Buying Art has never been so fun!
  Every year Mountain Lake PBS hosts a weekend LIVE Arts Auction. Live as in on TV, complete with professional auctioneer. Anyone can bid by telephone and there is a vast selection of art available to suit every taste, from funky to traditional, large or small.
  You don't even have to be within the TV station's viewing area to watch the auction or bid because they have added streaming video to their website this year. (See below for more information) Just sit back and enjoy...and bid of course. Competing for an artwork, bidding against other people is all part of the fun of the auction. In this case, you would be talking on the phone with a volunteer in the TV studio who relays you bids to the auctioneer while you watch the proceedings on TV.
  The best part...is that all of the artwork has been donated by Artists from Vermont, New York and Quebec, so every dime you spend goes directly to Mountain Lake PBS. It's a win/win situation. You get great art and PBS gets to continue to broadcast commercial free quality programming. There's even another silver lining, anything you spend that is over the artist's value on a piece is considered a charitable donation and you will have a tax deduction for 2009. How cool is that?
  Artwork can be picked up at the TV studio in Plattsburgh NY, in Montreal, Canada or you can make an arrangement to have it shipped to you.
  All the artwork can be seen on the PBS website, so you can peruse this year's collection online before the auction.
  Here is a link to their website for more information: Mountain Lake PBS
  About Mountain Lake PBS: Mountain Lake PBS broadcasts on WCFETV/Channel 57
And reaches over 3.9 million viewers via antenna reception, cable or satellite providers throughout northeast New York, western Vermont, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario.
  This is my 6th year donating art to the auction along with other professional artists. The artwork is juried in so that only top-notch art goes on the auction block. I have 5 paintings up for bids this year encompassing Figures, Still Life and Landscape. Here's a small preview, but visit the Mountain Lake website to see all the great art available.

 
  Important info:
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: LIVE Auction, April 24, 25, 26, 2009 6pm-12am on Mountain Lake PBS and mountainlake.org!