2026 RxART GALA
RxART celebrated its annual gala on February 11, 2026, at THE GRILL | THE POOL in the iconic Seagram Building, honoring Board Member Glori Cohen and artist Mickalene Thomas.
Guests enjoyed cocktails, a live band, and the RxART Pop-up Shop featuring limited-edition items, including PJs by Urs Fischer and Monacelli’s newly released RxART: The Artists and Projects Transforming Health Care Spaces. During dinner, remarks by Douglas A. Keller and Founder Diane Brown highlighted RxART’s mission to bring healing art to pediatric hospitals nationwide at no cost. Keller also announced a $100,000 matching gift.
Cynthia Zabel and Simon de Pury (via video) presented Glori Cohen with the Inspiration Award, recognizing her leadership and dedication to RxART. George Wells presented Mickalene Thomas with the Innovation Award for her impactful work, including her recent mosaic installation at NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital.
RxART extends special thanks to our Gala sponsors.
PAST RxART EVENTS
RxART 25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
February 5, 2025
Thank you to those who joined us—both in person and in spirit—for RxART’s most memorable and meaningful evening to date: our 25th Anniversary Gala. It was a deeply inspiring evening, perfectly capturing the spirit of RxART's achievements while ushering in the next 25 years of improving healthcare spaces through world-class art.
Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community and supporters, it was RxART's most successful gala to date and will allow RxART to bring even more bright and uplifting projects to children’s hospitals nationwide. Together, we’re transforming the patient experience and enhancing medical environments for communities everywhere.
It was deeply moving to honor both RxART Founder Diane Brown and the endlessly inspiring Drs. Bobbi and Barry Coller. February 5, 2025 was also proclaimed RxART Day by the City of New York “in recognition of RxART’s incredible contributions to transforming healthcare environments through contemporary art and uplifting patients and medical staff with creativity, color, and inspiration.”
Special thanks and sincere gratitude go out to everyone who made the evening possible, including our generous co-chairs Glori Cohen and Cynthia Zabel as well as our sponsors ATWATER Skincare, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, CULTURED Magazine, Figs, OOG Health, and Warby Parker. Please visit BFA for all of the celebratory gala photos, and feel free to contact RxART to request hi-res images. The full press release can be accessed here.
