MONEY TALK$, ART WALKS 

Money Talks, Art Walks is almost here! This popular fundraising event happens Saturday, March 10, from 7–10pm at the IAO Gallery located at 706 W. Sheridan, in Historic Film Row of downtown Oklahoma City.

With Money Talks, Art Walks, you see high energy coincide with an art sale. This exciting event gives people the opportunity to add affordable art to their collections in very fun fashion. A diverse array of two hundred works created by emerging, mid-career and established Oklahoma artists will grace the walls of the gallery. All the work will be available for $50 to $100! 

Here’s the catch: all of the artworks will be hung with no title information and the artist of each piece will be identified only after that work has been sold; all the artwork is available for essentially the same price, and patrons can acquire work only through the ‘luck of the draw.’

Attendees will have the option to buy Money Talks tickets for three pools: $100, $75 or $50. Each collector can buy as many tickets as he or she wishes in any or all of the pools, but only 200 Money Talks tickets will be available to represent the 200 pieces of art available. 

The ‘Mooster of Ceremony’ Craig ‘Moose-Ondaluce’ Alleman will begin the three groups of random drawings with the $100 pool, followed by the $75 pool and then the $50 pool. Each time a ticket is pulled, a name is called, and that person will have only 30 seconds to pick whichever piece of artwork remaining on the wall he or she chooses.

Money Talks will also include three-dimensional artwork. Two-dimensional work—drawings, monoprints, and photographs—will be 8.5″ x 11″ or smaller, on paper only, and presented unframed and unmatted. Three-dimensional work—sculptures, pottery, or craft—will be 8.5″ x 11″ (x 11″) or smaller, and can be cast, carved, modeled, or constructed.

Admission to the fundraising event is $10. Proceeds from the event support year round programming at Individual Artists of Oklahoma. Appetizers will be provided by Jazmo’z Bourbon Street and Joey’s Pizzeria.

For more information on the event or IAO, please visit iaogallery.org or call 405–232–6060.