Storm King Art Center hosted its 12th Annual Gala in the South Fields of the Art Center’s 500-acre grounds. The Storm King Award, an annual recognition of meaningful contributions in the fields of visual arts, landscape, and nature conservation, was given to Director Emeritus David Collens. Collens joined Storm King in 1974 and served as Director and Curator from 1976 to 2015 and Director and Chief Curator from 2015 through 2021.
The event was well attended by 300+ Storm King supporters including Martin Puryear, Alice Aycock, Chakaia Booker, Kenneth Capps, Josephine Halvorson, Heather Hart, Gilbert Hawkins, Mel Kendrick, Virginia Overton, Stephen Talasnik, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Courtney B. Vance, Robert Denning, David Diamond, Christopher J. Elliman, Cathy Halstead, Miguel Hennessy, Francis Kéré, Debby Landesman, Jennifer Napier Nolen, James H. Ottaway, Jr., Nicholas A. Polsky, Beatrice Stern, Lisa Stern, Hume Steyer, Eric Booker, Nicholas Weist, Helen Drutt English, Barbara Haskell, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Sarah Lawrence, Arthur Sulzberger, Helen Toomer, Robert Denning, Meredith Westgate, among many others.
