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01 The Art of Flowers
A year of beautiful and distinctive flower arrangements
Enjoy a fresh, elegant, fragrant presentation of flowers each month for a year created by Bellevue's leading florist, City Flowers, Inc. In business for over 18 years in Bellevue, City Flowers, Inc. was recently named Best Floral Designer by Seattle Magazine and Most Outrageous Floral Designer by KING 5 Television's Evening Magazine.
DONOR: City Flowers, Inc.
VALUE: $800
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02 IslandWood
2009 IslandWood Summer Family Adventure Camp
Bring your kids, grandkids, family or friends to IslandWood for an exciting weekend full of natural science, art and discovery. Share time outdoors as you laugh, play and learn together! Enjoy the quiet trails on IslandWood’s 255-acre campus while you explore its many diverse eco-systems. The pond, marsh and creative structures that are tucked away in the surrounding forest all hold exciting secrets that will be part of your outdoor experience.
Naturalist instructors will lead your family through activities including games, songs, crafts and nature hikes. Harvest and cook food from our organic garden with IslandWood’s expert chefs. Enjoy bonding with your family around the evening campfire, complete with s’mores and cocoa.
Each family will enjoy the privacy of a private room with full bath in one of IslandWood’s cozy lodges. You will leave feeling relaxed, refreshed and full of wonder! So join us for a weekend of fun-filled activities in one of IslandWood’s most popular programs!
Auction item is for four persons and must be scheduled by March 31, 2009, for a 2009 Summer Family Adventure Camp. Dates available on website by January 1, 2009 – www.islandwood.org. Contact Summer Program Registrar to schedule: 206.855.4305. Transportation to and from IslandWood not included.
DONOR: IslandWood
VALUE: $650 |
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03 Ron Ho
Klick, Klick, Klack and Authentic Chinese Hot Pot Dinner for Six at the Home of Artists Ron Ho and Peter Olsen
Mahjong tiles, old Chinese coin, plexiglass, with fabricated silver
Born in Hawaii in 1936, and raised by parents brought up in traditional Chinese customs, Ron Ho experienced from childhood the contrasts between adherence to old Chinese beliefs and the lure of the contemporary American lifestyle. Additionally, the cultural diversity of the Hawaiian ethnic landscape nourished the young artist's fascination for other cultures and their material expressions, which later became a relevant part of his artistic practice.
Ron Ho, jewelry artist (2006 Retrospective at Bellevue Arts Museum) and Peter Olsen, ceramic artist (2008 Neddy Nominee) will prepare a gourmet Chinese Hot Pot Dinner with special sauces for six people.
This delicious meal will be held at their home - a historical home designed by Paul Thiry, interiors by Jean Jongeward, and kitchen designed by George Suyama - which is filled with their collection of contemporary crafts and ethnic artifacts gathered on world travels.
Each party must agree upon a mutually convenient date. Please contact Bellevue Arts Museum to start arrangements.
DONOR: Ron Ho and Peter Olsen
VALUE: $1,200 and $600 |
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04 Sue Zell
Seated in Paradise
Charred Victorian chair with image of Klimt’s Adam and Eve. Hand-dyed velvet roses appliquéd on animal print fabric.
Sue’s love of furniture, fabric, color and whimsy comes together in her pieces that give any room a “wow.” She finds furniture with “good bones” and uses decoupage, overdyed vintage fabric, trim and a printed image to transform it into a moveable shrine of Klimt’s Adam and Eve.
DONOR: Sue Zell
VALUE: $1,600
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05 Wine Tasting and Art Party for Twelve
An evening with John and Joyce Price
Enjoy a memorable evening of art, wine, hors d’oeuvres, dinner and dessert. John and Joyce Price will welcome up to twelve guests into their beautiful home on Mercer Island. The evening will start with a tasting from their cellar which will emphasize Walla Walla Valley wines, including Leonetti and Cayuse vineyards. Accompanied by a variety of delicious hors d’oeuvres, you will settle in for John’s guided tour of art from several of their collections. The Inuit native art collection is one of the most extensive private collections in the world. An exhibition of “Life Abounds” from their Inuit collection was shown in 2005 at The Burke Museum. John, a board member of the Pilchuck Glass School, will also take you through their contemporary glass art collection. An exhibition from their glass art collection will open at the Bellevue Arts Museum in March 2010. You will see currently in progress, his organization of an exhibition by 19th Century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec for the Boise Art Museum. This is definitely an event to remember - a plethora of great art, wine and foods.
Each party must agree on a mutually convenient date. Please contact Bellevue Arts Museum to start the arrangements.
