Donors & Sponsors

The $27 million required to build, operate, and endow the Center for Creative Connections was the primary component of the Museum’s Campaign for a New Century, which began seven years ago. According to campaign chairwoman Catherine Marcus Rose, the effort was launched in 2007 with two generous foundation awards. First, a $2.825 million grant from The Allen and Kelli Questrom Foundation was announced last February. It was followed in April by a $4.38 million award from The Meadows Foundation, $3 million of which was part of a dollar-for-dollar challenge to achieve complete capital funding that was quickly met. The majority of the remaining funds for the Center were raised in less than a year by “The Catalyst Club,” a group co-chaired by Robert H. Dedman, Jr., and his wife, Rachael, and John R. Eagle and his wife, Jennifer, to inspire donors to give $1 million or more.

Center for Creative Connections initiatives are made possible with generous support from The Meadows Foundation, The Allen and Kelli Questrom Foundation, The Dedman Family/The Dedman Family Foundation, an anonymous donor, an anonymous donor in honor of Alex, Charlie, Grey, Jack, and Rosey, the active and alumni docents of the DMA, Melanie and Tim Byrne, Nancy and Clint Carlson, Jennifer and John Eagle, Amy and Vernon Faulconer, Beverly and Donald S. Freeman, Ann and Lee Hobson, Marguerite Steed Hoffman, The Pollock Foundation, Catherine and Will Rose, an anonymous donor, Molly Byrne through the Turning Point Foundation, Nancy and Tim Hanley, Estate of Gayle Hysinger, Martha McCarty Kimmerling, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, Caren Prothro, and other generous individuals and corporate and foundation donors. These gifts and pledges are allowing the Museum to build, operate, and endow this new innovative and experimental center. They also support the renovations to Horchow Auditorium, Museum-wide wireless access, and the launch of the Arts Network initiative, a sustainable technology model to build digital resources and connect visitors with art and creativity

The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of Museum members and donors and by the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural Affairs and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

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