ArtReach is having its annual fundraiser, Dine & D’art, at Mile High Station on Saturday. Co-chairs Lark Katchur and Joe McCormackhave planned an evening that builds to a grand finale when guests line up and dart for the photograph, painting, sculpture or piece of jewelry of their choice.

Each donated item has a $400 minimum value.

Denver-area artists that have contributed to the event include Peggy Atkinson, Tadd Moskal, Todd Reid, Eric Matelski, Scott Ramsay, Eddie Mize, Jennifer Yoswa and Janelle Anderson.

In addition, Daphyne Reiff will be given the 2012 Ginger Merelli Special Event Award. It is presented annually to a special event volunteer whose leadership, commitment, creativity, and passion for volunteering on special events, have made a long-term and indelible impact on a nonprofit organization. The late Ginger Merelli volunteered with ArtReach for 15 years, working on various fundraisers and serving on the agency’s board of directors.

Daphyne Reiff has had leadership roles in several area nonprofits, including ArtReach and Families First. The award carries a $1,000 stipend that will be donated to the charity of Reiff’s choice. Previous recipients areJamie Angelich, Jack and Rita Schuster, Ryta Sondergard, Marilyn Dana, Mary McNicholas and Susie Buckly.

Dine & D’Art tickets are $400 per couple and include dinner. They can be purchased at www.artreachdenver.org or by calling 303-433-2882, ext. 226. Dress is black-tie and tennis shoes.

Established in 1974, ArtReach provides access to experience arts and culture for people of all ages who
struggle with physical, mental and behavioral or severe economic challenges. ArtReach programs annually
serve more than 77,000 individuals and families in our community. ArtReach reaches disadvantaged people
through maintaining over 350 innovative, long-term partnerships between diverse art (local art agencies and businesses) and community agencies (social service agencies, public housing, long-term care facilities, parks and recreation departments, and schools). ArtReach is funded through local and state government and foundation grants, corporations, membership fees and individuals.

Joanne Davidson: 303-809-1314, jdavidson@denverpost.com andtwitter.com/GetItWrite

These were the limited art pieces that will be available at the show. We ended up giving out 300 free screen printed posters to people at the So-Gnar booth during Snowdown this past Thursday!

The artist’s being featured at Snowdown with So-Gnar are Dave Sheets, Steve Cummings, The Signtologist, Captain Safety, Pat Milbery, and Andrew Hoffman.

Otsego Club day 2 went off with a bang. With the weather warming up by the minute and campers well rested after a long firs day, it couldn’t get much better. Campers worked super hard during day 2 to really perfect the tricks they learned the day before. At the end of day two, So-Gnar put on a progression session for the campers allowing everyone to feed off each others energy and try/learn new tricks within minutes! Check out all the sweet pictures taken by Steve Cummings.

After a good nights rest from the powder day before, campers were back for more! With higher temps than the day before, campers grew more lively and kept the good energy high. After a good half day of perfecting new tricks, campers went in for an Evol Burrito lunch. After eating, it was time for the progression session. As a couple campers were practicing new tricks on the down box, Pat started a massive hand plant lesson getting almost every camper doing hand plants. Thanks to everyone who came out and made our last Midwest stop so memorable. Check out all the pictures taken by Steve Cummings.

It was awesome to see these artists working, I was so inspired I decided to make them gifts.

DAVID CHOE

SAM FLORES

HIGHRAFF

After seeing their amazing use of color I decided to use more color in my work created these full reflective street signs portraits.

If you don’t know you are about to know! January 26th at City Hall in Denver, CO its going down! It’s the official Snow Down SIA kick off party brought to you by Never Summer! Dilated Peoples will be crushing microphones and DJ’s such as Vajra and Ecto Cooler will be spinin the wax! Be sure to log on to www.snowdownsia.com to get your tickets now! So whats your favorite Dilated Peoples track? So-Gnar will be in the house with live street art and live Printing with Apollo Ink Printing!!

Day 1 of So-Gnar’s Mighty Midwest Snowboard Camp Tour started off fun but cold. At around 9:30 in the morning, campers and coaches headed out to the hill only to find out they basically had the whole place to themselves. The various groups ventured around the hill and got an idea of what Otsego had to offer with features. With 3 different terrain parks, campers of all ability levels were bound to find a couple new things to try and learn on. At 12:30, everyone headed into the lodge to warm up and to eat lunch provided by Evol Burritos and Red Bull. Throughout the rest of camp, the groups found features to session on and learned new tricks plus tips on tricks they already new. Check out all the pictures taken by Steve Cummings from day 1 of camp at the Otsego Club, Michigan.

For this year’s event, we had to come correct with the art yet again. For this year’s Snowdown event, we will be creating an Urban Street Art photobooth. In addition, we will be conducting live screen printing with Apolllo Ink. There will be 6 artist’s involved with this event: Andrew Hoffman, The Signtologist, Captain Safety (So-Gnar), Dave Sheets, Steve Cummings, and Pat Milbery (So-Gnar). Each artist will get a puzzle piece shape. It’s up to them to fill their puzzle piece with any art of their choosing.  Those 6 puzzle pieces assemble into one comprehesive design.  These limited 6 solo-artist designs and the one comprehensive design will be screened and available courtesy of our friends at Apollo Ink at Snowdown!

POSTERS ARE FREE! They are available as a gift from So-Gnar to anyone in attendance at Snowdown. Quantities will be limited, so be sure to pick up your ticket soon. The first 50 people to the So-Gnar booth can get their hands on a freescreen printed poster.

The Puzzle Piece Art Project will take place at Snowdown SIA on Jan 26, 2011 at City Hall in Denver

So-Gnar Planning Live Screen Printing Project at SIA After Party