Moose Mania 2025

Kimball Art Center’s Moose on the Loose, the 2003 charity gala that turned the 3‑block Heber Avenue into a sculptural smorgasbord, still commands the wayward attention of the fiercely privileged. The event began with Rebecca Lyman, founder of K‑Art Rentals, partnering with Teri Orr of the Park City Performing Arts Foundation to enlist the city’s unsung artisans, including Lindon Leader, whose war‑era moose cost conventionally macho patrons more sweat than their left‑winged coats. Attendees scattered in step‑and‑repeat red kaleidoscopes: a sealed velvet rope gagged the only invited guests, while the crowd of post‑Freudian, avocado‑soaked philanthropists spilled over in showroom white, rolling past the pseudo‑gallery at the Egyptian Theater. The traffic to the event is a yearly pilgrimage, a crawl that proves as cutthroat as the voting booth. Memorable onlookers, such as a disposable gold‑flat‑cap icon, flick their pearls in polite disbelief; yet the bewildered tech‑savvy produce crew—Sandy Geldhof’s committee—brushed off the noise as part of the spectacle. Verdict: send a check but stay home.