To view and bid on artwork available for silent auction, click here.

27 works of art are available for silent auction. Bids will be accepted until 6 p.m. Saturday, June 27.

Bids can be submitted by email, by phone (217/529-1111) or by bid sheets at the various locations where artworks are on display in the Springfield area. Bids can emailed directly from this site or by sending information on the artwork, together with the bidder’s name, address, phone, email and bid amount to: lmg2301@comcast.net

Other artists will be in the Garden all day June 27 creating works En Plein Air that will also be auctioned that day at a reception beginning at 5 p.m.

There is no cost to stroll the Garden on June 27 and watch artists at work or to attend the reception where the artwork will be on display and will be auctioned.

Food and drinks will be available during the day and a children’s art project will be held at 1 p.m. at the Garden.

Artwork includes watercolor, oil, acrylics, pastels and photographs - and one painted bench.

Top entrants in the Art in the Garden exhibition of nature artworks are:

Best of Show
George King, Springfield
Pastel, “Rowdy Rudbeckias”

Honorable Mentions
Janice Hahn, Springfield
Watercolor, “Springtime at Lincoln Memorial Garden”

Mary Lou Hicks, Chatham
Pastel, “Lake Trail at Lincoln Memorial Garden”

Virginia Scott, Springfield
Photography, “Ostermeier Prairie in July”

Mary Selinski, Springfield
Watercolor, “Violets are Blue Dilly Dilly”

Joseph Tury, Springfield
Photograpy, “What Lies Beneath”

THANK YOU TO EVENT SPONSORS:

Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden
Central Illinois Community Blood Center
John and Katie Huther
Marine Bank
Joan Walters

In-kind contributors and donors:
Brian Barstead and Ameriprise Financial
Johnson, Depp & Quisenberry
Brenda Larison
Sue Lohrenz
Peggy Boyer Long
Christopher Martin
Michael Plog, Auctioneer
Spinner Specialty Awards
Springfield School District 186

Thanks for assistance from:
Prairie Art Alliance
Sangamon Watercolor Society
Springfield Area Pastelists
Springfield Art Association

Thanks also to the businesses and offices that displayed the Artworks:
Central Illinois Community Blood Center
Centrum Cafe
Coldwell Banker
Ed Clark Photography
Lincoln Land Community College
Resource One
RMD Gallery & Framing Studio
Spinner Specialty Awards
State Journal Register
Trout Lily Cafe

Area artists have been invited to showcase their talents at a special fund-raiser for Lincoln Memorial Garden.

Art in the Garden, to culminate on June 27,  features two opportunities for area artists to participate – one through a juried exhibition of art and the second through an en plein air day in the Garden where the public can watch them create art.

Works that were submitted for the exhibition and were accepted by the three-person jury are now on display at area businesses and organizations during the month of June. A Best of Show ribbon and five Honorable Mention ribbons have been awarded. A People’s Choice ribbon also will be presented on the day of the event.   These works will be sold in a silent auction to benefit Lincoln Memorial Garden.

The en plein air event will put artists in the spotlight as they spend a day at the Garden creating original art along the Garden’s trails, lakefront, pond and bridges.  The public will be invited to view these artists at work and then will be able to purchase the artworks at a late afternoon benefit auction and reception.

Entries to the juried exhibition were to be submitted to Lincoln Memorial Garden in May.

En plein air artists are to preregister with the Garden by June 15.  En plein air activities will take place between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the day of the event.

“Art in the Garden” will be held on Saturday, June 27. A rain date has been set for Sunday, June 28.  The day will culminate in silent and live auctions and a reception for artists and the public from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Artwork accepted for the juried exhibition or created en plein air will become the property of Lincoln Memorial Garden and will be auctioned off to raise funds for the management and maintenance of the Garden’s 110-acres of woodland and prairie along the shore of Lake Springfield.