The First 40 Years 1975 - 2015

THE FIRST 40 YEARS
1975 – 2015

Thanks to pioneering individuals
in the private and public
sector, the Art and Culture
Center/Hollywood begins its
40th year as one of the leading
multi-disciplinary arts
nonprofits in South Florida,
presenting “New Art in an Old
Building” at its permanent
home at 1650 Harrison Street.
Since 1975, the Center has provided a home for the arts
in Hollywood through its gallery exhibitions, education
programs, artist lectures, and live performances.
Today, the Center is the third oldest arts nonprofit in
Broward County, behind only the Fort Lauderdale
Children’s Theatre (1952) and Museum of Art Fort
Lauderdale (1958). It is one of just eight organizations,
out of more than 800 art and cultural entities in
Broward County, to be designated a Major Cultural
Institution by the Broward County Commission.
The Kagey Mansion, 1924
We’re extremely proud to have reached our 40th anniversary
at a time when the future of the Center has
never been brighter. It’s a testament to everyone that
has been a part of the Center these past four decades
that we’re widely recognized as a vital contributor to the
quality of life in Hollywood and throughout the region.
Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, 2015
For this publication, we have gathered information
from press clips, archival materials, and interviews
with participants to create a cursory history of how
the Center arrived at this milestone. As you will find in
learning more about our history, the Center’s longevity
and its status in Broward County are the result of
an engaged community and elected officials in the
City of Hollywood that recognize the role of the arts
to inspire creativity, innovation, and collaboration.
We go forward into the future committed to further
enriching the lives of residents and visitors
in our community for generations to come.
Joy Satterlee
Executive Director
October 25, 2015

The first home for the Art and Culture of Hollywood, 1975
In the beginning …
It is impossible to acknowledge everyone who
has played a role in shaping the Center’s history
since it opened on November 2, 1975, but
any history must begin with Mrs. Eleanor Magee.
A retired music teacher from Pennsylvania with a degree
in literature, Magee was one of the chief organizers
of the city-sponsored Seven Lively Arts festival held
annually in Young Circle Park beginning in 1960. Seven
Lively Arts featured music, visual arts, and dance performances
at a time when Hollywood’s population more
than tripled from 35,237 in 1960 to 125,400 in 1975.
“Every year, summer or spring, there would be seven
nights of the arts in Young Circle,” recalled Becky
Hunkins, Magee’s daughter and current Hollywood
resident. “That’s where my mother met all the artists
and decided we needed a museum.”
For the better part of 12
years, Magee chaired
the City’s Art and Culture
Committee and spearheaded
a group that
kept an eye out for a
suitable site for an arts
center. Hunkins said her
mother found a building
on the beach that was
vacant for three years,
at 1301 S. Ocean Drive,
and went to the commission
with the idea
to take it over from a developer called Three Islands.
Founder Eleanor Magee with daughter Becky
Hunkins
“She’s the one, with others, who went to commission
meetings and begged them to get this building,”
Hunkins said. “They were trying to go any-

where they could to find a home for the Center. She
didn’t say it was a cultural wasteland. She said it
just lacks any cultural facilities whatsoever. ”
Hollywood resident Johnnie Sue Glantz was
among those early organizers of Seven Lively
Arts with Magee and later served twice as Board
Chair. She remembers Magee telling her, “We’ve
got the bear by the tail and we can’t let go.’
Mayor David Keating and Mrs Eleanor McGee at the Center’s ribbon cutting,
1975
A view of the 1301 location from S. Ocean Drive
Sylvia Stoltz, a Hollywood resident since 1978 who
helped form the Center’s original docents group, recalled,
“The city took over the building, but required
that it be used for ‘art and culture,’ not just art. Music
and learning had to
be incorporated. There
1925: The Center’s first
was an art school in the
location stood on the beach
back of the building.”
site that housed Tent City,
which was described as a
The City took $200,000
“resort under canvas,” with
set aside for the S.S.
electricity, running water, and
Holland Waterfront
maid service. It was destroyed
Park to renovate the
during the 1926 hurricane.
building, valued at
more than $1 million,
in 1975. The grand opening at the beachside
address coincided with the 50th anniversary of the
City of Hollywood. Mayor David Keating performed
the ribbon cutting with Eleanor Magee standing next
to him. Nearly 2,000 people paid a $5 admission for
a full day of arts activities that featured a group exhibition
of more than 60 works by South Florida artists,
plus performances by musicians and dancers.
The monthly magazine Town Topics declared in its
December 1975 issue that the opening, “left one with
the feeling that we were celebrating the first day of
Spring combined with the wonderment of Christmas.”
The reporter, Jack Grant, noted, “When a community
backs such an idea with their time, talent and
their money, you can be sure that the community is
ready to take on the support of such a facility.”
Hollywood Sun-Tattler, 1975
The Center began as a division of the City’s Parks and
Recreation Department. The Board was appointed
by the City Commission and Eleanor Magee was selected
as Chair in the first year. The beach site had
a huge gallery and a deep, sunken inset in the center
of the space where lectures and music concerts
were held. The walls for the gallery were stucco and

