Auction Success!
October 18, 2005
The 1st Annual Missoula Skatepark Art Show and Auction raised $7148.90 in one evening!
Over 60 skate decks were custom designed, sculpted, painted, and displayed in an art show we titled 'On Deck'. This art show opened October 7th and was followed up one week later with our fundraising Auction on October 14th.
Here come the thank-yous:
A special thanks goes out to Justin at Generator Distribution for the 100% donation of over 60 brand-new, blank skate decks for our show. You da man. Props also go out to Jody Paulson (our 'art-world' liason here in Missoula and one hell of an organizer), Allison Leach (who introduced us to a number of her artist acquaintances), and all of our other amazing artists who donated their work to our cause. We are so impressed with all of you. Tim Biskup (whose board sold for the top price of $1865) didn't even know us or where Missoula is but (like many of the artists) felt compelled to donate time/energy to a good cause...our heartfelt thanks to all of you. And finally, thanks to Miriam at Gallery Blue for the venue and help with promotion of our event.
We hope and plan to do this event again next year, if you already know you want to be involved, contact us and we'll get you on the list.
Links
Event web page >>
Gallery of boards that were in the show >>
View Event Photos >>
Download the Event Poster (PDF) >>
Ballot Winners
Best overall design: Big Dipper
Next MSA deck design: Matt Boland