ArtSprings!

Bringing our community together for an hour of fun, inspiration and celebration of the arts.

Creating community and supporting the creative arts is more important now than ever. We need your help to keep COVID from extinguishing the arts!

As resilient arts organizations do, MPA adapted to meet the needs of this past year. Join us in celebrating our many accomplishments, reveling in our community, and supporting our year ahead!

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MPA celebrated our inaugural ArtSprings! Virtual Benefit on Thursday, April 29, 2021. a celebration of MPA and the Gift of McLean Artist Emilie Benes Brzezinski’s Work.

The family of Sculptor and longtime McLean resident Emilie Benes Brzezinski joined us as MPA officially accepted the mantle to establish the next chapter of their mother’s artistic legacy.

Held in lieu of our traditional Spring Benefit, ArtSprings! featured special guest Hynek Kmoníček, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to the United States.

Nationally recognized media personality and lifestyle correspondent Amy Goodman emceed the event, which featured an array of musical performers, including Voices of Classic Soul with Joe Coleman, Joe Blunt, and Theo Peoples. The Dave Kline Band, with special guest Senator Tim Kaine; and members of the prestigious Strathmore Music Center’s Artist in Residence program. Throughout the event, there was original music from the Creative Cauldron’s Passport to the World Festival artists.

Additionally, artists Barbara Januszkiewicz and Antoinette Wysocki shared their backgrounds and connections to MPA, and explain how that connection influenced their successful careers.

Dabney & Joe Cortina

Bank of America

Sherrie T. Beckstead of The Sidney Beckstead Family

Richard L. Dana

Pamela Beck Danner

Janet & Bill DuBose

Karen & Dan DuVal

Stefanie Erkiletian

Elaine & Howard Forman

Georgetown Cupcake

Kitty & Juan Pablo Gonzalez

Jen & Chris Graham

Bob, Alyssa, Lauren & Michael Guberman

Pamela Gwaltney

The Haber Mandel Family Foundation

Ricki & Joel Kanter

Maria Kelly – Realtor, VA & DC

Barbara D. Kerne

June Linowitz

B Thomas Mansbach

Anne Marie & Jerry Marenburg

Marianne & Joseph Polito

Marianne Prendergast

Silvija Strikis & Miguel Browne

Lori & Ken Wiseman

Ellen Yanuck Rosenblum

Margi & Bob Vanderhye

Guillermo Almada

Barry Broadway

Catherine Day & Joe Wetzel

Claudia Diaz

Lee & Pete DiCenso

Jane & Jim Edmondson

Laura Evans & Mike Manatos

Helen Frederick, Reading Road Studio

Carolyn Gore-Ashe

Jae & Robert Han

Nancy Hirshbein & Robert Roche

Leslie Kerman & Jeff Bialos

Nancy Kilpatrick

Zain Khan

Linda Kocher

Mary & Jeff Kushan

Bari & Keith Levingston

Jacqui Michel

Cynthia & Gerald Miller

Maddy Pope

Katharine & Dale Powell

Robin Phillips

Cary Pollak

Jessica Racine-White

Jean Schiro-Zavela & Vance Zavela

Laura Schuldt

Marilyn & Michael Scott

Silvija Sigari

Annie Simonian Totah

Janie Strauss

Nathalie Sullivan

Lisa Ward

4 raffle tickets for special piece of Czech crystal from the Czech Ambassador
Invitation to private tour of Brzezinski collection for 2
Dessert for 6 provided by Georgetown Cupcake
Artful floral arrangement
Bottle of Champagne and red wine
MPA Gift Box including:
Wine stopper from historic Czech crystal company, Halama Glass
MPA branded tumblers,
And other special surprises!

Recognition Opportunities: Inclusion on MPA website, social media mentions, and event platform recognition

Invitation to private tour of Brzezinski collection for 2
Dessert for 6 provided by Georgetown Cupcake
Artful floral arrangement
Bottle of Champagne and red wine
2 raffle tickets for special piece of Czech crystal from the Czech Ambassador
MPA Gift Box including:
Wine stopper from historic Czech crystal company, Halama Glass
MPA branded tumblers,
And other special surprises!