Green Online Holiday Auction Puts the Price Back in Priceless

A couple of days back, Miltown-based photog Troy Freund alerted me to a shopping event that y'all will likely have a keen interest in: Wisconsin Partners for SustainAbility's--that's right, the "A" is capitalized--Green Online Holiday Auction. Organized to benefit some worthy causes in South Central Wisconsin, including Dane County TimeBank, WYOU--mmm, nutty community access TV--and Community Groundworks at Troy Gardens, the auction is running right this minute and will remain open until the evening of December 6, 2009, exclusively on The Mighty Internets™.

They've got twenty-eight items up for bid in the Arts/Crafts category currently. One of the few listed as having the highly sought after, MasterCard tagline value of "Priceless" is Arnold Wood's Hamlet, proving once again that slapping a price on art is completely and totally subjective. Harlequin/Shakespeare/thespian art lovers, however, may well fall into a swoon by this assessment, making their mouse hand shake uncontrollably with excitement and adding many more zeros to their bid inadvertently. Do I hear a kagillion dollars? Sold!

There's lots of other categories--like food, coffee, jewelry, etc.--chock-full o' stuff and services donated by Wisco-owned businesses and companies, such as Troy's bid item of One Day of Commercial Photography, which, by the way, is also listed with a value of "Priceless", but we'll easily go along with that one.

Click here to find holiday gifts for your loved and liked ones. It's all for the good!

(Thanks, Troy!)

Comments

[Troy Freund]

Thanks so much, CricketToes! You're the best! :)

[Rick Brooks]

I agree! Thanks so much. Neat to see this story posted so positively here. Let's see if we can make the green online auction into a more viable strategy for promoting Wisconsin art as well as "green" items. Pretty soon I'll know better how to decide what's priceless and what's reasonable and possible. A lot depends on who's interested in the art. In the meantime, we're hoping someone's aesthetic judgment will encourage him or her to buy a Bokov, Wood or Freund. Learn as we go...

Again, many thanks!
Rick
Wisconsin Partners for SustainAbility