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QuickDraw art benefit at Laurel Ridge

art afterdarkThe WNC QuickDraw will be from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville.

The cocktail social will include an hour-long QuickDraw Challenge, silent auction and refreshments. Live artists will be working in the public eye, creating timed pieces, which will then be auctioned off. 

• 4:30 p.m. — Cocktail Social. Register your bidder number and watch artists prep before the shotgun start.

• 5 to 6 p.m. — Artist Stopwatch Challenge. Hour of live creation. Stroll and marvel at the motivated live-action artists painting to beat the clock. Stroll and chat with demonstrator artists using fiber, clay, metals, glass, wood and more, all process-intensive mediums that enable them to work and talk. Each demo artist offers a finished original work at silent auction while they showcase techniques on a piece in process. 

• 6 p.m. — Breather. Snacks and conversation and live music while artists frame the pieces and set up the auction preview. Artist Ed Kelley and Steve Goldman contribute live entertainment. Art teachers show off student works.

• 6:30 p.m. — Live Art Auction. Bid on fresh, original art, ready to hang. Become a collector who saw the artist make it. Team with artists to inspire students and creative classrooms, put supplies on teacher shelves, and send kids to college.

• 7:30 p.m. — Heavy Hors d'oeuvres Meet & Greet. Meet your artist over delicious food and monitor your silent auction bids.

$60 per person. Proceeds go to art teaching in local schools. 

www.wncquickdraw.com

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