Annual Gala Fundraiser

Congratulations
to Our Community Member Award Winners!

Spotlight Award: Kate Ledbetter

Kate Ledbetter is deeply rooted in the community as a parent, business owner and all around Shoreline evangelist. She’s the founder of Destination Shoreline, an online community resource for all that’s happening around town, which she created to strengthen our community through promoting programs, events and beyond. She’s literally puts Shoreline on the map bringing recognition to our city and to ShoreLake Arts with her weekly publications and community calendar.

HeART Award: Eric Friedli

Eric has been a supporter of Shoreline arts community since 2015 when he started as the Director of Shoreline Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services. Eric found the cultural services aspect of that role to be particularly important to him and as a result, he reached out to ShoreLake Arts to partner in the arts. Eric has always believed that local governments need community-based non-profits like ours to expand services provided to the tax payers. Since retiring in 2020 he has continued his partnership with the arts by becoming a board member to help further our mission to bring arts events, education and support our local artists.

Community ARTs: Rose Werelus

Rose Werelus is a lover of art, and shares that love with the community. Rose hosts Sip and Paint classes at Vault 177. She crafts a specialty cocktail unique to each class sharing her mixing skills. Rose frequently joins the class and often brings her mom. She also hosts art fairs for local artists to share and sell their work. She is tireless in promoting the arts and championing ShoreLake Arts. We honor Rose for her committment to the Arts and our community!

Community pARTner: Diane Hettrick

Diane is liekly known to many of us as the Editor of Shoreline Area News, an online publication that serves our community as a primary source of local news and events. Using the various contributions to Shoreline Area News, she has significantly contributed to the Shoreline and Lake Forest Part communities as one of our central hubs for information they can trust.