November 7 – December 20, 2025
Join us for an evening of artist talks, music, and refreshments on Saturday, November 15, 6-8 PM. Registration is required (Pre-register here).
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Meyer family.
The Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art, presented by Main Line Art Center in conjunction with the Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition, honors chosen artists with an exhibition in the Center’s gallery and an award of $1,000. This award and associated exhibition program is an effort to support talented contemporary artists, to honor deserving artists in the field, and to encourage excellence and experimentation in artistic practice, presentation, and community involvement.
Maida R. Milone was born in Pittsburgh, PA. She attended Chatham College (now Chatham University) and the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her B.A. degree in Philosophy and her J.D. She served as Senior Counsel for several companies and eventually became General Counsel for the Dupont Merck Pharmaceutical Company. With her son growing up and Merck exiting the joint venture with DuPont, Maida decided to use her accumulated experience and skills to pursue her passion for the arts. This led her to The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), formerly Creative Artist Network, where she served as President and CEO. On her watch, CFEVA’s longstanding and most public program, Philadelphia Open Studio Tours™ (POST™), expanded into what is now an integral part of the city’s arts calendar each year. With her inspiration, CFEVA’s custom exhibition program brought new curated works into Philadelphia’s corporate and healthcare environments for the first time.
Following her time at CFEVA, she served as President and CEO of Philadelphia’s Art Alliance where she participated in the curation of several craft exhibitions. More recently, Maida’s lifelong interest in “all things creative” led her to Moore College of Art & Design, where she completed the Interior Design Studies program. She then founded My Personal Curator LLC, curating collections for individuals and exhibitions for art spaces throughout the region. Recently, Milone curated The Portrait of the Artist…and Other Things at Gross McCleaf Gallery and CFEVA at 40: Four Decades of Supporting Contemporary Art at the James A. Michener Museum of Art; wrote a catalogue essay for Diverse Perspectives in Photography: Four Black Guggenheim Fellows in the Philadelphia Region: Don Camp, Ron Tarver, William E. Williams, Wendel White at Stockton University, and will soon present The Unburden Thread, Tim Portlock at A Man Full of Trouble Museum for the upcoming Semiquincentennial. In 2021, Maida’s contributions to the region’s arts community were recognized with the Arts + Business Council’s Leadership Award.