Arts & Culture
Aesthetic Realism Foundation Inc
NEW YORK, NY
Total revenue
$432K
Total expenses
$493K
Net assets
$3.7M
Grants received
$305K
6 grants
EIN
510179690
Tax year
2024
Mission
To teach aesthetic realism, founded by eli siegel, which explains the relation of life and art, and meets the need of people everywhere to see reality fairly.
Programs
5 programs
Terrain gallery: exhibitions of contemporary paintings, drawings, prints, and photography based on the aesthetic realism principle: "all beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." total attendance: 817
Aesthetic realism consultations: men and women study the principles of aesthetic realism which show the relation of their individual life questions to the arts and the world they are in, making for greater kindness and self-respect. Expenses include salaries of consultants, partial salary of a coordinator, equipment, maintenance, and office supplies. Total attendance: 133.
Presentations: public seminars and dramatic and musical presentations, all based on the principles of aesthetic realism. Seminars include such subjects as love, ambition, parenting; groundbreaking talks by artists and scholars on this new way of seeing the arts, people, and reality itself. The aesthetic realism theatre company offers pioneering musical and dramatic productions, from shakespeare to rock 'n' roll, with performance and comment.
Outreach program: the foundation's outreach program includes workshops for seniors; for children at schools and youth centers; dramatic and musical performances by the aesthetic realism theatre company; talks on subjects from anthropology to jazz, architecture, and the arts, for people of all ages. Total attendance: 1,112
The right of aesthetic realism to be known (tro): biweekly international periodical of the aesthetic realism foundation, published since 1973. It presents essays, poems, and lectures by eli siegel and articles by aesthetic realism teachers and associates. In every issue there is an editorial commentary by ellen reiss, chair of education. Total circulation: 116,934
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Expenses
People
10 listed
Barbara Allen
Administrative Officer
$43K
35 hrs/wk
Carrie Wilson
Director
$35K
30 hrs/wk
Ernest Defilippis
Administrative Officer
$35K
30 hrs/wk
Jeffrey Carduner
Director
$146
15 hrs/wk
Anthony Romeo
Director
—
10 hrs/wk
Ellen Reiss
Director
—
35 hrs/wk
Joseph Spetly
Director
—
25 hrs/wk
Jamie Torres
Secretary
—
20 hrs/wk
Margot Carpenter
Executive Director
—
35 hrs/wk
Robert Murphy
Treasurer
—
35 hrs/wk
Grants received
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