2009 Year-end Appeal for Contributions

Please consider a year-end fully tax deductible donation of $1000, $500, $250, $100, $50, or any other amount, to support the Foundations’ work. To donate by credit card, go to http://www.bwaf.org/support.html, or send a check to: BWAF, Suite 3A, 2 Columbus Avenue, NY, NY 10023.

In this time of economic recovery, the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation needs your support to help rebuild its financial ability to expand the knowledge of women’s contributions to architecture. In the last five years the Foundation has:

  • Co-sponsored public programs with The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and an annual Women of Architecture series with the National Building Museum (NBM) during Women’s History Month. Previous speakers have included Jeanne Gang, while this coming year’s program—on International Women’s Day, March 8—will feature Toshiko Mori, FAIA.  http://www.bwaf.org/events.html
  • Provided funding for over 30 researchers, including Columbia University Historian Gwendolyn Wright, who incorporated her BWAF-funded women’s research into USA: Modern Architectures in History, the first survey to include women fully within the narrative of American architectural history. http://www.bwaf.org/fellows.html
  • Produced the film “A Girl is a Fellow Here- 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright that premiered in June at the Guggenheim Museum, and has since been shown at the First Annual Architecture and Design Film Festival, among other venues, and in 2010 will screen at the National Building Museum, for the New York City Real Estate Women (NYCREW) organization, and at numerous universities around the country. http://www.bwaf.org/index.html
  • Created the Dynamic National Archive, DNA, a wikipedia-style database of 20th-century women architects. http://www.bwaf.org/dna/
  • Funded the AIA’s hand-count of a list of women architects and Fellows – the first ever list of women – that was the basis for the book The First American Women Architects – and these names helped populated the DNA that now has over 1000 names.

The Foundation’s TRUSTEES and ADVISORY COMMITTEE deeply appreciate your support.