Saturday, June 21, 2014

How To Hold Fundraising Art Auctions

By Ina Hunt


People often sell artworks of local artists in order to be able to help an organization with a certain cause and to also help promote the works of these certain local artists. What these people would usually do is to hold fundraising art auctions so that they could sell off these artworks to get some money for the organization. If one is interested in doing this kind of thing, then this guide will be able to help him out.

Of course if one would want to have an art auction, then the very first thing that he has to do is to gather artworks. Now when holding this kind of thing, he has to gather as many kinds of artworks as possible like paintings or sculptures. He may even include other types of modern art like photographs or other handcrafted works.

Now the thing about holding these kinds of events is that one has to have a lot of connections with local artists in order to make the event a success. Now usually, those who have connections with an art museum will just make use of this. However, if one does not have this kind of thing, then what he may do is that he may try to contact an art school in order to ask them for help.

After doing those two things, then the very next thing that one should do would be to hire an auctioneer that will help him with the event. Now he may actually try to do the thing by himself but he will actually have a hard time. SO it is actually better if he had a professional to help him with all the technicalities and details.

Now the great thing about hiring professional auctioneers with the job is that they know how to be able to go about because they are in that field. Now not only will they be able to help with the organization of the flow of the event but they can even help with the determining of the value of each artwork. Basically, they will be able to handle all the technicalities.

Now after all the things have been prepared, then one has to make sure to promote the event properly. Some of the things that he may do would be to create fliers and announcements on his Facebook or Twitter page. Now he should also make sure to mention that the money made from this event will be going to a good cause.

Now before one would even start the auction, he has to first place a minimum bid on all the items. He will actually need the help of his auctioneer for this because it is the auctioneer who will appraise the artwork. For those who do not know what a minimum bid is, it is the starting bid of the item.

Of course one should also decide how he is going to collect the payments. He has to think of payment methods for when the participants would pay for their purchases. Most auctions would just accept cash but the really big ones would accept check or bank transfer.




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