All Decks on Hand- Auction for Autism

Hi everyone,

I wanted to let you all know about a very cool art exhibit/fundraiser happening right now!! SARRC’s Vocational and Life Skills Academy has gotten together with After Hours Gallery for this amazingly creative and community oriented fundraiser. The exhibit opened live on November 6th and all the skateboard decks are now on-line while the auction continues through December 4th. All the decks have been painted or otherwise customized with amazing detail. Go to the on-line auction site now to check out all the decks and place your bid. You can read below for more details about the auction.

On-Line Auction

Auction Details
“All Decks on Hand is a skateboard deck art auction to raise money for autism research. The show is a collaboration by After Hours Gallery, the Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center, and nearly 200 artists.

These 200 artists are from across the country, Canada, United Kingdom and Arizona and have created custom, one-of-a-kind works of art on skateboard decks and donated their works to After Hours Gallery. The gallery will exhibit the boards and auction them off November 6 through December 4, 2009.

One hundred percent of the proceeds from the auction of the skateboard decks will benefit SARRC’s Vocational & Life Skills Academy.

Bidding on the decks will start November 6th in-person. On November 7th, the bidding starts online. The final art auction takes place on First Friday of December 4th at 8 p.m. at After Hours Gallery.

Blank, wooden skateboard decks were provided to the artists, including participants from the Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center’s (SARRC) Autism Artisans program. The artists then painted, decorated or otherwise covered the deck in art. The artwork styles range from paintings, and mosaics, to photographs, and more.”