An evening of beautiful gallery-displayed art, wine and both silent and live auctions await art show lovers on Friday night.
Sounds like a ritzy affair doesn’t it? A show full of abstract pieces created by foreign artists with unpronounceable names.
Wrong! The 5th Annual Children’s Art Show and Auction is all about fun with friends while celebrating the artistic genius of today’s children.

This particular show is only open for one night and is made up of art from 90 children, ranging in age from an infant to 11-year-olds who attend daycare or after-school care at the Co-op Family Center located in the Spencer View Housing Unit.
“It’s a big event and it’s over fast,” said Co-op Family Center Co-director Alisa Stull.
All of the pieces will be set up in professional gallery style in the Spencer View Community Room located at 2250 Patterson Street. The art show and the auctions will be taking place from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
With admission every adult gets two glasses of wine and a free raffle ticket for a gift basket full of goodies and dinner. There will also be cheese and crackers for snacking during the event.
Featured in the show will be work done by the six classrooms at the Center, which includes studies done on owls and airplanes, extensive tile-based mosaics, hanging stained glass and fused glass.
Since the Co-op Family Center received a grant from Lane County for the children to create a tile mosaic for their playground, many of the pieces in the show will involve tiles that are handmade and glazed by the children.
“Mosaic tile work has been going on in every room and approached in an age appropriate way,” said studio art teacher and art coordinator Alison McNair.
These pieces range from full-on mixed-media mosaic portraits of people done by the older children to three-piece works that feature airplanes flying through the sky by younger ones.
For the study on owls, the children were invited to the Cascades Raptor Center in Eugene to observe them for their artwork. Some of the drawings of owls showcased were done live at the Raptor Center so that the children could gain their inspiration from the actual animals. Other pieces that feature owls include mixed-media mosaics, paintings and paper cutout designs.
Both the hanging stained glass and the fused glass pieces done by the kids were inspired by John Rose’s stained glass artwork located in the upper windows of the Family Center. They studied his pieces to learn how to use simple shapes and colors to create glass artwork. Under the supervision of adults, the children learned how to sauter together their own stained glass pieces with copper foil.
The silent auction includes more than 75 donations from the local community and the live auction offers many items including six handmade pieces of art, each made by a classroom at the Co-op Family Center, a two-night stay at a McKenzie River cabin and a Tactics Boardsports skateboard, helmet and lessons provided by Nikki Brown.
Since there will be alcohol, this is meant to be an “adult only” event, but free child-care is available for families who belong to the Co-op Family Center.
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