real pARTy 2006
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Real pARTy 06
THIS SATURDAY, April 8
7:30 - ?
@ Real Art Ways
56 Arbor Street
Hartford, Connecticut
Dress: Creative Black Tie
Tickets: $175.00 per person
ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASES MAY BE MADE BY CALLING 860-232-1006
x115 (up until 5pm Friday).
Tickets also available at the door
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Here’s your chance to be part of the most exciting, interactive, and unpredictable party of the year. And of course, being Real Art Ways, we promise to surprise you.
On Saturday, April 8th, Real Art Ways will hold our second Real pARTy.
The Real pARTy will celebrate our 30th year of offering visual and musical programs, independent films, readings, social events and performances. Real Art Ways encourages connections among people who appreciate new ideas, innovation, and community. And the Real pARTy will be a place to connect.
 We’ll have fabulous (live and silent) auction items, including valuable work by artists who have shown at Real Art Ways, house concerts, an original portrait, one of a kind trips, a private party in our cinema, art lessons, and much more.
(We’re adding new items daily - watch for auction itempictures and descriptions coming to this web site!)
Every guest will take home an original piece of art. More than 400 artists, many nationally and internationally known, are contributing 9x12 works to the Real pARTy!
In “a creative black tie free-for-all,” the highlight of the evening will be the randomly-assigned opportunity to select your favorite canvas.
 At the end of the evening your art, along with information about the artist, will be carefully packaged.
 But, if you're not quite ready to end the evening when the Grey Goose Martini Bar finally runs out of vodka, consider joining us for a late night pancake breakfast to help ease the transition from Real Art Ways' celebration to the rest of your life.
Composer and lyricist Ned Sublette
to host real pARTy '06 auction
real Auctioneer
NED SUBLETTE, the composer and lyricist of Willie Nelson's recent hit single, "Cowboys Are Frequently (Secretly Fond of Each Other)," is a 2005-2006 Guggenheim Fellow and the author of Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo (Chicago Review Press).
In 2004-2005 he was a Tulane Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at Tulane University in New Orleans, and prior to that was a 2003-2004 Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His most recent CD is Cowboy Rumba (Palm Pictures).
Ned is a co-creator of Afropop Worldwide Hip Deep, heard on radio stations nationally via Public Radio International, and co-founder of Qbadisc, the record label that pioneered the marketing of contemporary Cuban music in the United States in the early 90s. He is a 1988 graduate of the Missouri Auction School.
Auction Items
(Click an item for larger view)
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Amy Chan, Rolf Drive 2, 2005, gouche on paper, 22 x 18 framed, Value: $250. |
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Peter Edlund, Homeland Security: Near Camp Tule Lake (after Ansel Adams), Oil in canvas, 20”x26” framed, value: $3,500. |
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Amy Kelly, Brick Series, One with suitcase handle, One with baby blue iron, $150.00 each. |
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“Art Cash”, tryptich signed, 38/75, each 30” x 36”, signed by Robert Rauschenberg, Marisol, Red Grooms, Tom Gormley and Bob Whitman, stamped by Andy Warhol, 3 editions of 75 printed by the American Banknote Company, Published by Experiments in Art and Technology, New York, 1971, Value: as a set $3,500. |
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Nikki Lee, The Exotic Dancers Project (#4), 2000, Fujiflex print, Edition #3/5, 22”x29” framed, value: $4,575. |
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Kiki Smith, Untitled (bee with stars), 2005, Handprinted with ink, palladium leaf, on handmade Abaca paper, Unlimited edition, Value: $500. |
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ChanSchatz, UN.0006 plunenfeld, 2003, Archival ink on Hahnemuhle rag paper, 18 x 18 framed, Artist Proof, Value: $1,000. |
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Sarah Anne Johnson, “Nadine”, 24 x 32 framed, Chromogenic print, Manitoba, 2003-2004, Value” $4,000. |
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Set of 4 posters commissioned for original No-Nukes Concert, Madison Square Gardens, NYC, 1979, Numbered and signed by Jan Sawka, Seymour Chwast, Bernard Bonhomme and, Paul Davis., Very rare, very collectible, Set value: $2,500. |
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Raging Bull, “Advance poster”, 1980, excellent condition, Value: $500. |
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Barry Moser, “The Hateful Day I Received Life”, 15 x 17, wood engraving from fine press book, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Edition: AP, Printed at Pennyroyal Press, West Hatfield, Massachusetts, 1983, Value: $750. |
additional auction items
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1. AVOID THE CRUSH.
We auction off the first 3 opportunities to select the canvas you really have to have!
