Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is a non-profit 501(C)3, non-partisan organization dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American art. Founded as a public-private partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department of State to contribute fine art to U.S. embassies around the world. FAPE’s donations include works by more than 145 American artists placed in over 70 countries. Headquartered in Washington D.C., FAPE has raised over $42 million in art and monetary contributions.

FAPE was established in 1986. The organization was founded by Leonore Annenberg, Wendy W. Luers, Lee Kimche McGrath and Carol Price. As spouses of former U.S. ambassadors and with Mrs. McGrath as the Director of ART in Embassies at the State Department, FAPE’s founders recognized a need to build upon the State Department’s ART in Embassies Program by providing permanent works of art that would endure the tests of time in embassies across the world. FAPE’s Chairman is currently Mrs. Jo Carole Lauder. FAPE’s President is Ann L. Gund and FAPE’s Vice President is Eden Rafshoon. The Director of FAPE is Jennifer Duncan. For a full list of FAPE’s board members, please see: http://www.fapeglobal.org/board.html

FAPE’s restoration projects include the historic eighteenth-century Hôtel de Talleyrand, in Paris, once headquarters for the Marshall Plan and now an American embassy annex building; Winfield House, the Embassy Residence in London, which is supported by an endowment established by Leonore and Walter H. Annenberg through the Annenberg Foundation; restoring the treasures of the Petschek Palace, the U.S. Embassy Residence in Prague; preserving ancient statuary in the gardens at the U.S. Embassy in Rome; and the complete refurbishment of public rooms at the U.S. Embassy Residences in Warsaw and Beijing. Funding has also been provided by FAPE for restoration projects at the U.S. Embassy Residences in Brussels, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Paris, and Vienna.

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