The Center for Patient Partnerships
If the Shoe Fits...
Our annual novelty shoe auction is our major fundraising event
October 12th, 2006, was a chilly fall evening but the weather was no match for the warm souls that gathered for the 3rd annual "If the Shoe Fits" auction to benefit the Center for Patient Partnerships. More than 200 people gathered in the elegant Grand Hall of the Meriter Retirement Community and bid generously on 18 shoes transformed by artists from across the nation into unique, fabulous works of art. The event was a resounding success, raising a total of nearly $50,000 on the shoes and our exceptional silent auction items. With generous matching pledges, the event raised just over $139,000 which, because of the extraordinary sponsorship of FAMOUS FOOTWEAR, will go entirely to providing advocacy services to people with life-threatening and seriouc chronic illnesses. A big thank-you to all who sponsored, attended, bid high, made shoes, volunteered at the event and to the Shoe Gals themselves, whose wild ideas and unbridled enthusiasm is as fun as it is successful! The talk of Madison's fu ndraising community, "If the Shoe Fits...4" is already in the works and promises to be even more fun!
Below are only a few of the many creative shoe designs sold at auction this year!
Picasshoe
by Mary Alice Wimmer
Mary Alice Wimmer was born in Santa Monica, California. She studied for one year at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee and then spent three years at St. Mary of the Woods College in Indiana. She recieved her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied printmaking with Alfred Sessler. Ms. Wimmer is currently professor of art at the University of Wisconsin, Rock County College and shows at the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee and Chosy Gallery in Madison. She describes her piece "Picasshoe" as a rift on Cubism.
Checkmate
by Holly Peck
In addition to making art, seventh grader Holly Peck is an accomplished gymnast. She is a native of the British Isles. She lives in Madison with her parents, but the family is spending the year in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Ms. Peck's whimsical design offers the best of any game lover's worlds: Chess on one side, and Checkers on the other.
Shoe|Box
by Mary Michaud
Mary Michaud is the Director of Evaluation and Policy for the Center and also an accomplished Madison artist with a special interest in paper arts. This interest was kindled during a year as a Henry Luce Scholar in Asia, the cradle of paper arts. Most recently, she completed training in the ancient tradition of paper marbling. Ms. Michaud's art reflects a deep interest in the ways people relate to their environment. She repeats steps passed down since antiquity, using fibers to create material on which to write, draw, or letterpress. She joins hands with a long line of craftspeople who have transformed materials of earth into functional, ornamental forms.
White Jewels
by Mark Evans
Mr. Evans graduated from Indiana University in 1973 with a Fine Arts major, specializing in graphic design and architecture. His subsequent career concentrated on extensive display and advertising design. Mr. Evans formed Evans and Brown with Charley Brown after a study of trompe l'oeil and other decorative arts in Italy. Currently, he is a designer of a successful line of wall covering for RJF International. This work can be seen from the new Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas to the Cathedral of Angels in Los Angeles.
Novak Interplanetary Explorer
by Ray Franklin
Mr. Franklin is a long-time Wisconsin resident who has been active in creative pursuits for over 20 years. His aesthetic fascination yields an odd balance of the ethereal and the earthly.
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