DONOR: John and Joyce Price
VALUE: $1,750 |
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06 Sherry Markovitz
Red Rose
Gouache on rice paper with collage of paper, glitter and ribbon
13” x 9 ½”
Sherry Markovitz: Shimmer, Paintings and Sculpture 1979-2007 on view at the Bellevue Arts Museum, displays 41 pieces comprised of 29 sculptural works and 12 paintings. Known for her evocative beaded assemblages, drawings and paintings, Markovitz intricately weaves through various themes and materials in her multi-dimensional work.
Markovitz’s works are featured in numerous public and private collections, including: The Corning Museum of Glass, NY; American Craft Museum, NY; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; Seattle City Light 1% for Art Collection; Junior League, Seattle; Seattle Art Museum; and Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA; among others.
DONOR: Sherry Markovitz and Greg Kucera
VALUE: $2,000 |
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07 Dinner at the Home of Michael and Bernadette Monroe
An evening with Bellevue Arts Museum Director Michael Monroe and his artist wife, Bernadette.
Enjoy a candlelight dinner and conversation seated at a table with candlestick holders, both designed and made by Albert Paley. Enjoy additional works by such artists as Dale Chihuly, Peter Voulkos, Jack Thompson, Thomas Hoadley, Dean Pulver, Maureen McCabe, Dante Marioni, Cynthia Schira and Bellevue artist Dina Barzel. See paintings by Bernadette and early examples by their son Ian Monroe, an artist based in London for the past six years. This experience is for six individuals.
Each party must agree on a mutually convenient date. Please contact Bellevue Arts Museum to start the arrangements.
DONOR: Michael and Bernadette Monroe
VALUE: Priceless
FAIR MARKET VALUE: $800
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08 Anna Skibska
An Extension of Keeping up with the Joneses with the Sun
10” x 14” x 12”
Cobalt Blue house made of glass rods and ribbons
Polish artist Anna Skibska’s Follow the Line: Path to Form exhibit now on view at the Bellevue Arts Museum from April 8 – September 21, 2008 is one of many awards and honors abound for Skibska. She has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in Japan, Germany, Italy, Poland and the USA and include major installations as diverse as Swedish Hospital Cancer Center, Seattle and Northwest Airlines in Chicago.
She produces skeins and matrices of glass that are so delicate that they seem other-worldly. Using nothing more than a small torch, tweezers and tiny rods of glass, Skibska produces work akin to architecturally formal three-dimensional glass drawings.
DONOR: Anna Skibska
VALUE: $3,000 |
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09 Jennifer Elek
Butchigiri, Pink with Orange and Black
21” x 18” x 9”
Blown glass, Pink, Orange and Black
Jennifer Elek is a glass artist who lives and works in Seattle. She has been working with several local artists such as Lino Tagliapietra, Dale Chihuly, Sonja Blomdahl, and Ginny Ruffner. For the past two years she has been working at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA as a gaffer, designer and teacher. She has also attended Pilchuck Glass School as a student and has also worked as a teacher’s assistant. Her pieces contain hand made elements that are signature to Elek’s design aesthetic.
DONOR: Jennifer Elek
VALUE: $3,500 |
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10 Lanny Bergner
Space Container
Charcoal aluminum screen, copper, wire, blue glass frit
Lanny Bergner transforms familiar materials like glass and sand into organic wall sculptures. The vibrant colors and fascinating textures of his work are testament to his love of the natural world and his desire to explore the infinite variety of forms in nature.
Bergner has dedicated the past twenty years to creating works through an unusual combination of materials. He coils, frays, twist, glues and knots, bronze, brass, aluminum and stainless steel screening into “other worldly” constructions. Within each piece he encloses coarsely ground brightly colored glass, allowing one to view, but not touch the glass within. Bergner’s careful manipulation of a typically rigid material, gives birth to a soft yet structurally sound form.
DONOR: Lanny Bergner
VALUE: $4,200 |
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11 Barbara Lee Smith
Across the Panel
28” x 37”
Painted, printed and stitched synthetic material. Hidden frame emphasizes floating quality and edges of the work. Work inspired by a walk by the marshes in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Skillfully acquainted with diverse techniques and media, Barbara Lee Smith paints, prints, fuses, and stitches together silk and synthetic materials to create elaborate and color-subdued mixed-media textiles predominantly inspired by the atmospheric and lyrical land and seascapes of the Puget Sound region. Eye-catching marks and sinuous strips of fabric encourage discovery of a surface laced with machine-stitched topographic contour lines and scattered fragments of maps.
