Friday, December 12, 2025
7:00pm

Condado Vanderbilt Hotel

This year, the Annual Gala will be inspired by our most recent traveling exhibition, The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, which will tour eight museums in the United States through 2028.
On this occasion, our guests will be transported into Frederic Edwin Church's Morning in the Tropics (1872), an iconic work from the exhibition, reimagined as a lost and unexplored paradise.
The event will also celebrate the Museum's 65th anniversary and pay tribute to our founder Luis A. Ferré's historic 1964 speech, “Cultivating the Sense of Beauty.” In addition, the Gala coincides with the international celebration “Frederic Church 200,” commemorating the bicentennial of the artist's birth.

María Luisa Ferré Rangel
Chair of the Board of Directors
and Honorary Chair of the Annual Gala

Anaymir “Tuti” Muñoz & Francisco Aponte
Caroline McConnie & Richard Carrión Matienzo
María Victoria Muñoz & Rafael Cedeño Paulson
Oriela Medellín & Héctor Guillermo Martínez
Susana Iglesias & Rafael Amador
Co- Chairs of the Annual Gala

Adrián “Coco” Mercado Berlingeri
Beatriz Polhamus
Betty Martínez
Bryan Shames
Carmen V. Muñoz Chappuis
Caroline Jotic
Clara Román
Félix José Álvarez Hernández &
Juan José Nieves Rivera
Lorraine Vissepó
María Victoria & Ignacio Cortés Shehab
Migdalia Figueroa
Rosa Hernández
Sergio Chévere
Sylvia Villafañe
Tatiana Meduña Ferré
Waleska Rivera
Organizing Committee

Walgreens Avanico Holdings DCMC Partners Fulcro Insurance FirstBank Aerostar Airport Holdings

787 840 1510 gala@museoarteponce.org

Suggested Attire
Ladies: The Wild Beauty of Nature
Gentlemen: Black Tie