ARTIST RETROSPECTIVE and LIVE AUCTION
followed by a Community Celebration and Potluck
for Chimacum artist Sara Mall Johani
Conviviality, the hydrologic cycle and a good death…

Tuesday, July 29th
4-8pm at Finnriver Farm & Cidery
The Heart of the Dragon
$30 ticket includes a drink token for the Taproom

TICKETING
There are two options for purchasing tickets. Here, via the ticketing link online:

Purchase Artist Retrospective & Live Auction Tickets Now

OR

Purchase on-site for $30 on the day of the event.
RSVP to Lela : lhilton@olympus.net with the number in your party and purchase your tickets when you come to the auction.

POTLUCK
After the auction, we invite you to stay and potluck in community. Please bring food items (hors d’oeuvres, salads, and desserts: cake, pies, cookies) to share, knowing that
the meal will begin after 6:30 or so. Items that require refrigeration should be brought in a cooler.

ART PURCHASING
Auction catalogue will be posted soon on this website and you can learn more about the artist and art at: https://www.tomandsara.net/
All art purchases made at the auction will go directly to the artist. Sara and family will then donate 50% of the proceeds to the Watershed Bell Youth Arts fund, hosted at the Roots of Resilience Project. Learn more: https://www.rootsproject.org/watershed-bell--fund.html
If you would like to bid on art, but cannot attend the event, there will be an on-line bidding option. Check back at the website after July 20th: https://www.tomandsara.net

BACKGROUND
For over 40 years artists Tom Jay and Sara Mall Johani made their home in Chimacum, WA, the heart of the Quimper Peninsula. Tom passed away in 2019, leaving a visionary legacy of sculpture, poetry, writing and ecological wisdom. Sara is now preparing to move to Montreal to live with her son Dru and their family. This event is a farewell to Sara and a final act of creative generosity and community.

Tom and Sara’s commitment to this place, and the people and ecosystem that make it thrive, has been central to their art and will continue to inspire our community for generations to come. Many small family farms, healthy salmon streams, and beautiful fields and forests all around us are profound testaments to their vision and dedication.
It had long been a dream here to have one of Tom’s sculptures live on the farm in Chimacum. In the summer of 2019, one of Tom’s bronze bells became available, and through the generous support of friends and neighbors, and partner organizations, we brought this magnificent Watershed Wishing Bell home and it now lives at Finnriver Farm & Cidery for all to enjoy.
We hope the bell can serve as a symbol of their legacy to the community and all are invited to support the Watershed Bell Youth Arts Fund -- established in their name to provide ongoing support to the youth of Jefferson County for Arts and Environmental projects: https://www.rootsproject.org/watershed-bell--fund.html