Healing Hearts is the Sexual Assault Center’s largest annual fundraiser. In its first few years Healing Hearts took place in Watkinsville at Le Maison Bleu, but this year we decided to bring the fundraiser to Stan Mullin’s Studio on Pulaski Street in Athens. The large metal barn that was turned into a painting studio was the perfect space to have an art auction. The thirty foot vaulted ceilings were complemented by equally grandiose canvases that were painted with vibrant colors and subjects. The bar was set up outside with beer and wine donated by Copper Creek and Northeast Sales Distributing, Inc. The wonderful heavy hors d’oeuvres and deserts that lavished the tables at Healing Hearts were provided by Lee Epting Catering.

 

Every year Healing Hearts involves an auction of items from the community that have been donated to the Sexual Assault Center. This year we had special items such as a four day stay at a beautiful cabin on Lake Hartwell, a five course wine paired dinner for six at Five and Ten, a wine seminar for ten people at Gosford Wine, season tickets to Town and Gown, a two night stay at Georgia’s game-day center, a chiropractor visit and adjustment at Lawson Family Chiropractors, and tennis lessons from Red Racket Tennis and the Bishop Park Tennis Program. We also had almost one hundred pieces of artwork including pottery, paintings, etchings, jewelry, and handmade knit work donated by local artists in the seven counties that we serve.

 

Healing Hearts went wonderfully. We opened the doors to the studio on June 4^th and began the auction at 7:00pm. We raised over ten thousand dollars for the Sexual Assault Center which was a great end to our event fundraising for the year. We hope that next year more of our donors will be able to come to this fantastic and fun event! And may I say that more than one person left that night with an amazing deal on some beautiful artwork, so come next year and with a little luck that could be you!

 

 

Healing Hearts 2006

Healing Hearts 2006

Stan Mullins generously donated his art studio out on Pulaski street for us to use as an event space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amy Anderson-Tho, the former Development Assistant, and her husband Tzuchien look over the jewelry table at the auction.

 

 

 

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A group of teenagers kindly donated their musical abilities to provide Healing Hearts with beautiful music all night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The weather was perfectly warm with a cool summer breeze allowing for outside and inside tables.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The event space was filled with ten foot tall canvases painted by Stan Mullins creating an extravagant and fantastical site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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