Date: Nov 08, 08
Time: 9:00 am

Presented by: Brevard Cultural Alliance

Event Location:
One Air Terminal Pkwy, Suite 220
Melbourne FL 32901-1888

Event Contact: Shellie Williams or Amanda Beikmann
Phone: 321-690-6817
Email: info@artsbrevard.org
Website: www.artsbrevard.org

Description:
The first event to benefit the newly established Fund for Arts in Brevard (FAB) will be held November 8, 2008 at the Melbourne International Airport.

Beginning Saturday morning November 8, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, “A FABulous Affair, Art Appraisal and Auction” will kick off with an Appraisal Fair and Silent Auction held throughout the airport’s main entrance and atrium. The public is invited to bring their fine art, estate jewelry, antiques and collectibles for an appraisal at the nominal fee of $10 per item or $25 for three items per person. Once appraised, the public may cash in on their treasurers by entering their art, antiques, collectibles and estate jewelry into the Live Auction with a 20% commission of the total sale price benefiting the Fund for Arts in Brevard.

An Art Auction Preview with cash bar and hors d’oeuvres in the Airport Atrium will be held from 3:00 – 5:00PM. Guests may view works of art donated by the late artist John Van Dyke from his personal collection, along with donated works from local artists that will be put up for auction. Barnes & Noble will have books for sale and a book signing will also be held during the event featuring the books of three of the professional appraisers.

The live auction will be held at 5:00 PM and will feature antiques, fine art and collectibles.

Featured Professional Appraisers include:
Robin Varnes Braswell, ISA AM, Brevard County, specializing in antiques and art with a focus on Florida artists, is consulting with the Brevard Cultural Alliance to bring the event to Brevard.

Vicky Nash Shaw, ISA AM, from North Carolina, is a generalist antiques appraiser and also specializes in Asian and American ceramics, pottery and American silver.

Dana Holland-Beickert, ISA AM, from Tennessee, specializes in fine art.

Jeanenne Bell, G.G. from Alabama, specializes in antique, estate, and collectable jewelry.

Leon Castner, ISA CAPP, AAA, from Pennsylvania, and Brian G. Kathenes, ISA CAPP, from New Jersey will be available to appraise collectibles, figurines, documents and autographs.

Castner was featured in an ABC 20/20 Special on Estate Auction Fraud and is a columnist for many magazines and papers including Renaissance Magazine. He co-hosts a weekly radio show with Kathenes on WRNJ in New Jersey about antiques and collectibles called Value This with Brian and Leon. They have published a book (Oct. 2007) titled, “Betcha’ Didn’t Know That,” providing “101 Tips on Antiques and Collectibles” for the average person.

Kathenes is the past chairman of the New York Winter Antique Show Vetting committee with Leslie and Lee Keno (of “Antiques Road Show” fame) and was also the on-air TV appraiser and science fiction consultant for the Discovery Channel’s collectibles show: POP NATION: America’s Coolest Stuff. He has appraised the Batmobile, the Back to the Future Car, and memorabilia from the blockbuster movie Titanic, including the giant ship model. He has appraised some of the world’s most valuable and rare books, many items that have been on the Moon, and even appraised (and played) Elvis’ guitar.

Bell has been appraising jewelry for over 40 years. She wrote the first course on Antique and Period Jewelry in 1985 for the ISA (International Society of Appraisers) and

Indiana University. She has lectured all over the country and did a full day class about jewelry at the Smithsonian Institute. She has authored many books and is noted for her appearances on the “Antiques Roadshow” as one of the experts on jewelry. She invites the public to bring anything and everything in their jewelry box about which they are curious.

Braswell, a Brevard County native, is an ISA accredited generalist antiques appraiser. Some of her specialties are Florida art including the Florida Highwaymen, Mid-Century Modern furnishings, American pottery & silver and Carnival glass.

Braswell was a volunteer at the Orlando PBS Antiques Road show in 2007 where she worked in furniture triage; she has attended workshops given by notable antique and collectibles experts and authors such as Henry Rinker, Gene Florence and Judith Katz-Schwartz. She recently successfully completed ISA’s Specialty Course on Appraisal of Fine Art. Robin recently appraised a 1906 U.S. Open Winners Trophy for donation to The International Tennis Hall of Fame. She is active as a guest lecturer.

Holland-Beickert holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Art History and is an accredited member of the International Society of Appraisers with a specialty in fine art. Formerly the curator of exhibitions at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, she has developed and organized more than 65 exhibitions and site-specific installations. Since 2002, she has coordinated the Artist Market for the Arts in the Park fine arts festival in Memphis. She is active as a guest curator, juror, lecturer and writer.

Shaw from North Carolina, is a generalist antiques appraiser and also specializes in American, Chinese and French furniture, woodblock prints, Asian and American ceramics, and American silver. In 2007, she worked beside Judith Miller (renowned author and publisher of Millers' Antiques Price Guides and other publications on antiques) at an appraisal fair. Vicky has appraised a wide variety of items, ranging from 18th century furniture to a USS Sequoia presidential flag with Richard Nixon provenance.


Saturday evening there will be Live Auction at 5:00 PM. Proceeds will benefit the Fund for Arts in Brevard (FAB) supporting individual artists and arts and cultural groups through the Brevard Cultural Alliance. For more information contact the Brevard Cultural Alliance at 321-690-6817 or visit their website at www.artsbrevard.org. Online advance ticketing is available.

Event Sponsors include: Clinton Braswell and Elizabeth Courtney of UBS Financial Services, Residence Inn by Marriott, Braswell Appraisal Services, Brevard Cultural Alliance, Barnes and Noble, Cottage Art & Frame and the Melbourne International Airport.



Appraisers are available for telephone interviews prior to the event; contact the BCA at 321-690-6817 for more information.

Appraisers will be on hand for book signings and interviews during the event.




Ticket purchasing info:
$10 per item or $25 for three items To receive your ticket in advance, please call BCA at 321-690-6817.

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