ArtTable is thrilled to honor philanthropist and art collector Komal Shah with the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award, and Founder and Principal of Arts Equity Group Danielle Amodeo with the New Leadership Award.
We will gather at Bohemian National Hall in New York City on Thursday, April 3 for an evening of community, connection, and celebration. Join us in showing your support for our honorees and ArtTable’s essential work. All funds raised will help to expand our projects and initiatives toward advancing the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts.
ArtTable’s Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony
Thursday, April 3, 2025
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73rd Street, New York City
Cocktail Celebration
with drinks, bites, and remarks from our honorees
Benefit Co-Chairs
Dana Prussian Haney*
Casey Kohlberg
Elizabeth “Lizzie” da Trinidade-Asher
UOVO
Debi Wisch
Benefit Host Committee & Supporters
Community
Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz
UOVO
Leadership
Paula Cooper
Executive
Dr. Annette Blaugrund
Jessica Kreps
Susanna Sirefman*
Lowery Stokes Sims
Ellen Taubman
Debi Wisch
Member Friend
The Eden Arts Foundation
Courtney Maier Burbela
Dorothy Dávila*
Carol Duke*
Nora Gomez-Strauss*
Donna Harkavy
Dana Prussian Haney*
Julia P. Herzberg, PhD
Claudia Worthington Hess
Casey Kohlberg
Erin Leider-Pariser
Edith Meyer*
Judith Pinerio
Laura Vookles*
*Current ArtTable Board Member
About the Honorees
Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardee

Originally from Ahmedabad, India, Komal Shah migrated to the US in 1991 to study computer science in California. After completing her Master’s at Stanford, she earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, eventually holding positions in the executive suites of Oracle, Netscape, and Yahoo. In 2008, Shah left the tech industry to focus on philanthropic pursuits. She then began developing the Shah Garg Collection with her husband and tech entrepreneur Gaurav Garg, solidifying a vision for the collection’s emphasis on women artists in 2014. Today, they are focused on amplifying the voices of women artists and artists of color through the Shah Garg Foundation.
New Leadership Awardee

Danielle Amodeo is a visionary leader in the arts and culture sector, known for driving equity-focused initiatives that bridge arts and culture with historically underrepresented communities. As founder and principal consultant of Arts Equity Group, Danielle works with museums and arts organizations to create communication and program strategies that drive record-breaking engagement, achieve unprecedented BIPOC participation, and transform cultural institutions into essential community anchors.
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Her innovative leadership has earned national recognition, including the 2024 Stevie Awards for Best Startup in Business Services and Social Change Maker of the Year for Gender. Civic leaders, including Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and State Representative Jo Comerford, have cited her contributions to arts advocacy and community development. Danielle brings this expertise to her service on the Northampton Arts Inc. board, the advisory board of The Color Collaborative, and ArtTable’s National Programming Committee.
Danielle received her BA from Amherst College summa cum laude and her MA in Art History from Williams College. Her academic and professional journey was sparked by formative experiences in The Frick Collection’s free museum education programs as a high school student. Danielle lives in Brooklyn, NY with her French Bulldog, Poulet.
About the Speakers

Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York City. She is also the curator of Once Within a Time, the upcoming 12th SITE Santa Fe International, scheduled to open in June 2025. From 2020 to 2022, she served as artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale, where she curated the acclaimed exhibition The Milk of Dreams, which was visited by over 800,000 visitors.
In recent years, she has curated several exhibitions, including Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self, the first American retrospective of Japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida at Gagosian Gallery in New York (2023); Making Their Mark, the first public presentation of the Shah Garg Collection, a major exhibition showcasing the works of more than 80 of the most significant women artists from the last eight decades (548 West 22nd Street, New York, 2023; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2024); Anu Põder: Space for My Body, the first solo exhibition presented outside Estonia of works by Anu Põder, at Muzeum Susch, Switzerland (2024). She also served as artistic director of the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires in 2018 and was the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Over the past twenty years, Alemani has developed an expertise in commissioning and producing ambitious artworks for the public space and unusual sites.

Cambria Kelley (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and poet from Los Angeles, CA. She received her B.A in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside and an M.A in Individualized Studies at New York University.
Her creative process stems from the intersections of Afrofuturism, history, memory preservation, and visual culture. Cambria has over six years of experience working in the fine arts, including archives, libraries, and museums. In 2024, she was an ArtTable Fellow at the New York Studio School, where she did original catalog research for an upcoming retrospective on African-American modernist painter Beauford Delaney. Cambria is currently based in New York, NY.
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