Art:Forward Gala


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September 21, 2024
Mark your calendar, and join us to celebrate internationally acclaimed artist Robert Longo on Saturday, September 21, 2024.
Presented by the Board of Trustees of the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Society, the gala supports the Museum’s contemporary art program.
About the 2024 honoree
Robert Longo has long sought to investigate the way meaning is made and circulated in modern society. Rising to prominence in the 1980s as a member of the Pictures Generation, he first gained recognition for his charcoal and graphite Men in the Cities drawings, which quickly became some of the most recognizable artworks of the decade. Throughout his career, Longo has explored the effects of our image-saturated culture through drawing, film, and multimedia works.
Today, Longo continues to work with his characteristic precision, perceptiveness, and monumental scale, achieving hyperrealistic works drawn from recent history. The artist’s latest body of work will be the focus of a solo exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum in the fall of 2024.


2023 Support
Art Patron sponsors
Donna and Donald Baumgartner
Joan Lubar and John Crouch
Sheldon and Marianne Lubar
Joel and Caran Quadracci & the Windhover Foundation
Sue and Bud Selig
Jeff and Gail Yabuki & the Yabuki Family Foundation
Host committee sponsors
Elizabeth Quadracci Harned and Christopher Harned
Art:Forward sponsors
Brewers Community Foundation
Tony and Vicki Cecalupo
William and Sandra Haack
Hauser & Wirth
Supporting sponsors
BMO Wealth Management
Richard Buchband and Betsy Rosenblum
Peter and Sarah Damsgaard
Events By Design
Jennifer and Tom Florsheim, Weyco Group
Brian Kennedy, Ernst & Young
Jane and Tom Lacy, Baird
Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP
Quarles & Brady, LLP
Leaders
Valerie Carberry and Richard Wright
Thomas Hesselbrock and Carl Spatz
Don and Mary Jo Layden
Eileen and Barry Mandel
Kate and Ken Muth
John Shannon and Jan Serr, Guardian Fine Art Services
Individual supporters
Mary Allmon
Dan and Gwen Armbrust
Associated Bank
Wendy and Warren Blumenthal
Chirstopher Caparelli, Marquette Associates
Amy and Frederick Croen
Samantha and Stephane Dermond
McKenzie and Jason Edmonds
Laura and John Emory Jr.
Ellen and James Flesch
Ellen and Richard Glaisner
Gail Lione and Barry Grossman
Kurt and Charmaine Gunderson
Ronald Jacquart and Gary Van Wert
Kenneth Kaszubowski
Mason Khan
Klein-Dickert Glass
Jennifer and Joe Kresl, Hawks Landscape Inc.
Rosanne and Matt Kropp
Peter Kudlata and Margie Freeman
Peter Larson and Bill Fry
Grace Leonhardt, Lisson Gallery
Elizabeth Levins and Herbert Zien
Ali and Halah Maykhan, The Sigma Group
Marc and Sandy McSweeney
Monique Meloche and Evan Boris
Colleen Reilly and Dan Ryan
Sarah and Will Slaughter
Dr. James and Dorothy Stadler
Christine Symchych and Jim McNulty
Marq and Rachel Ragatz Truscott
Wipfli
Kathy Saito Yuille
Contributors
Clark and Linda Beier
Wendy Eldridge
Jim and Karen Petric
Sande Robinson
Kristin and John Sheehan
Marie Weiss
Special thanks to
Dr. Cheryl Johnson-Odim
Alex Ernst
Emily Igwike, Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate
Aperi Animam
Dream City Music
Events By Design
Shully’s Cuisine & Events
Waterford Wine & Spirits
La Tulipe
Shady Lane Greenhouses