Smith’s intricate works emphasize the deep link between the physical reality and beauty of place and the innate human desire to explore it, offering mediations on mankind’s impact on nature, and vice versa, on the impact on man of nature’s undomesticated beauty.
DONOR: Barbara Lee Smith
VALUE: $5,400 |
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12 Linda Gass
Wetlands Dream #2
30” x 30”
Quilted painting on Silk
Silk crepe de chine hand painted using remezol dyes and water based resist. Silk broadcloth backing and polyester batting. Machine quilted rayon and polyester embroidery thread.
Painted with silk dyes on whole silk cloth, Linda Gass’ quilts are aerial views of the San Francisco Bay. Mapping, for the California-based artist, is a way of documenting the human impact upon the landscape, with the maps appropriated to the suitable metaphor of the power struggle between human industry and the processes of nature. Inspired by the natural and seasonal changes of the land and by the unnatural concentrations of chemicals in the waters of the bay, the quilts’ colors are vivid and radiant, with blistering rashes of red and bracing blue and green, conjuring the impression of an abstract painting.
DONOR: Linda Gass
VALUE: $7,000 |
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13 Dante Marioni
White Reticello Acorn 2008
14.5” x 9”
White & Clear Reticello
Dante Marioni was born in California and comes from a family of artists. He began working with glass in 1979 at age 15, learning glassblowing in the studio directly from his father, Paul Marioni, and other artists including Dale Chihuly, Benjamin Moore and Lino Tagliapietra. Over many years, Marioni has become one of the most accomplished glassblowers in the United States. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is included in several notable collections, including the White House Collection of American Crafts, the Japanese National Museum of Craft, The Corning Museum of Glass and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He teaches and exhibits his work worldwide and lives in Seattle with his wife Alison and son, Lino.
DONOR: Dante and Alison Marioni
VALUE: $8,000 |
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14 Cappy Thompson
Precious Cargo
20.5” x 28.5”
Reverse painting on glass
Cappy Thompson is an internationally acclaimed Seattle artist known for her mytho-poetic narratives on glass using the grisaille (or gray-tonal) painting technique. Her pieces are included in museum, corporate and private collections world-wide. Her public commissions include a 33’ x 90’ curtain wall at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a 12’ x 15’ mural at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, triptych windows at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, Alabama and a 10’ by 60’ window for the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Cappy is a Trustee of the Bellevue Arts Museum.
The image depicts the artist sailing in a spirit canoe in the shape of a loon. A wind fills her sails and she carries precious cargo – jars of colors; the essence of earth, sky, fire, water and cloud leather.
DONOR: Cappy Thompson
VALUE: $8,000 |
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15 New York City Art Experience with Michael Monroe
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the richness of art, craft and design in New York City with Michael Monroe, Executive Director and Chief Curator at Bellevue Arts Museum. Michael will lead a group of up to eight guests on an exclusive art tour in Manhattan. Guests will view private homes of leading New York City craft collectors, innovative artist’s studios, galleries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as The Museum of Arts and Design in their stunning new and enlarged Museum on Columbus Circle.
Each party must agree on a mutually convenient date. Please contact Bellevue Arts Museum to start the arrangements. Roundtrip airfare, meals, transportation and lodging/hotel in New York City are not included.
DONOR: Bellevue Arts Museum
VALUE: Priceless
FAIR MARKET VALUE: $6,750
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16 Julie Speidel
Beldibi
18” x 10” x 10”
Bronze sculpture
Beldibi – Ancient site in Southwestern Turkey.
Julie Speidel’s sculptures are heavily influenced by her travels varying from the megaliths of the British Isles to the totemic Native American art of her home and birthplace, the Pacific Northwest. Speidel was born in Seattle and raised in the Pacific Northwest and Europe. She pursued her training in languages at the University of Grenoble, France and her art in Seattle at the Cornish Institute and the University of Washington. Speidel’s work is included in the collections of museums, universities, embassies, and private collectors.
DONOR: Julie Speidel
VALUE: $14,000
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17 Steve Jensen
Island Carving and Reception for Ten at Steve Jensen’s studio
96" tall
Carved naturally felled cedar tree and wine and cheese reception for up to ten people at Steve Jensen’s studio. Includes a studio tour.
For the past two decades, Steve Jensen has developed a body of sculptural work derived from his experiences and the landscapes he encounters. The experiences encompass both his heritage and a broader contemporary circumstance. The landscape is our seas, waterways, forests and mountains. The abundant beauty of the world’s available, natural resources and the precariousness of the relationship that we maintain with them, inspire Jensen. Jensen is the recipient of numerous awards including the Ned Behnke Leadership Award, Northwest A.I.D.S. Foundation (1995)
and PONCHO 2002 Artist Award. Major installations include Hekinan City Hall, Japan; Maple Lane School; Everett Events Center; City of Bend, Oregon and City of Seattle Courthouse.
