PWPL Names Art Gallery for Karen and Ed Adler

The Port Washington Public Library is pleased to announce that its main art gallery is now the Karen and Ed Adler Gallery, in recognition of their continued and generous financial support of the Library and their special interest in the arts.

Ed Adler, the mayor of Sands Point, is one of the founding board members of the Port Washington Library Foundation. He and his wife Karen have been generous contributors to the Foundation’s endowment and to the new Children’s Library campaign. The couple have been lifelong devotees to the arts and the Library Board is honored to recognize their tremendous generosity.

“Karen and I have always shared an interest in the arts,” says Ed. “Touring galleries and museums has been a regular part of our married life for more than four decades. When we were raising our children in Port, the Library’s exhibitions and other programs in the arts brought us much pleasure for the many years when getting into the city together was rarely a possibility.

“In recent years we were able to resume museum and gallery visits in Manhattan and build our own collection, but we continue to enjoy the great creativity and talent exhibited at the Library. In fact, a painting exhibited in the Library’s gallery a few years ago graces the wall of my office in Manhattan. We can’t think of a more appropriate purpose for the income from our endowment gift.”

Library Director Nancy Curtin says of the naming, “a gallery named for this generous and involved couple adds distinction to our fine arts space. Their support fosters our mission to exhibit a wide array of artistic expression for the Port community.”  www.pwpl.org/foundation/