Inspiring Peace Gala 2024
CITYarts is inspiring peace!
Join us in celebrating our 35th annual Making a Difference Through the Arts Awards,
to be presented at the CITYarts Inspiring Peace Gala.
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
6:00-9:00pm
The Altman Building - 135 W 18th St. New York, Ny 10011
We will be honoring three inspiring individuals with our Making a Difference Through the Arts Awards. These changemakers have made a significant impact on the arts, education, and in people's lives in our city and abroad. They inspire peace and make our world a better place!
KYMBERLY PINDER
Yale School of Art Dean
Dr. Kymberly Pinder (she/her) is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art. An alumna of Yale's History of Art program, Dean Pinder is an internationally recognized scholar of race, representation, and public art. She is the author of Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago and the editor of Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History. Dean Pinder is widely known for her deep commitment to education and its potential to address local and national challenges. In addition to being an eminent scholar and educator, she has extensive experience at institutions of higher education and museums.
Dean Pinder was appointed Yale’s first Black woman dean in 2021. Prior to her appointment at Yale, Dean Pinder served as Provost and Senior Vice President, then later Acting President of Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). Before her time in Boston, Dean Pinder was the Dean of the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts for six years, director and curator of the University of New Mexico Art Museum, chair of the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism, and director of that department’s graduate program at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC). Dean Pinder has also worked in museums and galleries, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. Dean Pinder received her M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
Dean Pinder has approached each of her leadership roles with the view that institutions of higher education must work closely with their home cities to advocate for the importance of arts and culture and to create reciprocal avenues of access. She has curated exhibitions on urgent contemporary issues and held forums for thoughtful student and community member dialogue. Working with local artists, schools and governments, Dean Pinder has lead initiatives to create murals in Chicago, Albuquerque and New Haven. Dean Pinder serves on the boards of Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD), the photography organization CENTER, the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, and the Boston Public Art Triennial. She also served on the Boston Art Commission.
ROBERT (BO) LAUDER
Friends Seminary Principal
Robert (Bo) Lauder is the 35th Principal of Friends Seminary, an independent K-12 Quaker school, in New York City. Bo is in his 22nd year at Friends, previously serving as Upper School Principal and Dean of Students at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. Bo started his career at the Virginia Episcopal School as a Dean and music teacher. At Friends, Bo has led construction and renovation initiatives that have transformed the entirety of the School's campus; launched and concluded three Capital Campaigns that went substantially over goal; and oversaw the creation of a comprehensive Arabic language program. Over the years, Bo has enjoyed creating a permanent collection of art for the school which inspires and showcases the diversity within the art world as it happily hangs amongst the art created by his students. Recently this has included the opening of a James Turrell Skyspace installation at Friends, the only such artwork attached to a K-12 school.
Bo is a graduate of Auburn University and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is the past President of the New York City Guild of Independent Schools and is an active member of the Heads Network, The 1911 Group, the National Arts Club and Soho House. Bo’s fellowships include the Joseph Klingenstein Institute at Columbia University and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities which allowed him to travel to Vienna to study the paintings of the composer Arnold Schoenberg. Bo is in his 38th year as an independent school educator. In his spare time he gardens, visits museums and galleries and reads.
ALLIANZ
Global Business Committed to
Serving Youth and Communities
Allianz is a global insurance and financial services company that helps people manage risks and plan for the future. The company’s commitments to philanthropy comprise a global network of Allianz-affiliated foundations and Corporate Responsibility teams that includes The Allianz Foundation for North America, which was established in 2002 and has supported CITYarts programs and projects since. The Foundation's mission is to apply the shared concern for securing the future to challenges faced by society at large.
A core belief of the Foundation in addressing concerns for the future in North America is that one of the most significant social investments that can be made is in the ability of young people to live up to their fullest potential and pursue lives of leadership and service. With a focus for impact on the creation and expansion of opportunities for personal and professional growth for high school/GED-aged teenagers and young adults (ages 16-25), the Foundation supports young people in developing the skills, motivation, perspectives, and opportunities they need to be successful, self-reliant, and socially conscious members of society through the Allianz Foundation Fellowship Program, As part of the Foundation’s effort to promote social consciousness among young leaders – tomorrow’s community, national, and world leaders – the Fellowship Program enables gifted and motivated young people to take part in a short-term learning experience in the not-for-profit sector.
