5th Annual Celebrity Art Auction
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Celebrity Art Auction link is Live April 15-18.
Actor Kristoffer Polaha, and new board member, invited his friends to create art as a fundraiser for World Water Day in 2016, and #ArtInAction has become an annual event. This year Bryce Dallas Howard, Scott Haze, Mamoudou Athie, Kristoffer Polaha, Stana Katic, Jill Wagner, Shiri Appleby, Britt Robertson, Jensen Ackles, Rainn Wilson, Austin Basis, and Reggie Austin are participating! Pictures of the artwork will be available on April 15.
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access the auction
It's free to create a 32auction account. You can view items without, but you need an account to bid. NOTE: Please allow 60 days before your art ships due to actors' schedules and covid-19 shipping delays.
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other ways to support
If artwork is out of your budget, you can donate in honor of an actor at www.herartsinaction.org/shop. If you donate on 32auctions, you can't select an in honor of. Or you can purchase a copy of Nanou's Promise or the audio-video of Kristoffer Polaha reading the book (available soon).
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fund use
We hope to raise $25,000 to build a water well and latrines, purchase a machine for the women, and raise a building. Additional funds are for scholarships and school supplies for girls in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone and art supplies in MN.
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history
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Actor Kristoffer Polaha invited his acting friends to create paintings as a fundraiser for World Water Day in 2016. We held an online auction of the artworks created by Austin Basis, Christopher Backus, Kristoffer Polaha, Mira Sorvino, Paul Sorvino, Rainn Wilson, Shiri Appleby, and Stana Katic. The first event raised over $10,000! And thus, #ArtInAction has become an annual event in honor of World Water Day.
Since then, many celebrities have returned (and more than once), plus Melora Walters and Michael Rosenbaum joined in the fun. In 2020 we didn't have an auction because of Covid-19. |
polaha service award
This award is for people who give their time, service, and finances to social causes for the greater good, not because it's a job. The award honors Kristoffer Polaha, who didn't need to reply to our tweet in 2015 but did and wanted to use his platform to help us with our goals. He and his actor friends put art into action and have helped raise over $15,000 in 4 years.
2019 winners: Diane and Britt Casey 2018 winners: Donna and Jeff Fromm |
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