2025 Art Ball focused on lush forest imagery, as a nod to Rousseau’s paintings. The invitation featured a diecut card wrapping around a folded insert.
2024 Art Ball pulled inspiration from the Mickalene Thomas: All About Love exhibition.
2023 Art Ball took inspiration from the Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris exhibition.
2022 was centered around the Modigliani Up Close exhibition, and celebrated the centennial of the Barnes.
2021 featured the Suzanne Valadon exhibition and featured customized typography.
2020 This year’s event was fully virtual, was not centered around an exhibition, and utlized animation as a main design element.
2019 was celebrating Matisse’s birthday and the Barnes’ 30 Americans exhibition. This system used a variable typeface and brightly colored paper inspired by Matisse’s palette.
