Annual Benefit & Awards

Save the Date for ArtTable’s
Annual Benefit and Award Ceremony!

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Bohemian National Hall
New York City

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FY24 New York Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony

About the Event

ArtTable’s Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony was launched in 1993, 13 years after the organization was initially founded. The inaugural event honored actress, singer, television personality, spokesperson for the arts, and then Chair of the New York State Council on the Arts, Kitty Carlisle Hart, with the first ever Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award. In following years, the event would go on to honor trailblazers and powerhouse women in the arts, including Agnes Gund, Marcia Tucker, Yoko Ono, Thelma Golden, Lowery Stokes Sims, and many more.

In 2005, the New Leadership Award was introduced to honor and celebrate emerging women leaders in the arts. Twelve honorees were selected by twelve past DSVA award recipients, reinforcing the idea of “Looking Back, Moving Forward,” the theme of ArtTable’s 25th Anniversary year.

This annual event continues to honor two extraordinary arts professionals each year, saluting the important work done in the past, advances being made in the present, and the potential for the future.

Annual Awards

"Eye" sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture is like a golden layered pyramid with an eyeball looking out and upwards from the top.

Louise Bourgeois
EYE, 2003
Cast bronze, silver nitrate, polished patina

ArtTable’s Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award acknowledges and celebrates remarkable leadership in the arts. Its recipients exemplify ArtTable’s dedication to the lasting impact of the visual arts on our shared cultural life. In 2003, as a special gesture to ArtTable and the leading women it honors, Louise Bourgeois created an unnumbered, cast bronze edition to represent the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts award. EYE is cast each year in commendation to our awardee.

Click here to view a list of all past Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardees.

The sculpture "Seven Square Inches of Water" by Maya Lin. The sculpture mimics rolling waves.

Maya Lin
Seven Square Inches of Water, 2014
Cast and polished glass

ArtTable’s New Leadership Award recognizes an emerging professional who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and made considerable contributions to the visual art field in the earlier stages of their careers. This award was first introduced as part of ArtTable’s 25th anniversary celebration in 2005. This past year’s award was Seven Square Inches of Water, a limited-edition artwork by Maya Lin created to benefit the “What Is Missing?” project.

Click here to view a list of all past New Leadership Awardees.

ArtTable Day

Celebrate with us annually on April 7!

A woman holds up an art print and gestures to the middle of it while 3 other women look on and take photos.

A woman takes a photo of a group of people taking a selfie

A group of women pose for a photo in a garden outside of a brick industrial-like building

In 2005, the Mayor of New York City declared April 7 as ArtTable Day, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of ArtTable’s founding. We continue to celebrate our incredible community of professional women and nonbinary professionals in the arts on this day every year!

Celebrate ArtTable Day year round!

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