Our Supporters

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List Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes Preview, 2025. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Photo: Sarah Oh

The List Center Advisory Board and staff extend our gratitude to the following donors for their contributions from July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025, enabling us to present dynamic, educational programming to our audiences and champion groundbreaking art and artists. 

Thank you for your generous support.

Exhibition Sponsors ($25,000 and above)

The 2025 McDermott Award Gala
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Council for the Arts at MIT
Audrey & James Foster
National Endowment for the Arts
Cynthia & John Reed
Idee German Schoenheimer
Anonymous

Chairperson’s Council ($10,000–$24,999)

Amy & David Abrams
Brit d’Arbeloff
Karen & Greg Arenson
BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Lucy Moon-Lim & Richard Lim
Patrizia & Leonard Schrank
Jeanne & Don Stanton
Von Rydingsvard & Greengard Foundation

Presenter ($5,000–$9,999)

David Bermant Foundation
Patricia Dellorfano
Laura Flug & Danielle Flug Capalino
Ann & Graham Gund
Olga & John Guttag
Elizabeth Johnson
Patricia LaValley & Geoff Hargadon
Robert Nagle
Hyun-A Park & Jacob Friis
Royal Norwegian Consulate General New York
Sean Kelly Gallery
Rachel Somer
Anonymous

MIT Departments

Arts at MIT
Center for Art, Science, & Technology
Vice Provost Philip Khoury
   Office of Vice Provost
Music & Theater Arts 
Office of Graduate Education
Dean Hashim Sarkis
   School of Architecture and Planning

Leaders ($1,500–$4,999)

Sónia Almeida
Kate Chertavian
Lindsay & Charles Coolidge
Susanne Ghez
Linda Hartley
Karen Ho
Mindy Home & Drew Katz
Leila Kinney & Paul Summit
Eva Lundsager & Paul Ha
Tristin & Martin Mannion
Beth & Rick Marcus
Marianne Boesky Gallery
Amanda Morrison & John Rothenberg
Susan Poduska
David Solo
Terry & Rick Stone
Susan Whitehead
Samuel Yin

Friends of Boston Art ($500–$1,499)

Murray Abramson 
Libby Blank
Mark Epstein & Amoretta Hoeber
Suzanne Priebatsch
Martin Rosen
Jody & Erik Saarmaa
Wendy Shattuck & Sam Plimpton
Paula Soares & Brian Zink
Gloria Sutton & Henry Rath

Endowed Funds

Jane E. Farver Memorial Fund
Dorothy and Leroy Lavine Fund
William R. (1956) & Betsy P. Leitch Fund
Albert & Vera List Visual Arts Center Endowment Fund
Albert A. List Foundation Fund
Vera G. List Student Prize Fund
List Visual Arts Endowment Fund
Alan M. May (1957) Fund
Public Art Conservation Fund
Idee German Schoenheimer Public Arts Fund
Taylor Student Loan Collection Fund
Eliot K. Wolk Fund

Gifts of Art

Alex Katz Foundation
Andy Graydon
Edward McCluney Jr., in memory of Laura Beth Mersky
The Shifting Foundation, in honor of Robert D. van der Hilst
Jeanne & Don Stanton

“The world knows MIT for its creative boldness, and the arts are a perfect expression of that spirit. An essential element of the Institute’s thriving arts culture, the List Visual Arts Center is a place to be surprised, invigorated and inspired.”

Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT