GRAND FORKS — The Artwork of Giving (TAG) annual artwork exhibition and public sale is ready for five:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, on the Grand Forks Curling Membership, 1124 Seventh Ave. S.
The sale will embrace almost 550 work, sculptures, ceramics, images, combined media, glass-blown, steel assemblage and different artwork items created by 88 regional artists, mentioned Sally Miskavige, one of many founders of the TAG occasion, now in its eleventh 12 months. Artists obtain 70% of gross sales and 30% goes to TAG; proceeds are given to charitable organizations.
Since TAG was based, $350,000 has been raised for native charitable organizations, in response to its Fb web page. This 12 months, proceeds will profit the proposed Kids’s Museum, as was the case final 12 months, when $75,000 was donated to the museum, Miskavige mentioned.
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“We’re excited to help this nice mission, together with giving artists this nice alternative to promote artwork,” occasion organizers introduced in a Fb publish.
The almost 550 artworks for this 12 months’s present is essentially the most that TAG has exhibited, Miskavige mentioned. 4 hundred-fifty items had been exhibited final 12 months.
Bennett Brien, of Belcourt, North Dakota, a famend Native American artist, is exhibiting extra artworks than he ever has at a single present, she mentioned.
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Over time, TAG has offered $1.3 million in artwork, Miskavige mentioned, and the artists “preserve elevating the bar” when it comes to high quality.
Jason Restemayer, of Grand Forks, curated and put in the artworks within the present.
A bus that seats almost 50 passengers will convey art-lovers from Fargo to see and buy artwork on the present.
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