THE INVISIBLE DOG ANNUAL FUNDRAISER
SUPPORT THE 18TH SEASON OF YOUR BELOVED DOG
18 years made possible thanks to your generous support.
This year, we offer you three ways to support The Invisible Dog, a nomadic, New York City–based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
All donations are tax-deductible.
Make a donation. Support our artistic program with a contribution of any amount. The amount changes, but our gratitude never does.
Enjoy an experience at SAM. Support our artistic program by reserving a luncheon, a dinner, or a cooking class at la Salle à Manger, and enjoy a unique culinary experience. All the proceeds go to The Invisible Dog’s artistic program.
Acquire a work of art. Support our artistic program by bringing home a piece of art specially selected for this campaign, giving it a new life and a place in your story. All the proceeds go to The Invisible Dog’s artistic program.
Have a specific question, a special request, an idea for an exceptional gift, or would you like to designate your donation to a particular project? Please feel free to email Lucien Zayan. We would be delighted to hear from you.
Where is the fundraising video this year?
We haven’t made a fundraising movie. we werre 10,000 miles away from Mac Premo and Adrianna Dufay, who, meanwhile, were busy winning four more Emmy Awards! But we found this little hidden gem somewhere in a computer …. Mac and Adrianna are still here, always!…
You can still enjoy the 14 Emmy’s Award videos we made together of the year. Watch them here
Make a donation, from $1 to $10,000. Every contribution matters, and every donor is part of The Invisible Dog’s story. Your name will appear on our list of donors, and your reward is the program we continue to build together, made possible by your generosity. Our gratitude is eternal.
BE A SUPPORTER - GIVE WHAT YOU WISH
$1, $10, $39, $10,000, or whatever feels right to you. There is no donation too small or too big. The Invisible Dog has always been about people coming together to make art possible. Every contribution is a gesture of trust, and we are grateful for yours.
$100 or more
Behind every exhibition, performance, there are artists who need a place to share their work. For 18 seasons, The Invisible Dog has helped make those encounters possible. Thank you for believing that art needs space, freedom, and people who care.
$500 or more
Over the years, hundreds of artists have found a home at The Invisible Dog. Some were just beginning; others had already made their mark. All found a place to experiment, take risks, and grow. Thank you for believing in artists and in the importance of giving them a chance.
CELEBRATE THE 18TH SEASON WITH $18
This is our 18th season, can you believe it? Who would have bet that The Invisible Dog would be in such great shape after so many years, two global financial crises, a pandemic, and a move from its original location? You did, thanks to your always wonderful support. Please continue.
$200 or more
Some of our most memorable moments began with an idea that seemed impossible. That's the magic of The Invisible Dog: bringing people together and giving the unexpected a chance to happen. Thank you for helping us stay curious, take risks, and keep surprising each other.
$750 or more
From an old factory in Brooklyn to nursing home in the south of France, or a former bathhouse in Tokyo, The Invisible Dog has always followed curiosity wherever it leads. We don't always know where the next idea will take us, and that's part of the fun. Thank you for being part of an adventure that is far from over.
$50 DONATION or more
We haven't stopped moving. Today, The Invisible Dog travels from one space to another, creating unexpected encounters and new opportunities for artists. Every contribution helps us continue this adventure. Thank you for coming along!
$300 or more
The Invisible Dog has always been more than a place to see art. It is a community built on trust, generosity, friendship, and the pleasure of discovering something new together. Wherever our next adventure takes us, we are glad to have you as part of it.
$1000 or more
Eighteen seasons, hundreds of artists, countless encounters, and so many stories still to come. The Invisible Dog exists because people believe in what we do and choose to be part of it. We are grateful you're here. Let's keep writing this story together.
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Another way to support The Invisible Dog: a culinary experience at SAM: an intimate and exceptional experience, whether for a luncheon, a dinner, a cooking class, a celebration, a tête-à-tête, or a gathering of 12 friends for a special occasion. SAM is a private dining room filled with art, where haute cuisine meets meaningful connections and memorable conversations. It is also the perfect setting for a discreet corporate event or a farewell dinner. Your name will appear on our list of donors.
A LUNCHEON la Salle A Manger (SAM)
A Luncheon at SAM explores how food and visual art express ideas, memories, and emotions in different ways. Art on the walls and art on the table meet through conversation, as each offers a different way of seeing and tasting. Tasting with the eyes, seeing with the palate.
A luncheon at SAM is three courses minimum, a storytelling and no time limit. Each luncheon is unique.
$150 per person
Minimum 1, Maximum 12 guests
Vegan, vegetarian, Pescatarian, gluten free, BYOB…
At check out, choose $150 and multiple by number of guests expected. You can always add more guests later.
