Planned Parenthood also raises money through art auctions.
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Planned Parenthood honors Hillary Clinton as "Champion of the Century" during 100th Anniversary Gala at Pier 36
Planned Parenthood 100th Anniversary Gala at Pier 36
Perhaps it was no surprise given the current political climate, but there were no shortage of bold-faced names at Planned Parenthood’s 100th Anniversary Gala on May 2, which honored Shonda Rhimes and Hillary Clinton (the latter with the Champion of the Century award) for their years of advocacy on behalf of women and their reproductive rights.
The first female presidential nominee of a major US political party, Clinton offered a message of hope that women’s rights and progress would prevail even as she warned that “politicians in Washington are still doing everything they can to roll back the rights and progress we’ve fought so hard for over the last century.”
On hand for the historic occasion—when the organization was founded, women didn’t have the right to vote—were actors such as Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Ed Helms, Scarlett Johansson, Tina Fey, and Stephanie March, as well as fashion designers Diane von Furstenberg, Christian Sirano, and Arden Wohl.
The art world was also out in full force, with Thelma Golden, Anne Pasternak, Taryn Simon, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and Marilyn Minter all in attendance. Simon de Pury led the night’s charity art auction, which saw Harvey Weinstein pick up a Cecily Brown for $100,000.
British artist Zoe Buckman teamed up with Project Runway winner Anya Ayoung Chee on a mural of a uterus in the form of a butterfly, its wings decorated in boxing gloves, representing women’s fighting spirits. The piece was presented by For Freedoms, and builds upon Buckman’s earlier neon work, Champ, a uterus with boxing gloves for ovaries.
“The wings and the uterus being larger than life represents freedom,” Chee told artnet News of the project, her first collaboration with an artist. Buckman agreed, adding that “I wanted to make something that was political and was about the fight, but was also celebratory, and about beauty and flight and power and femininity.”