Sandra Luckett
“Global Warming”

yarn, plastic globe armature
estimated retail value: $500.

Sandra Luckett exhibited at 1708 with collective she co-founded in 2008:
The Squirrelly Girls-Squirrel-O-Rama.
She was a participant in 1708's Wearable Art in 2002,
Small Works 2005 and our millennial project
"Counting Cards" in 2000.
Sandra selected as a Rising Visions artist
in 2002, has been a recipient of the
Theresa Pollak Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Sara Clark

"Full Circle"

Oil paint on recycled globe armature

estimated retail value: $300.

Sara has been involved with 1708 Gallery for over 15 years. First as a graduate student intern, then as a Board Member, and now as an Emeritus Member. While on the Board, she was involved in a variety of committees and served on the annual auction committee, partcipated in Go Fish!, and was elected Secretary to the Board. She presented a body of work in her show "After Math" prior to her election to Emeritus status

Clark is a recipient of a Professional Fellowship Award for painting from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Sara maintains an active studio and is Affiliate Graduate Faculty at VCU and Faculty at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School. Her most recent exhibitions include Contemporary Virginia Painters at Rawls Museum Arts and Mary Washington University; and, Peninsula Fine Arts Center Biennial 2008. Her works are in multiple public collections including Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Capital One, and Markel Service, Inc.

Harry Kollatz, Jr.
"Pathfinder"*
permanent marker, fedora
estimated retail value: $300.

*includes a presentation of the history
and origins of the Monument Avenue Sculptures
for the organization of your choice

Harry Kollatz, Jr has written numerous features on 1708 exhibitions and
interviewed numerous 1708 Artists and staff since 1993.
He is a noted author, the senior writer for Richmond Magazine,
a c0-founder of the Firehouse Theatre Project. Harry
was the emcee for 1708' Wearable Art
Event for several years, co-produced "Venus Rising"
at 1708 in 1999 and has in general, been the man in
the fedora at art openings for at least half
the gallery's existence.

Michael Pierce
"Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits all around the world"

oil pastels, graphite, and wax on gessoed plastic
estimated retail value: $500

"I was a 1708 artist member for 5 years in the late 80s (from 1986 - 1991) and on the executive committee for a couple of years. We were still in the Bottom and there was always a struggle with funding to stay open along with the mammoth efforts that went into keeping the gallery running day-to-day, including such things as cleaning out the gallery from the floods we used to have. It was also during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and in 1989 Lauri Crow and I organized the community's first "Day without Art" event to recognize the many artists we were losing from AIDS (we took all of the art out of the gallery and instead showed a few panels from the AIDS quilt and - and just let people come by and write about their losses.) It was a sad time watching many of our young artist peers dwindle and die. But we showed some great art during that time - sometimes we were responding to the various political and social crises around us and sometimes we just wanted to show people things they'd never seen before just to enlighten and/or amuse them. "

Ronnie Sampson
"Studio time - In a world of my own"
Acrylic and lacquer
Retail Price: $300

Eleanor Rufty

"SKETCHBOOK"

charcoal, acrylic gesso,
matte acrylic paint, wax

1708 Gallery has been part of Eleanor Rufty's world for thirty years. Richard Carlyon, her
husband, was one of the founding members of 1708. She has witnessed the evolution
of the organization as well as been an exhibiting artist in a number of exhibition seasons,
and annual fund-raisers.

Gregg Carbo
"Untitled:
plastic globe armature

Susanne K. Arnold
"Planet of Dreams"
encaustic

estimated retail value: $500.

Susanne Arnold joined the 1708 Gallery Board of Directors in
1985. She served on the executive and exhibition committees for
many years. She is currently an emeritus member of 1708.