ARTon! AUCTION ITEMS

ARTon! SILENT AUCTION ITEMS

5:00 P.M.  6:45 P.M.

Bidding will take place between 5:00-6:30pm. Each item will be awarded to the highest bidder.

Proceeds directly support Artspace’s mission to create, foster, and preserve affordable and sustainable spaces for the arts.

AUCTION ITEMS:

Three Nights Mountain Lake Lodge Getaway

Enjoy a peaceful solitude in the New River Valley of the Appalachian Mountains in Southwest Virginia. This historic lodge was home to the iconic movie Dirty Dancing.

• Valid until May 2022 • Value: $1,500 • Airfare can be arranged with Artspace

Custom Pet Portrait by Laura Stamper

Looking for a new way to show off your perfect furry companion? Here’s your opportunity to get a fun picture of your pet.

• Dimensions: 8”x8” • Value: $180 • Send a photo of your pet to laurastamperdesign@gmail.com

Heart 2 – Juanito Pascual’s Album by Marcelline Harrisonfields

There is always room to participate in life and love. This piece was inspired by Boston Flamenco guitarist Juanito. Pascual’s album ‘Language of the Heart’.

• Dimensions: W 17 1/8” X H 13” (framed) • Medium: Acrylic on paper • Value: $425 Two Tickets to a Cowles Center Show

Enjoy a viewing of the best of Twin Cities dance in the Goodale Theatre at the Cowles Center. Choose from a variety of dance performances by leaders in the Minnesota dance community.

• To redeem call the Cowles Center Box Office for two tickets to a performance of your choosing • Value: $ 60

Tuition for one Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center (CAFAC) Class

Spark your creativity with your choice of class in the industrial arts offered by CAFAC. CAFAC is a nonprofit arts organization in Minneapolis devoted to art forms produced by heat, spark, or flame.

• To redeem email info@cafac.org with your name, address, phone, the class you wish to take, and the gift certificate number. • Value: $150

Graywolf Press Book Set

Whether a collector or an avid reader, get cozy and expand your library with four 2021 first editions from Graywolf Press: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri; The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández; Abundance by Jakob Guanzon; Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti. The Twilight Zone and Abundance are both in the running for the National Book Award.

• Value: $68

Ceramic Serving Tray by Leila Denecke

Fired at Northern Clay Center, this piece elicits a sense of strength and timelessness. Much like Denecke’s other work, the simplicity in this piece is influenced by her regard for the Japanese aesthetic.

• Value $100

Infinity by Michelle Graves.

Finely cut stained and plate glass make up this beautiful ‘Infinity’ mosaic by Michelle Graves.

• Medium: Mosaic Art • Value: $300

My Dear Girl by Sonya Berlovitz

Pulling from familial craft traditions such as machine and hand embroidery, applique, patchworking and quilting. Sonya beautifully crafts this mixture of vintage fabrics, fabric, embroidery thread, glass beads, antique collar, and buttons.

• Dimensions: 14”x 20” • Value: $500

ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS BIOS

ShaVunda Brown

An internationally award-winning spoken word artist, an actress, organizer, and rap lyricist. Brown writes to empower and shed light on raw truths, with a sharp social consciousness. Using her knowledge of African diasporic spirituality, history, mythos and the southern folklore of her upbringing, she weaves stories and new visions of liberation. Brown’s voice has been heard on national campaigns for Sephora on racial bias, the adultification of black girls for Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality and a local campaign for Reproductive Justice for UnRestrict Minnesota. She has been seen in Art is Black Light a Mn. Original Series featured on PBS-TPT. She has originated a few roles in The World Premiere of stage plays produced by The History Theater (Mn), Children’s Theater (Mn) and The Arena Stage Theater (D.C.)t

The Dance People

A community built to embrace living life to the fullest focusing on health & wellness, inspiration & education. The Dance People life studio is a space to experience theme-based workshops, dance & educational conferences, youth dance camps, group dance classes, parties, couple's dancing, & more. All available for the new and seasoned dancer. Their specially designed curriculums are supported with professionally, trained instructors who are fully committed to inspiring and bringing the best out of each student.

Ellen Sweetman

A full-time creative, healer, visual artist, explorer, mentor, teacher and owner of livelybrush, LLC. Sweetman is currently integrating multiracial identity, trauma (individual and collective), and a variety of new modalities into her journey of learning and teaching art medicine. Her first language is line, texture, color, emotion, and movement. Art is medicine and sustenance which creates pathways to a liberated life. It is that path that calls her deep into the forest beyond what needs to be taught or learned from others. Tapping into her own wisdom and seeing how her natural gifts heartfully provide a trail to what she seeks and already knows as her truth opens a gateway into curiosity and trust. Sweetman enjoys the artful dance of creation and some of her work can be captured in a variety of media, movement, drumming, and writing. She loves drumming and dancing with her 4 children, connecting with nature and diving into soul-filled communities.

Djenane Saint Juste

A native of Haiti, and is the Artistic Director of Afoutayi Haitian Dance, Music and Arts Company. Djenane has been a dance teacher working with k-12 students and adults for over 25 years, in French, Creole, Spanish and English. She is a professional choreographer, dancer, actress, vocalist, and writer specializing in Haitian traditional dance and folklore. Djenane has also been trained in Ballet, Hip Hop, Modern, Jazz, Ballroom, and Zumba at the Institut de Danse JAKA, Institut de Dance Vivianne Gauthier, Artcho Dance Company in Haiti, and in other prestigious dance companies in the U.S. She is the creator and instigator of the Annual Haitian Cultural Festival, and has brought exciting new themes and activities to engage participants in Haitian culture since the first Haitian Festival in 2009.