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Newsletter number 18
Dear friends of the Lily Foundation,
The board is very pleased to present you with this newsletter on our new letterhead. After fifteen years, it was time for an entirely new design, which is easy to recognize because it includes one of Lily’s drawings. In view of Lily’s great sympathy for the Tibetan people, a portrait of a Tibetan woman was selected. Finally, the Lily Foundation has a ‘face’! From now on, this design will serve as the logo on all our printed materials. We hope you are as enthusiastic about it as we are!
As the letterhead indicates, we have created a website, which will be further expanded in the months ahead. We also recently obtained an e-mail address. Starting today, Lily is online!
Lily’s work has been attracting interest both in the Netherlands and abroad. In April 2005, Dominique Lacroze, a curator at the Musée Dapper in Paris (www.dapper.com.fr), welcomed two members of the Lily Foundation's board in connection with the publication of the museum catalogue Signes du Corps, which includes a portrait of a Maasai woman drawn by Lily. The Musée Dapper is highly recommended for both its architecture and its collection. One noteworthy detail is that the museum was named after the seventeenth-century Dutch historian and geographer Olfert Dapper. The visit was a productive exchange of information and ideas about our two collections.
On 16 October 2005, the Buddhist broadcasting company BOS broadcast a radio programme produced by Jeanette Werkhoven, focusing on Lily’s travels in the Himalayas and her creative work in that region. This programme was enlivened by extracts from radio interviews with Lily. Two months later, it was followed by a programme – also produced by BOS – about Alexandra David-Néel, a friend of Lily’s known for her travels in Tibet. The two programmes complemented each other well, and we received positive feedback about them.
In May 2006, the board member Cassandra Carmio made a lightning visit to India. She briefly walked in Lily's footsteps and saw some of the places that Lily had visited. Valuable contacts were made with museums there, and the possibility of a future exhibition in New Delhi was discussed. We will keep you informed.
We are pleased to announce that Marijke Besselink will join the board of the Lily Foundation in the course of 2007. She has extensive experience as an exhibition planner at organizations such as the Zoological Museum in Amsterdam and Teylers Museum in Haarlem, and now works at Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum. We extend a warm welcome to her.
Finally, please note that the address of the Lily Foundation’s administrative office has changed. The new address is J.M. Coenenstraat 6E, 1071 WG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The phone and fax numbers have not changed.
We wish you happy holidays and good health in 2007.
