Selling to the highest bidder during the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD VISUAL ARTS GALLERY 2010 BENEFIT & SILENT AUCTION are several pieces of artwork ranging from photography to ceramics.
The 2010 Benefit & Silent Auction will conclude with a closing reception and final bidding to take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today.
Sponsored by the Friends of the UIS Visual Arts Gallery, the annual auction offers donated art objects available to the highest bidder who submits a bid, name and contact phone or e-mail. Proceeds will benefit future gallery programming.
Among the pieces displayed through today in the Visual Arts Gallery at the Health and Sciences Building at UIS is the sculpture “Crayon Bullets in Large Plastic Case” by JOEL WALTER. The minimum bid is $10 for the sculpture, which looks so realistic that you could mistake it for boxes of crayons to be used to write down bids on accompanying bid sheets.
Other art includes work by FELICIA OLIN, LORENA JOHNSON, JIM MURRAY, CHRIS BRITT, UIS and LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE art faculty, members of the PRAIRIE ART ALLIANCE and more.
The auction was featured in a December 9, 2010, article by Tamara Browning in The State Journal-Register.
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