Real pARTy Auction items
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Bids will be accepted until 12pm Sat, April 14
These auction items are all part of Real Art Ways major fundraiser. In order to bid, we ask that you first purchase a ticket to the Real pARTy. (Remember- you also go home with an original work of art you select right off our walls!)
You will receive an email confirmation that your bid has been accepted, as well as an update if you are later outbid.
Tickets are available now.
$175 per person
860.232.1006 x115 | email Madison Day | Buy Online
Test Drive a Boxter For a Week-End
CURRENT HIGH BID: $399
Pick this little demon up on Friday afternoon and return it on Monday. Go anywhere, as long as it’s within 150 miles of Wallingford. Who knows, maybe it will convince you that you can’t live without one. Or maybe it will just be a really fun week-end.
Value: priceless Opening Bid: $400.
Ever Want to Run Away and Join the Circus?
CURRENT HIGH BID: $499
The next best thing might be this. A “Carnival Sideshow” class for up to 8 people, where a modern day Carney master will teach you the secrets to walking on broken glass, tapping a nail up your nose and breathing fire!! While obviously not for the faint of heart, it could be the coolest birthday, bar or bat mitzvah, anniversary or wedding gift imaginable.
Value: priceless Opening Bid: $500
Hot,Hot,Hot
CURRENT HIGH BID: $499
Salsa is sexy, sensual and lusty. You’re the host, here at Real Art Ways, of a private salsa party. Instruction for 30 of your closest friends. Hors D’oeuvres catered by City Fare. By the end of the night everyone will dance like they were born to it.
Value: $1,000 Opening Bid: $500.
A Wine Tour Without the Travel
CURRENT HIGH BID: $499
West Side Wines will help you host a wine tasting in your home for up to 12 people, Complete with Riedel crystal stemware, tasting sheets, a case of wine and a catered dinner. Work with an expert to design a tasting tailored to your interests – grape varietals, country of origin, region, or leave it to the experts and be surprised.
Value: $900. Opening Bid: $500.
Gas in Glass
CURRENT HIGH BID: $1999
Artist Mundy Hepburn is a master glass blower with the mind of a mad scientist. His work combines the lovely sublime shapes of organic glass with the mystical forces of xenon, argon, neon and other inert gases, creating a thoroughly modern work of art. A static glass sculpture with an active, inner life of its own - electricity at its most elegant.
One of a kind.
Value: $4,000 Opening Bid: $2000.
The Essential Art House Collection
CURRENT HIGH BID: $499
Janus Films has created a home library of fifty films released over the last half-century, accompanied by an impressive and handsomely illustrated volume of essays and notes. It is truly a canon of masterpieces. “Jules and Jim”, “The Seventh Seal”, “L’Avventura”, and “La Strada” are only a few of the films that moved America to see movie-going as a serious cultural pursuit, as well as a form of entertainment. This is a beautiful paean to film making.
Value: $1,000 Opening Bid: $500.
Peek Backstage at the Today Show
CURRENT HIGH BID: $399
Paul Hochman, the “Gear and Technology Correspondent” on the Today Show, will take you behind the scenes of your favorite morning news show. Meet the stars and watch how a daily television show is created, from frantic moments to on-air calm.
If you’re lucky, you’ll walk away with some Today Show mementos! (adults only)
Value: priceless Opening Bid: $400
A Concert in Your Living Room
CURRENT HIGH BID: $899
Trumpeter/composer Stephen Haynes, whose music has been called “Strange, sweet and above all, skilled…” offers an evening of music for improvising quartet, presented at the home of the lucky winning bidder. Haynes and his quartet, Bugaboo, will delight your guests with his singular sound and sensibility, Catered dinner for 14 included.
Value: $1,500. Opening Bid: $900.
Real Art Ways Writers
CURRENT HIGH BID: $149
Our Writers and Readers series has created some amazing, poignant, and sometimes hysterically funny evenings here at Real Art Ways. This collection of 9 signed books will bring you the writing, without the collective laughter and tears.
Value: $250. Opening Bid: $150.
Not for Snow Bunnies
CURRENT HIGH BID: $999
Carrie Sheinberg, for US Ski Team star, Olympian and 3 time US National Champion and Paul Hochman, the NBC Today’s Show’s “Gear Guy” and former ski test director for SKI magazine, will provide a private ski lesson at Wachusett Mountain. WAIT! This item includes a brand new pair of skis, bindings, poles and goggles.
Value: $3000. Opening: $1,000.
Start your Novel Now
CURRENT HIGH BID: $310
A one or four day writing workshop on Martha’s Vineyard, with Nancy Aronie, author of Writing From the Heart. Whether you are an accomplished, but unpublished poet, a closet biographer, a memoirist or just need a kick in the pants. A signed book included.
Value: $500. Opening Bid: $250.
Sagger Fired Ceramic Vessel
CURRENT HIGH BID: $349
Wheel thrown white stoneware, polished Terra Sigellata
Sagger Fired in oxidation in a gas kiln/ fumed with ferrous Chroride
Overlay of copper threads and copper mesh prior to firing.
Tim Scull, Canton Clay Works, owner and master potter.
Value: $800. Opening Bid: $350.
A Cultural Dream Date
CURRENT HIGH BID: $510
Private, 2 hour tour for up to 4 people of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pick a section of this amazing museum and learn about it in-depth from Met curators. After the tour, enjoy a complimentary lunch in the Trustee’s Dining Room overlooking Central Park.
Value: priceless Opening Bid: $500.
To Have and to Be
CURRENT HIGH BID: $155
Sara Bereza
Photograph 2007
Image size 10"x13" Framed 17"x21"
“In to Have and to Be,” women hold large fish. They are photographed nude in a range of staged environments, collectively establishing a relationship between images as issues of pride, shame, vulnerability and empowerment are explored.
Value: $500 Opening Bid: $150