Benefit Event
The Drawing Center's 2025 Gala
April 16, 2025, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
The Drawing Center Gala
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Chelsea Industrial
Honoring Mary Heilmann, Adam Pendleton, Marco Perego-Saldaña and Zoe Saldaña-Perego
The Drawing Center's 2025 Gala will take place on Wednesday, April 16 at Chelsea Industrial in New York City. This year, we will have the great honor of honoring Mary Heilmann, Adam Pendleton, and Marco Perego-Saldaña and Zoe Saldaña-Perego.
6:30pm Cocktails & hors d'oeuvres by Midden Hospitality
7:30pm Honoree Awards and Dinner:
Speakers include Derek Fordjour on Mary Heilmann, Lynne Tillman on Adam Pendleton, Marco Perego-Saldaña and Zoe Saldaña-Perego.
Dinner spotlighting New York City's local favorites: First course by Esse Taco, mains by Mina Stone, desserts by Bạn Bè.
TDC's annual Gala is the leading fundraiser in support of our organization. Funds generated through this event support our exhibitions, publications, public programs, and education initiatives, furthering our enduring mission to explore the medium of drawing as universal, dynamic, and vital to contemporary culture, the future of art, and creative thought.
For information on tickets or to make a donation to The Drawing Center, please contact Rebecca Brickman, Director of Development at rbrickman@drawingcenter.org or (212) 219 2166 x217.
2025 Gala Benefit Committee:
- Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip Aarons
- Frances Beatty Adler and Allen Adler
- Almine Rech
- Dita Amory
- Sarah Arison
- Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Diana Bowes
- James-Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach
- Max and Monique Burger and the TOY family
- Valentina Castellani and Gianluca Violante
- Eileen and Michael Cohen
- Andrea Crane and Sam Hoffman
- Elizabeth Dee
- Marty and Rebecca Eisenberg
- Celines Estevez
- Kathy Fuld
- Gary Garrels
- Claire Gilman
- Stacey and Rob Goergen
- Amy Gold and Brett Gorvy
- Agnes Gund
- Hilary and Peter Hatch
- Hauser & Wirth
- Harry Tappan Heher and Jean-Edouard van Praet d'Amerloo
- Alanna Heiss and Fred Sherman
- Marieluise Hessel
- Priscila and Alvin Hudgins III
- Joan Jonas
- Jonas Jonasson
- Karma
- KAWS and Julia Chiang
- Michèle Gerber Klein
- Lévy Gorvy Dayan
- Kim Manocherian
- Iris Z. Marden
- Laura and Andrews Newby
- Marianne Boesky Gallery
- Tamara Mellon, OBE and Michael S. Ovitz
- Pace Gallery
- Jim Panichella
- Nancy and Fred Poses
- Eva Presenhuber
- Michael Ringier
- Leonard Rosenfeld
- Fiona and Eric Rudin
- Ed Ruscha
- Jane Dresner Sadaka and Ned Sadaka
- Ivy Shapiro
- Arlene Shechet and Mark Epstein
- Cindy Sherman
- Joyce and Ken Siegel
- Silberman Zaretsky PC
- Laura Skoler
- 303 Gallery
- Michael Straus
- Susan Inglett Gallery
- Rirkrit Tiravanija
- Barbara Toll
- Waqas Wajahat
- Dana Wallach Jones and Michael T.M. Jones
- Candace King Weir
- Linda Yablonsky
*List in formation as of February 20, 2025