Do not hesitate to ask questions before booking.
Discover more about la Salle A Manger (SAM)
Under certain conditions, the luncheon can happen off site, at your place, or office. Inquire about off site invitation to cook.
A DINNER AT la Salle A Manger (SAM)
A dinner at SAM is a history lesson. A chance encounter with someone’s life story. It is comfort food that you’ve never had before, and it comforts you in exactly the way that you need. The conversation is as delicious and nourishing as the cuisine.
Risa Shoup, COO The American LGBTQ+ Museum, president of the board of The Invisible Dog, 16 years dear friend.
A dinner at SAM is five courses minimum, a storytelling at each meal and a memorable moment.
Each dinner is different depending on the guests, the table is decorated according to the season and together we built the ideas and the menu. Lucien Chef Ambition takes care of the rest.
$250 per person, service included.
Minimum 1, Maximum 12 guests
Vegan, vegetarian, Pescatarian, gluten free, BYOB…
At check out, choose $250 and multiple by number of guests expected. You can always add more guests later.
Do not hesitate to ask questions before booking.
Discover more about la Salle A Manger (SAM)
Under certain conditions, the dinner can happen off site, at your place, or office. Inquire about off site invitation to cook.
A PRIVATE COOKING CLASS AT SAM
(in person or online)
What is a cooking class at SAM? A privileged moment with Chef Lucien Chef Ambition at his Brooklyn kitchen, making one or multiple recipes, chatting about food and art while the preparation is cooking in the oven and you alway live with containers of food to share at your place.
$200 per person
$600 for a party of 4
Minimum 1, Maximum 4 guests
Savary or sweet, we choose together
The class is about 2 hours +
Ingredients and material included
Discover more about la Salle A Manger (SAM)
Under certain conditions, the cooking class can happen off site, at your place, office or online. Inquire about off site invitation to cook.
Give an artwork a new life: Over the years, The Invisible Dog has built a collection of artworks and a remarkable network of talented artists from around the world. Every artwork carries a story and holds a special place in our artistic community. Giving one a new home means giving it a new breath, a new life, and the opportunity to create new connections. When you acquire an artwork, you do more than bring art into your life and support The Invisible Dog. You become part of its story, and part of a beautiful community that believes in the power of art to bring people together. These stories can become yours.
Your name will appear on our list of donors
Ramen Painting by Nanami Hayashi
$250
Tempera on wood 1.97 x 1.97 inches, 2026
30 pieces available, each one is unique
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Nanami Hayashi has always been a slow eater, which has often left her being the only one left eating at the table. For some reason, this was always different with ramen, a dish she could eat at a normal pace.
Ramen has thus become a favorite dish of hers, allowing her to enjoy the communal act of eating again. To keep a memory of the many cherished meals, she started to make a tempera painting of every bowl of ramen she has eaten. By using this sacral technique from medieval Europe, she elevates the quotidien and fleeting nature of a simple dish to something majestic, immortalizing every bowl on a golden backdrop.
Hayashi started this series in 2022 and has since painted a collection of 950 pieces. It takes her about a month to finish one of them, the slow and precise brush strokes allowing her to remember and appreciate every single noodle and every little droplet of oil she had swallowed a little too hastily for her liking.
A site specific installation of 308 pieces was presented at NAFAS Tokyo.
The Dream by Katie Butler
$3,000.00
Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6cm, 2026
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I discovered Katie Butler’s work at Spring Break art fair If my memory serves. And fell in love immediatly for her talent. Butler uses still life to display contemporary issues of class and power in America. Skewed perspectives and exaggerated proportions display the impossible task of painting an image of the now. Thereby, Butler’s “The Dream” foregrounds the inconsistencies of our reality – leaking, falling off the table or drowning in a Martini glass as we still try to make sense of them. In 2022, Butler was part of NAFAS New York with a large painting describing the political mess in America. If you have attended SAM events, you surely know the piece.
This painting was presented at NAFAS Tokyo.
Ouro Boros by AaronRuff
$1200
Bracelet with spoon
Brass and silver, , 5.11 x 5.11 inches, 2026
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As a young boy growing up in Maine, Aaron Ruff was fascinated with the idea of stumbling upon hidden treasures and unearthing ancient relics. Created in 2006, the “Digby & Iona” namesake stems from a trip to Nova Scotia, taken before the company had ever been established. Feeling a connection with the small province and wanting to maintain a level of anonymity, Ruff chose to name his company after the two quiet seaside towns in Nova Scotia
This piece of art was presented at NAFAS Tokyo.
