Raise The Roof Auction and Exhibition may be viewed during studio hours. (Tuesday- Saturday 12- 5pm. ) You may call the Office (409-838-5393) to add your name to the “WISH LIST,” to be contacted when your favorite pieces are posted for auction on eBay. All artwork is available at a BUY IT NOW price in gallery before it posts to eBay and announcements of new items availablity for bidding will be EVERY MONDAY until the end of January!
Link below.
https://www.ebay.com/usr/theartstudioinc
Many artists have donated art to help ‘Raise the Roof” at The Art Studio, Inc.
BEAUMONT, Texas.
Working artist Lynn Sweat has donated more than 75 pieces of art to The Art Studio, Inc.’s “Raise the Roof” fundraiser to be held all of January. This Exhibition and Auction is the first of a series that will be held over the next coming five years.
Week One Below: UPDATE: these first week items that made it through the end of their eBay auction without a buyer are now priced at $100 and can be purchased in Person or via phone or email. This an extremely good price considering the level of detail and finish of these images.
Week Two on eBay
https://www.ebay.com/usr/theartstudioinc
Artist bios, prices, and dimensions are all updated on eBay. Please dont hesitate to email or call the TASI office if you have any questions. Office Hours are Tuesday- Saturday noon – 5 pm.
The Exhibition and sale will begin on January 4, 2021. The art will be on display in The Art Studio’s main gallery at 720 Franklin St., as well as on www.artstudio.org and on TASI’s social media pages on Facebook and Instagram with links to the auction sites on eBay. Patrons can come masked in person to view the show Tuesday – Saturday 12-5pm. To place a bid on works, buyers may go online or scan a QR code in the gallery to bid online.
The event will also include work generously donated by other working artists, including: Chuck Russell, Sandi Laurette, Sirena LaBurn, Jennifer Thompson, Sam Daleo, Jr., Greg Busceme, Sr., Kevin Clay, Richard Spinney, Mark Nesmith, Nathan Yellow Jones, Andy Coughlan, Christopher Troutman, Jerome Cabeen, Avril Falgout, Alice Powell, Theresa Liddle, Tom Veillon, Matt Beshears, Michelle Cate, Jane and David Silvernail, and Mike Cacioppo, and Victor Higginbotham.
Donations of art by living and deceased artists were provided graciously by Ellen Rienstra, Tam Kiehnhoff, Maria Petross and the estate of D.J. Kava. These artists include David Cargill, Frank Gerriets, Larry Leach, D.J. Kava, Marty Arredondo, Michael Richardson, Amy Richard, Beau Dumesnil, Summer Lydick, Faye Nelson, Abby McClaurin, Adam Cook, Xenia Fedorchenko, Byron O’Quinn, Stephen Herron, Ethan Azaria, Douglas Becker, R L Kurkorski, Patrick Amos, Millicent Tomskins, Lisa Baumer, Eddie Mormon, Marian Padillia and Randy Edwards.
The exhibition and sale will raise funds to fix The Art Studio’s roof and meet their first goal of raising $35,000 to earn a challenge grant from the EDAREN Foundation which will award TASI $10,000 towards the metal building roofs. TASI’s ultimate goal is to restore the roofs of all of TASI’s structures. This includes their main building, which is a post-war construction, brick warehouse, which was once home to Plowden Supply, an oil field supply company.
The Art Studio, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public arts organization that serves the wider Southeast Texas community and provides support to local artists in the Visual and Performing Arts, as well as writers. The Art Studio is located just down from the Port of Beaumont and adjacent to Historic Downtown Beaumont at 720 Franklin.
For more information, call 409-838-5393, email info@artstudio.org, visit www.artstudio.org, or visit The Art studio’s social media pages on Facebook and Instagram.