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Sunflowers of Solidarity II Benefit Online Art Auction
Launch - Monday, December 5, 2022 @ 7PM CST (8PM EST)
Closing - Saturday, December 10, 2022 @ 8PM CST (9PM EST)
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ALL BIDDING will be conducted through your own mobile device.
All winning bids MUST be paid with credit card.
All credit card purchases will be charged the standard 3.63% CC fee.
ALL BIDS will begin at $50USD and increase in $10 increments.
Beginning BIDS for Ukrainian artifacts will vary from $20 to $50 and increase in $10 increments.
DELIVERY/SHIPPING OF ART - If you win an artwork, you will be charged the cost of your bid at checkout. If you live in the Western New York or Chicago area, we will try to deliver the art to your home instead of shipping within a few days after the auction closing. We will send a confirmation via email. All other art will need to be shipped. Your art will ship out the following week. Shipping will be a separate charge on your credit card and processed as a second transaction.
Inspiration & Support for Ukraine
To date, we have over 40 participating artists who have committed to creating and donating an artwork to our auction and our line-up continues to grow! For SOS II, the Call for Work had an expanded scope beyond just containing the sunflower. Artists have been invited to submit art of all genre/media/content/dimensions. Additionally, we will have a separate category of authentic Ukrainian artifacts to bid on including pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs), gerdany (beaded work) embroidery, woodwork and more!
While the sunflower has long been Ukraine’s national flower, since the start of the war, it has become a symbol of solidarity, resilience, and resistance. As in our first auction, artists may play with and explore the sunflower as their subject matter and its layered symbolism but is not a prerequisite for participation.
100% of the proceeds will be donated to The Humanitarian and Self Defense Funds of the Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation (UAFF). Funds raised will go towards the procurement of generators, portable stoves, tourniquets, volunteer transport vehicles, and Motorola radios.
At our first Sunflowers of Solidarity Benefit Art Auction, over 90 artists donated over 100 artworks to raise $36,00 towards the manufacturing of Individual First Aid Kits which cost $100 each. The contents of this IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit) are the difference between life and death for our Ukrainian soldiers fighting to protect their country, families and freedom. We were able to support the manufacturing of 360 of these kits.
Participating Artists
Here's our line-up:
Rene Arceo
Sean Archer
Jaqueline Baez
Jozef Bajus
Brendan Bannon
Mary Begley
Olenka Bodnarskyj
Karen Carlton
John Carocci
Cindi Cherko O’Mara
Tanya Chutko
Allison Cihiwsky
Elena Diadenko
Zina Dmytrijuk Kunko
Diane DuBois Mullaly
Mary Ellement
Marta Sofia Freiser
DB Gerlach
Irene Grassman
Kelly Hackett
Lesha Jacyszyn
Jo Ann Jarmusz
Lawrence Kinney
Lida Kostyniuk
Lesia Kozicky
Catherine Linder Spencer
Larysa Martyniuk
Candace Masters
Nan Morrison
Mary Joy Murphy
Robbie Namy
Michael I Niman
Cassandra Ott
mmpanas
Matthew Daniel Price
Laura Rankin
Katherine Sehr
Lauren Silinsky
Nigel Smith
Tatiana Storie
Barbara Strzepka
Andrea Wenglowksyj
Alice Whealin
Lee Williams/Pugbully Studio