October 27, 2019

DIA widens targets in push to meet $400 million endowment goal

Author: Sherri Welch

While hosting a private tour of the Detroit Institute of Arts for a group of leaders from the local Indian community a few years back, Director Salvador Salort-Pons got an unexpected question: Did he know how to make paella?
He sure did.
Would he make it for them?
Of course, he said, suggesting that the person who asked gather a group of his friends and Salort-Pons and his wife would come and cook.
Little did he know, more than 100 people from the Indian community would show up that night to eat