Curator
Helen Frederick is Professor of Art at George Mason University, College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is internationally known as a print media, book arts and mixed - media installation artist. Since her 1996 teaching appointment at George Mason University, she has developed and established graduate and undergraduate programs in the greater Washington metropolitan region that are also noted nationally. She has exhibited at and curated exhibitions around the world.
Helen will serve as the curator of the “Breakthrough!” exhibitions and as advisor on various other components of the project including the design of the print materials.
Norbert Wartig (LNW Verlag)
Introductory Film for the inaugural “Breakthrough!” Project
Mr. Norbert Wartig (Berlin filmmaker and owner, LNW Verlag) worked together with the Breakthrough Art Organization to create an introductory film on “Breakthrough! Twenty Years After German Unification: Critical Perspectives of Berlin Artists.” This 12-minute film, viewable on the Breakthrough Art Organization’s website, was created after conducting personal interviews with each of the 10 participating Berlin artists in their individual studios. The film provides keen insights into the lives and perspectives of the participating artists and serves as an integral component of the Breakthrough Art Organization’s educational materials.
Seigenthaler Public Relations
Media and Public Relations Support
Seigenthaler Public Relations specializes in strategic communications, media relations, and marketing. SPR will support Breakthrough Art Organization as an advisor for marketing the “Breakthrough!” project and offers support to sponsors to assure maximum exposure for and impact from their support.
Bertelsmann Foundation
The Bertelsmann Foundation, established in 2008, is the North American arm of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. We are a driver of social change. We are committed to promoting the freedom of individuals and societies, and international understanding. The Bertelsmann Foundation serves as an Euro-American bridge, communicating and showcasing best practices in foreign, economic and social policy to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. We believe that challenges confronted on one side of the ocean are likely to arise on the other, and that Europeans and Americans can learn from each other's approaches.
Aspen Institute Germany
The mission of the Aspen Institute Germany is to improve the quality of leadership through dialog about the values and ideals essential to meeting the challenges facing organizations and governments at all levels. The institute provides a global forum where leaders from business, government, the professions, the arts and the voluntary sector can convene to consider rigorously the intellectual and moral truths that enable them to deal effectively with these challenges.
BMW Center
The BMW Center for German and European Studies, which is located in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, was founded in 1990 as one of three North American "Centers of Excellence," each supported by a ten-year grant from the German government. At the end of the decade, BMW AG's $10 million endowment gift secured the Center's fundamental mission into the 21st century: to educate future generations of transatlantic leaders.
AICGS
The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) strengthens the German-American relationship in an evolving Europe and changing world. The Institute produces objective and original analyses of developments and trends in Germany, Europe, and the United States; creates new transatlantic networks; and facilitates dialogue among the business, political, and academic communities to manage differences and define and promote common interests. Affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University, AICGS provides a comprehensive program of public forums, policy studies, research and study groups designed to enrich the political, corporate, and scholarly constituencies it serves. The AICGS, with support from the Draeger Foundation, is pleased to support the Breakthrough Art Organization.
George Will Foundation
Hans George Will, a German citizen and Stanford University graduate (1955), has generously supported the Breakthrough Art Organization through the Georg Will Foundation. Mr. Will has been one of the most active, long-time supporters of several American and German-American institutions in Berlin including the Aspen Institute Berlin (now Aspen Institute Germany), the Stanford University Berlin program, and several others. Mr. Will’s foundation goals include the furtherance of German-American understanding.
DB Schenker
DB Schenker is one of the world’s leading globally integrated logistics service companies which access to the leading freight train system in Europe. Our dense network of locations in the world’s most important economic regions, in air and sea transport, in European land transport, in contract logistics as well as in supply chain management sets us apart. This unique combination enables us to offer quick and efficient solutions for the many challenges facing our clients in both trade and industry.
Delevante Creative
Delevante is a full-service creative shop that specializes in all disciplines of advertising and design with an emphasis on strategic development, creative concepting and brand resonance — belief in the importance of authenticity in an increasingly sensitive consumer marketplace.
