Tomorrow we will announce our first CALL FOR ART in quite some time — and with any luck, the first of three over the next 11 months. Some of that luck revolves around our success as a society working together to contain the pandemic. Some of it depends on the generosity of our community of artists, who never ceases to amaze us. For OFF THE WALL GALLERY to persist, entering is 43rd year, we need our home, Dirty Frank’s, to thrive. While hundreds of friends have rallied around Frank’s — through their patronage since we managed to reopen in July and, when they couldn’t be with us, a steady stream of online gifts — winter will tell a different story. No doubt, as the snow reminded us last week, Dirty Frank’s will have to close for a time in February and perhaps into March. (And pay no heed to those bizarre temperatures tomorrow...the third official day of winter!) To make it through the next couple of months, we plan to hold a benefit ART AUCTION — one of the things we do best! — and tomorrow will start a two-week window to contribute artwork that, with robust bidding and sales, can become our lifeline. Please MARK YOUR CALENDAR for the auction dates — Friday, January 15 through Sunday, January 17 — and look for our official announcement on Christmas Eve. Thank you in advance for your support, as artists, as buyers...and always, as part of our family!
