Here are some photos from Party at the Park–Set the Table for SAM, the fundraiser for Seattle Art Museum at the Sculpture Park I participated in last week. I was very happy with the way my table turned out. It was very nice to be included with some big names in the art scene along with a bunch of emerging artists. Here’s the way the program read: Tamara Codor, Claire Cowie, Chris Engman and Chauney Peck, Troy Gua, Alfred Harris, Victoria Haven, Luke Hayes, Joy and Reffry, Cameron Anne Mason, Joe McDonnell, Nicholas Nyland, Joe Park, George Rodriguez, Ginny Ruffner, Carolina Silva, Maki Tamura, Trimpin, Joey Veltkamp, and Claude Zervas and Leo Berk.

the table set and ready for dinner

The museum handled all the details very well and certainly made me, as an artist, feel appreciated. As participants we got to go to the event with delicious food, a full bar, music and a lovely view, not to mention valet parking. Our dinner was cooked by Renee Erickson of Boat Street Cafe and the Walrus and Carpenter (which we love and which just got a fabulous review in the NY Times). We had dinner with some uber rich folks who were also very nice. It was great to meet a lot of these artists and to reconnect with the ones I already knew. Alan and I really enjoyed hanging out with Trimpin. He is just as quirky and charming as you’d imagine and we hung out with him and his wife Cheryl for a while. He had this very amusing tribute to Liberace as his theme which included a “baby grand piano” and musical champagne glasses which he controlled using an app on his itouch.

Trimpin's Liberace table

It’s not the kind of party we usually attend, much more hoi polloi than our usual bbq crowd but it was really fun and not stuffy at all. It was a chance to both rub elbows with the rich and famous and hang out with a bunch of artists with access to an open bar. I would definitely do it again next year if they ask me.

I think Alan had a good time, too.