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ONLINE AUCTION: Thursday, Nov. 12th, 2020 from 4 - 10 p.m. INSTRUCTIONS AND BIDDING BOOK About the Lynn Institute: The Lynn Institute for Healthcare Research, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is committed to helping communities, neighborhoods, and vulnerable populations with health and lifestyle conditions that are impacting overall health. We identify at-risk populations, define unique health risks, publish findings, assemble collaboratives, create programs and develop sustainable plans with measurable goals and objectives to improve the health and hope of communities. Our Work Includes: Research Studies / Outcome-Based Initiatives Collaboratives Community Impact & Engagement - Zoo4U & Science4U Health & Lifestyle Programs: ¡ Count Me In 4 Kids ¡ HealthRide OKC / Prescription Co-Pay Assistance ¡ Foundations of Wellness / On the Road to Health Classes ¡ Planting Urban Gardens ¡ Health Screenings ¡ Food distributions of fresh produce and lean meats for nutrition and health; (Since August 2019, the Lynn Institute has distributed more than 350,000 pounds of fresh produce to impoverished neighborhoods in the OKC metro.) HOW CAN YOU HELP? It requires funding to offer the programs and provide impoverished communities access to basic life needs that most of us take for granted. ¡ Please take the opportunity this Thursday, November 12th from 4 – 10 p.m. to bid on and buy the incredible works of art that have been generously created by artists from around the state; ¡ Not bidding? You can still donate to the Lynn Institute on the auction site; and, ¡ Visit our Chairity partner, the North Gallery & Studios in the Shoppes at Northpark or the other galleries around our state where our individual artists show their work. Our group of artists are true Oklahoma treasures. ONLINE AUCTION: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 from 4 - 10 p.m. The Preview Continues in Front of the North Gallery & Studio Through Thursday, November 12th so Bring Your Friends By and Plan to Bid! REGISTER EARLY SO YOU ARE READY WHEN BIDDING OPENS! 1. Go to www.bidpal.net/lynnCHAIRity on your mobile device or computer - register using your email, Facebook or Google accounts. You will be asked to enter your name, email and create a unique password for your account. 2. Next - You will be asked to enter your address, cell phone, and credit card information in the SECURE Auction site in order to set up your account to bid and pay for any items. 3. Once you have this information and create your account, you will see your name and bid number at the top of the screen. You may go to the menu and: a. Browse Items (Choose Browse all items and decide which items you wish to bid on when the auction opens on Thursday, November 12th) You will see minimum bids and Buy Now Pricing, and, b. Find out about the Lynn Institute. 4. Make sure you keep your user name and password handy to begin bidding at 4:00 p.m., Thursday, November 12th. 5. FAQs to make your bidding experience easy and fun are located at the back of this document. Have questions or need more information? Call or text 405-919-4331. www.lynninstitute.org @lihrinc Item No. 2 - Janetta Smith "Kiss My Derriere" - Chair Janetta Smith is the co-owner of the North Gallery & Studio. She enjoys working with composition, shapes and vivid colors in acrylic, mixed media and photography. Janetta found photography through her father who was a front-line combat photographer in the Vietnam war. Her early exposure (no pun intended) to the love of photography instilled creative mind and spirit that continued to develop through adulthood. Finding inspiration through many different styles of art, she pursues to create with energy and intuition. Janetta has been a professional photographer for over 15 years and provides her clients architectural, landscape, and business-related photographs. Now in front of the canvas, she has truly found her calling. She studies under several well- known artists with her mentors being Bert Seabourn, Ardith Goodwin, and Sandra Duran Wilson. Their influence has helped continue the challenge and her growth as an artist. Item No. 3 - Patricia Triplett "Water's Edge" - Chair Patricia Triplett is the co-owner of the North Gallery & Studio. She works with a variety of components to create art that oftentimes builds its own story. Love of texture has become a basic strand throughout her process. Spending a number of years in the world of real estate, she developed a penchant for architecture and design, which she uses to blend color and style with a longtime passion for history. Several years ago, she took advantage of the opportunity to participate in a painting class mentored by the world-renowned expressionist artist, Bert Seabourn. In recent years, she has enjoyed the occasion to study with other professional artists to strengthen both her