April 14, 2012
Doors open | 5:30 pm
Live auction begins | 7:30 pm
Tickets | $40 in advance, $50 at the door

Featured Artist Hong Chun Zhang ( 张 春 红 ）
Original artwork from over 150 artists
Exhibit dates | March 16 through April 14

The Lawrence Arts Center Benefit Art Auction serves as the primary funding source for the Exhibitions Program at the Lawrence Arts Center and features approximately 150 artworks generously donated by artists. This spectacular event is also made possible by corporate and private sponsors, volunteers, and hundreds of art patrons. The Exhibitions Director and Auction Committee strive to include artwork in a diversity of mediums and styles and representing a wide range of retail value while limiting the number of works in the Exhibition to 150; approximately 40 of these will be in a live auction April 14. We are also sensitive to the perpetual burden that many artists incur with the many art auctions they are asked to donate to. In an effort to not burden artists and to present our community with new and different art each year at the Art Auction, we invite artists to participate.

Letters of invitation for artists will be mailed in September 2011 for our 2012 Benefit. We are grateful to past & future participating artists, sponsors, and volunteers. The Lawrence Arts Center Exhibitions program exhibits a diverse range of art from around the country in its five exhibition spaces, averaging 30 exhibits annually. In the past two annual auctions the Lawrence Arts Center has raised funds that saved the Exhibitions program from potentially being eliminated.