Gifts in support of our campaign at all levels make a difference and are greatly appreciated. We hope you will consider giving as generously as possible at this transformative moment in Apertureโ€™s history.

Vanguard
$5 million+

Visionaries
$100,000+

Shutterbugs
$1,000+

Founders Circle
$1 million+

Sustainers
$50,000+

Luminaries
$500,000+

Framers
$25,000+

Leaders
$250,000+

Developers
$10,000+

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Donors at the Framers level and above will be recognized on Apertureโ€™s website and on a donor wall at the entrance of our new home. Explore campaign naming opportunities.

Apertureโ€™s future founders and friends in the bar at the Hotel Jerome, Aspen Conference, 1951. Photograph by Robert C. Bishop.

Donors as of March 2026

Founders Circle

City of New York (Department of Cultural Affairs, Manhattan Borough President, City Council)
Judy Glickman Lauder
Vasant Nayak and the MurthyNAYAK Foundation

New York State Council on the Arts
Melissa and James Oโ€™Shaughnessy
Thomas R. Schiff
Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjeloviฤ‡

Luminaries

Michael Hoeh

Thompson Family Foundation

Leaders

Peter Barbur and Tim Doody
S. B. Cooper and R. L. Besson
Mark Gimbel and Dede Welles
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Celso M. Gonzalez-Falla and Sondra Gilman
Elizabeth and William Kahane

Cathy M. Kaplan
Marina and Andrew Lewin
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas and Ellen Sargent
Helen Nitkin

Visionaries

Dawoud Bey
David Dechman and Michel Mercure
Charina Endowment Fund
Elaine Goldman and John Benis
Dr. Bruce M. Halpryn and Chas Riebe
Hemant Kanakia

Scott Mead
Leonard Milberg
Lisa Rosenblum
Anne Stark
The Estate of John Szarkowski

Sustainers

Anna and Allan Chapin
Kate Cordsen and Denis Oโ€™Leary

Jessica Nagle
Wendy Red Star

Framers

Julie Bรฉdard 
Kwame Brathwaite Family
Rob Giampietro and Susan Cernek
Lyle Ashton Harris
Kristy and Robert Harteveldt
Fredric J. Ohm and Stephen D. Houck
Philippe Laumont

Kenneth Montague and Sarah Aranha
The Ordover Family Foundation
Sheri Sandler
Lisa and Harry Segalas
Charlotte and Scott Tracy
Rhett Lee Turner

We greatly appreciate the generosity of donors at all levels. To be a part of this moment in Apertureโ€™s history, please contact Lisa Mantone, Capital Campaign Advisor at lmantone@aperture.org.

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