Publicolor
is a dynamic not-for-profit organization created by an imaginative woman
named Ruth Shuman that uses the power
of color,
collaboration, and completion to affect change in struggling inner-city
public schools and neglected community facilities – and there
are a lot of those around New York as well as many other communities
in our nation.
What they do is they paint the schools, with enormous help of the
students of the schools – a kind of method for bringing people
together as well as encouraging young people to have a positive effect
on their own environment.
This was their 5th annual Stir, Splatter + Roll event. They honored
the Kate Spade Company at the Martin Luther King Jr. High School
over on 122 Amsterdam Avenue at West 65th Street.
Kate
Spade and Ruth Lande Shuman
Stanley Tucci served
as the evening’s special guest auctioneer
and WCBS’ “The Morning Show” host Shon
Gables emcee.
The evening included colorful cocktails, an unsilent auction, and
painting. After that there was a dinner and the Top Coat after-party
following.
Some of New York City’s most illustrious designers donated
their time as Team Leaders. They worked with the party guests and
the students to execute large-scale collaborative painting projects.
All guest were given white zip up painting suits to put over their
party clothes! Team Leaders included: Lella and Massimo Vignelli,
Doug Wilson, Adam Tihany, Vicente Wolf, Maira Kalman and
many more. Honorary Team Leaders included: Sol Lewitt, Michael
Kors, Phillip Glass, Meredith Monk, and Milton Glaser.
At 9 PM the Top Coat party kicked off for Publicolor’s group
of young professionals. This portion of the evening was co-sponsored
by Snapple and the Carmen and Lucia Buck Foundation.
The Kate Spade company was honored for its creative and
dedicated support to Publicolor’s mission. It
is the first company to donate a percentage of product proceeds directly
to the organization.
As part of the celebration Kate Spade has created a special one-of-a-kind
JACK SPADE/Publicolor reversible tote.
Using the classic Jack Spade reversible coal bag style, a signature
tote was created exclusively for Publicolor. These smart, practical
bags come in four colors – green, red, blue, and yellow. The
tote's striped pattern is both bold and universally recognized as
the bars from a paint chip – a perfect reminder of Publicolor's
inspiring mission. The bags are available in the Jack Spade and Kate
Spade stores in New York, as well as kate spade stores in Manhasset,
Chicago, San Francisco, Georgetown, and Las Vegas. Twenty-five percent
of the proceeds from the sales of this bag will benefit Publicolor.
In addition to honoring the Kate Spade Company, Patti Harris,
our city’s forward thinking deputy mayor, was given the first
ever Publicolorart Award for her determination in bringing the Jeanne
Claude + Christo Gates Project to New York City’s
residents.
“We were thrilled to honor the kate spade company,” said Ruth
Lande Shuman, Publicolor’s Founder and President. “Its
sense of design mirrors ours and our belief that color and design
are languages that can send powerful messages.”
Kate Spade concurred: “We were delighted to be honored by Publicolor.
It is a visionary organization. Its use of color and creativity as
catalysts for change in the public school system and community is
an inspiration.”
Lorraine
Bracco, Stanley Tucci, Kate Spade, Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
Ruth Lande Shuman, Andy Spade, and Oliver Platt
ABOUT
PUBLICOLOR
With a fresh coat of paint and a lot of teamwork, Publicolor, a not-for-profit
organization founded in 1997 by industrial designer Ruth Lande Shuman, mobilizes
New York City’s at-risk, middle- and high-school students to transform
their struggling schools and neglected neighborhood facilities into vibrant learning
and community centers. All week and then on Saturdays with the help of volunteers,
Publicolor’s teens learn a marketable skill while they revitalize their
dreary communities and enhance the lives of neighbors and classmates. By changing
drab gray school hallways to periwinkle, sunshine yellow and lime green, Publicolor
and its kids almost instantly convert both the physical and the mental spaces
of inner city youth. The organization has revitalized over 60 enormous public
schools and over 65 community centers, healthcare facilities, police precincts,
and shelters.
ABOUT KATE SPADE
kate spade was founded in 1993 with six simple handbags that shook up what had
been a quiet accessories category. Twelve years and a handbag revolution later,
wit and playful sophistication are hallmarks of everything “kate spade,” a
world that now includes bags for day and night, totes and luggage, shoes, stationery,
eyewear, and a home collection made up of chic pieces for the table, unique gifts,
and luxurious bedding. A strong sense of personal style and a passion for color
set the tone for everything Kate does. In addition to fashion accessories, Kate
and Andy Spade have brought their sense of humor and creative vision to music,
film, and book projects. The Council of Fashion Designers of America honored
Kate and her designs with the Perry Ellis New Talent in Accessories Award in
1996 and Best Accessory Designer of the Year Award in 1998. Accolades from the
fashion and design communities followed, from inclusion in the Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Triennial in 1999 to an Elle Decor International Design Award
in 2004. Kate continues to find inspiration in the everyday and the unpredictably
elegant, bringing a graceful, exuberant approach to style and living.
Adam
Braun, Jen Goralski, and Keem Sauvageot
As
Four and Miss USA
L.
to r.: Deputy Mayor Patti Harris accepting the Publicolor
Art Award; Carlton and Beth DeWoody.
Lance
Le Pere, Nikki Kule, Mildred Lande, and Michael Shuman
Lorraine
Bracco and Stanley Tucci
L.
to r.: Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Fifth annual Stir, Splatter
+ Roll at Martin Luther King High School.
