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Ball and Socket Arts Benefit Auction
Over 80 works of art donated by more than 60 artists to be auctioned to benefit development of the Ball and Socket factory site.
ART AUCTION STARTS OCTOBER 10
Ball & Socket Arts will auction over 80 works of contemporary art donated by more than 60 artists from Connecticut and beyond to benefit its efforts to transform the historic Ball & Socket factory in Cheshire into an arts center and community gathering place. The works being offered include paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture by a variety of artists including such acclaimed artists such as Cary Smith, Don Voisine, Linda Lindroth, Steven Maine, and Elizabeth Gourlay.
The auction, called Garage Sale, will begin October 10 with simultaneous openings on land and online. That day, a preview exhibition of the works being offered will open at Ball & Socket’s satellite gallery Art Garage, 530 West Main Street in Cheshire. The exhibition will be open free of charge Saturdays and Sundays October 10, 11, 17 & 18, 11:00-5:00. The catalogue will also go live online at Benefit Events and bidding will begin.
“I’m thrilled to see so many of my fellow artists supporting this project,” states artist, curator and Ball & Socket co-founder Kevin Daly. “We featured works from several of them at Art Garage this summer to popular acclaim.”
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To conclude the auction, and the Art Garage project, Ball & Socket will host a closing celebration at Art Garage on October 24, 5:00-7:00. The event will be open to registered bidders, who may register at Art Garage that day or in advance at Benefit Events. Once registered, guests will able to bid on site using personal mobile devices or tablets provided by Ball & Socket Arts. Light refreshments will be served. Bidding will end at 7:00 PM.
ABOUT ART GARAGE
Garage Sale is the finale of an exciting run for Art Garage, a temporary art gallery created by Ball & Socket Arts in June. Its mission was to engage the community in the larger project and present a foretaste of what is to come when the center opens in 2017. Built in just 5 days inside a former towing garage, and slated to last only through the end of October, the gallery hosted four, month-long exhibitions of contemporary art curated by Ball & Socket Arts. The exhibitions presented over 60 works by 23 artists. In addition, New Haven-based musicians The Uncertainty Series and The Second Movement Ensemble performed two concerts at the gallery, and on October 17 author Cheryl Della Pietra will read from her book “Gonzo Girl: A Novel” about her time as an assistant to Hunter S. Thompson.
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ABOUT BALL & SOCKET ARTS
Ball & Socket Arts is a major new multi-disciplinary arts center under development in central Connecticut. Its future home will be the historic former Ball & Socket Manufacturing Co. factory in Cheshire. The project plan calls for art galleries, performance spaces, artists work spaces, retail and fine and casual dining.
The group purchased the 65,000 sf, 3.2 acre site in September 2014 with major support from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development. Ball & Socket Arts is slated to open in the summer of 2017.
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