Art Students League Gala 2023

Each year, the Art Students League reaches 5,000 students of all ages through our unique atelier-based art education. For nearly one hundred fifty years, our legendary history has been shaped by a mission to provide an accessible fine art education to all who seek it.

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Art Students League instructors and students continue to define American art — from Jackson Pollock to Mark Rothko, from Louise Bourgeois to Ai WeiWei, from Georgia O'Keeffe to Pacita Abad, and on and on.

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The Art Students League's annual gala raises funds to keep arts education within reach for all New Yorkers and provides hundreds of scholarships. Through our Seeds of the League community program, we reach 8,000 New York City school children each year in underserved areas across the city. The arts help underserved students succeed: nearly 100% of Seeds students have gone on to college and to develop careers in the arts.

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Join us this November for an evening of cocktails, dinner, and entertainment at the Museum of Modern Art to raise funds to support scholarships and all League programming.

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When

November 6, 2023

7pm

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Where

The Museum of Modern Art

11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019

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Details

Cocktails, 7pm

Dinner & Program, 8pm‍

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Honorees

Larry Poons

An American abstract painter, Poons studied at the Art Students League of New York, and taught at the League from 1966 to 1970.  He currently teaches at the League (since 1997).

Associated with Op Art, Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism, Poons has challenged critical expectations throughout his career, transitioning through several distinct phases of work. According to New York Times critic Roberta Smith, "Since emerging in the 1960s, Mr. Poons has shown a strong preference for allover fields of pulsing color, even if his means of achieving them have varied enormously.“

Poons has works in dozens of collections throughout the world: MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Tate in London, and the Whitney.

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‍Beth Rudin DeWoody

An American art patron, collector, curator, and philanthropist, Beth studied at the League in 1969 as a teenager and bought her first work from an instructor there! She serves as President of the Rudin Family Foundation, and sits on the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art since the mid-1980s, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Creative Time, The New School University, Design Museum Holon in Israel, New Yorkers for Children, New York City Police Foundation, the Photography Steering Committee at the Norton Museum of Art located in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

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GALA CHAIRS

Robin Lechter Frank &
Dr. Ronald Frank

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ARTISTIC/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Michael Hall

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VICE CHAIRS

Visionaries
Dorian Goldman
Almine Rech
The May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.
Heather Van Wolf

Benefactors
Jane Corkin

Jonathan Dorfman and Melissa Kaish
Ian D. Highet
Aela Morgan
Jules Olitski Art Foundation
Sciame Construction
Yares Gallery

Leaders
Lawrence and Elyse Benenson
Crewcial Partners
Diana Frank
Sarah Gavlak, Gavlak Gallery
Agnes Gund
Jack Howard-Potter
Dr. Andrew Jacono

Annabel Keelty
Julia Keelty
Katherine H. Seidel
Elizabeth Young, Florida Keys Council on the Arts

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BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Guy Apicella
Paul Beirne
Susan Blond
Kathryn & Steve Butzlaff
Suzanne Cochran
Patricia Cronin
Ron Chereskin & Howard Goldfarb
Marc Dennis
Dan Desmond & Anna Raganskaya, Blue Rider Group, Morgan Stanley
Scott Drevnig

Jacqueline A. Drexel

JiaJia Fei

Vincent Fremont

Marietta Gavaris
Garth Greenan
Francis Greenberger
Marieluise Hessel
Deborah Kass
John Kneapler & Stephen Weitzman
Judy & Leonard Lauder
Miyuong Lee
Margaret T. Lewis
Helen Mangano

David Marchi
Wesley Moon
Barbara Mendelson & David Brody
Isabelle Orlansky
Roberto Ortiz

Job Piston
William Radin
Irene Ritter Foundation in honor of Francine Tint
Marian and Eva Rokacz
Kara Ross
Dana Sachs and Craig Stoddard
Michael Schultz
Eric Shiner
Pat Shoenfeld
Ruth Shuman
Linda Sirow
Peter Stamas

Sue Stoffel
William and Patricia Sumas
Franne and Bill Weinberg
Rob Wynne
Kenneth Wyse
Kay Ungar
Jason Yarmosky

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*List in formation as of October 6

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For more information contact:

Elizabeth Kingman, Director of Development

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The Gala is made possible by the support of generous partners and sponsors:

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Press

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