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Committed To The Arts

Frankels make major financial
commitment to enhancing the
arts. on Cranbrook campus.

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Please join the family, friends and
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reception honoring her service
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Monday, November 13, 2006

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ranbrook Trustee Maxine
Frankel and her husband,
Stuart, have made a $10 mil-
lion commitment to the Campaign
for Cranbrook in support of the
Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art
Museum.
The commit-
ment from the
Maxine and
Stuart Frankel
Foundation and
the Samuel and
Jean Frankel .
Foundation is the
largest made to
Cranbrook since
founders George
and Ellen Booth
originally invested
in the creation
of the national
historic landmark
educational
Maxine and Stuart
community in
Bloomfield Hills
more than a century ago. .
The Frankel commitment has
helped push the Campaign for
Cranbrook over the $120 million
mark, toward a goal of $150 million.
The commitment is part of the
Frankel. Challenge, designed to
encourage Cranbrook's governors and
trustees to raise an additional $36
million to support endowment, pres-
ervation, renovation and other needs"
for the Academy and Art Museum.. .
"Stuart and I are honored and
thrilled to make this commitment
to the internationally renowned
Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art
Museum:' said Maxine Frankel, who
also serves as chairperson of the
Academy of Art and Art Museum
board of governors.
"From the beginning, these institu-
tions have served as incubators for
creativity and have promoted art as a
way to expand the way people think.
We know there are others out there
who feel just as passionately about art
and its possibilities as we do. We hope
this commitment will inspire them to
step forward and give to Cranbrook."
Funds raised through the Frankel
Challenge will support efforts by the

Academy and Art Museum to make
art more accessible to students,
researchers and others throughout the
region.
The Frankels feel passionately about
improving that exposure to art and
the benefits ren-
dered by it.
"While math and
science are critical,
we have to teach
art and art making
to develop creative
thinking skills,"
Frankel said. "We
can't solve the prob-
lems of tomorrow
with the thinking
skills of today'
Funds also will
be used to upgrade
the mechanical sys-
tems for all of the
Academy and Art
Frankel
Museum buildings
and will include the
construction of new storage space and
a preparation area for objects in the
Art Museum's collection.
A new climate control system will
be installed in the Art Museum to pre-
serve artworks. Air conditioning will
be added to portions of the Academy's
New Studios building. Outdoors, the
Art Museum building and surround-
ing public spaces will be restored and
a snowmelt system will be installed
beneath the pavers.
Maxine and Stuart Frankel
of Bloomfield Hills have been
active members of the Cranbrook
Educational Community for many
years and are the parents of two
Cranbrook Schools graduates, Darren
in 1989 and Kami in 1991.
In addition to her work with
Cranbrook, Maxine serves on the
boards of numerous non-profits,
including the University of Michigan
Museum of Art, the University Musical
Society and the Chinati Foundation in
Marfa, Texas.
Stuart Frankel is president of Stuart
Frankel Development Co., a real estate
development firm based in Troy. E

