- November 18, 2024
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Marg Weixel has been waiting for the perfect opportunity to turn the preacher’s chair she bought at an antique sale into something great. It has been sitting in her garage while she thought of what to do with it, when she found out about the Flagler County Art League’s Chair Affair.
The Chair Affair is a collaboration with the art league, the Palm Coast Arts Foundation, the city of Palm Coast and the Palm Coast Observer, in which artists paint and decorate chairs, benches, stool and all that’s in between to be sold at the International Food, Wine and Arts Festival Oct. 4.
The fundraising event for the art league and the arts foundation has already produced more than 60 chairs.
“As a member of FCAL, I thought it would be a really neat way to make some money because it’s for charity,” Weixel said as she stood the in the FCAL gallery the morning of Aug. 16. “We really need some funds coming in because we don’t get a lot of foot traffic here.”
Weixel and a small group of FCAL artists were scattered throughout the gallery Saturday morning putting the finishing touches on their chairs. The preacher’s chair was getting a big transformation into a lady of the night. Other chairs are still welcome to receive transformations and must be turned in to FCAL by Sept. 20.