Love (Dreaming) #5 by Megan Berk
$500.00
Acrylic painting on wood panel
Comes in a handmade frame
8 × 8 inches, 2012
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The Invisible Dog acquired the whole series LOVE in 2012 at Recession Art Show. Dreaming is the last one available.
Bread Repair: Deep Dish by Taichi Hayashi
$1200
Pottery shards, flour, yeast, salt, water
Comes with a wooden box + turmeric dyed fabric
11.8 x 11.80 inches, 2026
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Kintsugi is a Japanese technique used to repair broken vessels using lacquer or gold. Taichi Hayashi (Japan) instead uses bread, an edible and deteriorating material, thereby intentionally breaking with the premise of preservation.
The bread, usually plated to be eaten, has entered a symbiotic relationship with the glossy ceramic. Thereby, both the bread and the ceramic have come alive in their agreement to hold on to each other. What we're seeing then, is the joint reinforcement of two very fragile, broken and perishable matters.
By sticking together, plate and bread have escaped their usefulness to our human ends. Instead, the teeth of the shards are now forever biting into the slowly drying bread, while the voluptuous bread in turn seems to slowly swallow the ceramic. Along these less-than-perfect, fleeting joins between bread and ceramic, Hayashi seeks to reconsider repair as a "process of continuous renewal".
Taichi Hayashi lives in Japan, he was part of NAFAS Tokyo. He is 22.
Amphora by Adam Parker Smith
$4100
Resin, steel, wood, chrome and bronze patina
12 x 12 x 2 inches , on wooden pedestal, 2017
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Screwdriver by Peter Treiber
$600
Hand carved reclaimed pine wood
19 x 1 x 1.75 inches, 2025
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Turtle Island Archives by Cal Stalvig
$50
Handmade Beeswax candles with cotton wick, vegetable-based dye. Wrapped in paper. Approx 10.63 inches
Duration 9-12 hours, colors Lime or Red
Presented at NAFAS Tokyo
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Little monuments of the most ephemeral kind, beeswax candles comprise a whole ecosystem in a little flame.
Carving woods of Stalvig’s surrounding forests into taper forms, then casting them in local beeswax, every candle holds an inscription of a place. Stalvig invites people to join the ritual of candle making. Engaging in the tradition of travel, exchange and a commitment to craft, candle making becomes an activation of the connection between human as well as “more-than-human” peoples. Stalvig was part of NAFAS Tokyo
Discover more about Cal Stalvig
Sabbath Queen #1 by Danielle Durchslag
$350
Archival pigment prints on cold press
12 x 18 UNFRAMED
(Edition of 20)
We can arrange framing work for you (additional fee)
Presented at La MaMa Galleria (March-April 2026) and at NAFAS Tokyo
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Pesach Punk #1 by Danielle Durchslag
$350.00
Archival pigment prints on cold press
12 x 18 UNFRAMED
(Edition of 20)
We can arrange framing work for you (additional fee)
Presented at La MaMa Galleria (March-April 2026)
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Taylor Bonnet #1 by Danielle Durchslag
$350.00
Archival pigment prints on cold press
12 x 18 UNFRAMED
(Edition of 20)
Presented at La MaMa Galleria (March-April 2026)
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Dream of Eden by Keun Young Park
$4,000.00
Collage on paper
39.76 x 29.53 inches, 2023
Framed
The Invisible dog acquired this piece during Gowanus Open Studios in 2023 but have known Park’s work for many years. The precision of the collage - thousands of tiny pieces - is impressive.
Discover more about the artist
Ramen Hound by Misato Sano
$3200
Camphor wood, oil paint,
12.60 x 18.90 x 8.27 inches, 2026
Presented at NAFAS Tokyo
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All of Misato Sano’s works are self-portrait sculptures. She is rendering herself at the given timing in the form of a dog. For her, using the form of dogs is the most appropriate, highest-resolution method to materialize what she thinks and her inner self. Materializing herself in various states is about having an honest, direct dialogue with herself. In facing herself, she would like to be passionate, free, and loving, like a dog. Her works are also about herself looking at herself. In that sense, she might have been making an existence that is sometimes beside herself, a little distant at other times, watching over herself.
Untitled by Kevin Waldron
$550
Collage on paper
8.66 x 11.81 inches, frame 15.75 x 15.75 inches, 2014
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Kevin Waldron reminds us that looking at art is an exercise in humility. Before a work, we are not always meant to understand, interpret, or judge. Sometimes, we simply need to make ourselves small, to look closer, and to allow the quietest things to speak. Perhaps this is where wonder begins: when we accept that there is always more to see than we can know.
Kevin Waldron and Oliver Jeffers, both long time resident artists at The Invisible Dog, collaborated recently for a book published in July, A Day Off School.