Shon
Gables painting
Publicolor
kids and Shon Gables
Michele
Oka Doner and Publicolor kids
Suze
Yalof Schwartz and Nikki Kule
Happy Birthday Doubles!
Livia
Silva and Barbara Meister Bender
Margo
Langenberg
Chris
Obetz and Sandra McConnell
Last
week, Doubles, the private club in the Sherry Netherland celebrated its 29th anniversary with a spectacular black-tie
gala, "Bubbles
At Doubles."
The club’s guiding light Wendy Carduner, who looking stunning
in a long silhouetted gown with a black and charcoal sequined bodice
by Reem Acra, filled the gorgeous space with 2900 fuchsia pink and
metallic white balloons, each with a peach organza ribbon giving
the room an electric magic, a wow for so many of the guests. Champagne
flowed, toasts were made; Peter Duchin and his orchestra played and
his hot vocalist/guitarist Roberto Fabiano sang. The repertoire covered
swing, rock, Gershwin, Porter and even a little Mozart.
Wedny
Carduner
Maitre d' Gerard
Loil, chef du jour Steve Mellina, and the club’s
friendly staff served: sautéed shrimp and crabmeat with cream
of corn in a pastry shell; maché, bibb, red and white endive
salad; Australian roast rack of lamb with basil mashed potatoes,
haricots, verte and soy beans; and Valrhona Chocolate Torte
with raspberries.
Club revelers included Ali Cox, Michael Meehan, Sandy and
Michael Mann, Raphael Sanchez, Candace and Rick Beinecke, Suzanne
Mados,
Donald Stannard, and Beverly Somers, Cynthia and
Dan Lufkin, Audrey and Ambassador Enriquillo del Rosario, Kitty and
Bill McKnight, Arlene Dahl and Marc Rosen, Barbara Taylor
Bradford and Robert Bradford, Anna Moffo Sarnoff, Count Nicholas
Wenckheim, Margo Langenberg, Charles Mirotznik, Livia Silva, Conrad
Keesee, Barbara Schumacher, Rose Sachs, Christopher Obetz, Sandra
McConnell, George Gould and Darcie Leeds, Irene Aitken, Coley Clark
and Anita Jaffe, Rosalie and Garrison Brinton,
Rosarie and John Heffernan, Heidi Robert, Emily and Richard Leonard,
opera singer Barbara Meister Bender and David Day,
Clair and Justus O’Brien, Tara Stacum and Arthur Dietrick, Eleanor Steward,
Elijah Duckworth-Schachter, Cathy and John Hatab, Lisa Boone, Anna
Gary, Bill Bruder, Gene and Jerry Gene Woodfin, Darcy Leeds, Sarah
and Chips Page, Elizabeth Stribling and Guy Robinson.
Grace and Chris Meigher, Pauline Pitt, Cece Cord and R.
Couri Hay dropped by to say “Congratulations,” and,
at just about the moment when flashing star and flower rings were
brought out on
silver platters with the “29th anniversary” iced cookies.
The rings sparkled from every corner of the club and on into the
night.
Happy Birthday Doubles! “And now one more year till
the Pearl – anniversary
that is,” said Wendy.
Ali
Cox
Dan
and Cynthia Lufkin
Wendy
Carduner and Coley Clark
Garrison
Brinton and Liz Kabler
Chips
and Sarah Page and Ellie and Eugene Goldberg
Cece
Cord and Cynthia Lufkin
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Kitty
and Bill McKnight
Arlene
Dahl, Charles Mirotznik, Wendy Carduner, and Barbara Taylor
Bradford
Barbara
Meister Bender and David Day
Barbara
Schumacher, Rosalie Brinton, and Gene Woodfin
Emily
Leonard and Eleanor Steward
Count
Nicholas Wenckheim, Anna Moffo Sarnoff, and Ambassador
del Rosario
Bob and
Barbara Taylor Bradford
L.
to r.: Ali Cox, Michael Meehan, Wendy Carduner, Coley
Clark, and Candace Beinecke; Peter Duchin.
Photographs
by Cutty McGill
Symphony
Space celebrated its annual Spring Gala
Harry
Smith, Nicole Seidel, Alec Baldwin, and Bill Geist
Richard
Kaufman, Jim Polshek, Cynthia Elliott, and Steve Aresty
Symphony
Space celebrated its annual Spring Gala at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers honoring several
individuals and
institutions
for their unique contributions to Symphony Space – Alec
Baldwin, Stephen Colbert and Dane Zanes, The Scherman Foundation; Lily
Pu and Marcia Santoni from Ogilvy & Mather and Zabar’s.
Stephen
Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Alec Baldwin
The evening began with a pre-dinner cocktail reception which featured
a silent auction. Dinner followed at 8 with a program of microfictions
and music by Joanna Gleason, Jon Stewart, Anne Jackson, Suzanne
Vega and Eli Wallach. The Gala’s
honorary chair was cyber-tycoon Peter Norton and co-chairs were Richard
Mittenthal and Patsy Glazer.
Symphony Space is one of New York's primary cultural
resources presenting
a far-reaching lineup of film, music, literature, dance, theatre,
family and education programs in the two performance spaces at Peter
Norton Symphony Space -- the 175 Leonard Nimoy Thalia and the 760
seat Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. Symphony Space's Artistic Director
is Isaiah Sheffer. Executive Director is Cynthia
Elliott and Managing
Director Peggy Wreen. To learn more, visit: www.symphonyspace.org
