On
Monday, March 14 Jacqueline
Weld Drake hosted 70 for a cocktail reception to
kick-off the Museum of
Art and Design’s LOOT:
MAD ABOUT JEWELRY. The
reception was in honor of LOOT's 2016 honorees Joan
Hornig and Kay
Unger. Guests came adorned in jewelry to mark the
occasion.
The Benefit Dinner Chairs, Michele
Cohen and Marsy
Mittlemann and
LOOT’s Curator is Bryna
Pomp all wore
past purchases of jewelry from their LOOT collections in
celebration of the sixteenth edition of LOOT: MAD ABOUT
JEWELRY, April 11 to 16, 2016. Every year, LOOT presents a
cross-section of the most exciting, cutting-edge art jewelry
designs, and offers the public a rare opportunity to meet
and acquire pieces directly from some of the most skilled
creators in the field.
Guests that attended
the event included: Jeffrey
Banks, Martha Bograd, Michela Bondardo, Joanne Brecker,
Stacey Creamer, Lady Liliana
Cavendish, Tiffany
Dubin, Patti and Michael Dweck, John Eason, Patricia
Falkenberg, Julie Fowler, Stephanie French, Suzanne Golden,
Boo Grace, Elysze Held, Sharon King Hoge, Joan and George
Hornig, Beverly Schreiber Jacoby, Elizabeth Jacoby, Michèle
Gerber Klein, Karen Klopp, Luisa LaViola, Lauren Lawrence,
Mercedes Levin, Nancy Jane Loewy, Marjorie
Mayrock, Stacey Mayrock, Alison Minton, Victoria Morris,
Linda Plattus, Arlene Richman, Jill Ryan, Randi Schatz, Holly
Dale Shapiro, Sara
Tayeb-Khalifa, Patricia Underwood, and Janet
Winter
Dinner
Co-Chairs are: Corice
Arman, Noreen Buckfire, Marian C. Burke, Patti Dweck, Leslie
Fielden, Ann Kaplan, Laura Taft Paulsen, Barbara Regna,
Patricia Hearst Shaw, Barbara Tober, and Ruben
and Isabel Toledo.
Host, Jacqueline Weld Drake,
with her husband Rodman Drake, have assembled one of the
foremost collections of original American Illustration Art
(1890-1940). Among the first to recognize the value of the
paintings and drawings, this collection is an important
example of the kind of historic innovation in art and design
that MAD supports.
The Museum of Arts and Design
LOOT 2016 Benefit Dinner on Monday, April 11, 2016 will
allow patrons access to meet the LOOT 2016 artists and
acquire their designs, a cocktail hour and reception, as
well as a dinner honoring the LOOT 2016 Award recipients.
The benefit dinner will take place at 7:30 at Robert, the
museum’s award-winning restaurant.
To Purchase Tickets to LOOT:
MAD About Jewelry, go to:
http://thestore.madmuseum.org/collections/loot-2016
LOOT is the Museum
of Arts and Design’s annual exhibition and sale of
one-of-a-kind contemporary jewelry created by more than 40
of the world’s most innovative jewelry artists working in a
range of materials including silver, pearls, and
semiprecious stones, as well as more unconventional
materials like glass, wood, hand-painted canvas, porcelain,
papier mache, concrete, zinc, sequins, and feathers. For
most of these artists this is their New York debut; all will
be at the Museum to meet you and discuss their work.
The MUSEUM OF ARTS AND
DESIGN (MAD) champions contemporary makers across
creative fields, presenting artists, designers, and artisans
who apply the highest level of ingenuity and skill to their
work. Founded in 1956 by philanthropist and visionary Aileen
Osborn Webb, MAD celebrates the creative processes by which
materials are transformed, from traditional techniques to
cutting-edge technologies. MAD emphasizes a
cross-disciplinary approach to art and design and reveals
the workmanship behind the objects and environments that
shape our everyday lives. MAD provides an international
platform for practitioners who are driving 21st-century
innovation.
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