Free Sea Turtle Benefit Art Show & Sale + Silent Auction

Date: Saturday, August 14, 2010
Time: 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: , SF – parking available on 16th Street at the corner
This benefit show and auction for the Sea Turtle Restoration Project is free and open to the public and will be held at a beautiful courtyard. Fifteen fine artists and craftspeople will exhibit their work. Vendors will serve artisan street food on site, and music and presentations are scheduled throughout the afternoon. Don’t miss the reception from 4 to 6 pm and the silent auction with over 20 one of a kind art works and crafts, which closes at 5 pm. This is a free event. For more information please visit www.SeaTurtles.org/ArtShow or e-mail ArtShow@seaturtles.org.

The artists offering items for auction and sale include painter Irene Hardwick Olivieri, who was recently reviewed in Art in America, well-known wildlife artist Alan James Robinson, photographer Johanna Rogers Evans and many others. Crafts will be offered by Heart’s Desire Jewelry, which recently won the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay award for jewelry design and many other jewelers, fabric artists and others.

All proceeds will benefit sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico and restoration of their habitat. I would be happy to share more details with you. Thank you!