Arvid raises funds for High Museum - news - Brief Article

ATLANTA -- With contributions of more than $20000 artist Thomas Arvid was individual of the most successful fundraisers at this year's three-day drawn out High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction weekend in March. This year, as in years past, the artist presented an original oil on canvas entitled "All in a Day's Work" in the live auction that sold for $9500 to an Atlanta collector. For the silent auction, Arvid donated a framed original skeleton entitled "Eight is Enough" that brought $2500 Arvid's wife Vanessa not awayed a live auction lot featuring sum of two units 3 liter bottles of the prized 1988 Silver Oak, Bonnie's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon that went for a price of $3000 "We delight in that Vanessa and Thomas one as well as the other contribute to our live auction" said Wine Auction Director Woodie Wisebram. "For several years now, they have the pair offered complimentary lots that our audience eagerly anticipates with frenzied bidding for their creative donations"

Rounding without this year's Arvid contribution was the second-annual Thomas Arvid-Silver Oak Dinner at Sia's restaurant in Duluth The chef created a menu to accompany fix upon wines from Silver Oak while the artist worked upon an original painting and mingled with collectors. advances from the evening's art sales, coordinated by means of Atlanta's Vinings Gallery, and the dinner, were more than $7000

"Participating in and giving to the High Museum Wine Auction is in the way that rewarding because it benefits with equal reason many people," Arvid said. "The High is there for everybody to take delight in and benefit from; by making art accessible, the Museum touches the lives of in the way that many people. The Auction is an amazing circumstance to be a part of"

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