TICKET LEVELS AND BENEFITS
A GLOBAL HOUSE PARTY AT CRANBROOK AND MILLESGÅRDEN
Saturday, May 22, 2021, 6:00 – 8:00pm EDT
CENTER FRIEND ($75 FOR TWO/$50 FOR ONE)
- Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity to participate in the Virtual House Party Auction
$75 for two tickets and $50 for one tax-deductible as allowed by law
- Two Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity to participate in the Virtual House Party Auction
- Additional Support for Educational and Outreach Programs of the Center
$250 tax-deductible as allowed by law
CENTER COMMUNITY SUPPORTER ($1,000)
- Twenty Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity to participate in the Virtual House Party Auction
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film Credits
$1,000 tax-deductible as allowed by law
CENTER COMMUNITY PATRON ($2,000)
- Thirty Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity for all Guests to participate in the Virtual House Party Auction
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film Credits
- Private “Milles at Cranbrook” Behind-the-Scenes Campus Tour with Center Associate Curator Kevin Adkisson for Thirty Guests
$1,250 Tax-deductible amount as allowed by law
Do you live out of state and want to support the Center by joining the Host Committee? Please contact us so that we can work with you to customize your benefits!
- Two Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity to place “Buy-It-Now” Bids for Virtual House Party Auction Items following the Online Preview
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film Credits
- Home Delivery of Scandinavian-themed Dinner with Choice of Wine for Two
- “Milles at Cranbrook” Host Committee Group Tour with Center Associate Curator Kevin Adkisson
- Invitation to the Patron Cocktail Party to be held In Person at Cranbrook House (two guests, date TBD)
$2,285 tax-deductible as allowed by law
Patron ($5,000)
Do you live out of state and want to support the Center as a Patron? Please contact us so that we can work with you to customize your benefits!
- Four Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity to place “Buy-It-Now” Bids for Virtual House Party Auction Items following the Online Preview
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film Credits
- Home Delivery of Scandinavian-themed Dinner with Choice of Wine for Four
- Invitation to the Patron Cocktail Party to be held In Person at Cranbrook House (two guests, date TBD)
- The Home and Art of Carl Milles: Millesgården Book, with a Personal Inscription from Contributing Author and Center Director Gregory Wittkopp
- Private “Milles at Cranbrook” Behind-the-Scenes Campus Tour with Center Associate Curator Kevin Adkisson for Four Guests
$4,515 tax-deductible as allowed by law
- Eight Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity to place “Buy-It-Now” Bids for Virtual House Party Auction Items following the Online Preview
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film Credits
- Home Delivery of Scandinavian-themed Dinner with Choice of Wine for Eight
- Invitation to the Patron Cocktail Party to be held In Person at Cranbrook House (four guests, date TBD)
- The Home and Art of Carl Milles: Millesgården Book, with a Personal Inscription from Contributing Author and Center Director Gregory Wittkopp
- Private “Milles at Cranbrook” Behind-the-Scenes Campus Walking Tour with Center Associate Curator Kevin Adkisson for Eight Guests
- Milles-inspired Floral Arrangement delivered for the Event
$9,005 tax-deductible as allowed by law
To support the Global House Party as a National Sponsor, please contact Gregory Wittkopp.
International Sponsor ($15,000)
- Eight Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity to place “Buy-It-Now” Bids for Virtual House Party Auction Items following the Online Preview
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film Credits
- Home Delivery of Scandinavian-themed Dinner with Choice of Wine for Eight
- Invitation to the Patron Cocktail Party to be held In Person at Cranbrook House (four guests, date TBD)
- The Home and Art of Carl Milles: Millesgården Book, with a Personal Inscription from Contributing Author and Center Director Gregory Wittkopp
- Private “Milles at Cranbrook” Behind-the-Scenes Campus Walking Tour with Center Associate Curator Kevin Adkisson for Eight Guests
- Fully catered Scandinavian-themed Dinner for eight guests, including Milles-inspired Tablescape and Floral Arrangement
- Exclusive In-Person Tour of Millesgården Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, with a Director’s Welcome and Lunch at the Millesgården Café for Four Guests*
$12,925 tax-deductible as allowed by law
To support the Global House Party as an International Sponsor, please contact Gregory Wittkopp.
- Eight Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity to place “Buy-It-Now” Bids for Virtual House Party Auction Items following the Online Preview
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film Credits
- Invitation to the Patron Cocktail Party to be held In Person at Cranbrook House (eight guests, date TBD)
- The Home and Art of Carl Milles: Millesgården Book, with a Personal Inscription from Contributing Author and Center Director Gregory Wittkopp (two copies)
- Private “Milles at Cranbrook” Behind-the-Scenes Campus Walking Tour with Center Associate Curator Kevin Adkisson for Eight Guests
- Exclusive In-Person Tour of Millesgården Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, with a Director’s Welcome and Lunch at the Millesgården Café for Four Guests*
- Fully Catered Scandinavian-themed Dinner for Eight Guests, including Milles-inspired Tablescape and Floral Arrangement
- Signed and Framed Photograph of Cranbrook by Award-Winning Photographer James Haefner
$22,555 tax-deductible as allowed by law
To support the Global House Party as a Global Sponsor, please contact Gregory Wittkopp.
