BCE art auction: "art for art's sake" and more; buy your ticket now
The Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs is issuing a last call for
ticket sales for its 3rd annual art auction and dinner Saturday, Nov. 12.
The event will be emceed by Nancy Yeager and Everett Collier will be auctioneer. The evening begins with a preview and cash bar at 5:30 p.m., dinner will be served at 6:15 p.m., and the auction will take place from 7-9 p.m. The auction will include 25 pieces of donated art:
Beverly Amstutz, Apples (sketch); Portrait Sample (mixed media)
Andreas Baumgartner, Liminal Spaces (manipulated digital composite)
Tracy Branan, Community Spelling B (photo montage)
Bruce Chesser, Basket Pot; Eared Pot (ceramics)
Barbara Fields, Venezia (ink and watercolor); Wear a Painting (fiber art)
Jim Fultz, Impediment (acrylic, resin and watercolor on panel)
Judith Greavu, Butterfly Ray (copper-glazed stoneware), Fantasy Ray
(fused glass)
Marianna Hofer, Pink Schwinn (black & white photograph); Glassware #2 (hand-tinted photograph)
Anita Lehman, October Bloom (acrylic and clay)
Min Linsey, Jazz Band (5 figures, shaped and painted wood); Nap Time (acrylic with custom frame)
Gregg Luginbuhl, Jar; Footed Bowl (ceramics)
Carolyn Rich, Cylindrical Pot (stoneware)
Britanny Sinnema-Jackson, Russel (large stoneware pot)
Heather Smith, Who's Guarding Your Oil? (block print)
Phil Sugden, Phew Tal, Nepal (oil base ink etching)
Jean Triplett donation, Bluffton Merchants Band by Will Triplett
(black and white photograph)
Oscar Velazquez, Italian Countryside (watercolor)
For tickets e-mail: [email protected], or call BCE at
419-358-6400.
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