Proprietors Social Was A Three-Part Affair For Hudson Hall
This year's Proprietors Social was held on the street, in the hall, and at two restaurants.
Marlene Marshall and Reggie Madison, an artist and curator. Guest photos by Photos by JD Urban.
Submitted by Hudson Hall Supporters, artists, performers, and community members ate, drank and mingled outside on a transformed Hudson city street and across both floors of Hudson Hall’s historic 1855 building on Saturday, May 14. The Proprietors Social, the beloved arts orgnaization's annual spring gala, was a multi-part celebratation. The gala is Hudson Hall’s largest fundraising event of the year and provides critical support for its year-round schedule of accessible cultural offerings and free community programs.
Outdoors, guests were treated to cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and a raw oyster bar catered by Merchants Social (whose new Warren Street restaurant debuted for the event) as they enjoyed music by Nkoula Badila and DJ Jef Scharf (Wolfi Part II). The festivities continued inside Hudson Hall’s galleries with a stunning exhibition by visual artist Barbara Kilpatrick and two premiere performances of a newly commissioned dance work by choreographer/performers Rashuan Mitchell and Silas Riener. After remarks by Hudson Hall Board President Susan Hendrickson and Executive Director Tambra Dillon, the party then split in two, with guests moving on to dinner at Merchants Social and Swoon Kitchenbar for a delicious three-course, farm-to-table meal.
"Nearly Stationary" gala premier performance. Photo: Johannes Courtens
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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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