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This year’s event will take place on Chung King Road in historic Chinatown / LA on Saturday, May 11, 2013. In addition to the portrait exhibition that will take place among the galleries, plenty of food and drink, music, entertainment and a portrait themed live auction and opportunity drawing will all be part of the event. For more information about how to obtain tickets 626-795-9276, or email pasartalliance@sbcglobal.net.
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| The very talented Art Center College of Design artists that are participating in SNAP PLUS: | ||
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Cecily Arno Erik Berg Lindsey Best Andrea Cappelli Sabrina Che David Cook Josh Fogel Grant Gutierrez Cara Harman Jeffrey Joseph Kat Kaye Dave Koga Khai Le Tory Lin |
Joanne Nam Soey Milk Joy Newell Teshira Noble Sean Norvet Edna Padilla Patrick Patton Cali Sales Benjamin Sanders Adam Senate Vivian Shih Katherine Song Daniel Yoon |
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Treasure Sales
The first Treasure Sale of things-you-didn’t-know-you-needed- until-you-saw-them was staged in 1955 at the old Pasadena Art Museum. The last to be held there was a three-day event in 1970 which netted $106,845. Later sales have been held in mansions, the Armory Northwest, vacant office spaces and a store front. The detailed work, the endless efforts, the laughs, were exhausting fun. And the fact that the Treasure Sales over the past 50 years raised over $1,200,000 meant that $1,200,000 was given to contemporary art projects. Art AuctionsBoard minutes before the first auction in 1966 record the appointment of a “Chief Procuress, heading a team of Art Alliance ladies who would approach art dealers for contributions.” The same method works today, as teams of now very experienced “procurers” enlist the support and appeal to the generosity of artists and art dealers who know and love the Art Alliance. They are partners-in-art, and together have created an amazingly successful way to raise money for the arts. |
Publishing “A couple of years ago the women of the Pasadena Art Alliance brainstormed a collection of household hints and sage quotations, had it printed and bound into a fat little paperback called All Things Wise and Wonderful, and astonished them-selves by selling 70,000 copies. Now, hoping that lightning will strike twice, since they can explain their success only as a miracle, they have brainstormed a sequel called To Talk of Many Things. As I thumb through the small pages…each with a brief message, I think how entertaining it would be to be married to one of its authors, to come home from a dull day at the office to find her hanging mothballs on the peach tree. Wish You Were Here is a collection of travel hints, with some especially good stuff on what to take and how to pack…’put clothes on bed and money on table – take half the clothes and twice the money.’ This may be the best advice in the book. From Wives’ Tales: Some Old, Some New, Some Borrowed, Some True, ‘When a friend moves to a new house it is good luck to send a loaf of bread and a new broom before you come to visit.’ This is not identified as an old wives’ tale, so I assume it is a practice current among the young matrons of Pasadena. It seems to me, though, that if I had moved in, and a loaf of bread and a broom were delivered to my door, I’d move right out. But of course the book isn’t just for Pasadena women. Most of its advice is universal in application. ‘A glass of ice water before meals fills the stomach, quenches the thirst and helps prevent overindulgence.’ (I’ve been doing this for years, though I use white wine instead of water.)” These six little books, currently out of print, raised over $500,000 for contemporary visual art. |
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From
its early beginnings at the Pasadena Art Museum, to later auctions
at Rosemont Pavillion, Caltech’s Athenaeum, and the Art
Center College of Design, the Biennial Art Auction has been an
enormously successful way to raise funds to support the mission
of the Art Alliance. 
Antiques,
furniture, china, glassware, silver and appliances were the mainstays
of the sales. Often, surprising and unusual items surfaced. A 1980
newspaper column began, “You say you’re looking for
Haviland china, a water jug, a1902 negligee and a cabinet from
a Scottish watch-maker’s shop? And you fear it will be a
long search? Fear not. All those treasures will be in the Pasadena
Art Alliance Treasure House when it opens for one-stop shopping…”
‘To fight aphids in peach
trees, hang mothballs from branches, while having a highball.’
