If you are in Limerick today, you have until 5pm to grab a bargain at the Hunt Museum. The Friends of the Hunt Museum have filled the gallery with hundreds of postcard-sized works of art, which have been generously donated by artists from all over Ireland and other countries. You have to buy a ticket (or more than one) in the museum for €50 each, which will then be exchanged in the gallery for the postcard of their choice. Each work of art is signed on the back, so that the identity of the artist will be revealed only when the purchase is completed. Each customer may buy up to four tickets at the outset.
There may not be many left as in 2006 when the first postcard sale took place, by lunchtime on the first day they had sold all 680 of the donated works.
The monies raised will go into The Hunt Museum Exhibition Fund and will be used specifically to help the disadvantaged communities of the mid-west with a special emphasis on children so that they can visit the Museum and enjoy its varied exhibitions, along with all its educational programmes.
The full list of participating artists are available as a pdf document.
Wow sounds like a great idea for raising some money - and you get an original piece of art as well, nice!