Esteemed painter and former Artists' Fellowship President, Everett Raymond Kinstler, who has served the Artists' Fellowship for over 60 years takes the podium to honor Bloch and Mellon.

Gari Melchers Memorial Medal recipients and dinner speakers: Hal Holmes, Brookgreen Gardens' Trustee, Honoree Page Kiniry, Brookgreen Gardens President and CEO, Honoree Robin Salmon, VP for Collections and Curator at Brookgreen Gardens, Charlie Yoder, Artists' Fellowship President, Sandy Scott, Sculptor and Brookgreen Gardens' Trustee

Babette Bloch and Artists' Fellowship President Charlie Yoder.

Dinner speakers Michael Gormley, Executive Director of NY Artists' Equity, Kate Conlon, Artist and Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Thayer Tolles, Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art along with Bloch, Charles Yoder and Mellon.

Babette Bloch and Marc Mellon with the Artists’ Fellowship Award - The Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal.