Remember last year’s great Lost Art Sale, where you could buy great art bargains? It was sort of a weird but ingenious set up. New and old art, out of a new model home . Last year they had free wine & chocolate,  cheap(er) art, and lots of it, without the whole gallery setting.

Well, it’s coming back, but with a new name — One SmART Gallery–  right here to the Near West End – to Grayson Hill in 3 show homes .  Art diva, Tyler Snidow explains in an email to artists:

Over the past 2 years, that nature of the sale has evolved away from a focus on home consignment (or Lost) art -  towards a focus almost exclusively on the sale of discounted work from regional artists clearing out their studios for whatever reason.  Here are some of the reasons past artists have showed with us:  testing a new style, exposure in a new market or for an emerging artist, practice work, demo sale, moving sale, student work, unframed work or studio clearance or whatever.

So…..artist, sort throught that stuff that’s not selling and pull it aside for the One SmART Gallery sale….or even better donate it to the Mary Munford Auction that is coming up in March at the Jewish Community Center.

Call for entry for artists to submit their art to The Lost Art/One SmART Gallery Sale is Dec. 1-Dec. 20th.  The Sale is February 27-March 7th (10a.m.-3p.m.) 

The Mary Munford Auction is March 21st, 2009.

Shoppers: both events are open to the public, and there will be updates on both events right here on the Near West End News, so stay tuned….