What is Artfest?
Artfest, a masterpiece in the making, brings together community leaders, philanthropists, art lovers, and children advocates for an amazing celebration of artistic accomplishment. Artfest 2024 takes its theme from the artwork of Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka. Her bold Art Deco stye is a fitting backdrop for the introduction of an all-new generation of Artfest.
Guests will delight in a Great Gatsby-theme setting, beautiful artwork, fun activities, and delicious food for an incredible and memorable evening.
Event Features include:
- "Stroll & Savor” with Drinks and Appetizers
- Young Artist’s Masterpiece Gallery
- Live Performance by Music Fusion, the Club’s performing art group
- Art, Silent and Live Auctions, plus a Grand Prize Raffle
- Catered, Sit-down Dinner
- Multiple Points-of-Interest and Photo Opportunities
Attending guests are individuals and couples ages 21+. They are community leaders and influencers. They are philanthropic and supporters of the local community. They are art lovers and children advocates. On average, they tend to contribute $200-$600 per event.
Event promotional activities
Save-the-Date Announcements: Email and social media posts formally announcing the
event date and theme, as well as confirmed high-level sponsors. Audience = 10,000+
Solicitations/Invitations: Full-color, promotional materials will be sent to past/current sponsors,
prospective sponsors, former guests, targeted donors, and supporters. Audience = 1,000+
Magazine/eNewsletter: Print and electronic versions of BGC Brief magazine
will be sent to the entire network of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Kern County
supporters in March, June, August, and December. Audience = 3,000+
Webpage: The Artfest website will be regularly updated with event and sponsor
information and can include links to sponsor webpages. Audience = 12,000+
Social Media: Spread across multiple social media platforms, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Kern County
will link guests/followers to our mission, as well as our sponsors and their messages through dynamic,
engaging, and fabulous content. Direct Audience/Followers = 8,800+ / Indirect Audience = Unlimited
Program: Distributed to all attendees at the event, the program will include event
details, sponsor, donor, partner recognition, artists’ background, Club program
and service information, and live auction item descriptions. Audience = 600+
+ MUCH MORE!
Who is Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 – March 18, 1980) was a Polish painter who
spent much of her working life in France and the United States. She is best known
for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats, celebrities, and the wealthy, and
for her highly stylized paintings of nudes. Her style was a blend of late, refined
cubism and the neoclassical style.
Born in Warsaw, Tamara briefly moved to Saint Petersburg where she married
Tadeusz Lempicki, a prominent Polish lawyer, but due to the Russian Revolution
they moved to Paris. There, she was an active participant in the artistic and social
life of Paris between the wars. While part of the European art scene she met Baron
Raoul Kuffner, a wealthy art collector from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. After her divorce from Lempicki and the death of Kuffner’s wife they married in the early 1930s, and thereafter she became known in the press as "The Baroness with a Brush".
Following the outbreak of World War II in 1939, she and her husband moved to the United States, where she began painting celebrity portraits, as well as still lifes, but her style had steadily fallen out of fashion following World War II. In the early 1960s, she added some abstract paintings to her body of work, but fortunately her earlier work made a comeback in the late 1960s, with the rediscovery of Art Deco. In 1974, Tamara moved to Mexico where she died in 1980. Tamara’s work has enjoyed increased popularity since her passing and her life has even been memorialized in a Broadway play opening in March 2024.
