Spring Art Bazaar and April Silent Art Auction

Spring Art Bazaar
Location: Powell Campus Center, all three floors
When: Friday, April 3rd 11-5pm

This is a great opportunity to earn money for the rest of the semester and for the beginning of summer! The art bazaar will be widely publicized throughout the village and local towns within Allegheny county.

$5 per table; tables are large and can be shared
go to the art office on the 2nd floor of Harder Hall to reserve. (across the hall from Moka Joka)

Tables 1-12 are stationary inside tables. First come first serve: you can choose a table, and opt to be outside if you wish if weather permits, but have dibs on that spot inside (if you show up on time)
13-32 will be placed in other negotiable places on the three floors, and/or in the knight club, or outside, if permitting

You must set up your own table. It will be plan, white or beige, and most likely plastic. Bring some decorations maybe.
There will be either a pile or tables or they will be stacked up against the wall on one of the floors.

You will also be required to take down your table, and will be responsible to make sure it ends up back where you got it, or where it is designated to go.
(This applies doubly for any of the nice, fancy tables that MIGHT be available from the lounge on the 2nd floor!)

Please do not abandon your table!















April Silent Art Auction for Charity
Location: Harder Hall Lobby, 3rd Floor, Academic Alley
When: April 21st - 25th
Closing reception 4:30pm. bidding ends 5pm

NOW ACCEPTING DONATIONS
In the art office: 2nd floor of Harder Hall across the hall from Moka Joka

Donations of all kinds are accepted.
Please make sure your name is attached to your piece!
(This is a great thing to put on your resume!)

All proceeds will go to the Alfred Food Pantry

It is important within a privileged setting such as ours to be aware of the position we are in, and to give back to the community within which we operate, as well as the global community at large. Art Union has hosted two silent art auctions in the past two years, the first being for a local community member, accumulating nearly $7,000. Last semester we reached out as a community to people across the world who are suffering from adverse living conditions, hunger, and severe poverty, such as we do not see in the United States.

Because of our national economic situation, the Student Art Union has decided to pick a charity that is as local as we can get, so we have decided upon the Alfred Food Pantry for this spring's auction money recipient. This gives us an opportunity to aid our immediate community in a substantial way, while also being provided an outlet for the surplus of art objects we create here within our curriculum.

Remember: learning is about trial and error, so it makes sense to create objects, which, even from the beginning, one might know they will not keep. However, it is a completely different thing when these objects then go to the landfill, and the energy and money that it took to bring that art object into being are essentially wasted. It is an injustice to those around us and around the world who are struggling to get their next meal to allow resources to be dwindled in other areas because we are put into positions of privilege.

The bottom line: Art Union encourages students to donate any and all art objects to the Silent Art Auction as a method to raise the most amount of money possible for the cause. If you were going to throw it away, wouldn't it be better for someone to be helping out a charity monetarily while also acquiring a handmade piece of art work by a student in their community? And if they only spent a dollar on it, it is a dollar towards a good cause, rather than crumbled up paper or shards of ceramic in a dumpster.

We will be accepting donations until the auction date, at which point there will be a limited number of empty bidsheets, which you will have the opportunity of using to add your piece to the auction once it has been set up. We have found this to be an effective method of keeping the auction open and allowing students to add to the collection continuously. The only stipulation is that students are requested not to move other art objects already set up, as Art Unioners will be the ones to handle the display of art work at the auction.