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When you need to make tracks, suffice it to say that wearing stiletto heels isn’t such a hot idea.
So even though everyone gets all fancied up for Dine & D’art, the “d’art” part of this annual fundraiser is why Art Reach advises leaving the Manolos at home and slapping on a pair of tennis or track shoes, instead.
The scenario unfolds like this: Guests spend cocktail hour perusing the gallery of donated works before sitting down to dinner in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Then, after awards have been given and speeches made, you move back to the gallery and listen for your name to be called.
When that happens, you’ve just 20 seconds to claim an identifying sticker and place it on the oil painting, watercolor, sculpture, jewel, photograph, quilt or etching of your choice.
It’s fast-paced and tons of fun.
Nancy Cole, Marc Cutilletta and Karye Wilhelm chaired the $400-a-ticket event. Mary Caulkins was the honorary chair and introduced Adam Lerner, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, recipient of the 2010 ArtStar Award. Sarah Gulinska accepted the Ginger Merelli Special Events Volunteer Award on behalf of Jack and Rita Shuster.
Executive director Karla Johnson- Grimes was delighted to welcome such supporters as Molly Ross, Erwin and Helen Ruth Mozer, Chuck and Diane Newcom, Duke and Tammy Beardsley, Ron and Joan Maclachlan, Kent and Susan Vick, Douglas and Mallorie Rouse, Marti Awad and Eric Uhlberg, Spero and Georgia Armatas, Ron Jacobs and Helen Qualls, J Madden and Linda Poletti, Gary and Melissa Schwartz, benefactor Bernadette Berger and auctioneer Gary Corbett.It’s all good.
You can take a hockey player off the ice … and chances are he’s going to be looking good. At least on Sunday, when defensemen, wingmen and coaches from the Colorado Avalanche don Saks Fifth Avenue fashions and tread the catwalk with the 2010 Children’s Hospital Ambassadors, outfitted by Stylelicious, for a show that’s part of a fundraising brunch put on by the Avs Better Halves. The $250-a-ticket event begins at 11 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center; call 303-405-1166. . . . Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the 36th chief of staff for the U.S. Army, received the University of Denver Alumni Association’s highest honor, the Evans Award, Thursday in the Seawell Grand Ballroom. Ty Miller, Cindy Courville, Meyer Saltzman, Mike St. John and Nora Heitmann also received awards at this commemoration of DU’s founding. . . . Maureen Barker, Joanne Sender and Dr. James Herbert Willliams have joined the Central City Opera’s board, a body led by chairman Lanny Martin and president/CEO Nancy Parker. . . . An unfortunate coincidence: Cancer League of Colorado’s Spring for Life fashion show is the same night (March 11) as the ICON Awards Dinner. Spring for Life ($50, 303-292-8065) starts at 5 p.m. at Saks Fifth Avenue while the ICON celebration ($235, 303-694-1289) starts at 6 at the Ritz-Carlton.
Joanne Davidson: 303-809-1314 or jdavidson@denverpost.com; also, and GetItWrite on Twitter