in the shape of cubicles, which were once used by
the Three Island sales staff. There was an atrium and
a meeting room in what became the Keating Wing.
Admission to exhibitions and performances was free.
Within two months of opening, The Friends of the
Art and Culture Center was formed as a membership
group that charged annual dues. By 1985, the
Friends had 1,285 members. Operating funding was
provided primarily by the City, sales at the Creative
Arterie Gift Shop, and dollars raised by volunteers.
“We had plant sales, we hired an auctioneer to do an
auction, we had an Elegant Junque sale,” said Sylvia
Stoltz, who also served as Director of Volunteer Services.
“We always raised money. We had a day at the races
at Gulfstream Park. It was all volunteer driven.”
Programming in the early years consisted of a rotating
schedule of exhibitions, which included Pablo Picasso’s
Vollard Suite in 1977, and a variety of cultural offerings,
such as the Tuesday Morning Musicale, Sunday
Afternoon Concert Series, and a film series. By the
second anniversary the Center was the umbrella site
for the Hollywood Philharmonic Orchestra, Hollywood
Art Guild, Hollywood/South Florida Poetry Festival,
and South Florida Art
Institute of Hollywood.
1978: A one-night “informal
chat” by the legendary
The Art Institute was
Broadway actress Mary
run by artist Elwin
Martin was attended by 400 Porter, who moved
people who paid $10 each. his classroom/studio
A Kennedy Center honoree, to the Center in 1977
Martin originated many
after operating for 20
leading roles over her career, years in Miami. Among
including Nellie Forbush in
those who studied
South Pacific and Maria von under Porter over the
Trapp in The Sound of Music. next decade were such
notable South Florida
artists as Francie Bishop
Good, Madeline Denaro,
Judy Sayfie, Jean Leighton, and David Maxwell. Porter
was chosen by the National Association of Schools of Art
as one of 30 “Best Directors” from across the country.
Russell Hicken was hired in 1977 as the first Executive
Director and given a $60,000 operating budget from
the City. The gallery season included an exhibition
of prints from the Esmark Collection of Currier and
Ives. Hicken left the Center after one year and was
replaced by Carol Hotchkiss Malt of Coral Gables.
Within a year, Malt was tasked with updating the
Center’s image from one patronized primarily by senior
citizens who lived in beachfront condos to a visual and
performing arts center that “appeals to the entire family.”
The gallery season
during this period
included the Gold
Coast Water Color
Society – 4th Annual
Members Exhibition
and the South Florida
Art Institute Alumnae
Exhibition, plus paintings
and drawings
by Elwin Porter.
The exhibition
programming took
a dramatic turn
with the hiring of
Wendy Blazier as
assistant director
and curator in 1979.
Just 26, Blazier
began her 16-year
tenure at the Center by bringing more ambitious
traveling shows to the galleries to supplement
thematic exhibitions by area artists.
Henri Matisse, 1944 linocut, Ninety Prints by Henri
Matisse: The Legend of Pasiphae
Aug. 31, 1978: The Center receives
Articles of Incorporation from the State
of Florida and is formally established as a
501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
In 1982, the Center was the only venue in the Southeast
U.S. to host the Smithsonian show, Western Views,
Eastern Visions, drawing record crowds. An exhibition
by renowned Miami Beach-based American impressionist
Henry Salem Hubbell (1870-1949) a year later
resulted in a catalogue and traveled to the Museum of
Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Ninety Prints by Henri Matisse:
The Legend of Pasiphae was an acclaimed touring show
of linoleum block prints based on the Greek legend of
Pasiphae created by Matisse between 1940 and 1944.

Shows by local artists also took a more daring,
contemporary tone. Air Affair featured a Sky Art
Performance of sky writing over the ocean. The
Courtroom Art of Shirley Henderson broke new ground
with drawings created during the federal trial of then-
U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings, who was acquitted
and later attended the opening-night reception.
The western half of Young Circle was the first choice
recommended by a Center advisory board. A group
called Downtown Hollywood Center, Inc., also considered
the southwest corner of the Hollywood
Beach Golf Course, a downtown parking lot, or occupying
a floor of a not-yet-built office development.
Commissioners favored the golf course site.
The Center broke
1981: The Literary Lecture
new ground of a
Series featured convicted
different sort in
Watergate burglar G. Gordon May 1982 when
Liddy as a guest speaker.
it began charging
an entrance
fee for the first
time: $1 for adults, 50 cents for children. That year, the
City cut its general operating funding from $92,000
to $65,500, requiring the Center to increase revenues
and fund-raising efforts to cover budget deficits.
Malt resigned in November 1984 and was replaced by
Jerrold Rouby, the Center’s third Executive Director. The
average yearly attendance was 41,000 and the majority
of attendees were beach residents and tourists.
The uncertainty over the beachside building had a ripple
effect on fund-raising that resulted in a budget crisis in
February 1986. With the threat of a temporary shutdown
imminent due to a lack of operating funds, the Center’s
Board asked the Commission for an emergency subsidy.
The Center received the support it needed, with Mayor
David Keating and Commissioners Sue Gunzburger
and Stanley Goldman voting to provide the funds.
Rouby resigned in February after serving one year
as Executive Director. Wendy Blazier was promoted
to fill the position and continued her work as curator.
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the Center’s
future, the 1986-87 season featured eight exhibitions,
including a show by ground-breaking New
From Hollywood Beach to
Downtown Hollywood
The beginning of the end for the beach location
was set in motion in 1985 when city engineers
inspected the building and determined
that it needed $320,000 in repairs. Built on sand
(not pilings) in 1969, it was deemed not worth fixing
and a search began for a new home in downtown
Hollywood. Rouby told the Sun-Sentinel, “[Downtown]
is more accessible and it’s an opportunity for more
facets of the community to utilize what we have.”
York painter Joe Zucker, considered one of the
most innovative artists of the late 20th century.
With a budget deficit and a deteriorating building, the
need to find a new
home became more March 9, 1986: Eleanor
urgent. A referendum Magee died at age 89. She
to build a new $4
remained involved with the
million arts center at Center up to her passing.
Young Circle Park was
placed on the ballot for
elections held in November 1986. The Center’s Board
formed an advocacy group to inform voters via mailers,
advertisements, and speaking before civic groups.

