Our team of committed volunteers is hard
at work planning Elegant Salute XVI: An Imperial Evening, which will take place
January 26, 2019. Held every other year, Elegant Salute is the museum’s single
most important fundraiser, supplying crucial funds for educational programming
and exhibitions that let us fulfill our mission to bring art to the people of
our state.
This year’s gala takes the exhibition
“The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II” as its inspiration and is chaired by
Sarah Kraft Peterson and Isobel “Ibby” Parker Mills. Parker Curator of Russian
Art Asen Kirin is organizing the exhibition, which focuses on the last two
Romanov rulers: Nicholas II and his father, Alexander III. Only the second
dynasty to rule Russia, the House of Romanov maintained power for some 300
years, until the Russian Revolution, in 1917.
“The Reluctant Autocrat” will include
many works from the Parker Collection at the museum (rare books, vintage
photographs, elaborate silver objects, medals, portraits, militaria, porcelain
and costumes) as well as supplementary objects from Bob Jones University Museum
of Art and Gallery and from the promised gift of Marina Belosselsky-Belozersky
Kasarda. Highly ornamented and rich with meaning, these works of fine and
decorative art are already supplying the décor and flowers committee, headed up
by past Elegant Salute chair Maggie Hancock, with plenty of ideas.
Ham Magill, Gordhan Patel and David
Matheny are in charge of fundraising this time around, with a goal of $200,000
in sponsorships. We know you can help them get there. Devereux Burch is in
charge of the social committee, Airee Edwards is chair of the after-party
publicity committee, Bree Hayes is having fun planning the menu with her
compatriots, Mike Landers is running the entertainment committee, Evelyn Dukes
is once again ably handling logistics, and Maggie Hancock and Ligia Alexander
are once again imagining exquisite decor and flowers.
The evening will begin with cocktails at
6, in a heated tent in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, followed by dinner in
the M. Smith Griffith Grand Hall. Attendees will partake of a Russian-inspired
meal, then return to the tent for the after-party: From Russia with Love.
Guests can dance the evening away in a James Bond–themed environment while they
enjoy dessert.
Tickets are $300 for members, $350 for nonmembers.
Tickets to the after-party only are $50 for members, $65 for nonmembers and
include entry to the after-party. Please call 706.542.0830 or visit bit.ly/elegant-salute-2019 for more information, to sponsor or to purchase tickets.
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