Return to flip book view

Klein Arts & CultureA Place to Reckon with the Past2022 Annual Report

We inherited a symbol of racial injustice, a house built by enslaved people in Alabama. We inherited a country of racial inequality, a system designed to enshrine white wealth.Now we face a responsibility to interrogate this inheritance.To confront these truths in small ways that, someday, may lead to the kind of change that repairs.Klein Arts & Culture began with two descendant communities coming together to reimagine kinship.Together, we dedicate our work to seeking justice through the arts. Because art has the power to reveal and restore a shared humanity that often has been erased.-Tyler Jones, 2020

To promote racial reconciliation through the arts and education.Our MissionTheoangelo Perkins, PresidentDescendantPeter DatcherDescendantJoey Brackner, Vice-PresidentFolkloristBeverly Oden JohnsonDescendantThomas Hoynes, TreasurerDescendantMeg Daniel NelsonCreate BirminghamBarbara AdkinsPreservationistNell Gottlieb, Executive DirectorDescendantOur Board

2022 Donation DistributionAlabama State Council on the Arts Alabama Historical Commission Alabama Humanities Alliance Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamOrganizationsIndividualsAnonymousBarbara AdkinsKay ArgoRobin AtwoodBill & Jean Avera*Adele BalinkMartha Lee Beckington*Patricia BellPeter BellTerry BellAlice BowsherJoey BracknerIrwin BrothersBill CaldwellSusan Colvin* = contributions of $1,000 or more ** = contributions of $10,000 or moreank You to Our DonorsJoyce CramerPeter DatcherSarah DugganBarbara G FantKathryn FernandezKarin Hoynes Foster*Bruce & Barbara FurieWilliam Loren GaryNell Gottlieb**Haruko GreenbergWarren & Burma HambyMiner HarrellEd HohlbeinBill Hoynes & Deirdre Burns*Louis & Virginia Hoynes**Samuel HoynesTom & Hilary Hoynes**Karen JensenMargaret KiddKathy King*Connie KohlerBonita McCrimonDoris McLeod WilliamsMeg NelsonGary Northrup*Jim Offel & Nancy LewinKatherine PearsonTheo PerkinsYuwen RenSonja RiegerBarbara RoyalSam ScottBonnie SimmonsLorraine SpahrAnne SteacySallie ThayerLaura WallaceDiana WalshJeffrey Williamson**Nell & Jim Willis*Zickler Family Foundation**RevenueGrants$135,225Individual Donors$259,75434%66%Total: $394,980ExpensesCapital$297,788Staff$23,803 Operating Expenses$69,818Total: $391,40918%6%76%

Nearby Vincent Middle School Students Read Poetry at the Wallace HouseWallace Descendant Homecoming 2022The interpretation Task Force presents development plansJoe McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project Visits the Wallace HouseTony Bingham dedicating his piece, Bearing Witness: Praise House - Sun ShadowsReception for Wallace descendant Albert “Peter” DatcherReparative Programming

Watch for Additional Programming• Artist Elizabeth M. Webb will complete her artist residency with a community sculpture project honoring descendant communities to be dedicated in fall, 2023. • A plan for a Virtual Reality and mixed media experience of the house interpretative narrative will be developed by Dr. Elijah Gaddis and Tyler Jones (leads), Dr. Lisa Bratton, Georgette Norman, Dr. Derryn Moton, and Dr. Shari Williams.• Local chefs will discuss the roots of their Southern cooking and provide samples, and local musicians will be featured in a house concert. • And there will be more, for sure!Migratuse Ataraxia at the Wallace House, 2020The Wideman-Davis Dance Company will return for a one-year residency in 2023/2024.The Wideman-Davis Dance Company will return for a one-year residency in 2023/2024.Coming in 2023Tour with Tony BinghamConversation on Reckoning at Ramsay High SchoolOvernight Stay led by Slave Dwelling Project’s Joe McGillHomecoming 20231/212/235/20-2110/7Date Program

Dear Friends,As Klein Arts & Culture Board President, and Mayor of Harpersville, I want to thank you for sharing our vision for the future of this house, this land, and our community. In 2018, Klein Arts & Culture was established to begin a new era for this land that bears a legacy of pain and injustice. We descendants joined together to create something new.We are inviting artists, writers, historians, thinkers, collaborators, and others to help us create a new place for truth telling and racial reconciliation. To do this we need your help. In 2023, we will break ground on an artist residency cottage and construct vital infrastructure for the Wallace house (including restrooms and an HVAC system). ese capital improvements will help us create a welcoming and comfortable space for all who want to engage in this work of repair.I hope you will support this continued work, and I look forward to seeing you at one of our events soon.eoangelo PerkinsPresidentLetter from the PresidentDear friends,Thank you to all our supporters who helped make so much incredible work possible in 2022. This year, we are looking forward to growing and strengthening the work of Klein Arts & Culture at the Wallace House. We have a lot planned for 2023. We aim to grow our board, update our strategic plan, develop an active board committee structure, and hire key staff, including a program and operations director. We look forward to ensuring the sustainability of Klein Arts & Culture and enhancing our physical space with important capital improvements. Executive Director’s NoteFinished Floor Line8' Plate HeightFinished Floor LineFinished Floor LineFinished Floor Line8' Plate HeightFinished Floor Line8' Plate HeightSHEET TITLEE S T E R& ASSOCIATES, INC.2 9 1 0 L I N D E N A V E N U EBIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 352092 0 5 . 8 7 9 . 3 1 3 4ARCHITECTSHJOB NO.DATE:SHEETOFDRAWINGSHEETscale : 1/4"=1'0"A PROPOSED OFFICE / PUBLIC FACILITIES K L E I NHARPERSVILLE, ALABAMA Phase 1 elevations Phase 2 elevationscale : 1/4"=1'0"12-13-2124We hope to do this work with our vision and mission in mind – to create a racially equitable country and facilitate racial reconciliation through the arts and education. Our goal is to be Black-centered and led by the descendant community. And our expanded board and staff will continue to reflect that vision. We thank you for standing with us in these efforts. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or want to learn how to be more involved.Nell GottliebExecutive Director

To learn more and support this work, visit: kleinartsandculture.org/donateWhile the walls are blank, each beamand board holds a story.