Once again the building and the Center were saved,
this time by a $200,000 State grant awarded to the City
to conduct a “cultural needs” study to create a plan to
build a new arts facility. The Center would survive one
more closing date and the planned demolition. A plan to
move to Vista College also fell through when the school
missed its construction deadline and never opened.
Interior of the beach location for June 1976 dedication ceremony
Newly elected Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti threw
her support behind the Young Circle referendum, arguing
at a rally, “Businesses want to be where there’s activity,
where there’s community pride, where there’s culture.”
The Sun-Sentinel wrote an editorial that backed the
referendum, but with 43% support, the initiative failed.
The near-death experiences finally ended in December
1987 when Hollywood business leaders David Horvitz
and Al Finch pledged to raise $50,000 to pay for repairs
needed to keep the 1301 site open another three to four
years, long enough to find a new home. “We don’t want
to see it die,” Finch told the Sun-Sentinel of the pledge.
The Center closed temporarily for three months, and in
March 1988, artist Francie Bishop Good and her husband,
David Horvitz, hosted a $100-a-plate dinner at
Two weeks later, the Commission decided
to close the Center on January 31, 1987,
until a new site could be identified.
Not so fast was the response of the Center’s Board
and Executive Director Wendy Blazier. They appealed
the decision to shut down, with Blazier telling
the Commission she was, “confident with the structural
soundness of the building.” A brief reprieve was
granted, but only until a January meeting when the
Commission voted to demolish the beach property.
Opening day, Feb. 2, 1992, at the Kagey Mansion
their home and raised $30,000 to pay for repairs. Bishop
Good served on the Board of Trustees three times and,
with Horvitz, has been on the Honorary Board each year
since 2008 to the present. David’s grandfather Samuel
and his father William developed communities such
as Emerald Hills and Hollywood Hills with their company
Hollywood, Inc., which Samuel founded in 1930.
The first Summer Arts Camp was offered in 1988, and
the galleries re-opened with an exhibition of 35 largescale
paintings by renowned Op Art colorist Richard
Anuszkiewicz. Gallery admission was raised to $2.
Gallery exhibition, June 1976

Johnson-Foster Funeral Home is laid to rest, 1991
The Kagey Mansion
“Bill Foster tried to sell the building to Fred Hunter
[funeral homes] and Fred Hunter said we don’t
need another funeral home,” recalled Johnnie Sue
Glantz. “He called [Mayor] Mara Giulianti and said
this would be a good place for the Art and Culture
Center. Mara thought it was an excellent place.”
It took one year to finalize the deal and begin planning
renovations of the funeral home. The City paid
$1.5 million for the building and the cottage next to it,
built in 1955, that now serves as the Arts School. The
purchase came at a political cost for Mayor Giulianti.
She was voted out of office by 550 votes in March
1990 after being accused of striking a deal for the
Center behind closed doors. The City Attorney and
City Manager were fired for allegedly taking part in
the meeting in violation of the state’s Sunshine Laws.
The Broward State Attorney’s Office investigated
With the threat of imminent demise averted,
energies were focused once again
and ruled that the plan to purchase the funeral home
was decided legally. Mayor
on finding a permanent
home in downtown
1989: Former Mayor David
Giulianti was elected again in
1992 and served until 2008. The
Hollywood. By November 1989, Keating was installed as new
City Attorney and City Manager
the former Johnson-Foster Funeral President of the Friends of
were also exonerated.
Home at 1650 Harrison Street
the Art and Culture Center.
was the consensus first choice.
The target date for moving from
Built in 1924 by Jack Kagey at
the beach site was the spring 1992.
the height of a Hollywood land boom ushered in by
Exhibitions continued at 1301 S. Ocean Drive with a more
city founder Joseph Young, the two-story house was
consistent and diverse schedule of shows that included
designed in the Spanish Mediterranean style championed
at that time by Addison Mizner. Addison’s
artists from Israel, Haiti, and Russia. Education programming
also grew with the hiring of actor Ed Schiff as
brother Wilson was a design consultant on the home.
Education Curator. Schiff, a Florida Atlantic University
graduate, was best known for playing detective John
The Kagey Mansion was one of Hollywood’s first
Wolfe from 1979-82 on
showplace homes and was completed a year before
the City of Hollywood was incorporated. Its first
the soap opera One
Life to Live. He resigned 1991: Film director Spike Lee
owner, Jack Kagey, was the sales manager of Joseph
the position after one attended a press conference
W. Young’s Hollywood Land and Water Company. He
year and went on to at the beach location to open
earned the seed money to build the home by winning
direct plays at the
the South Florida Black Film
a contest held by Young for his salesmen during the
Hollywood Playhouse. Festival. Actor Danny Glover
height of the real estate boom in the early 1920s.
would present awards at the
Renovations had begun
at the Kagey
at the Kagey Mansion.
festival the following year
The Kageys were in the home for just two years, when
in September 1926, the structure withstood a hurricane
site when the final
that leveled Hollywood and ended the land boom. The
show at the beach
home was owned in the 1930s by an industrialist who
galleries opened on Sept. 12, 1991. Neith Nevelson: In
manufactured Brillo pads, and in the 40s was rumored
the Middle of the Night: Paintings and Etchings, featured
works by the granddaughter of 20th-century
to have been a gambling parlor. It remained a private
residence until 1960 when the Foster family converted
it into a funeral home that remained open until 1989.

