Angel Water Color Paintings By Sandy Ellyson
HICKORY, N.C. — The Hickory Building of Art Guild lights up the holidays with its 40th anniversary Angels of the Arts Brunch and Bargain on Saturday, Dec. 6, at Lake Hickory Country Club. The accident allowances the museum, a nonprofit organization, and gain go for educational programs and exhibits. All HMA exhibits are chargeless and accessible to the public.
Angels won’t sing, but harp strings will arena out with ancient anniversary music, performed by Martha Hill, administrator of the Western Piedmont Symphony. The accident begins at 10 a.m. with displays of bashful bargain items donated by breadth businesses and residents. There will be a new attending to this year’s affectation of merchandise. Grouped by categories to accomplish arcade easier for guests, signage will be acclimated to mark the displays that accommodate artwork, jewelry, pottery, art, allowance certificates, women’s accessories, children’s things, home furnishings, aliment and wine, and added items. Tables will be abiding abroad from the bank to bigger affectation commodity and advice the bidder.
The brunch and bargain is accessible to anybody who enjoys anniversary arcade in blithe surroundings, accomplished food, auspicious drink, and visiting with accompany and neighbors. This is an befalling to win a different allowance for that hard-to-buy-for being in your life. Many of the ability are handmade and one-of-a-kind. For those with brazier lists, there are whitewater rafting trips; a behind-the-scenes bout of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., with Congresswoman Virginia Foxx; Charlotte Motor Speedway alarm tickets for NASCAR Cup Series Coca Cola 600 Race; men's three-day fishing cruise off Bald Head Island for six Oct. 15-17, 2015; and a appropriate amalgamation from the Hickory Crawdads Baseball Club that includes tickets for four assets seats, meal vouchers, the acceleration pitch, carousel and animation abode as able-bodied as the befalling to bandy a august aboriginal pitch. Go to http://hickoryart.org/guild-brunch to see pictures of alive bargain items.
Be affectionate to yourself with a two-layer specialty block of your best from Marie & Twannettes, a $100 allowance affidavit for casework from Xquisite Salon & Spa, a tan provided by “Need A Tan?”, a $200 allowance affidavit from Graystone Eye for artisan frames or sunglasses, or a aerial active watercolor by bounded artisan Sean Parnell, this year’s champ of the Angels of the Arts contest, and more.
The HMA Guild is captivation raffles for two abstracted items. Participants will accept a adventitious to win a appropriate 18-inch French ceramics baby elaborately dressed and donated by bounded artisan Sandy Froedge whose custom-built dolls accept awash for hundreds of dollars and are in museums; or try for a guided whitewater rafting cruise donated by Watauga Kayak based in Tennessee. Tickets are $5 for one admission or $20 for bristles tickets.
Wreaths for All Reasons created by Guild associates are displayed and for absolute bargain in the Windsor Room as are handmade ceramics cachepots fabricated by artisan Joanne Wilfong.
Silent behest ends at 11:30 a.m., and brunch follows in the ballroom. The accident wraps up with a alive bargain of high-end items presented to the acquisition by agent Joab Cotton, longtime HMA adherent and HMA Board of Trustees accomplished president.
Sponsors who accept underwritten this accident are Merchants Distributors Inc. (MDI) and the von Drehle Foundation, amid others. Tickets accommodate cafeteria and may be purchased for $30 at the Hickory Building of Art. You may appeal accumulation basement for you and your guests. Contact HMA development administrator Chrissy Schramm at 828-327-8576 ext. 206 or CSchramm@HickoryMuseumofArt.org .
