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2024 Events

September 24, 2024, 7 pm | Dinner | National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (East 20th St) New York, NY 10003

We are delighted to have PAC member David Doty as speaker at our kick-off of the fall season dinner. Excerpt from an article in The Village Sun, June 1, 2022

National Arts Club says ‘oui’ to David Doty as new president

Doty brings professional marketing and digital media experience, plus a wealth of cultural knowledge — specifically, deep expertise in French art and architecture — to the leadership role. He has been a member of the historic Gramercy Park South club since 2006, serving on its board of governors since 2018. He was elected the board’s president on May 19.

Doty is an expert on the arts, architecture and culture of France. He taught the “History of Paris” course for seven years at The New School. He has been a featured lecturer in English and in French at the Florence Gould Hall at the Alliance Française, where he presented to sold-out audiences his theories and observations about Vincent Van Gogh, as well as the art and architecture of Paris, Brittany and Provence, among other French locales.

Doty is the recipient of the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, conferred by former President Jacques Chirac of France. He holds a Master of Art from the University of Michigan and lives in the Flatiron District and in Wainscott, in the Hamptons.

Doty is also a leader in digital marketing and a featured speaker at media conferences around the globe. Using his experience to serve the N.A.C., he has chaired the club’s Branding & Marketing Committee and has worked to raise the club’s public profile. He has leveraged his professional relationships to bring in corporate donations, including from Google and Amazon, to the N.A.C., which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

As for his writing, Doty’s articles have been featured in Forbes, Departures, GQ, Wired, Gourmet, Travel & Leisure, Zagat Guides and “Frommer’s Guide to New York City.” He was also a research assistant for Tom Wolfe on his seminal book on modern architecture, “From Bauhaus to Our House.”

In 2018, Doty launched his own advisory firm, DD Digital Perspectives, after 11 years as executive vice president and chief marketing officer of IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau), which he helped transform into the leading trade body in digital media. Previously, he was director of marketing for Booz Allen Hamilton, a global consulting firm.

Founded in 1898, the National Arts Club is a nonprofit with a mission to stimulate, foster and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts. Annually, the club offers more than 150 free programs to the public, including exhibitions, theatrical and musical performances, lectures and readings, attracting an audience of more than 25,000 members and guests. Feature programs focus on all disciplines of the arts.

“The National Arts Club has been one of the nation’s most important and inclusive volunteer arts organizations for more than 120 years,” Doty said. “Our mission has remained the same in all that time: to stimulate, foster and promote public interest in the arts, which we fulfill by offering more than 150 programs and exhibitions annually, all open to the public.

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October 8, 2024, 7 pm | Après-work Apéro | Café Un, Deux, Trois | 123 West 44th Street, New York, NY 

Join members and friends for wine and hors d’oeuvres at this classic French restaurant in the theater district.

Feel free to practice your possibly fractured French.

 

 

 

 

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October 15, 2024, 7 pm | Dinner with William S Hearst | National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (East 20th St) New York, NY 10003

William S. Hearst was Senior Vice President of Associate Labor Relations and Human Resources for Bloomingdale’s Stores: the 59th Street Flagship, 32 Department Stores, and 13 Outlets nationwide.

A 1974 graduate of Cornell University, Bill holds an A.B. degree in Music and American History with substantial coursework in Industrial and Labor Relations. Upon graduation, Bill embarked on a dual career at Bloomingdale’s, as well as a professional organist and choirmaster. At Bloomingdale’s, Bill progressed through 19 different positions that spanned Operations, Fashion Buying, Store Management, and most recently Corporate Human Resources. Simultaneously, Bill cultivated a full Episcopal liturgical music career in organ performance, choir building, and conducting. After 29 years, Bill retired from his church music career in 2004, focusing exclusively on Bloomingdale’s. A passion for music performance, however, continues unabated. Bill and his wife Joan are native New Yorkers who raised their three children, Billy, Mary, and Andrew.

Bill Hearst was Chairman of the Board of the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, a relationship that began in 1964 when he was a student at the original Stecher and Horowitz School of Music. An avid opera enthusiast, Bill spends a portion of each day maintaining piano repertoire and performing in small ensembles with friends.