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It's not often you get a chance to acquire an art-door, support a local festival and have a rockin' time to boot, but Thursday evening you'll get all that. The committee for the Glassroots downtown art festival, is holding a fundraiser with a difference: local artists have painted doors (yes, old house and shed doors, unattached) which will be auctioned off live at Sanford and Sons. A quarter of each sale goes back to the door artist, the rest of the proceeds go to fund the August 24 festival, which not only celebrates local art but supports it by not charging artists to erect booths.
Says co-organizer Angela Jossy:
Most festivals are funded by vendor booth fees. We are doing this fundraiser so that our vendors don't
have to bear the brunt of the festival costs. We made the booths free this year so that any artist, no matter what their financial status is, can come out, meet fellow artists and show their work for free.
If you were at Art on the Ave you may have seen some of the locally-painted doors. Artists include Matt and Laura Eklund, Houston Wimberly III, Linda Lapping DeSantis, Jeremy Silas, Voxxy Vallejo, James Stowe, Bonnie Chance, Charlene LaMountain, Maureen McHugh, Crystal Braley-Cole, Dawn Fortner and others. The auction runs from 7-10 p.m. this Thursday July 24 at 743 Broadway, Tacoma. Cover entry is by donation, and includes DJ music (think of every hit you know that includes the word "door": "My love open the door," "Back Door Man," "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," "Ooh,ooh, ooh, lookin out my back door," etc etc,) pizza by the slice, karaoke and drinks bar. Apart from the bar, the event is all-ages.
Are you wondering whose doors we posted here?
Left to right: The white door with crows on it is by Maureen McHugh, owner of Mad Hat Tea company, featuring a poem by fashionisto Daniel Blue. The blue door with gazebo was done by Bonnie Chance, the "Smack" door was created by Alysia Jines. The red and orange crow door with the mirror on it is by Linda Lapping-DeSantis, and the butterfly door was done by Dawn Fortner.
Just think of the possibilities for an art door: a room screen, a mural, a faux-door to confuse your neighbors. Dare I say it?--they're adoorable.