sculptor Louise Nevelson. A 16-page illustrated pamphlet
was published by the Center with text by
Wendy Blazier. Closing day was Nov. 3, 1991.
Johnnie Sue Glantz was elected Chair, beginning a sixyear
tenure, as the Center transitioned to the downtown
site. The Center finalized a long-term lease with the City
to pay $1 annually to rent the Kagey Mansion. On Sept.
5, 1991, the Articles of Incorporation were amended
to formally make the Center independent from the
Parks and Recreation Department and City oversight.
Opening day was Sunday, Feb. 2, 1992, with
the 83-piece exhibit, As Seen By Both Sides,
based on the Vietnam War as viewed through
the eyes of 20 American and 20 Vietnamese artists.
More than 400 people attended.
Renovations resulted in the opening of two galleries in
what are now the Middle and Project Room galleries.
Improvements were completed on the 1,300-squarefoot
Arts School in time for summer camp in 1993.
Work on the second floor was completed to include
an elevator, administrative offices, and a new gallery
space, what is now the Student Gallery. Bookshelves
were built to create an art reference library that contained
more 3,000 volumes and was, at one time, the
largest collection of art books in Broward County.
“We raised funds for the research library,” recalled
Nina Nissenfeld, a Trustee from 2006-12 and current
Center member who was instrumental in develop-
In 1991-92, the Center received the largest infusion of
private sector funding in its history to that point. A
capital campaign to continue renovations also raised
more than $450,000 in cash and pledges to be paid over
five years. An application to the State of Florida Cultural
Facilities Grant Program resulted in a $381,000 award
for capital improvements and expanded programming.
June 10, 1993: The Pave the Way project
to re-brick the front walk began. Mary
Kent chaired the fund-raising project
and the named bricks remain in place.
The building was designated by the State of Florida
as a significant historical structure and is forever to
be held for public enjoyment by city government. (In
2008, the Broward Trust for Historic Preservation honored
the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood for its
restoration and stewardship of the Kagey building.)
The First Founders for the Kagey Mansion Facility, as inscribed
on the marble wall at the entrance, are: Johnnie
Sue and George Glantz; Francie Bishop Good and David
Horvitz; Leonard and Sally Robbins; Becker & Poliakoff,
P.A.; the William and Norma Horvitz Foundation;
and the Alfred E. and Birdie W. Einstein Fund.
March 2, 1994: In recognition of the
Center presenting the U.S. debut of the
historic Minisalon exhibition from the Czech
Republic, Rep. Peter Deutsch entered
into the Congressional Record (Volume
140, Number 21) remarks about the
significance of the multi-media works on
display. Sponsored by Becker & Poliakoff,
P.A., Minisalon exhibited 244 art works by
prominent underground Czech artists about
life under the deposed Communist regime.

ing the library. “Money was raised at the Sunday
afternoon music concerts. We asked people to donate
books and sold the books before the concert, and
with that money purchased books for the library.”
An era ended in 1995 when Rick Arrowood became
President/CEO and Wendy Blazier resigned. Arrowood
moved from the Little Palm Theater in Boca Raton and
held the position for 19 months. He was credited with
extending the Center’s outreach in the community, but
this was the most tumultuous period in the Center’s history
due to staff turnover, strife with area artists, and a
controversy over changes made in grant applications.
Dan Tomberlin was hired as Executive Director in
February 1997 to replace Arrowood. The Center redefined
its mission to being a multi-disciplinary organization
that presented visual and performing arts.
Tomberlin stayed just nine months, but in the brief
time he developed a more sustainable funding model
with the support of the City, added five new Board
members, and brought back the Friends of the Art and
Culture Center. Becky Hunkins became president of
Friends after living more than a decade in Tallahassee.
The Center celebrated its 20th anniversary with
the Fourth Annual November Auction on Nov. 4,
1995, in the main facility. The exhibition to celebrate
the occasion was Turning Twenty: Two
Decades of Selections from the Collection, a broad
sampling of works donated to the Center.
Pamela Joseph’s Sideshow of the Absurd was named Best Solo Art Exhibition
for 2003 by New Times
Johnnie Sue Glantz also credited Tomberlin with hiring
Cynthia Miller: “She’s the one who built it back up.”
Glantz resigned the Board after more than 20 years
of active service to the Center, often when it faced its
biggest challenges. “It was a good time for me to leave
the Board,” she said. “I always looked at the Center like
Le Miz, going up the flagpole and passing the flag.”
Alan Koslow was elected to the Board in 1997, beginning
18 years and counting of continuous service,
including seven as Board Chair (2002 to 2009). His
involvement with the Center began in 1991 as interim
City Attorney when he helped negotiate the
49-year lease agreement for the Kagey Mansion.
Koslow was honored by County Commissioners on
Nov. 16, 2004, with “Alan B. Koslow Appreciation
Day” for his contributions to the arts in Broward.
The beginning of now
The legendary Mikhail Baryshnikov performed at OceanDance
Cynthia Miller was hired in the newly created
position of Curator of Education in Sept.
1997, and within a few months replaced
Dan Tomberlin as Executive Director. The foundation
for what the Center represents today began with

