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The Real pARTy was an absolutely stellar evening.

A rambunctious live auction, mad dashing for sultry burlesque, non-stop food and drink, an absolutely bouncing dance floor, all topped off by a midnight pancake breakfast; it really is the most creative, unexpected party of the year. Special thanks to all our guests who made the Real pARTy such an exciting night, and the generous support of our members who keep us going year-round.

The Real pARTy was made possible by the support of our lead sponsors: Aetna, Travelers, Lincoln Financial Group, and United Technologies Corporation.

Additional support for the Real pARTy was provided by F.A. Hesketh & Associates, Northland Investment Corp./Hartford 21, and Pullman & Comley, LLC.

In-Kind support for the Real pARTy provided by AM Lithography, Dean Batchelder, Catherine Blinder, Jeff Cowie, Cummings & Good, Dick Blick Art Materials, Grey Goose Vodka, Frank Marchese & Scott Van Sicklin, Mike Peters, The Hartfod Advocate, Rogo Distributors, Michael Shortell Framing, Snow Beverages, and Winebow.

Special thanks to all the artists who donated original works for the Real pARTy:

Gersohn
Malika
Linda Abadjian
Mark Abraham
Steven Albee
Sarah Anderson
Cici Artist
James Arzente
Ed Askew
Lydia J. Avrett
Rick Bach
E. Ann Baldwin
Sarah Banasiak
Rehema Barber
Janice Barnish
Christine Bartolucci
JoAnne Bauer
Cynthia Bazzano
Cori Beardsley
Anne Beck
Robert Beck
Jani Benjamins
John Bent
Matthew Best
Sharokin Betgevargiz
Robyn Bihlmeyer
Cathey Billian
Paula Billups
Judith Bird
Diana Boehnert
Tom Bogaert
David Borawski
Donald Boudreaux
Don Bracken
Susan Bradley
Khyal Braun
Anne Brecher
Christine Breslin
Elizabeth Bristow
Adele Broitman
Felix Bronner
James Brunelle Jr.
Jim Bruno
Alan Budney
Bill Burk
Colin Burke
Martha Parish Bush
Michael Cambre
Thomas Camilleri
Emily Cappa
Janet Carlson Leombruni
Melanie Carr Eveleth
Pat Carrigan
Don Carter
Mary Carter
Josely Carvalho
Eric Cavoli
Kristin Centrella
Bob Chaplin
Carol Chaput
Louise Chessi McKinney
Cathy Chong
Nina Cinelli
Felix Ciprian
Susan Classen-Sullivan
Marilyn Clements
Laura R. Cloud
Charles Clough
Joan Coderre
Mark Colbert
Jeanette Cole
Laurel Coniglio
Jillian Conrad
Joel Consolati
Susan Constantino
Davida Cook
Jorge Costa
Patricia Cousins
Fred Cray
Sumner Crenshaw
Stanwyck E. Cromwell
Claudia Cron
Patricia Cullen
Anne Culver
Liviu Cupceancu
Carole Day
Charles J. Day
Jacqueline Decker
Clinton Deckert
Peter Dellert
Bill Delottie
Bob Dente
Jayne DePole-Bogucki
Robyn Desposito
Steven DiGiovanni
Joseph A. Dinunzio Jr.
Nancy Doherty
Kit Donnelly
Michael Donnelly
Catherine Doocy
Jeff Doucette
Alicia Dugan
Laura Dunn
Jeff Durham
James Duval
Mike Eagle
Jordan Eagles
Andre Eamiello
Jon Eastman
Adam Eckstrom
Laura J. Eden
Rosti Eismont
Howard el-Yasin
Jeff Elliott
Laurie Elliott
Cliff Emery
Paula Erker
Taiga Ermansons
Andrea Evans
Ellen Hackl Fagan
Harvey Fierstein
Albert Fine
Deborah Fisher
Joy Marie Floyd
Richard Forand
Phillip Fortune
Julia Fosson
Betty Friedman
Jerry Friedman
Donna Marie Frustere
Gonzalo Fuenmayor
Hirokazu Fukawa
Suzie Funnell
Paula Gabriel
Maria Gabriela Galarza-Block
Michael Galvin
Carol Ganick
Peter Ganick
Anna Gawel
Bryan Nash Gill
Eric Ginsburg
Francine Gintoff
John Gintoff
Gilles Giuntini
Gary Goldberg-O’Maxfield
Leonardo Gonzalez
Janet Good
Jesse Maxwell Good
Peter Good
Nina Goodale
Elizabeth Gourlay
Sarah Granett
Brenton R. Graveley
Karen Green Recor
Kira Greene
Bill Griffith
Clare Grill
Heather Groenstein
Stephen Grossman
Alicia Christina Grullon
Jennifer Guarino
Lys Guillorn
Christina Gunderson
Catalina Gutierrez
Sandra Guze
Sandra Hale
Larissa Hall
Mohammad Hanif
Clymenza Hawkins
Anne Heberand
Tom Hebert
Andrea Henchey
Nancy Henchey
Molly Heron
Alicia Herrmann
Barbara Hocker
Ed Hogan
Ann Holley
Michael Holmes
James J. Horgan
Christopher Hutchinson
Glenda Hydler
McKenna Hynes
Nash Hyon
Gary Jacobs
Ruth Jacobson
Jacqueline Jakubowski
Paul Jeter
Howard Johnson
Peter H. Johnson
Suzy Jorsey- Balay
Tony Baloney Juliano
Katie Jurkiewicz
Ashley Jutras
Ken Kahn
Barbara Kalin
Teresa Kammel-McTeague
Timo Kaplita
Kelley Kapp
Ken Karpowicz
Barbara Katz
Lisa Keith
Kevin Kelly
Chet Kempczynski
Suzanne Kent
Andrew Keplinger
Sherry Kerlin
Niki Ketchman

