Countdown to Fun!

• Tickets sell out quickly! Buy your tickets online before 5/26 and save $25!. (Zeffy is a secure nonprofit pay platform for nonprofits. Zeffy asks for a donation for their hosting- this is optional, on the % ask, select "other" to make a flat donation rather than a percent. Download your ticket by clicking your confirmation email button. 

• Event opens at 4:30, arrive early to snag a good parking spot
• Check-in at reception with your downloaded ticket
• Get your Bidder Number
• Register for Door Prizes
• Appetizers & Cash bar
• Meet our Demonstration Artists 
• Bid on Silent Auction Items by Demonstration Artists
• Buy a Little Gem!
• Bring Cash for 50/50 Cash Prize Drawdown
• Earlier is best for parking and FUN!

• 4:30-6:00 Watch Demonstration Artists creative processes
• 4:45-6:00 Watch Fine Artists Race-the-Clock, start-to-finish in 75 minutes!
• Stroll and meet the demonstrator artists before the bell.
• 4:30-6:15 Bid on Silent Auction art
• 4 :30-6:15 Shop Little Gems small works art gallery (these are delightful finished pieces of locally made art, ready to purchase)

• Cash bar moves to pavilion
• Relax as artists frame fresh art for auction
• Preview live auction art 
• Select your dinner seating - reserved seating in the front row is available on our ticket page
• Place final bids in Silent Auction
• Snap up last minute gifts for yourself or someone else at the Little Gems Gallery located by the dining hall bar - Little Gems sales close at 8:30

• 50/50 cash game- win half the pot!
• Bid on your favorite art to win, and donate for scholarships
• Bid on our Artful Living Specials
• 1. Grace Cathey metal sculpture made just for Quick Draw 
• 2. Balsam Mountain Preserve round of golf for 4 plus cart  

• Enjoy Laurel Ridge Country Club's tasty menu by new Executive Chef Shawn McCoy
• Buy a Little Gem small original work until 8:30

Buy your tickets online. Support art education with the purchase of your tickets, come have fun, and bid on amazing works of fine art to help support our next generation of artists and creatives. 

If you can't attend this year, please donate. It is amazing philanthropists like you that help inspire and motivate our young artists!