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Art
Auction brings in $10,000 to support the Arts Council
What made the annual Heart for Art
auction and dinner, held March 1, such a huge success?
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Twenty different types of homemade
chili served in bread bowls?
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95 auction items donated by area
artists and galleries?
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Lively bidding at the auction?
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Competition to "win" the silent
auction art work?
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Scrumptious appetizers served by
young people?
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Transformation of the Folk Center
with exquisite decorations?
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Opportunity to spend an evening with
200 of your "closest friends"?
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Superior organizing by the steering
committee?
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Delicious ignore-the-calories
desserts?
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Generosity of 162 volunteer cooks,
auctioneers, donors, servers, planners and clean-up/set-up crew?
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Innovative Program that contains
Berea's first "Catalog of Artists"?
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Support of area businesses that
donated supplies and sponsored quotes in the Program book?
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Unique handmade items to take home?
Answer: ALL OF THE ABOVE and MORE
This annual event is the Arts Council's
single large fund-raiser, netting over $10,000 this year to support
the ongoing work of the Council in its mission to provide Art for
Everyone. A Heart for Art is a sold-out evening that features a
traditional chili dinner and both live and silent auctions.
The Folk Center is transformed into a
festive venue, created by local artists. Art is everywhere - in the
decorations, on the silent auction tables, the live auction display
area, and among the guests. The spirit is what one would imagine for
an event bringing together 200 area residents for fellowship, food
and support of one of the centerpieces of the Berea arts community.
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