2026-02-10T16:46:48-08:00 2025-06-30 relief due to la fires'25 due 10/15/25 753194011 Moss Levy & Hartzheim CPAs 5800 Hannum Ave Ste E Culver City CA 90230 990 2024-07-01 770637879 Ruskin Art Club Inc RUSK 3106400710 200 S Avenue 66 Los Angeles CA 90042 David Judson Treasurer 2026-02-10 true true Craig A Hartzheim P01386531 3106702745 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z David Judson 200 S Avenue 66 Los Angeles CA 90042 112454 false X www.ruskinartclub.org X 2002 CA Support for pioneering arts initiatives, arts education, with new generations of Southland Artists and thinkers. The study and promotion of cultural art, history, literature, and contemporary affairs, non-partisan and related to civic interest and matters beneficial to community welfare. The operational mission includes programs of public lectures, concerts, exhibitions, readings and symposia on issues of public interest; networking and pursuing common projects with other community arts associations in the Southland; networking and pursuing common projects with and providing a public forum for historical and conservation associations in the Southland. 12 12 2 0 4730 10304 0 57591 68157 0 62321 78461 2500 1000 0 41181 42749 0 5350 21941 24452 65622 68201 -3301 10260 955828 966088 0 955828 966088 Support for pioneering arts initiatives, arts education, with new generations of Southland Artists and thinkers. The study and promotion of cultural art, history, literature, and contemporary affairs, non-partisan and related to civic interest and matters beneficial to community welfare. The operational mission includes programs of public lectures, concerts, exhibitions, readings and symposia on issues of public interest; networking and pursuing common projects with other community arts associations in the Southland; networking and pursuing common projects with and providing a public forum for historical and conservation associations in the Southland. false false 41991 RUSKIN ART CLUB EVENTS: FISCAL 2023-2024Through mounting virtual in addition to live, in-person events, we have been able to expand and diversify audiences served by our events. Attendees come from Southern California and the West, but also from the East Coast and abroad. Membership in the organization has also expanded to include members across the United States and the UK.In addition, we launched our Ruskin Art Club YouTube channel in 2021, which archives all our current programs and many from the recent past as a service both to members and friends and as an ongoing resource for the public. It is available on our website: www.ruskinartclub.org. The channel expands the outreach of our activities to online subscribers and YouTube audiences. We currently post more than 100 events, lectures, and presentations on our channel. To indicate the extent of our outreach to the public, I have added the current number of YouTube views to Zoom and in-person attendance figures.JULY-AUGUSTField trips: [in person]Saturday, August 24, 2-5pm: Judson Studios TourWork in Progress: Pagoda by James JeanFee: $20Attendance: 60Expenses: $0Income: $1,200 (memberships): (2) $150SEPTEMBERFriday, Sept. 6: Apricot Lane Farms private tour [in person]9-11am, fee: $35Expenses: $1,200Attendance: 15Income: $310 + 2 memberships: $225 = $535Saturdays, September 7&14, 10-11:30am [Zoom]Study sessions: (thematic) America in Ruskins writingsAttendance: 12Expenses: $0Saturday, Sept. 21, 9-10:30am [PDT] Annual Ruskin Lifetime Achievement Award (with Ruskin Society of North America): Robert Hewison Tribute [Zoom]Attendance: 30Expenses: $0Income: $0YouTube: 928 viewsOCTOBERFriday, October 4 (evening) Saturday, Oct. 5 (morning/afternoon)RUSKIN IN AMERICA ConferenceFriday, Oct. 4: Keynote address at Telescope Studio with receptionSaturday, Oct. 5: Doheny Library all day (with lunch), 10am-4:30pm. Six presentations and a panel discussion.For a man who never set foot in America, John Ruskin, at the turn of the twentieth century, wielded an outsized influence on art, environmental, and social movements in this country. This is a fact often underappreciated in assessments of Ruskin's global impact. From the American Pre-Raphaelites to utopian social experiments in Florida, Georgia, and California, Ruskin's vision inspired many facets of American idealism and social reform. This conference, the first of its kind, will explore Ruskin's contributions to American movements, thinkers, and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries and suggest ways in which he speaks to the issues of American life today.List of speakers:Gabriel Meyer keynote, Ruskin and the California DreamSara Atwood, Over-hopefulness and getting on-ness: Ruskin, Nature, and America Virginia Anderson: The Artist Is a Telescope: John Ruskin, Charles Herbert Moore, and the American Pre-Raphaelite MovementGray Brechin, Ruskins Influence on Franklin Roosevelts New DealSharon Weltman, Thinking Ecologically with Ruskin, or How Women Will Save the WorldAttendance: 50Expenses: $1,892.15Income: (2 memberships): $300YouTube: 432 views (total)Saturday, October 19: LA Archives Bazaar (USC), all dayExpenses: $1,000Income: $0NOVEMBERNovember 9 & 16, 9-10:30am [PST]: Study sessions: