Benefit Committee
Rae Alexander-Minter**
Eric Appel*
Amy Attas & Stephen Shapiro
Auction.com
Roland Augustine & Lawrence Luhring
Yona Backer*
Sigmund Balka**
Amanda & Clayton Benchley
Gavin Berger**
Laura Blanco** & Robert F. Shainheit
Linda Blumberg**
Elliot Brownstein**
Deborah Buck
Victoria Cabanos** & Philip Hecht
Ellen Cantrowitz*
Fiona Cibani
Gigi & Gustavo de Arnavat
Alessandra DiGiusto**
Carol Dorsky*
Olivia Douglas** & David DiDomenico
Cynthia Elliott & Doug Rice
Dana Emmott
Alexis Frank
Lea* & Stephan Freid
Alissa Friedman*
Stacey & Rob Goergen
Blake Grossman
Marilyn** & Stephen Greene
Nohra Haime*
Lesley Heller*
Julia P.* & Horacio Herzberg
Susan Hinko**
Joyce Hogi**
Jeanna Hussey**
Isabella Hutchinson
Debby Hymowitz
Ursula Kalish
Lauren Kelly
Mary & Sean Kelly
Nicholas Kilner*
Alice Kosmin**
Ian & Serge Krawiecki Gazes
Joan Krevlin**
Miyoung lee & Neil Simpkins
Tania Leon
Ashley Leutner*
Lordes López
Florence Lynch*
Mary Beth Mandanas**
Cormac McEnery**
Jennifer McSweeney
Joseph Mizzi**
Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
Risa Needleman*
Nathan Newman**
The O’Grady Foundation
Ifeoma Okoronkwo Aitkenhead**
Scott R. & Melissa Persall Hirsch
Alina Pedroso
Penny Pilkington*
Lesley & Jonathan Plotkin**
Nancy Portnoy**
Serra Pradhan*
Paul Reback**
Michelle Richards
Tim Rollins**
Ruth Corn** & Gordon Roth
Mary Sabbatino*
Don Savelson**
Abigail Scheuer**
Alexandra Seegers
Carole Server** & Oliver Frankel
Karen and Steven Shapiro**
Joyce Siegel
Brent Sikkema
SkyFrame
Mort Spitzer*
Joshua Stein**
Melissa Terrick
Patrick Vega
Todd Von Ammon*
Karin Waisman & Carlos Brillembourg**
Madeline Weinrib
Cathy & Joe Zicherman

Lists in formation as of 12.21.15
*Art Auction Committee
** Trustees

ABOUT THE HONOREES

Ella Fontanals-Cisneros is a philanthropist and entrepreneur with an abiding passion and discerning eye for contemporary art and design. Born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela, she is a true internationalist whose generosity, vision and dynamism have made a significant impact on the contemporary art community and within art organizations around the globe. In 2002 she founded in Miami the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, a non-profit which fosters understanding and appreciation of contemporary artists from Latin America through grants, commissions, exhibitions and bilingual publications.

Cristina García is a Cuban-born American journalist and novelist. Author of six novels—including Dreaming in Cuban, The Lady Matador’s Hotel, and King of Cuba—García has been nominated for a National Book Award and her works have been translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA grant and other awards, and has taught at universities nationwide. Recently, she completed her tenure as University Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University-San Marcos and as Visiting Professor at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-Austin.

Los Carpinteros is a Havana-based collective formed by artists Marco Castillo, Dagoberto Rodriquez, and, until his departure in June 2003, Alexandre Arrechea. The artists pay homage to an older guild tradition of artisans and skilled laborers, denouncing their individual artist names.  Los Carpinteros’ work—which combines and celebrates architecture, design and sculpture and balances between functional and nonfunctional—are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Los Angeles, The  Museum  of  Modern  Art/New  York,  the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Museum, and other major international museums and galleries.

Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas has been program director for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's New York City program for more than 18 years.  In 1998, he co-founded the Cuban Artists Fund, (CAF) an organization dedicated to helping individual artists and to promoting mutual understanding and relationship building with Cuba through arts. He currently serves as the chair of CAF. In 2001 he organized the first joint Cuba–U.S. Cultural Exchanges Conference and was the driving force behind the first Cuban/NY Festival in 2005.