Miller, shifting the vision of the organization from
operating as a museum presenting traveling exhibitions
to becoming more community oriented.
“Why not be the best arts center in the area,” Miller
suggested, “that is more grass roots and hands on.”
In March 1998, inspired by the artist Christo, the Center
was wrapped in white paper and topped with a red
bow, symbolizing that the organization is a “gift” to the
community. That summer, more than 1,000 people attended
the All Elvis Art and Social special event sponsored
by City Link Magazine to benefit Kids in Distress.
OceanDance was launched in April 1999 to formally
expand the Center’s mission from the visual arts to
include the contemporary performing arts. According
to news reports, more than 20,000 people attended
free performances on a stage on Hollywood beach
by the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Maximum Dance
Company, and Miami City Ballet. In 2000, Mikhail
Baryshnikov and his White Oak Dance Project performed
to establish OceanDance as a signature event for the
Center and Hollywood that continued until 2008.
For the 25th anniversary in 2000, long-time Hollywood
residents Leonard and Sally Robbins co-chaired the
Silver Legacy fund-raising campaign and donated
$10,000 to launch the initiative. Mr. Robbin’s father
Archie was the first men’s clothier in Broward County
and taught him, “If the community is good to you, pay
your dues.” Sally Robbins was a Board member from
1991 to 1997 and remains involved
to this day. She was recognized 2001: After two years as a
for her support of the arts by the spring happening, OceanDance
Hollywood Commission on Nov. 7, was moved to December for
1997, with Sally J. Robbins Day. its remaining eight years so it
Over a two-year period, the
no longer interfered with turtle
artists who had works exhibited
in the gallery included Dale beach. A request to keep the
nesting season on Hollywood
Chihuly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert event in the spring was denied
Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dali, by the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Robert Rauschenberg, Philippe Conservation Commission.
Halsman, and Romare Bearden.
The most daring and talked
about exhibition, however, was the landmark counterculture
show Lowbrow Art: Up From the Underground,
a survey of 65 pop-inspired works by 31 artists.
Southern Living magazine tells the story of OceanDance
“When people see [Lowbrow] they’re going to
circle the wagons and set the place on fire,” artist
David Maxwell predicted in City Link.
The building survived and by 2000 the Center had moved
past the unstable management period
of the mid-1990s. The annual operating
budget grew from $270,000
in 1997 to $1.2 million as the Center
took over the programming and management
of the Hollywood Central
Performing Arts Center, the 500-seat
theater located at 1770 Monroe
Street (U.S. 1 and Monroe Street).
The Center carved a new niche
by becoming a leading presenter
of contemporary dance in South
Florida, with an annual season of
performances at the Performing Arts Center.
Dance programming was spearheaded by Tiffany
Hill, who was hired as Program Manager in December
2002 and later became Artistic Director in 2005.

Among the touring troupes that performed were
Chicago’s Zephyr Dance, New York’s Parsons Dance
Company, and Philadelphia’s Koresh Dance Company.
Hill also produced OceanDance through 2007, and
was a consultant for the final OceanDance in 2008.
Contemporary gallery exhibitions further complemented
the live performances beginning in 2001 with
the addition of Samantha Salzinger as Curator of
Exhibitions. Curatorial shows varied from Plugged
In: New and Electronic Media, a showcase of South
Florida artists working in electronic and video art,
to Sideshow of the Absurd, which replicated a traveling
circus sideshow from a feminist point of view.
The consistent schedule of challenging and innovative
programming was recognized by New Times,
which called the Center a “local treasure,” and
“More adventurous in its choices than any museum
from Miami Beach to West Palm Beach.”
The Center was selected Best Museum for 2000
in New Times’ Best of issue, and in 2003 and 2004
was named Best Arts Center by City Link. These
were the first of many “Best of” designations
that have been awarded to the Center since.
The success of the Lowbrow Art exhibition inspired
a solo show based on pop iconography titled Secret
Mystic Rites: A Todd Schorr Retrospective (Dec. 15,
2001 to Feb. 17, 2002). The sensibilities of some
were ruffled and a lively public debate about censorship
ensued when the Center sent a mailer that
showed a knife-wielding Easter Bunny and axswinging
Santa Claus locked in mortal conflict.
Thank you to Leadership Hollywood for its contributions to the Arts School
The piece was titled “Clash of the Holidays,” in a
satirical jibe at the commercialism of the two holidays,
and resulted in a group called the Coalition of
Hollywood Citizens to protest the image at a commission
meeting. “Not all art is comfortable,” said
then-Commissioner Beam Furr of “Clash,” which belonged
in the private collection of actress Courtney
Cox Arquette from the hit TV show Friends.
In 2002, the Center’s current Executive Director Joy
Satterlee was hired as Deputy Director, providing
administrative support as Cynthia Miller devoted
more time to development of what became ArtsPark
at Young Circle. As part of a downtown revitalization
plan in which the arts were central, Miller rallied
the support of artists, residents, and businesses. She
would later split her time between the Center and
the City’s newly created Office of Arts and Cultural
Affairs, eventually leaving to work for the City in 2005.
The model for year-round education programming for
K-12 youth took shape in 2003 with the hiring of Susan
Rakes, who now serves as Assistant Director. The Youth
Touring Troupe Stage Kids was created to perform
throughout the community. In October 2003, Stage Kids
performed the song “One” with award-winning composer
Marvin Hamlisch before nearly 500 attendees
at the Fifth Annual Crystal Vision fund-raiser gala at
the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa. Two Stage Kids,
sisters Sophia and Melody Kleinman, have been part
of Center education programs since, enrolling in Teen
Arts Ambassadors and Summer Arts Camp in 2015.
The Distance Learning Arts Studio has delivered instruction to more than
12,500 students and educators in Broward County public schools
Also in 2003, Summer Arts Camp was expanded to
an eight-week program for two distinct age groups,
5-12 and 8-15. A year later, the Portfolio Prep afterschool
program for the visual arts was launched