Each party must agree upon a mutually convenient date. Please contact Bellevue Arts Museum to start the arrangements.
DONOR: Steve Jensen
VALUE: $8,000 |
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18 Pratt Fine Arts Center Experience
Bring your next party to Pratt Fine Arts Center and treat your friends to a custom-designed, hands-on creative experience. For a group of ten adults, we provide the space, the tools and the instruction. For four hours you and your friends will be guided through simple printmaking techniques and leave the evening with a finished print. No art experience is necessary, but come prepared to have an art making adventure!
DONOR: Pratt Fine Arts Center
VALUE: $600 |
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19 Carol Gouthro
Floris III
Ceramic, handbuilt and slip-cast clay with underglazes, glazes and lusters
Carol Gouthro, a graduate of the University of Manitoba art school in Canada, is a Seattle artist with over 30 years experience showing and teaching ceramics. Her work is well known both regionally and nationally and has been featured in many books and publications including American Craft, American Ceramics and the cover of Ceramics Monthly. She has an extensive exhibition record and just concluded a one person show at The Pacini Lubel Gallery here in Seattle. Her work is included in many collections including the Washington State Arts Commission, Key Bank Tower and University of Washington Medical Center collections.
DONOR: Carol Gouthro
VALUE: $1,500 |
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20 Lucy Feller
The Monkey House
16" x 24"
Digital C Print
Part of a series of 6 with a focus on ecology.
Lucy Feller uses digital photography to mix eras (and sometimes species) in work that is rich in layers and texture. Lush backgrounds provide the settings for narratives that take place on the high seas, in the woods and in the city. Narrative book included.
Lucy Feller developed a love for photography at a young age watching her father in his photo lab. The emergence process of seeing what the eye had captured through the lens fascinated her, and today’s technical choices of Photoshop have given her a sophisticated access to change, to color and to experiment. In her own words, “I am able to give an old photo a past and a new photo a presence.”
DONOR: Lucy Feller
VALUE: $1,800 |
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21 Del Webber
Fireflies
Basalt, bamboo, rattan
As a second generation rattan weaver Del Webber has been exposed to and influenced by numerous ethnic forms of weaving since an early age. Webber was born in 1951 and spent his childhood in Northern Africa, Spain and throughout the United States. He derives his knotting techniques from traditional Japanese and Native American basketry, wicker furniture, loom weaving, fly-tying and nautical knotting.
DONOR: Del Webber and Patricia Rovzar Gallery
VALUE: $2,500 |
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22 Ben Neubauer
Necklace with Spools, Spheres, and Bells
Sterling silver and 18K gold necklace
Portland jewelry artist and sculptor, Ben Neubauer, is a graduate of Oberlin College and Oregon College of Art and Craft, where he majored in metals and studied with Jan Baum and Christine Clark. While a student, he was awarded the Educational Endowment Scholarship from the Society of North American Goldsmiths, was a two-time finalist and a winner in the Student Niche Awards, was honored three times in the school’s Annual Juried Student Show, and received the school’s Annual Merit Award. His style is abstract, linear, and geometric, betraying an interest in natural and architectural form. Upon graduating from OCAC, Ben established a studio in Portland, Oregon. He exhibits at major craft shows nationwide, and his work is available through select galleries.
DONOR: Facere Jewelry Art Gallery
VALUE: $2,800 |
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23 Dean Pulver and Abby Salsbury
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Dean Pulver
Fauna
Walnut, dyed and painted
As a child of two cultures, Japanese and Anglo American, Dean Pulver’s interests in furniture making is drawn from the design aesthetics of chairs and their symbolism from diverse cultures and historical periods; notably Asia and Africa. Fauna, an excellent example of his work, is pictured in full color in the recently published book 500Chairs.
The winning bidder will receive a complimentary copy of the book signed and dated by the artist. Should the winning bidder find themselves in the Taos, New Mexico area, Dean will provide a tour of his studio as well as his wife Abby’s Salsbury’s ceramic studio name.
Born in 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pulver attended school at the Philadelphia College of Art in painting, metal and clay where he received his B.F.A in sculpture. It was not until 1989 that he chose wood as his one medium to focus on. Dean Pulver’s Memorial Bench, white oak and acrylic, is currently one of Bellevue Arts Museum’s featured objects located in the museum’s first floor Forum.
