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Art Auction Casa de los Angeles benefit Fri, July 3, 6:30pm  Café courtyard Fábrica La Aurora

Art for Angels sake, again!
By Kay Miller

This month’s Art Walk at the Aurora includes a fun and fanciful fundraiser for Casa de los Angeles, a San Miguel nonprofit which provides childcare and other support to working Mexican women. Last year’s auction of artist-embellished wooden rocking chairs brought hundreds of residents and visitors to bid on the unique pieces. It raised almost 30,000 pesos. This event is fast becoming one of San Miguel’s best-loved and well-attended events for the benefit of Casa de los Angeles.

This year’s event features 30 “functional art” objects ranging from whimsical rocking horses, elaborate chests or trunks, small tables perfect as telephone stands or end tables, wooden room dividers and a variety of other items and surprises. Several rocking chairs from the 2008 auction, generously bought and donated back to Casa de los Angeles, also will also be available for auction.

The evening of the auction promises to be a gala event with well-known San Miguel artist and personality, Anado McLaughlin hosting the live auction. A talented and lively local troubadour ensemble, Tuna Tradicional, will entertain. Appetizers prepared by moms and volunteers from Casa de los Angeles will be served in the interior courtyard along with a cash bar for wine and beer.

How to bid: Items have an established “gallery price”, and silent auction bidding can be done either online or in Fábrica galleries. To view and bid for completed art objects online, go to the Casa de los Angeles website http://casadelosangeles.org. Click on “Recent News” and follow the link to the auction page. Online bids will be posted daily on the website. Online bidding continues until Thursday, July 2 at 6pm, the day before the live auction.

Preview items after June 15 at select galleries at Fábrica Aurora. All items that have not received a full gallery price silent bid go under the hammer at the live auction.

Silent auction bids can be made throughout the Art Walk (5–7pm); the live auction begins at 6:30pm in the interior café courtyard. 

Casa de los Angeles is a community of caring people who gather to nurture children, treating each person with dignity and respect as they work to make a better life for themselves. It began as a free daycare center in the heart of San Miguel on September 18, 2000 and continues as a safe haven for children whose mothers come from the outskirts of town to work. Often these children were being left home alone before this center was established.

Casa de los Angeles has now grown into a community center where mothers find assistance with medical care, clothing distribution, scholarship opportunities, transitional housing, summer camp, food bank—all within a relationship of mutual support.


Kay Miller is a Casa de los Angeles volunteer