style and her technique. She continues to explore other expressionist art and weave that thread throughout her creative approach. “Where imagination, skill and creativity come together, art lives. I hope to impart these elements into each of my pieces of art. In so doing, I hope to evoke some form of emotion form the viewer. It may be passion, sadness, joy, inspiration, or mere pleasure.” Item No. 4 - Bert Seabourn “Bluebird of Happiness - Chair” Internationally acclaimed American expressionist, Bert Seabourn, who lives in Oklahoma City is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and teacher and experiments extensively with creative vitality. Bert was a Navy Journalist/Artist during the Korean War who returned to Oklahoma City to study at Oklahoma City University. He worked as an illustrator, graphic design artist and art director before becoming a full-time painter of fine art in 1978. At OCU, Bert was inspired by painter and instructor Roger White and began experimenting with abstract painting. Abstract expressionism became the style for which Bertmis known in addition to Native American subject matter. His sculpture, ‘Wind Walker’, a 23-foot tall bronze was unveiled in Oklahoma City. Paintings should contest the creative elements: order versus chaos; contemplative versus emotional; raw versus refined. I try to make each piece of art a unique fusion of design, color, form, composition, using a layering of texture with drips, smears, runs and splatters. My work is like the Oklahoma wind, ever changing, growing, and finding new directions. This is what keeps my life and, hopefully, my art interesting. I love to paint, and I hope it shows.” Item No. 5 - Mikel Davison "Sitting Tall" - Chair Buffalo, birds and black labs inspire Duncan artist Mikel Davison. So does Oklahoma history. Incorporating the everyday ordinary into his artwork, Davison combines the quirky personalities of animals, like his black lab, with the rich history of Oklahoma to create unique pieces – all with a story. Carving cigar store Indians from 100-year- old fallen trees, finding reclaimed wood that becomes useful home furniture and décor, and cast-off windows for his canvases, Davison believes in using what is available. The Alva-born native, gained his love of history from his father, and his creative inquisitiveness from his mother. But art didn’t put him through school. It was basketball. It’s what paid the bills. (He’s 6’9”) – In recent years though, he’s found a way to do what he loves and manages to combine education, history, sport and art. Davison attended East Central University in Ada on a basketball scholarship, with hopes of getting an art degree. “I was told you can’t be an athlete and an artist. Basketball was paying and art wasn’t. So I ended up going into education. I put the paintbrush down.” In his 30s, he returned to college – University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma, to get his art degree. He dabbled in art, until about three years ago when he decided to really put his own personality and interests into the efforts. Every piece he creates is inspired by the piece he is working on, whether it is barbed wire found in his pasture, or wood and windows reclaimed from a dumpster. Item No. 6 - Rory Morgan "Summer Aspens" - Chair Rory Morgan has been painting for the past 40 years since receiving an art degree from Casper College in Casper, Wyoming. Growing up in Wyoming, Rory became an observer of nature. His art reflects his interest in art of the outdoors and his love for wildlife. During his nearly 42 years working in the Wyoming oil and gas industry, Rory continued to develop an expanding and deep love for nature and wildlife. He spent countless Wyoming hours hiking the mountains, hunting, fishing, or taking photos. Rory transferred that love of the outdoors into wildlife and landscape paintings. His subject matter often includes bears, swans, buffalo, blue birds and Canadian geese, as well as landscapes. Rory’s work in the oil and gas industry required a move to Edmond, Oklahoma where he currently resides with his wife. Rory’s artwork has taken on a new dimension incorporating all that this state has to offer in beauty from the Wichita Mountains to the breath-taking sunsets and redbud trees. “I love to paint anywhere there’s peaceful quiet. I do love the Wichitas. I like to drive down country roads … Red Rock Canyon, Grand Lake … the southeastern Oklahoma foothills’ pretty colors … just about anything that catches my eye in color.” Item No. 9 - Diana Robinson "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Chair Diana Robinson’s art career began at an early age with prizes at the State Capitol and ribbons from the State Fair. Her artistic voice was dormant for years, silenced by other studies in college, followed by a life as a wife and mother. After a two-decade hiatus, Diana returned to her familiar medium, clay.