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Rotunda Gallery announces its
Annual Benefit Gala,
November 5th, 2003
OCTOBER 10, 2003---The Rotunda Gallery announces its annual Benefit Gala, a cocktail preview of the upcoming exhibition Explaining Magic, on Wednesday, November 5th, 2003, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. The evening will include live entertainment, and catering by Fanfare. Wine for the celebration is provided by Heights Chateau Wines & Liquor, and specialty drinks by Alizé.
The evening's program will include the announcement of the recipient of the 2003 Lori Ledis Memorial Award in support of the Rotunda Gallery's Curatorial Initiative. The Initiative is a program to foster emerging curatorial talent, by providing new curators the opportunity to realize a large-scale exhibition in Rotunda's professional gallery space. For the first time, the annual award will be supported by a fund established in memory of the late Lori Ledis, the gallerist and enthusiastic supporter of artists who was also a member of the Board of Directors of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture (Rotunda's parent organization), and a founding member of the Rotunda Gallery Artist Advisory Committee.
Tickets to the Benefit Gala are $125, $250, or $500, and are tax-deductible (less $25). All proceeds from the event benefit the Rotunda Gallery and its education and exhibition programs. Tickets may be purchased by calling Brett Rollins at 718-875-4047 x11.
Explaining Magic is a group exhibition of artists who transform the known into the unknown. Using the everyday as a source of inspiration, they remind us of our own creative capacity to wonder. Artists include: Dawn Clements, Ik-Joong Kang, Kanik Chung, Peter Krashes, Rachel Selekman, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Michael Houston, and Mary Temple. Each of the exhibiting artists has donated a small work for sale during the Benefit Gala; all sale proceeds will benefit the Rotunda Gallery. Explaining Magic will open to the public on November 13, and will be on view through December 27, 2003.
The Rotunda Gallery is located in Brooklyn Heights, just over the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. The Gallery is also easily accessible by public transportation. It is a short walk from the 2,3; 4,5; M, N or R trains at the Court Street/Borough Hall station, or the A,C trains at High Street. For more information see our website: www.briconline.org/rotunda.
The Rotunda Gallery, housed in an award-winning space designed by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, showcases the work of Brooklyn artists. The Rotunda Gallery's educational programs reach 7,000 students each year with gallery visits and in-school art making projects. Janet Riker is the Gallery Director; Meridith McNeal is Associate Director. The Rotunda Gallery is a program of the not-for-profit BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
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