Palm Springs Art Museum Preps For 80th Anniversary Bash

PALM SPRINGS, CA –The Palm Springs Art Museum will host its 80th anniversary gala, on Saturday, Jan. 26 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with entertainment including "flair bartenders," a performance by America’s Got Talent finalist Johnny Manuel and dancing with music by DJ Lee Dyson.

“The Art is You” is the celebration's theme, and attendees are encouraged to wear cocktail-casual to semi-formal "winter whites," as they will be the canvas onto which art will be projected, according to museum organizers.

The extravaganza will honors 11 "superstar" donor families -- each having contributed More than $5 million in cash and gifts of art.

Trustee Gwendolyn Weiner, whose family has long been involved in the museum's history,will chair the event. She will be supported by co-chairs Barbara Keller and Ann Sheffer.

Festivities kick off at 6 p.m. with a cocktail reception and appetizers, followed at 7 p.m. by an elegant dinner prepared by Chef Brad Toles of Savoury’s Catering.

Gala tickets are $750 per person. For more information, click here or call (760) 322-4844.

Museum officials give credit for making the event possible to triple platinum sponsors Donna MacMillan, Harold B. Matzner and Stacey and Greg Renker; double platinum sponsors Helene V. Galen, Patti and Jack Grundhofer, Faye Sarkowsky, Arlene Schnitzer, and Jordan D. Schnitzer; platinum sponsors Annette Bloch, David Kaplan and Glenn Ostergaard, Mary Ann and Charles LaBahn & Nita Soref, Yvonne and Steve Maloney, Dorothy Meyerman, Marion Rosenthal, Jan Salta and others.

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--Image courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum