Centennial Council

The Centennial Council is the MAK Center’s philanthropic leadership group that develops and contributes resources vital to the MAK Center’s programming and mission. The council is composed of committed members who are dedicated to advancing the MAK Center’s work through leadership, strategy, and engagement.

 

Initiated upon the 100 year anniversary of the Schindler House (2022), the Centennial Council’s mission is to support MAK Center’s stewardship and activation of the three significant architectural sites by R.M. Schindler. The council is composed of dedicated individuals who champion artistic excellence and provocation by providing direct support to the MAK Center’s annual programing. They are engaged with the cultural centers of Los Angeles, readily share resources that empower and support the MAK Center, and seek to build long term initiatives and collaborative planning efforts that lays the foundations for the organization’s next hundred years.

Council members contribute annual dues at a level that is meaningful to them and that prioritizes MAK Center in their giving. Average Council dues are $2,500. Appointment to the Centennial Council is by invitation of the MAK Center director and the MAK Center Board of Directors. 

 
 
 

Centennial Council
2022 Inaugural Members

Barbara Bestor
Bestor Architecture

Bianca Chen 
JF Chen

John Chan
Formation Association

Sue Chan
Care of Chan

Frank Escher
Escher GuneWardena

Priscilla Fraser
MAK Games Co-Chair
Former MAK Center Director (2016-20) 

Ilana Gafni
Crosby Doe Associates

Heidi Korsavong
Marta Gallery

Max Kuo
All That Is Solid

Dominic Leong
Leong Leong

Andrea Lenardin Madden
a.l.m. project
MAK Center Artist and Architect in Residence (‘94)

Kimberli Meyer
Independent Curator
Former MAK Center Director (2002-16) 

Brendan Ravenhill
Ravenhill Studio

Andrew Romano
Writer/Journalist

Natasha Sandmeier
OUR+

Pamela Shamshiri
Studio Shamshiri

Michael Volk
Design Director, Gensler

Kulapat Yantrasast
wHY Architects

 
 
 
 

For more information on the different ways to get involved through MAK Center’s Centennial Council or donor programs, please contact Jia Yi Gu, Director, director [at] makcenter.org.