Alumna Suzanne Deal Booth, a former IFA Trustee, is a philanthropist, art advisor, collector, and vintner, and generously supports the Suzanne Deal Booth Fellowship in conservation at the IFA. She co-founded the Friends of Heritage Preservation in 1998 and serves as the director of the organization—a small private group dedicated to protecting and preserving cultural and artistic heritage. She currently serves on the boards of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Te Menil Collection, the American Friends of the Centre Pompidou, Ballroom Marfa, Te Contemporary Austin, and the Calder Foundation. In 2003, after she spent a year living in Rome with her young family, the Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize Fellowship for Historic Preservation and Conservation was created at the American Academy in Rome and has awarded annual fellowships ever since. Deal Booth’s current endeavors include establishing and cultivating Bella Oaks, an organic vineyard and olive orchard in Napa Valley, CA. Former Deal Booth Fellow Celeste Mahoney conducted and edited this interview.
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Suzanne Deal Booth for the Entourage Newsletter
Entourage suggested I give an account of my personal experience during this past six months, especially in regard to the arts for their Arts Edition. I’ve been busy thinking and realigning my priorities, and I’ve found that most arts organisations have been doing the same. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected so many people and industries. Artists especially are identified as one of the groups greatly impacted by the pandemic. The overwhelming loss of paid contracts, events, and commissions has taken a staggering toll on artists everywhere.
2022 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize Winner Tarek Atoui Announced
The Contemporary Austin has selected Tarek Atoui as the winner of the 2022 Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize.
2020 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize Winner Nicole Eisenman Solo Exhibition at The Contemporary Austin
ROOM TO MOVE: NICOLE EISENMAN AT THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN
Emotion, individualism, unfettered expression, fruitful rebellion, and spontaneous movement are not often the makings of everyday life. But sometimes the storm and stress of life bring such things into being.
So it goes with Sturm und Drang, a solo exhibition of work by renowned artist Nicole Eisenman, on view through Aug. 16 at the Jones Center, The Contemporary Austin’s downtown venue. The show includes drawing and painting, as well as outdoor sculpture at Laguna Gloria, the museum’s sculpture park. This is Eisenman’s first exhibition in Austin, and her first solo museum show in Texas. (Followers of her work may remember that the Nasher Sculpture Center presented a grouping of her sculptures last year in conjunction with an acquisition of her work.)