We are delighted to welcome ABC7NY Anchor
DAVID NOVARRO
as Master of Ceremony for the CITYarts Inspiring Peace Gala!
Emmy Award-winning journalist David Novarro anchors Eyewitness News at Noon and Eyewitness News at 4:00 p.m.
He returned to the Eyewitness News Team in December 2010.
A native of Manhattan's Lower East Side and Queens, Novarro started his career with Eyewitness News as a college intern and rose through the ranks to become a reporter. He was later named New Jersey Bureau correspondent and became anchor of Eyewitness News Sunday Morning.
For Eyewitness News, Novarro has covered such notable stories as the racial profiling case that led to the overhaul of the New Jersey State Police Department, terror cells operating in New York City and New Jersey and the first World Trade Center
attack, landing a rare interview with blind Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, convicted mastermind of the bombing. He was awarded an Emmy for his reports on tenants held hostage in their Brooklyn apartment building by drug dealers who had turned their home into a crack house.
Novarro helped grow the Eyewitness News community affairs show "Tiempo," the first public affairs program dedicated to issues of interest to the Hispanic community to air in New York City. He is very proud of his Latino roots and works hard to better his community.
In 2000, David moved to Chicago to become anchor of WFLD-TV's morning newscast, and in 2007 he was tapped to anchor the station's new 10PM newscast. While in Chicago, he reported on Barack Obama's presidential campaign, with profiles on the then Senator and his family at their home. He anchored live coverage from Grant Park during Obama's historic election night victory. In 2010, Novarro was voted "Best Newscaster" in a Chicago radio poll. Shortly thereafter he returned to his journalistic roots in New York.
Novarro is a graduate of New York University. He is married and is the proud father of son Daniel.
Jake Novak has been a broadcast journalist and editorial columnist for 30 years, working at several national news channels, including CNN, FOX News, and CNBC. He’s a recognized political & economic analyst and a commentator on religion, culture, and higher education. He has a B.A. from Columbia University, a Master’s degree from Northeastern University's Medill School of Journalism, and is a graduate of the Yeshivah of Flatbush.
CITYarts 2024 LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING CITYarts PUBLIC ART PROGRAMS!
LEAD SPONSOR
Allianz of America
ANGEL
Harlem Community Development Corporation
SPONSOR
Dr. Miriam Adelson/Adelson Family Foundation
BENEFACTOR
Michael Nachman
Yale University
AMBASSADOR
Agnes Gund/AG Foundation
Anna & Dean Backer
Jenny Holzer
Fran Schulman
Sung Hee Suh
Vera Sung/Abacus Bank
Jed Walentas/Walentas Foundation
PATRON
Sindy Aprigliano
Oren Cohen
Morrison Foerster
Robert Friedman/Sheppard Mullin
David Johnson
Steven Shachat
Bradley Tusk
WABC7-TV
FRIEND
Diane Brown
Anna Carbonell
Eleanor & Fern Flomenhaft
Desiree Gruber
Susan Harris
Charlie Hollander/Gemstone King
Bernard Lumpkin
Stephen Maharam & Camila Pastor
Tom & Carrie Monahan
Nina Yankowitz
CITYarts’ 2024 ARTIST CIRCLE
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING CITYarts PUBLIC ART PROGRAMS!
Suzanne Anker | Donna Barrett | Lynda Benglish | Zigi Ben-Haim | Siri Berg | Chellis Baird | Benefit Print Project | Lynda Benglis | Lesley Bodzy | Bunny Burson | Nancy Burson | Christo & Jeanne-Claude | Claire Cohen Juan Cortés | Jennifer Clifford Danner | Kaya Deckelbaum | Agnes Denes | Niki de Saint Phalle | Lesley Dill Donald Judd Foundation | Josh Dorman | Edward Eyth | Sandi Fellman | Donald Judd Foundation | Chris Gianakos | Richard Haas | Tim Hawkinson | Sook Jin Jo | Menashe Kadishman | Joyce Kozloff | Coralina Meyer | John L. Moore | Vik Muniz | Wendy Nadler | Tom Otterness | Nam June Paik | Antonia Papatzanaki | Lucio Pozzi | Faith Ringgold | Lorenza Sannai | Sumayyah Samaha | Michal Shapiro | Cindy Sherman | Peter Sis | Alec Soth | Alan Wexler | Thornton Willis | Nina Yankowitz
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