FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OLD CHAIRS BECOME WORKS OF ART AT
“HAVE A SEAT” CHAIR AUCTION & STROLLING DINNER
NOVEMBER 10
This event commemorates the
100th anniversary of Marygrove and its predecessor,
“Have A Seat” guests will
stroll through Madame Cadillac Hall, enjoying a variety of foods and beverages,
great entertainment by students and alumni, while bidding on 60 clever,
creative and avante garde works of art during the silent and live auction. Smooth Jazz V98.7 radio personality Sandy
Kovach will emcee the live auction.
President Dr. Glenda Price
said, “The entire Marygrove community is grateful to our chair artists whose
love of Marygrove is beautifully expressed in their donation of time, talent
and inspiration. Our students, today and
tomorrow, will be the ones who will really benefit from their creativity. We welcome the Metro Detroit community to
view and bid on these great original works of art for their homes.”
In Fall 2004, Dr. Price challenged the creativity of
faculty, students, alumni and local artists to come up with a way to add value
to these plain brown chairs for the owner and the College. Some of these chairs date back to Marygrove’s
opening in 1927 and were manufactured by High Point Bending and Chair Co. of
Among the art pieces are “My
Love” by local designer and Marygrove Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters,
Dominic Pangborn; the Smooth JazzFest 2005 Artist Chair by Smooth Jazz V98.7;
and Mexicaniconism by Nora Chapa Mendoza.
The pieces are as varied in theme as the artists who submitted them. Several of the chairs are on display in Metro
Detroit: In Downtown Birmingham, at Au
Chocolat, Labelle Provence, Imelda’s Closet, Oliver’s and Art Loft; and in
Detroit at the Children’s Museum.
A sampling of the chairs is
available at www.marygrove.edu/HaveASeat
where an online auction is taking place till noon on October 25. The event is sponsored by Compuware
Corporation and Plunkett & Cooney, P.C., as benefactors and Butzel Long,
St. John Health, the Callahan Family and the Lynch Family.
For more information or to
register for the “Have A Seat” Chair Auction and Strolling Dinner, contact
Rebecca Sellers, 313-927-1445 or rsellers@marygrove.edu.
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