The Mystery of Life and Its Arts with Rachel DickinsonAttendance: 27Expenses: $0Income: (3 memberships, $300)YouTube: 129/639 viewsWednesday, Nov. 20 (Fogg Fellows), 12:30-1:30pm [EST]: Marjorie Cohn: Ruskin and the Origins of Art History at Harvard [Zoom]The Ruskin Art Club has received a very special invitation to join the Fellows of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University on a ZOOM event, a lecture by Dr. Marjorie Cohn about Ruskin and the beginnings of the museum and the teaching of art history as a result of the friendship of John Ruskin and Harvard President Charles Eliot Norton.2025JANUARYSaturday, January 18, 10-11:30am [PST]: Marjorie Cohn: John Ruskin, James Whistler, and the Ghost of Turner [Zoom]The artist James Whistler sued the critic John Ruskin for libel in 1878 after Ruskin disparaged his work in a July 1877 issue of his newsletter, Fors Clavigera. The resulting trial laid bare swiftly changing aesthetic perceptions at the end of the 19th century. While Whistler won the legal case, he was bankrupted by court costs. Heading to Venice to nurse his wounds, he found, paradoxically, in the city Ruskin worshiped, the materials for an extraordinarily original series of Venetian drawings and etchings.Attendance: 35Expenses: $0Income: $0YouTube: 258 viewsFEBRUARYSaturday, February 8, 7-8:30pm, ANNUAL RUSKIN BIRTHDAY BASH at Telescope Studio in downtown LA [in person]Poets David St. John and Lynne Thompson read from recent work and Tiffany Chang, violin, Allan Hon, cello, and Alex Zhu, piano perform the music of Mozart, Meyer, and Ruskin. Festive reception follows.Attendance: 50Expenses: $1,250Income: 5 memberships: $450 Saturdays, February 15 and 22, 9-10:30am [PST], Study Sessions: The Stones of Venice [Zoom]This year we will examine passages from all three volumes Ruskin's 1853 masterwork, The Stones of Venice. We will be joined and most ably assisted in these sessions by scholars from the FORS Center at Ca' Foscari University based in "La Serenissima" herself.Attendance: 20Expenses: $0Income: $0 MARCHSaturday, March 8, 1:30-3:30pm, in association with the California Art Club, Pasadena (in person): Mountain Gloom/Mountain Glory: John Ruskin and John Muir, lecture by Gabriel MeyerGabriel Meyer examines the ways Ruskins ideas influenced pioneering naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) and American environmentalism at the turn of the 20th century.Thursday, March 13, 7-8:30pm, Wende Museum (Culver City), in person and livestream. ANNUAL ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE LECTURE ON ARCHITECTURE: Work Done with Pleasure and Free Work: John Ruskin and Sergio Ferro, presentation by Claudio Silveira AlmaralAttendance: 60Expenses: $1,000Income: 2 memberships: $225YouTube: 207 viewsSaturdays, March 22 and 29, 10-11:30am [PST], Study Sessions on The Stones of Venice [Zoom]APRILSaturday, April 26, 10-11:30am [PST], Study Session on The Stones of Venice [Zoom]Attendance: 12Expenses: $0Income: $0MAYSaturday, May 3, 3-5pm, Judson Studios, The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time by Virginia Raguin [in person]Raguin examines windows from iconic locations such as the cathedrals of Chartres, Canterbury, and Cologne; Paris Sainte Chapelle; Swiss guild halls; the Pink Mosque in Iran; Tiffanys chapel for the World Columbian Exposition; and Frank Lloyd Wrights homes in California.Thursday, May 15, 5-7pm [PDT], Mark D. Usher: Upcycling Antiquity in Ruskins Unto this Last [Zoom]This talk, drawn from Usher's new book Following Nature's Lead: Ancient Ways of Living in a Dying World (Princeton University Press, 2025), highlights how Ruskins upcycling of the classical past informs his views on political economy in Unto This Last.Attendance: 25Expenses: $0Income: 1 membership: $75YouTube: 26 views Saturdays May 17 and 31, 10-11:30am, Study Sessions on The Stones of Venice [Zoom]Attendance: 14Expenses: $0Income: 1 membership: $75JUNEThursday, June 19, 5-6:30pm, [PDT], Cupidity and Blindness Chasing Joy from the City: The Art of Evelyn de Morgan, with Stuart Denenberg [Zoom]Gallery owner and thorough Ruskinian Stuart Denenberg presents the art of Pre-Raphaelite Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919), a cache of rare Whistler documents, a Ruskin portrait and other treasures recently acquired by Denenberg Fine Arts.Attendance: 17Expenses: $0Income: $0YouTube: 69 viewsSaturday, June 28, 10-11:30am [PDT], Study Session on The Stones of Venice [Zoom]Attendance: 12Expenses: $0Income: $0 41991 true false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 2 0 true 2 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 12 12 true false false false true false false true false false false true false false false true false false CA X Gabriel Meyer Executive Direc 3106400710 200 S Avenue 66 Los Angeles CA 90042 Gabriel Meyer Executive Dir. 20.00 0.00 X 32104 0 0 Noah Bretz Trustee 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 David Judson Treasurer 10.