ArtTable’s 2014 Annual Benefit

At the 2014 ArtTable Benefit, we honored collector, philanthropist and civic leader Marguerite Steed Hoffman, who will be feted by leaders of the arts, culture, and business communities at a reception and luncheon on April 25, 2014, in Mandarin Oriental New York. Maxwell L. Anderson, Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, presented the award; and Karen Brooks Hopkins, President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, delivered the keynote. Amy Sadao, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art/University of Pennsylvania, was recognized with the 2014 New Leadership Award.

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Interview with Marguerite Steed Hoffman, civic leader, collector, and philanthropist.

About the Honorees

Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardee

Marguerite Steed Hoffman attended the University of Oklahoma where she received a B.A. in Classics followed by a M.A. degree in Art History from the University of Virginia.  In 1980, she moved to Washington, D.C. and started an art tour company called Arts Alive, Inc., which she led for three years before moving to Dallas, Texas in 1984.  She served as Director of Marketing and Public Relations at the Dallas Museum of Art and then as an art gallery director and private dealer.  During her marriage to her late husband, Robert K. Hoffman, she focused on volunteer opportunities in the non-profit arena serving as Chair of the Board for three major area non-profits, Planned Parenthood of North Texas, Child Care Group, and the Dallas Museum of Art.  From 2000 to 2004, she and Robert co-chaired the Centennial Campaign for the Dallas Museum of Art, which resulted in adding $187 million dollars to the museum’s resources for operations and endowment as well as boosting the museum’s encyclopedic collections by over 2000 works of art through acquisition and bequest.

New Leadership Awardee

Amy Sadao, Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director: Appointed as Director in September 2012, Amy Sadao has increased ICA’s staffing, forged connections with institutions across the city, overseen the most ambitious exhibition ICA has ever presented (Jason Rhoades, Four Roads, 2013), and shepherded the launch of a totally reconceived website. She has also actively represented ICA across Philadelphia and beyond, jurying shows and delivering lectures at Moore College of Art, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and elsewhere, and been an advocate for the arts in interviews with The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pennsylvania Gazette, and WXPN. Before assuming the directorship of ICA, Sadao served for ten years as Executive Director of Visual AIDS in New York City.  


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