Berkshire Art Center Revels In Rococo Roku Style
How Rococo can one get? Partygoers at the Berkshire Art Center's gala turned up in their best French Baroque finery.
Cass Santos-China and Poppy DaBubbly (Casi Kristant). All photos provided by Katunemo Art & Healing. Photographers: David Melchor, Carolina Hernández and Marina Domínguez
Submitted by Berkshire Art Center.
Berkshire Art Center’s annual fundraiser and dance party returned to The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield on Saturday, April 6. This year’s theme was the Rococo Raku Revelry where partygoers combined ornate French Baroque with Japanese minimalism, inspired by the raku ceramics technique. Guests attending the pre-dance cocktail party arrived in their finest wigs and lapels to bump elbows with talented artists from around the region and receive first access to the Silent Auction featuring a variety of ceramics and special experience packages.
The dance party kicked off inside the theater after the cocktail hour and attendees danced the night away under projections by local artist Joe Wheaton to the tunes of DJ BFG. This event also featured local drag queen, Bella Santarella, who entertained the crowd with special performances on stage and auctioned off several decor items including some of the handmade, decorated cake towers and a Koi fish cornhole game. As in years past, Berkshire Art Center’s gala was a benefit to support growing and sustaining visual artists in Berkshire County and beyond.
Parker Chandler, Abby Klein, Alec Bergweiler, Vicki Bonnington, BAC Executive Director Lucie Castaldo, Ruth Graham, Samuel Pascual, and BAC Board Chair Mike Zippel
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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