Support the Work. Sustain What Comes Next.
Be part of a community of patrons who bring our work to life.
Members of the Athenaeum Premiere Society believe that beauty has the power to renew culture and invest in that renewal through their support.
Your support sustains our productions, supports our artists, and helps build the future of the Athenaeum Center. It ensures that this work not only continues, but grows in depth, ambition, and impact.
Join a community rooted in the belief that art, truth, and meaningful encounter are essential to our culture.
Athenaeum Center is committed to bringing more art and more beauty into the world because we think these things make human life richer. Beauty moves the whole human person, connects us with others who are sharing the experience, and brings us to greater knowledge of reality.
Beauty is the visible form of the good.
—Saint John Paul II
Where Beauty Is Encountered
Today, the Athenaeum Center is a place where faith, beauty, music, and theatre come together to create a living encounter for all visitors.
From our historic home in Chicago, we seek to renew culture by inviting people of all walks of life into experiences of truth and beauty through the great Catholic tradition of the arts.
Premiere Society members make it possible to present meaningful work today while building what will shape the Athenaeum Center in the years to come.
Where Your Support Goes
Premiere Society support reaches every part of the Athenaeum Center’s work, bringing today’s productions to life while sustaining the people and place behind them and investing in what comes next.
Annual Giving Tiers
Premiere Society membership begins with an annual gift of $1,500. Each level offers opportunities to experience the Athenaeum Center more deeply and to see the impact of your support firsthand.
Together We Embody the Mission
Premiere Society members do more than support individual performances. Their annual commitment gives the Athenaeum Center the foundation to plan ambitiously, invest in artists and new work, care for our historic home, and create experiences that bring people together around beauty, truth, and goodness.
You will play a pivotal role in building something beautiful for our community and the world.
For more information and instruction on how to join the Athenaeum Premiere Society, please contact our Director of Development Suzy McNamara at development@athenaeumcenter.org.