The Center is one of just eight Major Cultural Institutions in Broward County
with a $16,000 grant from the Broward County
Cultural Affairs Division. (Portfolio Prep continued
until 2010, when County funding for education projects
was eliminated as a result of the recession.)
The Center greatly increased its partnerships with
area schools in 2003-04 by converting the upstairs gallery
to the Satellite Learning Center (now the Student
Gallery), and debuting Distance Learning broadcasts
to Broward County Public Schools. Since 2005, the
Center has presented nearly 100 exhibitions of student
art created in K-12 schools in the tri-county area.
Distance Learning arts instruction debuted in April 2004
with a live teleconference broadcast from the Center
that demonstrated water-based and grease-paint makeup
techniques for theater. The original equipment was
loaned to the Center by Dania Elementary School principal
and previous Center Board member Kathleen DiBona.
Seventy-nine students from four schools participated.
In the 11 years since, the Distance Learning Arts Studio
has presented 229 arts curriculum broadcasts to 11,854
students and 736 instructors in Broward public schools.
One Night Jams at the Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center
2005 to 2013
Joy Satterlee was named Executive Director on
April 1, 2005, and continues in that position as
the longest serving director in the Center’s history.
Leadership within the organization changed
further when Susan Rakes was named Director of
Education, and later became Assistant Director in 2009.
May 2004: More than 500 people attended
the Seventh Cuisine for Art at the Seminole
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. It was the
first public event held at the Hard Rock and
raised $55,000 for the Center. Attendance
the previous year was under 200. Now
in its 19th year, Cuisine for Art has been
held at the Hard Rock every year since.
On October 6, 2005, the Center was designated a
Major Cultural Institution in Broward County by County
Commissioners as recommended by the Broward
Cultural Council. The designation is based on having
audited revenues of more than $1 million annually for
at least three consecutive years. The Center was one
of just five such institutions at the time, joining the Fort
Lauderdale Film Festival, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale,
Museum of Discovery and Science, and the Opera
Guild of Fort Lauderdale. There are now eight majors
in Broward out of more than 800 cultural entities.

Exhibition programming evolved into new areas beginning
in 2007 with the resignation of Samantha
Salzinger and the hiring of Jane Hart as Curator of
Exhibitions, a position she held until 2015. The South
Florida Project Room was introduced in September
2007 as an installation space for emerging South
Florida artists. Spaces in the Main and Middle galleries
were devoted more often to individual artists, versus
thematic group shows developed by the curator.
Artist Unknown/The Free World featured hundreds of bizarre amateur photographs
found online by artists John D. Monteith and Oliver Wasow
The live jazz/blues series One Night Jams premiered
in 2005 with four performances that were presented
in partnership with jazz artist and Sushi Blues coowner
Kenny Millions. Audiences sat on the stage
of the Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center,
which was converted into a juke joint with tables, a
bar, and a dance floor. The series lasted three years
and in 2006 Millions and Charles Greene performed
at the Haarlem Jazzstad Festival in the Netherlands
as part of an international cultural exchange project.
Dutch jazz pianist Micha Mengelberg and drummer
Han Bennink performed in Hollywood in April 2007.
ArtsPark at Young
Oct. 29, 2005: The Seventh
Circle opened in
Annual Crystal Vision Gala was
March 2007 and
postponed due to Hurricane
select free performances
tar-
Wilma and re-scheduled
to February 2006 with the
geted to children
Village People performing.
were presented
there as part
of the Center’s
monthly Family Day program. Live performance
began trending away from contemporary dance
toward interactive, family-friendly shows that engaged
young children in the performing arts.
A first in reaching families began in 2008 with an exhibition
of Lego sculptures by New York-based sculptor
Nathan Sawaya.
A former attorney,
May 2007: Joy Satterlee
Sawaya’s summer
was named the winner
2008 show at the
in the category of “Arts
Center, The Art of
Administrator” at ArtServe’s
the Brick, was among
18th Annual Encore Awards.
his first in an established
arts institution.
Sawaya is now renowned world-wide with as many
as five shows being exhibited simultaneously.
The success of The Art of the Brick resulted in an unprecedented
relationship with a single artist for the
Center as Sawaya returned with new family-friendly
exhibitions in the summers of 2010, 2012 and 2014.
More than 35,000 attended Sawaya’s shows, including
visitors from more than 50 states and countries.
The final, free performances of OceanDance were
presented on Dec. 30-31, 2008 by the New York-based
Abakua Afro-Latin Dance Company. Estimated attendance
for two nights was 10,000. Beginning in
2010, the annual Family Performance Series began
at the Performing Arts Center, featuring live shows
in music, dance, theater, and improv comedy.
Artist Nathan Sawaya creates a new Lego sculpture for his 2012 exhibition
at the Center
The first Abracadabra Exhibition and Fundraiser opened
2008 with works donated by area artists that were then
won by ticket buyers at a closing-night drawing. With
magician Jack Maxwell pulling names out of a top hat,

