Archive for August, 2009

A couple of quick things… (I hope to post a longer post soon with maybe a piece of art or two.)

- Facebook has disabled my personal account as well as the Art Now for Autism fan page. They did not send me a message prior to doing this. I just discovered it this morning when trying to login. In the meantime, continue to visit Art Now’s web site and Twitter account. Hopefully they will agree to enable the accounts again as I would hate to have to start from scratch.

- Over 80 artists are participating with just days until the close of the call for entry. Art donations must be emailed to Claudine by no later than 11:59pm on September 1st. Don’t forget to include the details about your piece listed on the donate art page. Click here for more.

A couple people have asked me about this year’s reverse auction and how it works. So I thought I would explain in more detail. This year’s Art Now for Autism is a reverse auction so prices actually go down instead of up. There are no bids in the traditional sense. Everything is grouped together at a set price that drops, but you don’t want to wait to buy your favorite piece or it might be gone!

Preview of exhibit is October 1 – 4, 2009
Art exhibit will be open online at www.artnowforautism.com. All work will be viewable but not on sale.

Reverse Auction – October 5 – 10, 2009
Everything starts at the same price with price cuts every two days.

October 5-6 – Day 1 & 2 – All art is $90.
The reverse auction begins at 9am EST on October 5th.

October 7-8  Day 3 & 4 – All art is $60.
Prices drop to $60 at 9am EST on October 7th.

October 9-10 Day 5 & 6 – All art is $30.
Art drops to the final $30 at October 9th at 9am EST.

Rmember 100% of art sales will go to Autism Speaks, a national autism awareness and research organization.

Lots of fabulous art has come in over the past few days and just two weeks until the deadline for art donations. Interested in donating art? Click here!

I just received an email from Carly Fleischmann. She has autism, and she will be featured on 20/20 this Friday at 10pm EST on ABC. Please watch! Click on the image below to visit Carly’s web site.