Janet King
Lisa Kisiel
Tony Klotz
Jennifer Knauss
Kathranne Knight
Nicholas Knight
Martin Knox
Bryan Konefsky
Tony Koos
Helmut Krackie
Carol Kreeger Davidson
Dietmar Krumrey
Fay Ku
Luiza Kurzyna
Tao LaBossiere
Rebecca Lacey
Janet Lage
Jessica Lagunas
Lori Larusso
Kristen LeBlanc
Jieun Zaun Lee
Miyeon Lee
Sara Leombruni
Adriane Little
Lenora Loeb
Kory Loucks
Les Lourigan
Kenneth Lundquist, Jr.
Berette Macaulay
Katherine MacDonald
Adam MacHose
Carianne Mack
Carol Mack
Amber Maida
Monika Malewska
Zacharie Maloney
Cecilia Mandrile
Laura Manning
Jeanne Manzelli
Frank Marchese
Mitchell Marco
Matina Marki Tillman
Sabrina Marques
Marcia Reid Marsted
Liza Martin
Sharon Mayock
Benjamin McCarthy
Jack McConnell
Lady McCrady
Paula McCullough
Robin McGurdy Protz
Sam McKinniss
Andy McKinnon
Darren McManus
Lynn B. McVicker
Brad Melamed
Holly Mellema
Alexia Mellor
Amy Mielke
Carmelle Migliore
James Montford
Cindy Moore
Carlos Motta
Roger Mudre
Tatyana Nadgor
Hunter Neal
Kristina Newman-Scott
Anne Marie Newport
Kelli Newton
Tim Nikiforuk
Adam Niklewicz
Carol Nipomnich Dixon
Helen Nix
Rhea Nowak
Chris O’Herron
Karen O'Maxfield
Harvey Offenhartz
Christina Olson Spiesel
John Pace
Kathi Packer
Liz Pagano
Hank Paper
Meridith Passabet
Janet Passehl
Mark Patnode
Dennis Peabody
Colleen Perron
Stephen Persing
Jon Petro
Yolanda Vasquez Petrocelli
George Pfau
Connie Pfeiffer
Nathalie Pham
Jane Philbrick
KD Photographer
Christopher R. Piascik
Anthony Pinata
Kim Piotrowski
Margaret Plaganis
Adam Polsz
Matthew Pych
Jane Rainwater
Bernard Re Jr.
Debby Reelitz
Katrina Rhein
Thomas Rickis
Patricia Riebesehl
Jean Roberts
Maurice Robertson
Bradford Robinson
Kerri Rosenstein
Alyse Rosner
Edd Russo
Ashlee Sadowski
Sarah Sagarin
Zoe Sheehan Saldana
Joe Sam
Barbara Scavottoe-Earley
Jessica Schwind
Jean Scott
Monica Scott
Gil Scullion
John Sembrakis
Mike Shapcott
Susan Sharp
Teisha Shaw
Mark Shunney
Suzan Shutan
Elizabeth Sibilia
Arthur Simoes
William Simpson
Dave Sinaguglia
Phyllis Small
Brian Smith
Melissa Smith
Joseph Smolinski
Regina Snyder
Kim Sobel
Laura Sohre
Marjorie C. Solomon
Jessica Somers
Janet Sorokin
John Sousa
Robert Spiller
Yasmin Spiro
John Squier
Ken Stabile
Loretta Staples
Marciella Stasa
Judith Steinberg
Jennifer Stepler
Susan Sternberg
Pamela Stockamore
Helena Stockar
Susan Strauss
Michael Sundra
April Sweeney
Mike Sweet
Rhonda Swensen
Elaine Tabol Byers
Rashmi Talpade
William E. Tarn
Alan Taylor
Steed Taylor
Emily Teall
Carolyn Tertes
Laurie Thomas
Anne Thompson
David Tolo
Patrick Toohey
Rob Trafford
Margaret Tsirantonakis
Grace E. Turman
Joanne Vallee Brunelle
Kevin Van Aelst
Jennifer Van Elswyk
Catherine Vanaria
Elisa Vegliante
Deborah Velasquez
Bettina Viereck
Lindsay Vigue
Marta Violette Kot
Barbara J.B. Vogel
Sean Von Felden
Gretchen Vorderlandwehr-Battey
Deb Wadsworth
Chad Walker
Kathryn Weiss
Sandy Welch
Sid Werthan
Ben Westbrock
Murray Whitehill
Jemma Williams
Mark Williams
Lauren Willis
Letha Wilson
Ryan Wilson Paulsen
Harriet Winograd
Andrew Witkin
Kristen Wojcoski
Dana Wolfson
Ann Wood
Joy Wulke
Helen Zajkowski
Sara Zinn
Christopher Zurcher
Michael Zych