Exclusive “Milles Sponsor” ($50,000)
- Ten Tickets to Livestreamed Premiere of Cranbrook/Millesgården Film
- Opportunity to place “Buy-It-Now” Bids for Virtual House Party Auction Items following the Online Preview
- Recognition on the House Party Website, Facebook and Instagram Promotions, Printed Program, and Film Credits
- Invitation to the Patron Cocktail Party to be held In Person at Cranbrook House (ten guests, date TBD)*
- The Home and Art of Carl Milles: Millesgården Book, with a Personal Inscription from Contributing Author and Center Director Gregory Wittkopp (five copies)
- Private “Milles at Cranbrook” Behind-the-Scenes Campus Walking Tour with Center Associate Curator Kevin Adkisson for Ten Guests
- Exclusive In-Person Tour of Millesgården Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, with a Director’s Welcome and Lunch at the Millesgården Café for Four Guests*
- Signed and Framed Photograph of Cranbrook by Award-Winning Photographer James Haefner
- Exclusive Opportunity to host Your Own Private House Party for up to Ten Guests on May 22, 2021, in Milles House at Cranbrook Academy of Art
- Entertain your Guests as Carl and Olga Milles would have with Live Music, Welcome from Cranbrook’s President, Dominic DiMarco, Customized Bar Service, and Fully Catered Scandinavian-themed Dinner, including Milles-inspired Tablescape and Floral Arrangement
- $10,000 of the Milles Sponsorship donated to the Cranbrook Academy of Art Sculpture Department Scholarship Fund
$46,790 tax-deductible as allowed by law
To support the Global House Party as the event’s exclusive Milles Sponsor, please contact Gregory Wittkopp.
*Travel costs to Sweden, including flight and accommodations are not included. Millesgården Museum tour to be arranged on a mutually agreeable date for the sponsor and Millesgården Museum staff.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Cranbrook Educational Community is committed to following the CDC and State health guidelines regarding COVID safety and protocols and will make any necessary adjustments to the event details in the event that they are recommended. The safety and health of our community continue to be our top priority.
If you would like to maximize your support of the Center by declining any of the benefits and increasing the tax-deductibility of your gift, please contact Anna Mrdeza in the Cranbrook Advancement Office at AMrdeza@cranbrook.edu or leave a voicemail at 248.645.3269. For more information on the Sponsor opportunities and benefits, please contact Center Director Gregory Wittkopp at GWittkopp@cranbrook.edu or leave a voicemail at 248.645.3315.
PHOTO CREDITS
All color photography is by Yanan Li and reproduced with permission of Millesgården Museum. Li photographed Millesgården Museum for the 2016 book, The Home and Art of Carl Milles: Millesgården (Arvinus + Orfeus Publishing, Stockholm, Sweden).
Image Captions (from top to bottom):
Banner Image: Carl Milles’s sculpture, The Archer (1919), at Millesgården Museum.
Center Friend Image: Milles’s Aganippe Fountain. The Aganippe were the muses’ sacred source, and it is said that those who drank the water received inspiration. The fountain was completed in 1955, the last year of Mille’s life, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It later was moved to Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
Center Supporter Image: Detail of Milles’s sculptures at Millesgården Museum in front of Anne’s House. Anne Hedmark, Milles’s secretary, became Millesgården’s first hostess and curator in 1950.
Center Business Supporter Image: Upper terrace of Millesgården Museum with Milles’s granite bath and his sculptures Running Deer (1928) and The Dancers (1917).
Center Business Patron Image: Milles’s Angel with Wristwatch sculpture from the St. Martin Fountain (1951) at Millesgården Museum.
Host Committee Image: Detail of Milles’s Three Hovering Figures (1936) at Millesgården Museum.
Patron Image: Milles’s sculpture The Hand of God in silhouette at Millesgården Museum.
National Sponsor Image: One of Milles’s various models in plaster in storage at Millesgården Museum.
International Sponsor Image: Milles’s Large Studio at Millesgården Museum with plaster casts and a bronze study depicting Orpheus. Conceived at created at Cranbrook, Orpheus was commissioned for the Concert Hall in Stockholm.
Global Sponsor Image: Flower arrangements in pots designed by Milles, including freshly picked dahlias, decorate the artist’s home at Millesgården Museum.
Milles Sponsor Image: View looking from Millesgården Museum to Stockholm with Milles’s sculptures, including The Sun Singer (at right).
Milles’s sculpture, The Ice Princess (1948), is said to have been inspired by a girl skating at Rockefeller Plaza in New York as Milles watched her make a pirouette.