Artists Fellowship 2019 Honorees: Artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik, and Executive Director
Sanford Hirsch representing the Gottlieb Foundation
On October 28th, the Artists' Fellowship, Inc. honored the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation by presenting the Gari Melchers award for over forty years of service and assistance to the artist community.
Members of the staff and board of directors of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation attended the Artists' Fellowship annual awards dinner to be part of the award ceremony.
Please enjoy the following photos from the evening! Event photography by Phillipe Bouquet.
Executive Director Sanford Hirsch delivering the acceptance speech (excerpt below)
"The Foundation continues the Gottlieb’s legacy of giving to individual artists. Our guiding principle has always been to approach how we operate and how we make awards based on the realities of how artists live their lives.
The work that we do is very rewarding, and the best reward for us is to hear from artists that we have made a difference in their lives. It is particularly rewarding when we are able to help out in times of special need, and when we can provide the means for an individual artist to get through a difficult time and continue his or her important work.
So, for us to receive this recognition from an artists’ group that originated over a hundred years before the Gottlieb Foundation and which also has providing assistance to individual artists as one of its purposes, is a tremendous honor and one we deeply appreciate – as fellow artists and as organizations that recognize the importance of artists’ work and the importance of a supportive community of artists. On behalf of my colleagues and myself, thank you Artists Fellowship, for this medal and for the honor that it represents."
From front left, clockwise: David Novros, Christina Hunter, Paul Hunter, Doug Flamm, Nancy Litwin (Gottlieb Foundation Art Collection Manager), Lynda Benglis (artist and Gottlieb Foundation board member), Joanna Pousette-Dart, Sarita Dubin
From front left, clockwise: Shaina Larrivee, Hanne Tierney, Donn Zaretsky, Lisa Zaretsky, Melissa Joseph (Gottlieb Foundation Grants Manager), Amy Schichtel, Grace Walsh (Gottlieb Foundation Archive Assistant), Charlotta Kotik (curator and Gottlieb Foundation board member), Gordon Marsh (Gottlieb Foundation board member), Charles Duncan.
Left to right: Lilly Wei (Curator/Critic and Gottlieb Foundation board member), Sanford Hirsch, Douglas Baxter, and Deborah Beblo
Richard Rapaport and Brooke Kamin Rapaport (Curator and Gottlieb Foundation board member)
Lynda Benglis and Sanford Hirsch
Melissa Joseph (Grants Manager) and Grace Walsh (Archive Assistant)
Gottlieb Foundation board member and artist Robert Mangold was not able to attend the event.
Click here for more information about the Artists Fellowship Inc. Annual Awards Dinner.
And click here for more information about the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.