Councilmember Mary Waters.

Council Member and the Captain.

Member Waters did submit her team did just uh memo indicating that she would not be present for the AM uh budget hearings, so it is excused.

So noted.

Councilmember Angela Whitfield Calloway.

Member Whitfield Callaway indicated that she would be absent for the day.

Her absence is excused.

Council President Pro Them call me on the second.

Here.

Mr.

Chair, you have a quorum.

I'm sorry, and I think I neglected to mention that Member Johnson also indicated that she would not be a present for the AM budget hearings.

So noted, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you so much.

All right.

So we are now going to dive right into the DIA's budget hearing.

So come on down.

Thank you all for being here, and thank you for your patience as well.

And when you get to the uh upfront, just keep in mind that the mics, if you see red, that means they're off.

You've got to push that button at the bottom until it turns green, and then we're ready to go.

So whoever would like to begin, the floor is yours.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you and good morning.

Um we really appreciate uh the chance to come and attend the budget hearing every year.

Uh while we're not part of the formal budget process, we're really happy to take this annual opportunity to come and share all that's happening at the museum in detail the special benefits that are available through the Wayne County Art Services Agreement.

Um before we begin, I want to introduce the leadership team that's here with us today.

Um, beginning with Salvador, there you are.

Salvador Salar Pans, our director, president, and CEO.

Um, Elliot Broom, our chief operating officer, and then in the gallery, we have Kate Spratt, our chief financial officer, Anthony Smith, our vice president of learning and audience engagement, Judith Dolcart, Deputy Director of Art Education and Programs, and Melissa Pena, um, executive director of talent, culture and operations.

And I am Julie McFarland, I'm executive director of public affairs and community engagement.

Um so we have a brief presentation today.

Uh Salvador will begin with information on current and upcoming exhibitions.

Um Anthony is gonna share a little bit about our museum's art and wellness suite of programs.

Elliot will provide an overview of the cultural center planning initiative, and then I'm just gonna finish up with um a brief walkthrough of benefits for Wayne County residents.

So um handing it over to Salvador.

Yes, thank you, Julie, and thanks for the opportunity.

Uh if we can move the slides forward, uh our first slide is uh three images of our new rinstall African American galleries that we opened last October.

We are one of the first museums in the country to collect African American art.

We have one of the largest collections of African American art in the world.

Um we also have uh curatorial department devoted to African American art.

We are the first encyclopedic museum to have this department devoted to African American art.

And uh we decided as a team uh to bring the African American collection to the center of the museum experience next to Rivera Court and tell the history of African American art from the 1800s to the uh 1980s.

So very very exciting material for the schools and the general visitor to really learn uh like if you are reading in a handbook, the history of African American art and culture.

You know, many visitors to the museum come and they want to see the Impressionist galleries and they can do that, or the Renaissance galleries now they have the opportunity to really learn this part of our history in the context of the history of the history of art in the world.

So very excited about this.

Next slide, please.

We are also in the process of reinstalling our modern and contemporary collection in the uh north wing second floor.

This is been uh a work in process for the last year.

We are planning to have these galleries open in uh the fall, and uh it will show a new um re uh rethought uh installation of these galleries with uh new um uh floors, new ceilings, and a new navigation throughout throughout uh uh the building, including as I mentioned, uh all the impressionist collection, post-impressionist, early modern, and contemporary all the way to 2026.

Very very excited.

It will include in each gallery for contempor contemporary Detroit artists in the context of uh the contemporary art that is happening today in the world.

Next slide, please.

Uh we are offering to the residents of Oklahoma Kong County as well as the general visitor from other counties and around uh the country.

Uh a wonderful exhibition on Anishnabe art.

We have uh been working with the 13 tribes in the Great Lakes.

This is uh a phenomenal exhibition on contemporary Native American art and has been very successful.

We've had uh over 60,000 visitors already.

It's a great compliment for the schools who come to the museum to see our Native American galleries, but now they have and can deepen into the experience of the Great Lakes, uh, Native American tribes.