Anniversary Gala
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
THE POOL
99 E 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
RxART 25th ANNIVERSARY GALA
Thank you to those who joined us—both in person and in spirit—for RxART’s most memorable and meaningful evening to date: our 25th Anniversary Gala. It was a deeply inspiring evening, perfectly capturing the spirit of RxART's achievements while ushering in the next 25 years of improving healthcare spaces through world-class art.
Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community and supporters, it was RxART's most successful gala to date and will allow RxART to bring even more bright and uplifting projects to children’s hospitals nationwide. Together, we’re transforming the patient experience and enhancing medical environments for communities everywhere.
It was deeply moving to honor both RxART Founder Diane Brown and the endlessly inspiring Drs. Bobbi and Barry Coller. February 5, 2025 was also proclaimed RxART Day by the City of New York “in recognition of RxART’s incredible contributions to transforming healthcare environments through contemporary art and uplifting patients and medical staff with creativity, color, and inspiration.”
Special thanks and sincere gratitude go out to everyone who made the evening possible, including our generous co-chairs Glori Cohen and Cynthia Zabel as well as our sponsors ATWATER Skincare, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, CULTURED Magazine, Figs, OOG Health, and Warby Parker. Please visit BFA for all of the celebratory gala photos, and feel free to contact RxART to request hi-res images. The full press release can be accessed here.
HONOREES
RxART Founder and President Diane Brown has forged a professional path that draws equally from her experience as a pre-med student at the University of Wisconsin and from her career as a gallerist, art dealer, and curator. She owned and operated the Diane Brown Gallery in Washington, D.C. between 1976-1982 and in New York City between 1983-1992. Diane founded RxART in 2000, and by the year 2024, RxART has completed 66 projects in 44 hospitals in 27 cities across the United States, with RxART projects reaching millions of young patients each year.
Diane Brown
Bobbi Coller is an art historian, art educator, and independent curator. She received a B.S. in education from New York University and her Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the co‐creator of The Pulse of Art program and is a lecturer at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Currently, she serves as Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, NY; Director of the O.Z. Gallery, New York; and as a member of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Education Committee. She has curated over 30 exhibitions for museums and galleries.
Dr. Bobbi Coller
Currently serving as Physician-in-Chief of The Rockefeller University Hospital and David Rockefeller Professor of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at The Rockefeller University in New York, Dr. Barry Coller has earned numerous accolades for his body of work. He was elected in 1999 to the Institute of Medicine and in 2003 to the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Coller was an early RxART ally and enabled the organization’s first project to be installed at The Rockefeller University Hospital in 2003.
Dr. Barry Coller
CELEBRATING ALL RxART COLLABORATING ARTISTS
Trenton Doyle Hancock
The Keith Haring Foundation
Daniel Heidkamp
Loie Hollowell
Shara Hughes
Rashid Johnson
Ewa Juszkiewicz
Jeff Koons
Sol LeWitt (Estate)
Tomokazu Matsuyama
Ryan McGinley
Jason Middlebrook
John Monti
Takashi Murakami
Nina Chanel Abney
Derrick Adams
Harold Ancart
avaf
Walead Beshty
Will Boone
Julia Chiang
Dan Colen
Will Cotton
Ann Craven
Michele Oka Doner
Marcel Dzama
Sam Falls
Urs Fischer
The Haas Brothers
Laura Owens
José Parlá
Nicolas Party
Hilary Pecis
Rob Pruitt
Walter Robinson
Alexis Rockman
Ed Ruscha
Kenny Scharf
Mary Temple
Mickalene Thomas
Lesley Vance
William Wegman
James Welling
Jonas Wood
SPONSORS
PAST RxART PARTIES
The RxART PARTY celebrates our annual accomplishments and raises essential funds supporting RxART’s mission to connect pediatric hospitals with established artists who care about improving the patient experience. The event’s success allows RxART to fulfill more important artist commissions every year and to produce new projects with deserving children’s hospitals across the country.
The 2024 RxART PARTY, chaired by Dawn and David Lenhardt, was held on the evening of Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at The Bowery Hotel in New York City. It was a memorable opportunity to applaud the exceptional creativity and generosity of artist Harold Ancart as well as the visionary leadership of Dr. Harold Koplewicz, Founding President and Medical Director of the Child Mind Institute.