 

Original details from:
Real pARTy '07
View the Schedule of Events from Saturday, April 14

 

Here's your chance to be part of the most exciting, interactive and unpredictable party of the year. Join us in celebrating Real Art Ways' history of presenting brave and stimulating contemporary visual art, music, films, readings, performances, and social events.

On Saturday, April 14, 2007, we invite you to be part of the eclectic and expansive Real Art Ways community - for the first time or the thousandth.

We'll have fabulous (live and silent) auction items, including valuable work from artists who have shown at Real Art Ways (often early in their careers), use of our 150 seat cinema for your private function, truly one-of-a-kind trips, Director or Curator-led tours of the region's finest art institutions, house concerts and readings, a weekend writers workshop on Martha's Vineyard, stunning raku pottery... We are adding new items daily, check back for the latest offerings.

Every guest will take home an original piece of art. More than 400 artists, many natinoally and internationally known, are contributing 9x12 works to the Real pARTy!

Guests, in randomly assigned groups, have the opportunity to select, and remove from the gallery walls, the artwork they have coveted all night. All work is signed on the back, allowing for chance and delight when you discover the creator of your canvas. Many of the participating artists will be in attendance.

At the end of the evening your art, along with information about the artist, will be carefully packaged.

But, this year, before you go home, The World Famous Pontani Sisters will perform their thrilling burlesque in the tent, accompanied by late night pancakes to help you ease home.

And who knows? There may be other surprises as well.

Proceeds will support Real Art Ways programming, including exhibitions, artist projects, concerts, film screenings, youth artmaking workshops, community projects, and more.

Tickets are available now.
$175 per person
860.232.1006 x115 | email Madison Day | Buy Online

 

Auction items are now online.
Place your bid today!

 

Schedule of Events on Saturday, April 14, 2007

7:00pm - Midnight: Real pARTy '07
7:00pm: Silent Auction opens
8:30pm: Live Auction begins
9:45pm: Silent Auction closes
10:00pm: Canvas selection begins
11:00pm: Pancakes, dancing and burlesque in the tent


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