A visit to the Lyric Opera of Chicago was top on Sylvia Markowicz Neil’s bucket-list when she moved here to study at Northwestern Law. Never having attended a live performance,…
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Meet the board chairs of six worldclass institutions who are shaping our cultural landscape. These women tell tales of triumphs during an uncharted time in the wake of a global…
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Cari B. Sacks’ journey to Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), began with her educational choices. In college, she majored in psychology….
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In November 2021, Denise Gardner became the Chair of the Board of Trustees at The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). One of her favorite artists featured in the permanent collection,…
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Anne Kaplan jokingly calls herself a “serial board chair” having held the post for more than one Chicago cultural institution in recent years. Her interest in the arts started back…
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HELEN ZELL When Helen Zell moved to Chicago in her early 20s, she was eager to begin a new job in educational publishing and to embrace the cultural life of…
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Sandra Deromedi distinctly remembers an elementary school field trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. “That experience made such a big impression on me—I was…
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