Chair-ity event for the Boys & Girls Club

I got an email asking me to help find people interested in donating a chair for the Chair-ity event described below. This photo was actually from the FaceBook page for the Meadowview Elementary auction. It's a fun event and I have purchased chairs in the past. The "Cherry" chair is in my office right now.

Call for Art....”Chair-ity” event for Boys and Girls Club.

The Art-A-Licious Festival is looking for artists to construct, decorate, embellish, weld, paint, paste, or fabricate a chair however you please out of new, or old materials. The sky is the limit. Your donated chair will auctioned off to support the Boys and Girls Club Art Foundation.

A “Chair”ity silent auction has been planned to run in conjunction with the 2009 Art-ALicious Festival. Dozens of artistically constructed or altered chairs will be shown at the two day festival. The chair art will be on display the week before the event at participating business locations. Each participating business will host a silent auction in which anyone can bid on the chair art. Winning bidders will be announced Saturday night at the conclusion of the festival. The proceeds from auction sales will be donated to establish an art foundation for the Boys and Girls Club of Lenawee.

For more information about where to pick up existing chairs or for drop off details please contact... Pi Benio pbenio@adrian.edu

Links:
Art-A-Licious: http://www.artalicious.org/
Meadowview Elementary Chair-ity Auction: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1500074&id=68655829456&ref=mf

Art-A-Licious, You'll Want To Be There!

Art-A-Licious is really a local event that you won't want to miss. Last year I took part, along with a number of other very talented artists. If you were one of the people who did come, I am sure you will be back for more. There were over 20 artists (+/-) demonstrating throughout the week-end. I was working on a stained glass panel made up of melted glass coke bottles and other memorabilia. There was a glass blower, potters throwing on their wheels, painters painting, and more. The quality of artists and the ability to see so many actually working on their art right there in the streets of Adrian was a wonderful opportunity. I really do feel it will be something you will want to tell your friends about. Then, there was the food. A number of area restaurants brought samples of many of their best sellers. Not your fair food as usual. And music... The piece shown here is one I am donating to their auction. All of the artists were asked to bring post card size pieces for this purpose. So if you come, feel free to help support us by purchasing from one of the artists or bidding on any number of post card sized artworks. A link to the web site with more information is: www.visitlenawee.com/old/html/art-a-licious_2008.html . There will also be a Chair-ity auction. More on it later. For now, put September 19th and 20th on your calendar. Pass this on to your friends. Meet them there for a very fun week-end.