DEC 4th & 5th: CoCA Art Marathon & Auction

Who: CoCA
What: 17th Annual Art Marathon (24 hours) & Auction
When: Dec 4th- Art Marathon (open to the public), Dec 5th, 6pm - Art Auction
Rated: PG
How: Tickets ($10) available at the door.

Description:
The venerable arts non-profit Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) will hold its 17th annual Art Marathon and Auction December 4 and 5 at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center, a restored church on 4272 Fremont Ave N. CoCA pioneered the concept of the ‘endurance’ art event beginning in 1992 and has gradually opened the Marathon to include a variety of media in addition to the usual painting. The event remains the region’s only 24-hour extravaganza, a spectacle that over the years has come to define CoCA’s edgy mix of emerging and established artists. For 24 hours, from 9am Friday to 9am Saturday, 20 artists are locked in a room with nothing but their art supplies. Sure, we bring in a trough of gruel and a barrel of grog every so often, but the art is what it’s all about. Drawing, Painting, Sculpting, Hot Waxing (Encaustic), Photographing, Video-Taping, Versifying, Editing, and who knows what for sure. Over 100 works of art will be spontaneously created, with some of the artists engaging in impromptu collaborations and improvisations with each other’s materials All we know is that when they’re all done, we scoop it all up, put numbers and labels on it, catalog it, and then auction it off some nine hours later. Proceeds are split between the artists and CoCA.

The 2009 lineup features artists from Seattle, Portland, Camano Island, Poulsbo, Pasco, and elsewhere: Marc Lindsay, Patti Bowman, Seb Barnett, Geoff Garza, Lorna Nakell, Wesley Wozniak, Irene Wood, Aaron Huey, Pedro De Valdivia, Aaron Haba, Sylwia Tur, William Brody, Thomas Hurley III, Miguel Edwards, Waldo Vega, Zak Alexander, Sean Hurley, David Francis, Craig Vandenbosch, and Adam Spencer.

You, too, can be a part of this pandemonium. Come down to the Fremont Abbey on Friday and watch the artists make art. Then come back at 6pm on Saturday night and buy it at three silent auctions followed by a live auction.. It’s that simple. We’ll give you some gruel too, although you’ll have to buy the grog from us (it IS a fund-raiser, after all). Tickets start at $25 for the Saturday portion; Friday’s 24 hour insanity is, of course, free of charge; for more information, see www.cocaseattle.org.