Honoring
Jessica Lappin, President, Downtown Alliance
and
Maggie Boepple
Liberty Awards for Civic Leadership
Eiko Otake
Sam Miller Award for Performing Arts
Paul Pfeiffer
Michael Richards Award for Visual Arts
Amina Henry
Sarah Verdone Writing Award
Our Honorees
Maggie Boepple served most recently as President/Director of the The Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center (PAC@WTC), following a distinguished international career in public service, administration and government relations. Prior to her time at PAC@WTC, Boepple was President of LMCC where, under her direction, the organization ran the largest artist residency program in New York and created innovative arts programs, including Lent Space Art Park and studios on Governors Island. Previously, Boepple served as Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of Transport in London on the Private Public Partnership for the London Underground and held senior government positions at the MTA in New York and in the Koch administration, where she was the first woman to be appointed Director of Intergovernmental Relations. She currently serves as Vice Chair of The Fund for the City of New York. Boepple graduated from Brooklyn College. She is married to noted sculptor Willard Boepple and lives in Manhattan.
Born and raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976, Eiko Otake is a movement–based, interdisciplinary artist with a history of working for forty years as Eiko & Koma. Starting with the World Trade Center in 2000, LMCC offered many residencies to both Eiko & Koma and Eiko herself. Three consecutive River To River Festivals (2014-2016) presented EIko’s first independent work Two Women; her solo works A Body in a Station and A Body on Wall Street; video installation A Body with Water; the experimental “Talking Duets” with Emmanuelle Huynh and Okwui Okpokwasili. The last two works, and conversations with Sam Miller, led Eiko to develop her extensive Duet Project (2017-), in which she engages with artists of varied backgrounds and practices.
Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, HI, in 1966 and grew up traveling regularly between Hawaii and the Philippines. He moved to New York City in 1990 where he attended Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Pfeiffer’s groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and photography revisits the history of popular mass entertainment to explore the role of images in shaping individual and collective
consciousness. Reworking clips from YouTube, cable TV, and increasingly his own footage, Pfeiffer delves deeply into the aesthetics of non-linear editing to elucidate the hybrid forms of space and time that define day-to-day experience in the contemporary world. For the Performa 19 Biennial, Pfeiffer presented his first live performance in collaboration with The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band from the University of Georgia, at the Apollo Theater on November 11, 2019.
Amina Henry's recent productions include The Animals, Ducklings, Hunter John and Jane and The Johnsons at JACK (Brooklyn, NY), Bully (SUNY Purchase, Clubbed Thumb WinterWorks, Interrobang Theatre, and elsewhere), The Great Novel (New Light Theater) and Troy (HERO Theatre). Her work has been produced, presented at, and/or developed by: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The New Group, Ars Nova, Page 73, Clubbed Thumb, The Flea, National Black Theatre, HERO Theater, Project Y Theatre, Dixon Place and other venues. She was a 2017-2018 LMCC Space Grant recipient. She is a New Georges Affiliate Artist and 2018-2019 Audrey grant recipient for her play Hamlet Is Dead.
Our Supporters
As of May 27, 2020
TITANIUM COMMITTEE
Cisco
Citi
HLW International LLP
Neil Parikh
The Howard Hughes Corporation
PLATINUM COMMITTEE
American Express
Anne Goldrach/Greystone Management Corp.
Bloomberg Philanthropies
BuroHappold Engineering
Cherrie Nanninga
Conrad New York
Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association
Elizabeth & Michael Ashworth
Ken & Kim Blacklow
Linda Genereux & Timur Galen
Morgan Stanley/ Ekene Ezulike
Neil Goldmacher, Newmark Knight Frank
Time Equities, Inc.
SILVER SUPPORTERS
The Durst Organization
L&L Holding Company, LL
BRONZE SUPPORTERS
Meredith Kane
Scott B. Salmirs, President & CEO ABM Industries
Esta Stecher
COPPER SUPPORTERS
Marcia and Noel Caban
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Richard Berney, Cozen O'Connor
Thornton Tomasetti
BENEFIT COMMITTEE
Kevin Hoo, Co-Chair
Brian Saluzzo, Co-Chair
Kimberly Brown Blacklow
Greg James
Adam Meister
Cherrie Nanninga
About LMCC
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is a partnership-driven nonprofit organization that has been working at the intersection of arts, business, and community in Lower Manhattan for almost five decades. In September, we opened LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island—a 40,000 square foot creative space that serves as the gateway to Governors Island’s Arts & Culture District.
The Downtown Dinner supports our efforts to serve, connect, and make space for artists and community in Manhattan and beyond.
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