the annual Abracadabra event was the Center’s version
of running with the bulls as patrons raced through
the Main Gallery hoping to claim their favored art
piece from among the 100+ original works on exhibit.
On Feb. 21, 2010, the Center became the first South
Florida arts organization to present a concert by
9-year-old Hollywood music prodigy Ethan Bortnick.
Recognized by the Guinness World Records as “The
South Florida jazz musician Joe Donato plays a tune at the opening weekend
of Charles M. Schulz: Pop Culture in Peanuts
“Orange Crush,” collage on wood, from the exhibition Phillip Estlund: Subprime/Subtropics
World’s Youngest Solo Musician to Head-line His Own
Concert Tour,” Ethan returned in 2011 for two shows
and continues to perform throughout the U.S.
Beginning in 2011, the Center greatly expanded the
reach of the exhibition season to feature more nationally
renowned artists, curators and writers through
major grant initiatives created by the John S. and James
L. Knight Foundation and Funding Arts Broward (FAB).
In June 2011, the Center was awarded a $50,000 FAB/
Knight New Work grant for Artist Unknown/The Free
World, the first-of-its-kind exhibition and book based on
vernacular photography found on social media (Oct.
29, 2011 to Jan. 29, 2012). It was the largest grant for
an exhibition in Center history. The Center became the
only organization to receive two FAB/Knight New Work
awards, the second a $20,000 grant for the musically
inspired 2014 exhibition Dave Muller: Rock ’n’ Old.
Broadway Actors perform the musical Shrek at Summer Arts Camp
In September 2011, the Center launched the Hot Topics
Discussion Series, funded by the Knight Foundation’s
annual Knight Arts Challenge. Speakers included former
truck driver and three-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated art
critic Jerry Saltz. The Center also received the Knight
Gallery goers create their own “art of the brick”

Arts Challenge grant for the Hot Topics Artist Series in
2012, becoming one of only two Broward arts organizations
to receive two Challenge grants. Among the
speakers was
three-time Emmy
March 2013: Executive Director Award winner
Joy Satterlee was appointed to Wayne White.
the Florida Council on Arts and
Culture and was re-appointed In the summer of
to a second two-year term in 2013 the Center
January 2015. The 15-member presented the
Council makes cultural grant exhibition Charles
funding recommendations
M. Schulz: Pop
and encourages cultural
Culture in Peanuts,
development statewide.
the largest exhibit
of original Peanuts
drawings to be
exhibited outside the Charles M. Schulz Museum in
Santa Rosa, Calif., in more than a decade. A fire-engine
red, life-size Snoopy doghouse was built by Center supporter
Robert Perrotti and placed in the gallery for this
show. The doghouse was auctioned and is now in the
home of the Hon. Bob Butterworth and Marta Prado.
Dave Muller: Rock ’n’ Old explored the history of recorded music with a gallery
mural and listening stations that played 349,370 songs
During the 2014-15 school calendar, the Distance
Learning Arts Studio provided instruction to 1,947
students and surpassed the 10,000 mark in terms of
students taught since the inception of the program.
In 2015, the Center was announced as a finalist for
a Knight Arts Challenge grant to expand Distance
Learning and make it available digitally to potential
audiences worldwide via the internet. The Knight Arts
Challenge winners will b announced on Nov. 30, 2015.
The Teen Art Ambassadors program expanded
to provide academic and career development
activities for more than 30 high-school students.
In 2014-15, Teen Ambassadors devoted
nearly 3,000 project hours to workshops, field
trips, special events, and program support.
High-school students prepare for the future with the Teen Arts Ambassadors
program
2014 to 2015
The successes in exhibition, education and
performance programming over the past
four decades are the fulfillment of the vision
of the Center’s founders. The Center begins its 40th
year on the strength of these achievements and several
new milestones reached over the past year.
The 2015 Summer Arts Camp offered a record 18 unique
sessions in the visual
and performing arts
for 245 youth, ages Feb. 13, 2015: The Center
3-15, who presented was selected by a panel of
exhibitions and performances
attended “Non-Profit Organization of
judges as 2-1-1 Broward’s
by 2,000 people.
the Year – Arts” at the Fifth
Reduced-tuition scholarships
were awarded Awards at the Seminole
Annual Non-Profit Academy
to 29 youth valued at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
nearly $9,000. From
2009 to 2015, 234
children received financial aid valued at more than
$70,000 so they could attend Summer Arts Camp.
During this period, more than 95% of all children who
participated in a Center program did so for $6 or less.

