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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 11, 2005
Contact:
, Austin Public Library, (512) 974-7528
Fax: (512) 974-7442
“TEXAS TALES: PULL UP A CHAIR AND SIT A SPELL” SILENT AUCTION PREVIEW EXHIBITION AND
RECEPTION
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Austin Public Library Foundation Presents a Silent Auction Preview Exhibition of Unique Chairs Created By
Austin Artists, Architects and Designers
Austin, TX—This year’s fund raiser for the Austin Public Library Foundation is called “Texas
Tales: Pull Up a Chair and Sit a Spell.” Austin-area artists, architects and designers have embellished and/or altered wooden
library chairs and created other unique chairs for a silent auction to benefit the Austin Public Library Foundation and Friends of the
Austin Public Library.
A preview exhibition of the chairs will be held at Austin City Hall, Sept. 1-9, 2005;
with an opening reception and preview party on Thursday, Sept. 1st, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. The exhibition and reception
will take place on the 1st floor of City Hall, in the future City Hall Store. The entrance to the exhibition space is
on 2nd Street, at the southeast corner of 2nd and Guadalupe Streets. The trio Latin at Heart will provide live music for the
reception, and refreshments will be provided by 7 restaurant. Tickets to the September 13th Texas Tales fundraiser will be for sale,
and the opportunity to pre-bid on chairs will be available. Chairs will be auctioned at the Austin Public Library Foundation's 2005 fund raiser, Texas Tales: Pull Up a Chair and Sit a Spell on September 13.
In addition to the chairs exhibited at City Hall, a selection of chairs created for Texas Tales will be on
display at the Scarborough Building, 101 W. 6th St., in the window facing 6th Street and in the lobby display cases.
The Scarborough Building display begins on August 22nd and continues through September 12th.
Damian Priour
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Artists participating in the auction are*:
Rene Alvarado
Sylvia Betts
Sinclair Black
Katherine Brimberry
Carol Cohen Burton
Sunyong Chung
Ellen Gibbs
Ambray Gonzales
Michael Guarino
Bobby Hamric
Handwire Design
Jan Heaton
Amelia Jones
Will Larson
Chris Levack
Dan Lynch
Maline McCalla
Freddie McCoo
Hillary McMahan
Elvia Perrin
Damian Priour
Deborah Roberts
Margo Sawyer
Nancy Scanlan
Penny Van Horn
Mo Scollan & Peter Dick
Lynne Storm
Fritz Steiner
Susan Wallace
Bob Wade
Phillip Wade
Studio H & L
John Whipple
Anne Elizabeth Wynn & Quality Quinn
Michael Yates
About the Austin Public Library Foundation
The Austin Public Library Foundation works to increase awareness about the Library and its importance to
the community, and raises funds for programs, equipment, and holdings that would otherwise be out of the Library’s reach. The Austin
Public Library Foundation receives major project support from Applied Materials, the Austin Project, Bingo Books, the Dell Foundation,
the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation,
H-E-B, The Junior League of Austin, KGSR, Mervyn’s, the SBC Foundation, Scholastic Inc., Seabrook TV, Texas Gas Service, Texas
Monthly, the Topfer Family Foundation, and Whitepages.com.
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