Benefit Reception: Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing Travel and Research Fund.

Benefit Reception: Supporting the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing Travel and Research Fund. Thursday, October 29, 2026 from 5:30 to 8:30 PM at the Salmagundi Club. 

A minimum donation of $50 per person benefits The Travel and Research Fund for the Met. Additional donations are welcome and much appreciated. Those that wish to attend, please register and make payment in advance. 

Silent Auction will take place for the duration of the show featuring artwork by prominent CLWAC artists. The auction will close after the Awards Reception on November 13.

With Guest Speaker Tosca Ruggieri

Tosca Ruggieri is a French-Italian art historian, licensed professional tour guide, and the founder of Art with Tosca, based in Washington, D.C. Trained in art history and archaeology at EPHE-Sorbonne in Paris and in arts management at King's College London, she has cultivated a practice rooted in both scholarship and storytelling.

A member of the Guild of Professional Tour Guides of Washington, D.C., Tosca serves as a study leader and lecturer for the Smithsonian Associates and cultural organizations throughout the United States, including the Alliance Française of Washington, D.C. Her career has taken her from private art collections and prestigious London galleries to university lecture halls — each chapter deepening her commitment to bringing art history to life for engaged audiences.

In Washington, Tosca leads immersive tours and lectures at the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Phillips Collection, and beyond — guiding audiences through the sweep of Western art from the Italian Renaissance to Modernism. Through Art with Tosca, she is devoted to making art not only accessible, but truly transformative.