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Elena Karina Byrne Lit Program Dir 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kathleen Marshall Trustee 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Stuart Denenberg Trustee 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Eric Jessen Secretary 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 CHLOE SAPIENZA Vice President 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 ANDREW SAPIENZA Trustee 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Beverly Denenberg Trustee 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Tyson Gaskill President 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Sara Atwood Trustee 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 PENNY HABERMAN Trustee 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 32104 0 false false false 0 392 9912 10304 0 31944 31944 0 0 0 70206 33993 36213 36213 36213 0 0 0 0 78461 68157 1000 1000 0 0 0 32104 21403 5351 5350 0 9270 6952 2318 0 0 1375 1031 344 0 0 2846 2846 0 0 0 0 0 3763 3763 0 0 0 1432 1074 358 0 0 0 0 0 2189 2189 PROGRAM EXPENSES 8779 8779 DUES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS 3106 3106 BUSINESS MEALS 2337 1752 585 0 68201 41991 20860 5350 25766 27612 15994 6467 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1305 1305 0 914068 932009 0 0 0 0 955828 966088 0 0 X 955828 966088 955828 966088 955828 966088 10260 X false false false X 14427 22245 10131 2230 10304 59337 0 0 14427 22245 10131 2230 10304 59337 0 59337 22183 40576 39621 57591 68157 228128 0 0 287465 0.20640 0.24140 X Current Year Facts and Circumstances: THE ORGANIZATION MAINTAINS A continuous and bona fide program for solicitation of funds from the general public, community, governmental units, or other public charities BY BEING PROACTIVE IN ART GROUPS IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA.THE FOUNDERS ARE MEMBERS OF THE ARTS COMMUNITY AND THEY SOLICIT SUPPORT FOR THE ORAGANIZATION'S CAUSES THROUGH CONTACT WITH THIS COMMUNITY.The organization has a governing body OF 12 INDIVIDUALS FROM THE LOS ANGELES AREA that represent the interests of the public, and the organization generally provides services directly for the benefit of the general public on a continuing basis. Prior Year Facts and Circumstances: THE ORGANIZATION MAINTAINS A continuous and bona fide program for solicitation of funds from the general public, community, governmental units, or other public charities BY BEING PROACTIVE IN ART GROUPS IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA.THE FOUNDERS ARE MEMBERS OF THE ARTS COMMUNITY AND THEY SOLICIT SUPPORT FOR THE ORAGANIZATION'S CAUSES THROUGH CONTACT WITH THIS COMMUNITY.The organization has a governing body OF 12 INDIVIDUALS FROM THE LOS ANGELES AREA that represent the interests of the public, and the organization generally provides services directly for the benefit of the general public on a continuing basis. 1305 1305 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Stuart Denenberg, Trustee, AND Beverly Denenberg, Secretary, are married.ANDREW SAPIENZA, TRUSTEE, AND CHLOE SAPIENZA, TRUSTEE, ARE MARRIED Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 Under the By-Laws The corporation shall have no members within the meaning of Section 5056 of the Law as now in effect or as may hereafter be amended. Any action which otherwise would require approval by a majority of all members or approval by the members shall require approval only of the Board. All rights which otherwise would vest in the members including, without limitation, the right to elect directors, shall vest in the Board.The corporation shall have three classes of non-statutory members: active, life, and honorary. By accepting their membership in the Club, all members agree to support the mission of the Club as described in the Club's Mission Statement. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Independent CPA prepares the forms from information provided by the Treasurer and Executive Director. When completed the 990 is sent to the Treasurer and Executive Director for review. When the forms are finalized they are then made available to all Board members. The Treasurer signs the electronic eflie authorization and sends to the CPA for filing of the return. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The Executive Director's compensation was approved by the Board in 2015 and is annually approved. There has been no change in the compensation amount since that time. The amount is less than paid by other similar organizations. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The following organizational documents of Ruskin Art Club are available for inspection or copying at the organization's office during normal business hours at no charge, except for a nominal copying fee:1) Tax Exemption Application2) IRS Determination letter3) Articles of Incorporation4) By-Laws5) Form 990 for the most recent and prior two years.6) Financial statements.The public inspection copy of the Form 990 will not include Schedule A excess contributors or the Schedule B. The most updated versions of all of the preceding forms will be available. When responding to a public inspection request for any organizational document or Form 990 by anyone, Ruskin Art Club will fulfill such request in a timely fashion without inquiring as to the reason for the public inspection request.