Year Eight is Great for BAA's Real Art Party
The 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival event raffled off more than 100 original pieces of art to benefit local students.
Kristie Hartig and Colleen Cambell chose paintings by, and posed with, artist Irene Collias
There are two things you can be sure will occur at Berkshire Art Association’s annual 10x10 Real Art Party fundraiser: the 10” by 10” artworks will be of high-quality and varied, and the event will sell out. This year’s party was again held at the Berkshire Museum, on Thursday, Feb. 20, and more than 100 pieces created by local artists were raffled off to benefit BAA college fellowships and art field trips for local high school students. The donated artworks ran the gamut — from paintings, drawings and collage to photographs and 3D creations made from wood, felt and ceramics. Now in its eighth year, the event is part of the City of Pittsfield’s 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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