{"id":17916,"date":"2017-04-27T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T11:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=17916"},"modified":"2017-04-27T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:49:20","slug":"skowhegan-school-of-painting-and-sculpture-hosts-2017-awards-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/skowhegan-school-of-painting-and-sculpture-hosts-2017-awards-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Hosts 2017 Awards Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the rain, on April 25th over 500 guests gathered at the Plaza Hotel to celebrate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skowheganart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skowhegan School of Painting<\/a> to\u00a0raise funds for its artist residency program. The 2017 Skowhegan Awards Dinner was held in honor of Jack Whitten, The Studio Museum in Harlem and William T. Williams, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and its Chairman and CEO, Charles C. Bergman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17923\" style=\"width: 568px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17923\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_WilliamT.Williams-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_WilliamT.Williams-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_WilliamT.Williams-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_WilliamT.Williams-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_WilliamT.Williams-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_WilliamT.Williams.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">William T. <span data-reactid=\".0.2.0.0.1.1.2.$2435006photo.1.3.$301336.0\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">W<\/span>illiams\u00a0<\/span>\/\/Benjamin Lozovsky\/BFA.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Guests enjoyed performances by Metropolis Ensemble, a Skowhegan Flower Cart designed by Saipua, and a Pop-up Shop featuring limited edition artworks by esteemed Skowhegan alumni and faculty such as Hank Willis Thomas, Alex Katz, Chris Ofili, and Polly Apfelbaum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17921\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17921\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PMc_SkowheganFlowerCarbySaipua-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PMc_SkowheganFlowerCarbySaipua-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PMc_SkowheganFlowerCarbySaipua-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PMc_SkowheganFlowerCarbySaipua-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PMc_SkowheganFlowerCarbySaipua-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PMc_SkowheganFlowerCarbySaipua.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Photo\/\/ Patrick McMullan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The night\u2019s notable attendees included Jack Shear, Agnes Gund, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, Ann Gund, Adam Weinberg, Caroline Hoffman, Byron Kim, Robert Gober, David Driskell, Lowery Stokes Sims, Michael Xufu Huang, Cathy Lasry, Paul Pfeiffer, NIC Kay, Pepita Serrano, Jerryd Bayless, Darren Walker, and Thelma Golden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17926\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17926\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_RenaHoffman-SarahWorkneh-DavidDriskell-DavidBeitzel-KatieSonnenborn-DarrenWalker-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_RenaHoffman-SarahWorkneh-DavidDriskell-DavidBeitzel-KatieSonnenborn-DarrenWalker-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_RenaHoffman-SarahWorkneh-DavidDriskell-DavidBeitzel-KatieSonnenborn-DarrenWalker-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_RenaHoffman-SarahWorkneh-DavidDriskell-DavidBeitzel-KatieSonnenborn-DarrenWalker-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BFA_RenaHoffman-SarahWorkneh-DavidDriskell-DavidBeitzel-KatieSonnenborn-DarrenWalker.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><span class=\"s1\">Rena Hoffman, Sarah Workneh, David Driskell, David Beitzel, Katie Sonnenborn,Darren Walker<\/span>\/\/ Benjamin Lozovsky\/BFA.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skowheganart.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a>\u00a0about Skowhegan\u00a0School of Painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the rain last night, over 500 guests gathered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":17929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916"}],"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=17916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}