| Q & A 05.14.08 4:18 PM |
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Venice Art Walk Nixes Live Auction, Upgrades Launch Party
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 | Venice Family Clinic's Alison Dockray
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In its 29th year, the Venice Family Clinic's Venice Art Walk & Auction will hit the beachside city this weekend. Overseeing the festival is Alison Dockray, associate development director for the clinic. Although Dockray works on other fund-raisers throughout the year, including a major donor dinner called "Silver Circle," the Venice Art Walk & Auction is the clinic's largest event. Open art studios, architecture tours through private homes, and receptions will happen Saturday and Sunday with the help of 600 volunteers.
There's no live auction this year. Why?
It competed with our silent auction and it was hard to sell art that way, especially since there are so many other nonprofits doing the same thing. So we felt like we should go back to what we know best and what is reflective of the Venice community.
We’ve always had a kickoff party with an exhibit a couple of weeks before the event, but this year we did something fun and new and called it an "art happening." We had dancers, a painter doing a live performance, and a filmmaker doing a special film project. We were offering more for people to see instead of just coming to meet the artists and have a cocktail. This time we worked with an advertising agency called Team One, which donated its services. The group came up with a new theme for us: "For two days, Venice becomes an art museum."
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Venice Family Clinic, Venice Art Walk & Auction |
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.29.08 11:23 PM |
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Southern California's Top Art Events 2008
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 | The Hammer Museum's Gala in the Garden
Photo: Stefanie Keenan/PMC |
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1. Museum of Contemporary Art Gala
MOCA’s much-cooed-over galas are often works of art themselves. The October 2007 event honoring Takashi Murakami at the Geffen Contemporary included a performance by Kanye West and an appearance by honoree Marc Jacobs—along with a guest list full of art-, fashion-, and entertainment-world influencers. The exhibit went on to set opening-week attendance records.
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Southern California's Top 100 Events, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Pacific Design Center, Architectural Digest, Art Museum Council of Lacma, San Diego Museum of Art, Festival of Arts, Venice Family Clinic |
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