The 2014-15 gallery season featured ambitious site-specific
exhibitions by Los Angeles artists Dave Muller (Rock
’n’ Old) and Wayne White (Art is Supposed to Hypnotize
You or Something). Muller painted a mural of a musical
timeline throughout the Main Gallery, and White
constructed a 12-foot-tall cardboard puppet of Broward
County namesake, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward. Art is
Supposed to Hypnotize You or Something received an Art
Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For the first time at the Harrison Street site, all four
first-floor galleries were devoted to a single artist for
Jose Alvarez’s spectacularly beautiful mixed-media
show As Far as the I Can See (March 27 to May 24,
2015). The Broward-based Alvarez also presented
several special events that were attended by his
husband James Randi, including the acclaimed documentary
film about Randi, titled An Honest Liar.
The season closed with another first for the Center.
In conjunction with the Broward 100 celebration
of the county’s centennial, the Center part-
August, 12, 2015: Board Chair John Stengel
(2011-2015) was selected by the Florida
Association of Museums (FAM) to receive its
2015 Outstanding Trustee Award. The award
was presented the following month during
the FAM Annual Conference in St. Petersburg.
nered with the Broward Cultural Division and
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
to install Wayne White’s supersized Napoleon
Bonaparte Broward puppet in Terminal 1 at the
airport. It was viewed by an estimated 275,000
travelers from around the world and was returned
to the Center, where it remains on display.
Emmy Award-winning artist Wayne White used cardboard and hot glue to build his supersized puppet of one-time Florida governor and Broward County’s
namesake, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward

Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.): The Encounter #2, 2014, 43 1:2 X 67 1:2”, Acrylic, enamel, ink, colored pencil, feathers, quills, and collage on canvas mounted on dibond.
Courtesy the artist and Gavlak Gallery
The future
On Oct. 25, 2015, the Center celebrated its
40th anniversary with a Sunday luncheon in
the main gallery that recognized many of the
founders and pioneers included in this written history.
The event provided an opportunity to look back, and to
look ahead to the next phase in the Center’s history.
The goal for the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood is to
build upon its status as a regional leader in presenting
contemporary visual arts exhibitions and arts education
programming while being a valued cultural partner
among public and private sector entities. Through its
programs and services, the Center will seek to grow its
audience and funding support by raising the value and
appreciation of the arts in Hollywood and the region.
The Center’s Board and senior leadership have
formed the Arts Ignite! committee to develop a road
map for the future. Arts Ignite! will address current
needs and opportunities for the Center, and
anticipate future challenges in order to assure the
growth of the organization for decades to come.
Sept. 8, 2015: The Board of Trustees voted
to remove the word “of” from the name
and create a new mission statement. The
organization is now the Art and Culture
Center/Hollywood. The new mission
statement is: “The Art and Culture Center/
Hollywood cultivates creativity and the
support of the arts in our community through
education, innovation and collaboration.”
We thank all of those who helped make
the past, present and future possible!
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Written by Jeff Rusnak
Designed by Aurélie Bredent and Alesh Houdek
Special thanks to Hollywood Historical Society

Staff
Board of Trustees
Executive Staff
Joy Satterlee, APR
Executive Director
Susan Rakes, Assistant Director
Education
Kate McCarthy-Draizin
Education Manager
Jordan Canal
Education Coordinator
Theater
Chad Harris, Theater Manager
Joseph Popejoy, Technical Director
Shawn Stevens, Theater Associate
Development
Jeff Rusnak
Director of Development
Daphna Starr, Administrative
and Development Associate
Marketing / Public Relations
Alesh Houdek, Marketing Director
Leo Sarmiento, Public Relations and
Community Partnerships Manager
Aurélie Bredent, Design and
Website Coordinator
Accounting
Elizabeth Veszi, Finance Manager
Executive Committee
Misty Weinger, CPA, CFF, CVA
Chair
Alan Koslow, Esq.
Vice Chair/Legal Counsel
Oscar Llorente Nadeau
Vice Chair
Ed Walls, Treasurer
John Mabry, Secretary
Marianne Ferro, At Large
Randall Gilbert, At Large
John Stengel
Immediate Past Chair
Trustees
Kenneth C. Brown
Hon. Sandra Coleman, Esq.
Lou Anne Colodny
Tim Curtin
Tanya I. Davis, CPA
Cate Farmer
Virginia Fifield
Shelly Loos
Allison S. Lovelady, Esq.
Tracy Lyons, Esq.
Barbara A. Marks
Josh McCumber
Cristy Peña
Anna Smith
Jason Swineford, MD
Ben Wesley
Honorary Trustees
Hon. Patricia Asseff
Bonnie Barnett
Steven R. Becker, Esq.
Susan Best
Hon. Joseph S. Geller, Esq.
Neil Gold
Francie Bishop Good
Michael Goodman
Hon. Sue Gunzburger
David Horvitz
Carmen Hotchkiss
Jarett Levan
Susan Renneisen
Drazia Rubenstein
Wilma Siegel, MD
Hon. Eleanor Sobel
Les Weil
Visitor Services
Chris Keller
Visitor Services Coordinator
Ambar Gonzalez
Visitor Services Associate
Our Mission
The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood cultivates
creativity and the support of the arts in our community
through education, innovation, and collaboration.
Core Values
Creativity, education, innovation, and collaboration.

"Culture is
everything. It is
the water in which
the fish swims. The
fish is not aware of it,
but cannot exist
without it."
– Derrick Ashong
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