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Abby Salsbury
Tea Set
Earthenware, thrown, cast, hand-built and hand-brushed with glazes
Abby’s brightly colored eathernware Tea Set has been inspired by the intense colors of New Mexico. She applies strong sculptural shapes and forms to her cups, saucers, teapots, sugars and creamers. Her ceramic ware is fully functional and usable and contains no lead in their glazes. Her studio is called Butterpie Productions and is located outside of Taos, New Mexico. Abby earned her BFA Degree in Ceramics at the Philadelphia College of Art.
DONOR: Dean Pulver and Abby Salsbury
VALUE: $3,800
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24 Glassworks Experience
Glass Party for Ten
Gather your creative friends for a one-of-a-kind glassmaking experience! During this fun-filled adventure, you'll have the opportunity to make your own fused glass charger with guidance from Glassworks staff.
Glassworks combines the translucent properties of glass, the energy of design, and the focus of purpose to create one-of-a kind architectural works-of-art for commercial and residential settings. A unique approach to building that brings the beauty and tradition of fine glass-working to the form and function of practical application, Glassworks transforms the visions of architects and designers into technically sound art installations that surround the senses and invite the eye to linger and enjoy.
Make your own fused glass charger with guidance from Glassworks staff. Age restriction: 18+
Each party must agree on a mutually convenient date. Please contact Bellevue Arts Museum to start the arrangements.
DONOR: Glassworks, Inc.
VALUE: $3,000 |
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25 Lars Husby
Post Apocalyptic Old Crow's Nest Tower
5" x 5" x 23"
High fired glazed stoneware with overglazes on wood base
Post Apocalyptic Mardi Gras Confetti Mid-Rise
5.5" x 5.5" x 18"
Glazed underglazed, marbled earthenware with overglaze on wood base
Post Apocalyptic String Beads Lo-Rise
7" x 7" x 18"
High fired glazed stoneware on wood base
Lars Husby is a local ceramic artist and art instructor at Bellevue Community College. With his thought-provoking, textural ceramic pieces, he has won numerous awards and participated in more than 100 juried and invitational shows throughout the Northwest.
Husby’s City Block series is comprised of numerous individual pieces which, placed together, resemble the square grid of the city. The works were inspired by the artist’s reaction to two downtown Seattle skyscrapers whose architecture he felt was ugly and uninspired. City Block is Husby’s post-apocalyptic answer to the Modern and Post-Modern building style.
Donor: Lars Husby
Value: $1,900
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26 Karen Ovington
Finished length: 20"
Crocheted beads that form a rope embellished with lampworked glass beads, sterling silver clasp
Noted bead artist Karen Ovington invites us to experience the beauty of light dancing on glass. Based in Chicago, Ovington has exhibited extensively throughout the nation and has taught numerous workshops and seminars in lampworking, kilnwork, glass painting, and ancient techniques. Key shows include: "Outgrowth of the Glass Bead" Suburban Fine Arts in Highland Park, Illinois, "Gleaming Treasures" Contemporary Artifacts Gallery in Berea, Kentucky, "Contemporary Glass Beadmakers" Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, Massachusetts, "The Big Bead Show Facere Jewelry Art" in Seattle, Washington,
"Contemporary Art Glass Jewelry & Bead Show" Rockwell Museum, Corning N.Y., "Designer Showcase" Minds' Eye Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona and "American Craft Museum Bead Show" in New York, New York.
DONOR: Karen Ovington
VALUE: $425 |
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27 2008 Patron Party Label Wine by the Case
Support Bellevue Arts Museum by purchasing a case of 2008 Bellevue Arts Museum Patron Party Label Wine.
BELLEVUE ARTS MUSEUM VILLA TOSCANA
St Hilaire Cellars' celebrated winemaker, Joel Tefft, has handcrafted this Italian-style red blend. Joel travels to Italy for a month every year to study their winemaking, with the idea of developing wine using Central Washington grapes that is the equal of Italy's best. Bellevue Arts Museum Villa Toscana is a marriage of lush Sangiovese, bold Cabernet Sauvignon and a dollop of Nebbiolo from Joel's personal vineyard. It captures the fresh, youthful spirit of the great Chianti's of Italy.
BELLEVUE ARTS MUSEUM CHARDONNAY
This exclusive Chardonnay from St Hilaire Cellars is handcrafted by highly regarded winemaker, Joel Tefft, using grapes from the famous vineyards of Central Washington. It is crisp and fruity with richness and complexity featuring fresh, clean flavors and a wonderful finish.
Five cases are available.
DONOR: Bellevue Arts Museum
VALUE: $90 per case
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