ArtNet Interviews New York Philanthropist Agnes Gund, Founder of Studio in a School

AGNES GUND AND SADIE RAIN HOPE-GUND BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ FOR PIRELLI CALENDAR 2016.

ArtNet Interviews New York Philanthropist Agnes Gund, Founder of Studio in a School

The daughter of an Ohio banking magnate, Gund has expressed guilt that she was given so much more in birth than others. Her fervor for philanthropy saw her on the boards of some 20 charitable and cultural organization as of a few years ago.

Gund is especially proud of her project Studio in a School, the nonprofit program founded in 1977 to bring art lessons, taught by real working artists, to New York City’s public schools. Forty years later, Studio in a School has reached nearly one million children in New York alone, with 90 percent of its activities benefiting students from lower-income families.