Meet the donors - The Boston Globe

Meet the donors - The Boston Globe: "Meet the donors
They're young, they're connected, and they're coveted by Boston's museums

By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff | August 14, 2005

Third in an occasional serieson Boston's cultural expansion
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As the guests start on the cilantro shrimp and curried duck, Maggie Gold Seelig notices all is not right. She helped plan the Institute of Contemporary Art's annual gala. Now she wants to make sure it raises enough money.

The key will be the ICA's auction, a tradition that starts a half-hour into dinner. Within minutes, Seelig realizes that members of the museum's staff, who are there to spot raised hands for the auctioneer, are struggling to reach every potential bidder in the sprawling Cyclorama. Jonathan Seelig, her husband and, at 33, the ICA's youngest board member, remains at his table, mingling with guests. He's a quiet guy who prefers to hang back. Not Maggie, 31. She not only helps identify bidders, she grabs a microphone and darts through the hall, pushing a $5,000 Armani gift certificate, a London getaway, a cooking lesson with No. 9 Park chef Barbara Lynch."