2008 Woodie Awards
Annual holiday art sale starts today
Michael Cortez/Staff Reporter
Issue date: 12/6/07 Section: News
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The Art Department will hold its 21st Annual Holiday Art Sale in the Tarble Arts Center today through Saturday.
All of the items on sale are original works of art handmade by students, faculty and ex-faculty. None of the pieces on sale are manufactured.
Some of these items include jewelry, small sculptures, ceramics, prints, holiday decorations and more. Admission is free.
Sue Rardin, of the art department, said prices vary.
"It runs anywhere from $2 or $3 an item, and some of the larger items are $100," Rardin said. "It's a very wide range."
As far as Rardin could remember, the highest item that ever sold was a painting for $125.
The students determine the price their art sells for. If any of their art sells, they get to keep 60 percent of the amount the piece sold for. The other 40 percent goes to the art department's scholarship fund.
"The fund is used to offer scholarships to art majors," Rardin said. "In the spring, we do an all-student show, and part of the proceeds from this helps give the awards to the students for best in show, outstanding senior award, and various area awards for graphic design, print making, 2-D and 3-D. The show gives them experience in competing."
Students won't find a majority of any particular category of art at the sale. Rardin promises many different kinds of art pieces to be on display.
"It's a wide variety," Rardin said. "This year, we have ceramic, some paintings and reproductions of art work.
"The artist will take a drawing or one of their paintings and they will make it into greeting cards. We have a lady that does painted wooden clocks. We have a guy this year that does copper hummingbird feeders. We have some people that do jewelry and candles. It's just a wide variety."
Students and faculty are not the only artists who contribute their art to the sale.
"We have several people from the community that are artists that have never gone to Eastern," Rardin said. "So it's not just faculty and students. We have community artists that come from Decatur, Atwood and Champaign.
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Les
posted 12/06/07 @ 3:08 AM CST
I wish that dates and times were published more often in DEN articles. Too often I find that they aren't. What time is the art sale open on Thursday-Saturday? I need to know because some of my class gets out at 4:45 tomorrow and I need to know if I have time to stop by before it closes. (Continued…)
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