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The Art Center Association of Sioux City is a non-profit organization committed to supporting the Sioux City Art Center. Its board of directors assumes collective responsibility for long-range planning, fund-raising, volunteer support, and contributions to the financial well being of the Art Center.
While the City of Sioux City supports basic needs, such as most salaries, maintenance of the building, and some administrative costs, the Art Center Association supports all programs, as well as some staff salaries. It is because of the Association’s support and the funds raised by community volunteers that the Art Center is able to offer a dynamic schedule of programs. The Association looks toward the future through its endowment funds which will support future programs and acquisitions.
The Art Center Association of Sioux City was first incorporated in 1914 as the Sioux City Society of Fine Arts by John C. Kelly, John McHugh, W.P. Manley, T.A. Black, Alice K. Lawler and Cora E. Henderson. From its inception to the opening of the Sioux City Art Center in 1938, the Society sponsored art classes and exhibitions. Classes were held in various community buildings, as well as in Grandview Park during the summer months. Exhibitions were displayed at the Sioux City Public Library and the Woodbury County Court House.
In 1937, the Art Center Association of Sioux City along with the Sioux City Junior League and other community supporters petitioned the United States Government to establish a W.P.A. Art Center in Sioux City. They received a grant of $3,000, of which only half was used because citizens, businesses and local union members volunteered their creativity and labor to create their art center.The continuity between the original Sioux City Society of Fine Arts and the later Sioux City Art Center is also apparent in the Society’s mission to “promote and cultivate the fine arts, and foster art in all its branches; to promote the welfare of art in the City of Sioux City.”
The Sioux City Art Center opened on February 20, 1938 and has not closed its doors since.
Download the 2006-2007 Annual Report [.pdf]
The Art Center Association of Sioux City, 2007-2008 |
Board of Directors | Board of Trustees |
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President
Jan Poulson
Vice President
Jeana Goosmann
Secretary/2nd Vice President
Kent Vriezelaar
Treasurer
Michael Moderski
Past President
Jay Chesterman
Joyce Barnes
Dr. Richard Brown
Amy Chace
Jane Gilbert
Tigger Jensen
Mari Kaptain-Dahlen
Tom Kingsbury
Kevin Kjeldseth
Beth Ellis Kollars
Dr. Delna Lee
Shannon Liddell
Jillayne Pinchuk
Dr. Danielle Prince
Carlos G. Rodriguez
Melissa Smith
Jerry Stroup
Vicki Thomas
John Wagner
Steven Witten
Distinguished Members
Leslie Bebee
Sandy Ellis
Helen Glazer
Milton Glazer
Junior League Liaison
Margaret Holman
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Chair
Margot Chesebro
Vice Chair
Eunice Acker
Jeff Baldus
Robert Gillespie
Steven Kammerer
Mary McClintock
Doug Palmer
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