Bay Area artist Enrique Chagoya and museum patrons Evelyn and Rick Neely were honored at the fundraising event.
The San Jose Museum of Art Gala Auction was a glittering affair Saturday night, filling the outdoor Circle of Palms with more than 300 guests and using the museum itself as the venue for an energy-filled after-party.
“My relationship with the San Jose Museum of Art has been very rich over time,” said Chagoya, whose work was first shown there in 1997 as part of the Eureka Fellow Awards Exhibition. “Of all the museums, I think the San Jose museum is one of the ones that cares the most about local artists and the community.”
The Neelys became members of the museum in 1994, shortly after seeing its first collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1994. Evelyn subsequently became a docent and gallery teacher, volunteering her time for the next 26 years and eventually serving on the board of trustees — first as a docent representative — and later as a regular member.
Even San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan praised the museum’s accessibility to the community. Conceding that art wasn’t a big part of his life growing up in Watsonville, he recalled visiting the museum in 2008, when he was teaching middle school in San Jose, and being entranced by an exhibition of etchings by Francisco Goya. Mahan said he spent more than two hours at the museum and that docents even let him hang around a bit as they were closing down.
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