant

Elevate, LLC, Grant-writing

Charles Hamilton/Dyer & Associates, Technology

Chris and Maureen Carr, Accounting

Chaves Design, Website

AFTA TEACHING ARTISTSPeter Burroughs, Opera and Spanish Dance

Marla Bush, Spanish Dance

Annetta Dexter Sawyer, Healing Movement

Joan Hampton Fraser, Creative Movement and Drama

Nancy Havlik, Dance, Quicksilver Co-Director

Anthony Hyatt, Music and Dance, Quicksilver Co-Director

Donna McKee, Visual Art

Sandy Roachford, Dance

Carol Siegel, Expressive Arts

Miles Spicer, Music

Karen Webber Gilat, Music

Tobias Werner, Music

Candace Wolf, Storytelling

Marcie Wolf-Hubbard, Visual Art

Wall Matthews, Music

QUICKSILVER DANCE COMPANYJaya Adiga

Judith Bauer

Dorothy Britt

Gloria Buckberg

Sachiko Chang

Ruby Chapman

Susan Coco

Gretchen Dunn

Margaret Easter

Nancy Harris

Dorothy Levy

Jenean McKay

Peg Schaefer

Betty Shuford

Marge Wydro

WHO WE ARE

AFTA PROGRAM PARTNERS Washington, D.C.Chevy Chase Community Center

Downtown Clusters Geriatric Day Care

Family Matters of Greater Washington*

Iona Adult Day Health, Wellness and Arts Center

Terrific Inc. Asian and Pacific Islander Senior Center

VirginiaAlexandria Adult Day Services Center

Insight Memory Care Center

Lewinsville Adult Day Health Care Center

Walter Reed Adult Day Health Care Center

MarylandEast County Community Center

Friends Club

Greenbelt Adult Day Care Center

Housing Opportunities Comission of Montgomery County

Kensington Club @ Parklawn

Kensington Park Senior Living*

Long Branch Community Center

Misler Adult Day Services Center

Olney Assisted Living*

Rockville Nursing Home

Sacred Heart Home

The Support Center/Family Services, Inc.

*All AFTA programs are free of charge to seniors, and only at select (*) partner sites are our programs fee-for-service to the center.

F & P FINE ART

Purveyors of a varied fine-art collection

F & P Fine Art1312 Vincent PlaceMcLean, VA 22101

703-556-9777703-556-9778 fax

fandpfineart@gmail.com

301-946-77003620 Littledale Road, Kensington, MD 20895

www.KensingtonParkSeniorLiving.com

At Kensington Park Senior Living,independence is yours to keep

and ours to respect.When you move to Kensington Park Senior Living, you can give up

housecleaning, cooking every meal, and maintaining your lawn.You can let us plan social outings or drive you to the store.

But you don’t need to give up independence. If you need help in any way,then we’re here to give it. However we do so with a promise

to preserve as much of your independence as possible.

Let’s talk. Visit Kensington Park Senior Living soon.The coffee is on!

Independent Living • Assisted Living • Memory Care

Kensington Park Senior Livingproudly supports the mission of AFTA

Arts for the Aging Gives Special Thanks To These Individuals for Their Volunteerism and Support at the Gala:

Diana CironePeter ColasanteDavid FreeburgGlenn HennesseyEva LambCarolyn LaurenzanoEva Lucero

Tony MorrellJoe PesceLorena Sevilla SomozaRhoda SeptiliciJean WighamSuzanne TolstoyLorrin Rosen

MJ Valet, LLC1425 K Street, NW #350Washington, DC 20005

P. 202.587.2745E. info@mjvalet.com

• SpecialEventValetParking• TransportationServices• Full-TimeValetParking• TrafficControlServices

L’Enfant GalerieG E O R G E T O W N

PETER A. COLASANTEDirector, Fine Art and Antiques

1442 Wisconsin Avenue NW Washington DC 20007lenfantgeorge@aol.com T (202) 625-2873

info@AFTAarts.org | 301.255.0103 | www.AFTAarts.org

12320 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20852

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