Save the date for Founders Ball 2025 on November 22, 2025

Founders Ball

November 22, 2024

Thank you all for being a part of a very special night celebrating George Rodrigue and the opening of “Rodrigue | Before the Blue Dog.”

A special thank you to: 2024 Honoree Bill Goldring, Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, Honorary Co-Chairs Jacques and Mallory Page Rodrigue and Andre Rodrigue, Co-Chairs Jayson and Paris Neill Seidman, the members of the Host Committee, State Museum Director Becky Mackie, Curator Joyce Miller, Ben Dupuy and the LMF Board, and all of our vendors and staff who make Founders Ball possible.

We would especially like to thank our generous sponsors, patrons, and donors. It is because of you that we are able to make exhibitions like this come to life.

“Rodrigue | Before the Blue Dog” is on view until September 28, 2025. View additional details about the exhibition here.

Eat, Drink and Forget the Blues (detail), 1971/1991 by George Rodrigue, Courtesy of George Godfrey Rodrigue, Jr. Family Trust.

Special Thanks To Our Hosts & Partners

  • Bill Goldring

  • Jacques & Mallory Page Rodrigue

    Andre Rodrigue

  • Jayson & Paris Neill Seidman

  • Stirling Barrett & Caroline Crumley

    Bill Brockschmidt & Richard Dragisic

    Renee Carrere

    James Carville & Mary Matalin

    Mary Cavanaugh

    Cayman & Sarah Clevenger

    Dorothy Clyne

    Courtney Coleman

    Jim Cook

    Jeremy Corkern

    Paul & Sara Ruffin Costello

    Tim & Mary Coulon

    Jason Dore

    Cindy Dore

    Jim Dotson

    Ben & Sweet Dupuy

    Will Erickson & Philips Wood

    Collin Ferguson

    Wayne Fernandez

    Ken Fulk & Kurt Wootton

    Anne Gauthier

    Cherie Gauthier & Kevin Lirette

    Chad Graci & Collin Magee

    Jessie Haynes

    Randy & Daynese Haynie

    Ryan & Alana Haynie

    Dayna Haynie

    Philip & Jane Scott Hodges

    Andrew Lamar Hopkins

    Ross & Diane Keogh

    Diane Sustendal Labouisse

    Walt & Danielle Leger

    Paul Leaman & Marilyn Dittmann

    Robert & Danielle LeBlanc

    Seth Levine & Alexa Pulitzer

    James Michalopoulos

    Louis Michot

    Randy & Cherry Morris

    Garrison & Amy Neill

    Garner & Permele Robinson

    James & Tia Roddy

    Veronica Rodrigue-Redman

    Scott Schlesinger & Marjorie McKeithen

    Henry & Pat Shane

    Mackie & Sandi Shilstone

    David & Rachael Slaughter

    Hunt Slonem

    Bruce Smith

    Matt & CeCe Stuller

    Dr. Lee & Suzie Terrell

    Dr. Blake & Nicole Williamson

    Ron Yager

  • Louisiana Museum Foundation

  • Jeremy C. Corkern 

  • Sazerac / Goldring Family Foundation 

    St. Augustine High School / Aulston Taylor 

  • Mary L. Cavanaugh 

  • Anonymous  

    Eisner Amper LLP 

    First Horizon Bank  

    Gulf Coast Bank and Trust Co. 

    The Helis Foundation 

    Life and Legacy Foundation / Wendy Rodrigue

    James and Tia Roddy 

    Henry and Pat Shane 

    WLAE-TV

  • Anonymous

    The Robert L. and Elizabeth C. Alexander Family Fund 

    Anne Atkinson  

    Murray and Caroline Calhoun 

    Renee F. Carrere 

    Dorothy M. Clyne 

    Ganza / Ashley O'Neill and Charlotte Tobin 

    The Wendell and Anne Gauthier Family Foundation 

    Hancock Whitney Bank / Scott Cunningham 

    Haynie Family Foundation 

    Sandra Herman 

    Jones Walker LLP / Bill Hines / Marjorie McKeithen 

    Diane Sustendal Labouisse  

    New Orleans and Co. / Walt Leger and Kevin Ferguson 

    Ochsner Health  

    Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Community Fund 

    Chris and Leigh Ellen Puckett

    Don Sanders

    Sonny and Laura Shields 

    Jerome and Melissa Steiner    

    The Stuller Family Foundation 

    Dr. Lee and Suzie Terrell  

    Robert E. Zetzmann Family Foundation

  • Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation

    Philip and Jane Scott Hodges 

    Humana 

    MATEM Foundation 

    The John W. and Bertie Murphy Deming Foundation  

    The Neill Family 

  • Ms. E. Tiffany Adler 

    Ken Barnes and Roger Ogden 

    Stirling Barrett and Caroline Crumley  

    Ralph and Susan Brennan 

    Bill Brockschmidt and Richard Dragisic 

    Jeff Bromberger and Lesli Harris 

    Buzzy and Joey Brown 

    Ryan and Stephanie Burks 

    Kim and Helen Butcher 

    CAPTRUST New Orleans 

    Cayman and Sarah Clevenger 

    Courtney Coleman 

    Crescent Sterling, Ltd. / Howard Thompson 

    Ben and Sweet Dupuy 

    Kat Edmundson 

    Semmes and Catherine Favrot 

    Doug and Caroline Finegan 

    Dr. Michelle Carr Frank 

    Pam Davis Friedler 

    Ken Fulk and Kurt Wooten 

    Ryan Goottee General Contractors, LLC 

    Valerie Grubb   

    Dana M. Hansel   

    Gregory Holt and Lucy Barnett

    Noel and Maria Johnson 

    Terri Lacy 

    Jay and Sally Lapeyre 

    Lucas Financial  

    Paul Leaman, Jr. and Marilyn Dittman 

    Paul and Denise Morse 

    Porter Lyons / Ashley Porter 

    Eugene Priestley 

    Seth Levine and Alexa Pulitzer 

    Edmund and Anne Redd 

    Risk Strategies / Christopher Wise

    Garner and Permele Robinson 

    Mackie and Sandy Shilstone 

    Solomon Group Entertainment, LLC 

    Rivers Spencer 

    Aulston and Sevetri Taylor  

    Kevin and Fern Watters  

    Where y'Art Works / Collin Ferguson and Catherine Todd  

    Williamson Eye Center / Dr. And Mrs. Blake Williamson 

    Yazoo Restorations  

About Founders Ball

The Founders Ball is the annual fundraising gala benefiting the Louisiana Museum Foundation. Funds raised from this annual event support the creation and opening of prolific exhibitions such as in most recent years Creole New Orleans, Honey! The Art of Andrew Lamar Hopkins, Hunt Slonem: A Retrospective and Rodrigue: Before The Blue Dog, and will help fund related educational programming throughout the year long exhibition for all ages, from field trips for K-12 schools groups to adult education classes.