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ART CELEBRATION
Lisa & Jeff Edwards Photo by Emma Parker
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Artwork by Tim Rietenbach: Globe, (detail) 30” wide, acrylic medium on plexiglass
ART CELEBRATION 2020
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 6:00 PM
Join us for an elegant evening celebrating the power of art and its role in inspiring resilience and hope. Art Celebration is the Museum’s signature fundraising gala, which provides critical operating support to our award winning programs, exhibitions, and cherished collections. Your support of Art Celebration is more important than ever this year, and we are taking extra precautions such as reduced capacity and the offering of virtual options, to ensure a safe gathering this fall.
This October we are delighted to honor Lisa and Jeff Edwards, steadfast champions of the Museum who have been integral to its transformation over the past two decades. We recently connected with Jeff and Lisa to find out why the Columbus Museum of Art is so close to their hearts.
What first sparked your involvement in the Museum? [Jeff] My dear friend Ron Pizzuti asked me to serve on the Board, and I obviously agreed. That was roughly twenty years ago, and I have enjoyed every minute worked on Museum matters since.
Will you tell us a favorite Museum memory? That first Art Celebration, after the opening of the new Walter Wing, after we had all worked so hard on the building addition, was definitely up near the top for us.
This year’s Art Celebration theme focuses on the ability of art to inspire resilience and hope. How has art inspired you through this strange and uncertain time? Art reminds us regularly that we, as a society, have been in similar times before. Hopefully, we learn from these experiences we are undergoing and affect change. Undoubtedly art will be a medium which records those changes and new found hope.
What makes this event important to you and your family? Art Celebration is a great way for the community to show its support around such a treasure to the City of Columbus.
For more information on tickets or sponsorship opportunities, contact Betsy Meacham at betsy.meacham@cmaohio.org or 614.629.0328.
