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Creative Alliance’s 2024 Marquee Ball: Illusion!
April 27, 2024
8 p.m.–12 a.m.
The Creative Alliance at the Patterson
To truly understand the mission of the Creative Alliance—encouraging artistic expression and uniting the community through the arts—you have to experience its annual Marquee Ball. This year, some 650 folks packed the Highlandtown venue in creative costumes that fit the theme of illusion and magic. Guests enjoyed drinks, eats, and bidding on works displayed on the building’s walls. They could also take in magical performances both onstage in the Marquee Lounge and on the floor in the main party room.
Some attended a VIP dinner earlier, where they were entertained with magic shows and a live auction hosted by “The Invisible Man.” Capping off the evening was a dance party paying homage to the building’s past life as a movie palace. The annual extravaganza acts as a fundraiser for the org’s free youth education and many community arts programs.
Left to right: Amy Pelsinsky, writer; Rachel Gamber, Kaiser Permanente senior psychotherapist; Ed Eibel, Road Trip Poets guitarist; Sue Eibel, Congressional Country Club purchasing assistant
Nick Pikounis, Cafe Campli bartender
Left to right: Lowery Sims, independent curator/art historian; Leslie King-Hammond, event honoree/Maryland Institute College of Art professor emerita
Left to right: Amy Seto, Creative Alliance board president/Brown Advisory partner; Jason Steer, Creative Alliance executive director; Vicky Schneider, event chair/American Institute of Architects chief strategy officer
Left to right: Lili Amaya, Health Care for the Homeless community health coordinator; Jessy DeSantis, Creative Alliance marketing manager
With magic and illusion the theme for the evening, Amy Raehse pulled off her own magic trick in honor of the Marquee Ball—creating a gown for herself out of real playing cards. And the Goya Contemporary Gallery partner did it all in one day, along with also making the matching hat for hubby, David Tomasko, Guerilla Realty associate broker.
Left to right: Stephanie Garmey, artist/Maryland Institute College of Art professor; Ellen Burchenal, artist; Paul Daniel, artist (“I’m a lawn gone awry!”)
Left to right: Sabrina Harris, Public Justice Center office and operations manager; Octavius Smith, Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office chief financial officer
Left to right: Christina Cottini, Giant Sprout Creative graphic designer; Tiffany Lange, artist (showing off her creation/art auction contribution, “Loretta the Giraffe”)
Left to right: Christina Church, attorney; Mel Mendieta, Constellation accountant; Vicky McAlister, Towson University professor
