Socrates Sculpture Park 2023 Fall Gala

On September 14, 2023 we celebrated the healing power of the arts with honorees Guadalupe Maravilla Ivana Mestrovic and The Fortune Society’s Creative Arts Program Sunset Cocktails, Dinner & Dancing Spacetime CC, Mark di Suvero’s waterfront studio Long Island City, Queens NY Limited Artist’s Edition For Sale Mary Mattingly Neap Tide, 2023 From the series Salt Moons, Ebb of a Spring Tide Dye-sublimation print on aluminum, 12 x 12 inches Ed. 12, 5 A.P.’s Created exclusively for the 2023 Fall Gala Price: $3,000 TO PURCHASE VISIT HERE —- Or contact Sarah Frazier, Director of Development & Communications at sf@socratessculpturepark.org / 718-956-1819 x102 Neap Tide captures a unique sculptural process achieved by immersing a steel disk into the saltwater of the East River, meticulously observing and documenting its gradual transformation. As it became encased in salt, this sculpture was photographed to symbolize tidal and lunar phases, particularly the half-full appearance associated with neap tides during the first and third quarter moons. This photograph is part of the Salt Moons series, which began during Mattingly’s installation of her exhibition Ebb of a Spring Tide. Commissioned by the Park for its Spring 2023 exhibition, the project drew inspiration from the nearby estuary and employed repurposed materials to construct an immersive sculptural ecosystem, revealing the interconnectedness of time, water, and life cycles. ABOUT OUR HONOREES Guadalupe Maravilla Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. As an acknowledgement of his own migratory past, Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts of immigrant culture, particularly those belonging to Latinx communities. Maravilla currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a 2015 Emerging Artist Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has exhibited and performed in major museums, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, and many more. Ivana Mestrovic  Ivana Mestrovic started working with Mark di Suvero in 1987, just 5 months after Socrates’s first opening, and directs his studio, Spacetime C.C.. Mestrovic has been involved with Socrates Sculpture Park for nearly as long, and plays an integral role in its strategic planning, financing, development and pancake breakfasts.  In addition to her service at Socrates, she also serves on the board of the little OPERA THEATRE of NY. Ivana is a poet, whose work has appeared in Evening Street Review, The Midwest Quarterly and Night Picnic. She is the granddaughter of Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, who was the first living artist to receive a one-person show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Fortune Society’s Creative Arts Program The overriding mission of The Fortune Society is to support successful re-entry from incarceration and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities through a “one-stop-shop” model of service delivery designed to support the myriad intersecting needs of community members. Current services include: housing, education, employment, outpatient mental health and substance use treatment, health services (including HIV and AIDS services), family services, food and nutrition programming, discharge planning/case management, benefits access, creative arts, care management, a peer-driven recovery center (the NEST), lifetime aftercare, policy and advocacy through their David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy, and research through the Center for Research, Inquiry and Social Justice.  Since our organization’s founding in 1967, Fortune has been committed to using the restorative capacities of art and art making to call for an end to mass incarceration in the United States, to support successful reentry, and to contribute to more just collective futures. The Creative Arts at The Fortune Society is more than a program — they are a community. They align with radical hope and believe in the healing and transformative powers of imagination and creativity. Schedule WITH David Lee Jones with support by Jazz Foundation of America Astoria Mystics Circle presents Debrah Pedero   Tarot Card Reading Chelsea Hanawalt   3-Card Oracle Emily Anne   Guided Astrology (with birth time) Betty Wang   Four Pillars Astrology BEATS DJ Vinyl Richie (@yovinyl) BITES & DRINKS R. Cano Diamond Dogs THANK YOU Sanford’s, Heart of Gold , Atmosphere Brewing Thank you to our Supporters   LEADERS Mark di Suvero Agnes Gund BENEFACTOR Paula Cooper Gallery SPONSORS The Sidney E. Frank Foundation Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation Jill and Peter Kraus Lambent Foundation The Leon Levy Foundation Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Harriet and Frank Stella PATRONS Jayne and Leonard Abess Jody and John Arnhold Vivien and David Collens Emme and Jonathan Deland Dun-Rite Specialized J. Paul Getty Trust Robert F. Goldrich Goldstone Family Foundation Phyllis Lee Levin Anna and Peter Levin Lewitt Collection Richard and Ronay Menschel SUPPORTERS Anne and Greg Avis Jamie Bennett and Udai Soni Christie’s Anita Contini and Steve Van Anden  Lucas Cooper Katie Dixon and Richard Fleming Susan Freedman Freund Family Foundation Tiffany Bell and Richard Gluckman Neil Hamamoto John Hatfield and Amy Wolf Amy Hau and Fred Hansen Steven Henry and Philip Shneidman  Elizabeth Kelley Karpowicz and Terrence Karpowicz Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder Deidrea Miller  Allen Murabayashi Penelope Pilkington and Wendy Osoff Alison Saar Silberman Zaretsky PC  Manny and Jackie Silverman FRIENDS Michelle Coffey  Kimberly Davis Suzy Delvalle Abby Hamlin and Robert Kandel Barbara Heizer Lisa Kim and Drew Kaplan Mike Margitich Maria Eugenia Maury Margaret Morton Darrell Petit Mike Pratt Nancy Rosen Hermina Seiden and Martin Z. Margulies Silman, a TYlin Company Committee list in formation as of August 18, 2023