Miami, FL – September 27, 2017 – At the Tenth Annual Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Corporate Luncheon, presented by STARR Catering Group, South Florida’s business community gathered to honor Publix Super Markets Charities with PAMM Corporate Honors. For nearly 20 years, Publix Super Markets Charities’ financial involvement and partnership with the museum has helped to fund special exhibitions and educational programming for PAMM’s visitors. hundreds of South Florida’s most influential business leaders attended the highly anticipated annual luncheon, which honors the corporate community for its vital support of the arts in South Florida. Attendees enjoyed a delicious lunch reception by STARR Catering Group, explored new exhibitions, and viewed a short film highlighting preservation and conservation efforts of art and architecture for future generations. The video showcased Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project, which has helped restore three works from PAMM’s permanent collection; FENDI’s restoration of the historic Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy; and Miami Dade College’s management and preservation of the Freedom Tower, a National Historic Landmark, as well as the Tower Theater, the Koubek Center Mansion and Gardens, and the Dyer Building.

The PAMM Corporate Luncheon raises funds for the museum’s education programs. PAMM is the largest provider of art education outside of Miami-Dade County School District, reaching more than 160,000 children since opening in its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in December 2013. Corporate support has made many of these free educational programs possible, including: free family activities every second Saturday; Art Detectives, a new education program that promotes critical and timely dialogue between community youth and police; Brick x Brick, a program for at-risk teens which takes place at community centers in underserved areas throughout Miami-Dade County, and focuses on architecture, design and community planning; and PAMM in the Neighborhood, a summer camp program for underserved youth, among others.