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Caroline Kilhour, “Double Octopus Swim”
10/50, 2020

For more than a ten years the Donkey Mill Artwork Center’s once-a-year art auction has been a leading occasion for art lovers and collectors. The COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t modify that.

The 14th annual celebration will be held on line this calendar year from Feb. 13-27, culminating in a Livestream auction function on Feb. 27 from 5-6:30 p.m.

“Art is not a luxurious as arts education develops the survival techniques of inventive difficulty-resolving, empathy, collaboration and curiosity needed to unite communities on a community and worldwide scale,” claimed Mina Elison, the Donkey Mill’s Communication Director and Curator.

Although this year’s bidding is online, Elison stated, the Donkey Mill looks ahead to securely hosting the group in-human being at the Mill throughout the month of February to look at the operate in the gallery.

The online auction characteristics works by more than 70 renowned artists, ranging in price from $100 to much more than $10,000. In addition to the broad range of is effective by recognized and rising artists from Hawai’i and further than, this year’s auction also debuts more than 80 new is effective on 1’x1’ panels developed by invited artists specially for the celebration.

The annual auction enables the Donkey Mill to consistently provide the West Hawai‘i community as an founded arts business.

“By holding this beloved community function on the net, the Donkey Mill is able to broaden its achieve and maximize engagement with the area and global neighborhood, enabling patrons close to the world to bid competitively on exemplary operate by respected artists,” in accordance to a push release from Donkey Mill.