Refresher Course

If You Go

freshART
Sunday, September 11, 4-8 p.m. 
Behringer-Crawford Museum
1600 Montague Road, Devou Park

Tickets are $75. Order now or
call (859) 491-4003.

Event includes cocktails and hors d'oeuvre followed by a live auction.

The Behringer-Crawford Museum opened in 1950 with a life-sized stuffed black bear, a two-headed calf, and other “curiosities.” In the following decades, the museum has become a center of both local history and arts education.

This Sunday, the museum celebrates learning, loving, creating and collecting art in Northern Kentucky with their annual fundraiser freshART, a party and art auction of “fresh” art created en plein air by dozens of artists in Devou Park the previous week. 

A portion of the sale price of each piece goes to the artist, with the balance donated to the museum, benefiting area children through BCM’s educational programs.

Submitted freshART works were judged by a panel of experts, with $1000 in cash prizes awarded to the first, second, and third-place entries by the William & Patricia Applegate Fund.

The afternoon includes cocktails and hors d'oeuvres from Funky's Catering along with music by violinist Preston Bell Charles III. John Lomax, retired LOCAL 12 news anchor, is the emcee and H. David Wallace, CEO and chairman of the board of Heritage Bank, will conduct the auction.

If you are unable to attend the event, there is a “silentART” option currently underway. View previously completed artwork by dozens of local artists and bid online  or use QR codes in the galleries. The silentART auction will close September 11 at 8:15 p.m.

Since freshART began in 1992, over $950,000 has been raised, bringing educational and cultural activities to more than 275,000 Northern Kentucky children.