Martha Stewart, Photo courtesy of the New York Academy of Art<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n
This year’s\u00a0Ball consisted\u00a0of a sit-down dinner by chef Daniel Boulud peppered with fundraising efforts and a walk-through of 6 floors of open studios filled with work by the Academy’s talented students.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nArtist Danica Lundy, Photo\/\/ Instagram (@nyacademyofart)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n
Special entertainment included musical performances, interactive installations, a sketching of live birds and\u2014oh, yeah\u2014event chairs Alain Bernard, Christina Di Donna, Brooke Shields and Naomi Watts galavanting around the room in cupcake tiaras designed by artist and New York Academy faculty member Will Cotton.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nNaomi Watts, Photo courtesy of the New York Academy of Art<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n
Overall, the Tribeca Ball raised over $860,000 that will go towards the Academy’s scholarships and public programming. $55,000 of that sum was raised specifically for the Will Cotton Scholarship, the creation of which was announced for the first time during dinner at the event.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nWill Cotton, Photo courtesy of the New York Academy of Art<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The night of Monday, April 3, a host of notable <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":17456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,21,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}