Gardner Museum benefit draws MetroWest supporters
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum hosted its annual fundraising episode, titled the "Spirit Sake," on May 1 at the historic Gardner Museum and the -away Pozen Center at the Massachusetts College of Art and Study. John Singer Sargent's painting "El Jaleo" served as the awakening for the evening, which celebrated the Gardner Museum's luxurious legacy of programs with Spanish music, flamenco dancers, and red, threatening and white decor reminiscent of the mind and energy in this painting.
The event began with cocktails around the museum's notable courtyard garden -- before the co-chairs and a troupe of na flamenco dancers led guests on a flaunt from the museum, through Evens Way Park and nearby the construction of the Gardner's new wing, to the Pozen Center for a property performance by mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves.
The in any case raised $700,000 to support the programming at the Gardner in five cornerstone areas: prominent art and scholarship; contemporary art and artists; schooling and community; music; and landscape. Art storekeeper business and gallery owner Kate Chertavian, of Kate Chertavian Fine Art, emceed the evening's auction, raising more than $160,000 in donations during a seated dinner catered by The Catered Occurrence.
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