2. ADD A LIMO AND YOU’VE GOT A DATE!
Private, two-hour tour for four people of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Pick a section of this amazing museum and learn about it in-depth from Met curators. After the tour, enjoy complimentary lunch at the Trustee's Dining Room (with views of Central Park) and then stop by the Museum Gift Shop to spend your $100 gift certificate. Tour and lunch to be arranged by mutual convenience with the Metropolitan Museum through United Technologies Corporation.
Donor: United Technologies Corporation
3. SWING BOTH WAYS
O-Tones Swing Dance party at Real Art Ways for 50, catered
4. HOT, HOT, HOT
Salsa party (and lessons) at Real Art Ways for 50
5. A FILM FOR YOU AND 49 OF YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS
Film party in the Cinema for 50
6. ART!
Many of these artists showed at Real Art Ways early in their career. Others showed mid-career, still others have never shown here – but this astounding list of contemporary artists is impressive. (We will take bids over the phone prior to the event.)
Kiki Smith
Peter Edlund
Pepón Osorio
Nikki S. Lee
Sarah Ann Johnson
Ellen Carey
Barry Moser
Spencer Finch
Bryan Nash Gill
Lamerol Gatewood
Amy Chan
Chet Kempczynski
John Groo
Karin Giusti
7. A WORLD CLASS CONCERT IN YOUR HOME
House Concert by Steven Haynes
Catered by Scott’s Jamaican Bakery
8. SIT IN KATIE’S SEAT!
A personal tour of NBC’s Today Show set with the show’s “Gear Guy,” Paul Hochman.
10. HISTORICAL CURRENCY
“Art Cash” - limited edition tryptich signed and numbered by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Red Grooms, Bob Whitman, and Marisol.
11. RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN RURAL MASSACHUSETTS!
4 extremely rare, and recently unearthed, posters commissioned for the original No-Nukes Concert in 1979 at Madison Square Garden. Numbered and signed by renowned graphic artists Paul Davis, Bernard Bonhomme, Jan Sawka and Seymour Chwast.
12. TOUR IN HIGH STYLE
A. A private, guided tour for 6, led by Jock Reynolds, Director of The Yale Art Gallery.
Followed by lunch at Zinc
B. A guided tour for 4 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston of the upcoming exhibition Americans in Paris,led by curator Erica Hirshler. Also included is the exhibition catalogue.
13. JOUST AND PARRY
Co-Host with WTIC personality Colin McEnroe on his popular and feisty radio show.
14. DINE AND DISH
Dinner for 6 at the home of Real Art Ways Director Will K. Wilkins and Catherine Blinder.
15. MAKE IT A NIGHT OUT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Gift certificates to a dozen Parkville and West End restaurants with movie tickets to Real Art Ways cinema. (includes $400. worth of martinis at Tisane’s!)
16. UNLEASH THE INNER NOVELIST
Summer Writing Workshop with West Hartford native Nancy Aronie at her studio on Martha’s Vineyard.
17. THEN GET READY TO PUBLISH
Have your fledgling manuscript read and critiqued by writer/editor Rand Richards Cooper.
18. WHEN YOU CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE MOVIES…
More than a dozen posters of film that have shown at Real Art Ways, and a few that haven’t.
19. A TISKET A TASKET
If you tell us what that means, you’ll know more than us – but you could walk away with a big basket of Connecticut-made-and-grown goodies.
20. CAPTURE YOUR CHILD NOW
Photographer Frank Marchese will capture your child’s fleeting image in an in-studio portrait.
21. CAPTURE YOURSELF
A beautiful 9x12 professional oil portrait done from photograph
22. PORTUGAL IN A BOTTLE
A bottle of hand-made, family vineyard Madeira from Portugal
23. REVAMP, RENEW AND REDO
Antique honey –hued beaded bag from Belgium, courtesy of Petria Boutiq, along with an hour’s fashion consultation with Petria at her stylish store in lovely Norfolk.
24. NO RAGING BEAUTY
“Advance” Raging Bull poster – consistently touted as the best film of the ‘80’s. Collectors are bullish on this poster
25. SEX, MUSIC, BOOKS AND ART
A mystery box containing 30 years of RAW history
26. YOUR LIFE IS AN OPEN BOOK
Your life story in poetry by Verandah Porche, poet and author
27. DO SOMETHING FOR THE FIRST TIME
2 tickets to “Dark Dining,” artist Dana Salisbury’s blindfolded art and food experience, at the Pond House on April 22nd.
28. SEAR, POACH, SAUTÉ AND BAKE
Cooking Lessons for 8 by the talented and loveable Louis Lista, chef/owner of the Pond House Restaurant
29. A TOAST TO THE SOPRANO
2 Bottles of Loraine Bracco’s newly released wine |
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