Legacy: The Kreielsheimer Foundation

by Paul Dorpat (Editor), Donald L. Johnson (Preface by)

Overview

Legacy is the fascinating inside story of how a great foundation touched dozens of organizations and countless people. Seattle's cultural life, notable for its intellectual verve and rich variety, received an unexpected and enduring gift through the foresight of Leo and Greye Kreielsheimer. Through the provisions of the foundation they established, their fortune has been conveyed over a twenty-five year period to an astonishingly wide range of cultural institutions - centers of the Seattle, Puget Sound, and Alaska arts communities.

The presence on the Seattle scene of this active, generous, and culturally informed foundation was instrumental in encouraging other major donors to join in a number of grand and notable projects. It became possible not only to help certain arts organizations move beyond their typical year-to-year funding but also to expand, to build new halls and theaters, and even to establish endowments for the future.

Engaging first-person recollections include stories by Foundation trustee Donald L. Johnson about the golden years in Seattle's arts community, as well as candid comments from many of the leading administrators of the Puget Sound region's prominent educational and cultural organizations. Specific focus is given to the Kreielsheimer Foundation's contributions to musical performance groups, the visual arts, local theater groups, and dance performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295986036
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	05/17/2006
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Dorpat is a Seattle Times columnist and author of Seattle, Then and Now. Other contributors include Sheila Farr, Michael James, Genevieve McCoy, and Jean Sherrard.

Table of Contents

Preface by Donald L. Johnson

Introduction by Paul Dorpat

Part I. The Major Arts

1. Music, by Michael James

—Seattle Symphony

—Seattle Opera

—Other Musical Organizations

2. Visual Arts, by Sheila Farr

—Creative Alliances

—The Nuts and Bolts of Gift-Giving

—The Kreielsheimer Money at Work

—A Personal Style of Giving

3. Theatre, by Jean Sherrard

—Seattle Reperatory Theatre

—Book-It Repertory Theatre

—Intiman Theatre

—Empty Space Theatre

—Seattle Children's Theatre

—A Contemporary Theatre

4. Dance, by Genevieve McCoy

—Pacific Northwest Ballet

—On the Boards

—Other Dance and Performance Art Projects

Part II. Notable Capital Projects

5. On and Off Mercer Street

6. "Critical Mass": Two Examples

Part III. Other Beneficiaries

7. Arts Education

8. Seattle Center: The City of Seattle

9. ArtsFund / Corporate Council for the Arts

10. Regional Performance, Heritage, and Cultural Centers

11. Alaska

12. Northwest Art

13. Seeds, Niches, and Rescues

14. Art at the Edge

Part IV. The Kreielsheimers and the Trustees

15. The Kreielsheimer Foundation: Creation, Structure, and Philosophy

16. Pioneers and Patronage

17. The Kreielsheimer Brothers

18. Charles F. Osborn

19. Donald L. Johnson

20. Trustee Touchstones

Part V. Epilogue

21. Endowments and Remainders

22. Return to Mercer Street

Afterword

Appendix: Kreielsheimer Foundation Grant Recipients

Index