Greetings to all our friends,

The Emily Harvey Foundation celebrates two full years of activity, during which we have learned a lot about managing a foundation, renovating apartments, and running a residency program in the unique city of Venice, Italy.

We have served forty Residents: artists, novelists, composers, critics, architects, publishers, restorers, arts administrators, a printer, a philologist, a physicist, and the Poet Laureate of San Francisco.

We have mounted three exhibitions in our Venice exhibition space: Charlie Morrow's Virtual Aviary and Slow Gabrieli, Rodolfo La Porta's Inland Outland, and Alison Knowles' Time Samples, curated by Caterina Gualco. Alison Knowles' exhibition was also flanked by a performance at Museo Fortuny, a branch of the Musei Civici Veneziani, operated by the City of Venice. Galleria Michela Rizzo must also by thanked for its organization and support of this initiative.

Christian Xatrec has completed the inventory of over two thousand artworks left to us by Emily Harvey and which now compose the Foundation Collection. He is now about to begin the work of organizing the Foundation Archive and Reference Library.

We have completely renovated two residency apartments in Calle Cereria and have begun work on two more in Corte Ca' Michiel. At the end of 2007 we hope to have six apartments for Resident use in Venice. The comfortable arrangements we are able to offer largely result from the efforts of Henry Martin and Berty Skuber.

We have uploaded French, Italian and German versions of our website's homepage, and additional pages are now in preparation. This work has been undertaken with the collaboration of Alan Bowman.

Ewa Gorniak, who served the EHF as Office Manager from its inception in 2004, resigned. last November so as to be able to spend more time with her growing family. Our new Manager, Silvia Scattolin, is a native of Padua, a graduate in Modern Letters and Art History, and has held positions with the Museo d'Arte di Padova, Fondazione Querini Stampaglia, and the Venice Biennale. We are very happy to have her working with us.

On the business side, we have sold two non-performing properties on the Lido, built and rented an office suite, renovated four magazzinos, and doubled our Venice income. We still fall short of a balanced budget, but hope that we can reach this goal in the fairly near future.

We are currently planning shows in our Venice exhibition space by Philip Corner, Selected Scores, in March; Berty Skuber, Abacus/Carte Veneziane, in April; and Ay-O, Object Mandala with Words, in June, 2007. All of these manifestations will again be curated by Caterina Gualco. Philip Corner's exhibition will coincide with a concert of his music at Teatrino Groggia, and Berty Skuber's exhibition will be the occasion for the presentation of artist's book, made possible by a generous contribution from the Cultural Assessorate of the Province of Bolzano and published in collaboration with Giorgio Dittadi Editore. As well, a projection of the various video in which Berty Skuber has employed the music of Philip Corner and the dancing of Phoebe Neville will be presented in the spaces of Galleria Michela Rizzo, which here again has offered a valuable collaboration. We also hope that Kirsten Justesen will hold a show of sculptures in October 2007; she has applied for financial assistance from the Danish Ministry of Culture. Programming Chance, curated by James Fuentes, will be hosted in the exhibition space at the Foundation's New York headquarters at 537 Broadway at a date which soon will be announced.

But just as important as all of this has been the start of a network of people-Residents, friends, associates, advisors-who share our goals, and who wish us well. Some of you have recommended our residency program to others, some of you have spoken well of us in the halls of power and influence. Some of you have even sent us money. Bless you.

It is to all of you that this letter is directed. It is our hope that you will stay in touch with us, and we look upon all of you, friends and past Residents, as valuable resources. We especially look forward to your help as advisors, organizers, curators, liaisons, and fund raisers.

We note that the McDowell Colony will celebrate its 100th anniversary this year. We congratulate them, and hope that a hundred years from now our Foundation will be able to celebrate its own centennial.

Sincerely,

Davidson Gigliotti

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The Emily Harvey Foundation is a private foundation registered in the State of New York. Contributions to the Foundation are tax deductible under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.