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| | Issue #19.16 :: 11/14/2007 - 11/20/2007 | Quirky fundraiser gets art out of the attic and onto the lawn
| BY STACEY HUDSON
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The casual atmosphere of the annual art sale means low pressure and high fun
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AUGUSTA, GA. - After months of collecting the creative work donated by artists around the CSRA, the Art Factory will stage its second annual Art in the Attic Sale at its headquarters on Johns Street.
If last year was any indication, the community arts school’s unique fundraiser will offer everything from folk art to art prints, from pottery to paintings, all in a casual “yard sale” environment that supports the nearly $15,000 worth of scholarship money that the school awards every year to students. They never turn anyone away, and in an era of tightening budget belts and treating art education as an afterthought, such an institution is worth more than the value of its scholarship money.
It’s also a chance for holiday shoppers to snap up paintings, prints, ceramics, sculpture and homemade baked treats at bargain prices in an informal atmosphere, although Executive Director Cindy O’Brien hesitates to call the event a yard sale. She prefers to think of it in more humane terms.
“It’s sort of like art adoption. We want to find people to adopt these pieces and love them,” she said. So many of the board members and artists who donated pieces had purchased or made and loved them for many years. But tastes change, people move and marry and separate, and artwork that may have worked in one setting stops suiting when the background changes. The work is more than someone else’s cast-offs. It’s a collective history of Augusta’s art lovers and it showcases a lifetime of learning and growing with the visual arts community.
If you get there too late, the showcase will be gone. The sale begins practically at dawn, so the early bird gets the worm. The variety of work — including both student and professional talent — ensures that even the late arrivals won’t leave empty handed.
Art in the Attic Sale
Saturday, Nov. 17
7 a.m.-noon
The Art Factory
706-731-0008
artfactoryinc.org | |
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