Wood Screw by Peter Treiber
$600
Hand carved reclaimed mapple wood
17.5 x 5 x 5 inches, 2025
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Expresso 1/6 by Matheus Abu
$400
Painting on concrete
5.90 x 5.90 x 0.78 inches, 2021
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During a trip to Brazil, I discovered Matheus Abu’s work. His pieces immediately brought me back to Marseille, to those endless summer days when children leap into the Mediterranean, bodies suspended for a brief moment between sky and sea, freedom and gravity. There is something universal in that gesture: the fearless abandon, the joy of the plunge, the promise of cool water against sun-warmed skin. Matheus’s work seems to hold that fleeting instant, when the body becomes pure movement and time momentarily stands still. Looking at his pieces, I can almost hear the laughter, the splash, the shouts echoing across the harbor. A little piece of the Mediterranean found, unexpectedly, on the other side of the Atlantic.
Articulated & Burnt by Nemo Hoffman
$1600
Steel, Bronze, Wood, 16 x 33 x 16 inches, 2019
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Nemo Hoffman makes mobiles, a delicate art in which few dare to follow in the footsteps of Alexander Calder, the undisputed master. Yet Nemo has found his own way to make matter dance in space. In The Invisible Dog’s collection, two of his mobiles reign from the ceiling, suspended between gravity and grace. One watches over the dining table at La Salle à Manger, catching the light and setting it gently in motion. Above the table, as conversations unfold and plates are passed, it reminds us that even the smallest movement can transform the atmosphere of a room and that sometimes, art is not simply something we look at, but something that quietly accompanies us as we live.
Uni 5 by Gabe Benzur
$2550
Oil on Panel 14 x 11 inches, 2026
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Carrot by Stephen Morrison
$600
Plaster, epoxy clay, glass, paint
10x1.5 inches, 2021
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National Cuisine by Mac Premo
$1000
Collage, mixed media, wooden frame
11.81 x 11.81 inches, 2023
Presented at NAFAS Tokyo
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Not My Problem by Carles García O'Dowd
$600
7-color Silkscreen print
40 x 60 inches - not framed, 2021
Printed at Taller El Ojo Peludo, Oaxaca
Numbered and signed by the artist
Limited edition of 40
Framing can be arrange for additional fee.
Carles García O'Dowd, born in 1988, is an artist based in New York with Spanish-Irish roots from Palma, Mallorca. His work is influenced by activism, pop culture, and cartoons. Using drawing and printmaking, he delves into the complexities of modern societies through a fictional universe. His detailed drawings encourage viewers to rethink their perspectives and spark discussions by creating new narratives for our globalized world.
His work has been exhibited at NAFAS New York and NAFAS Tokyo
Untitled by Man Bartlett
$155
Collage on paper
4.90 x 7.1 inches, 2010
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The poetry of Bartlett’s work is remarkable. Those pieces were acquired in 2010. They are moving and beautiful.
Untitled by Man Bartlett
$155
Collage on paper
4.90 x 7.1 inches, 2010
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Nail by Peter Treiber
$600
Hand carved reclaimed pine wood
23.5 x 2.75" x 1.75", 2025
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For many years, Peter was a resident artist at The Invisible Dog. Then, one day, art led him back to the land, and he took over the family farm. Some of you may remember the Farm Market Dinner we hosted at SAM, where his two worlds met around the table. Over time, Peter became a gifted farmer, cultivating the land with the same care, patience, and imagination he brings to his art. Because some people are artists in everything they do, whether they are creating with their hands or growing from the earth.
Discover more about Peter Trieber Jr.
Hammer by Peter Treiber
$600
Hand carved reclaimed oak wood
6 x 4.75 x 1.625 inches, 2025
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Expresso 1/6 by Matheus Abu
$400
Painting on concrete
5.90 x 5.90 x 0.78 inches, 2021
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Expresso 3/6 by Matheus Abu
$400
Painting on concrete
5.90 x 5.90 x 0.78 inches, 2021
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Look by Oliver Jeffers
$6,000
Rare and unique painting by Oliver Jeffers’ “Look Series”
19.70 x 15.75 inches, frame 24 x 20 inches
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Oliver Jeffers’ artworks are very familiar to whom have attended an event at SAM or came to open studios at Bergen street.
Chummy Boggers by Stephen Morrison
$3000
Epoxy clay, shoe, glass, resin, flock, oil paint
9x11.5x5 inches, 2025
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Discover more about Stephen Morrison
Boston Cream Donut by Stephen Morrison
$600
Epoxy clay, acrylic, glass, silicone
4x2 inches, 2025
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Camera by Stephen Morrison
$600Model camera, epoxy clay, glass, paint
5x3x3 inches, 2025
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