Name: Off the Wall Gala 2025
Start: 2025-10-18T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-18T21:00:00-04:00
Location: FRANK Gallery

October 18 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

FRANK’s signature fundraising event is well-known for its excitement, spectacular selection of art, and community roots. Join us at 6 pm on October 18 for our 15th Gala supporting FRANK Gallery’s mission to enrich our community through art.

Attend in-gallery or from home

The Gala will be held in the gallery as well as broadcast live via Zoom for attendees who want to enjoy art and a tasty cheese box in the comfort of their home. For guests attending in person, a full bar, heavy hors d’oeuvres and light snacks will be provided.

How does it work?

With the purchase of an Art Ticket, your name is entered into a pool with other art ticket holders. During the gala, the names of art ticket holders will be drawn at random (this is the fun part!) and read out loud by our emcee, local radio personality, Aaron Keck. Once called, you’ll have one minute to choose your favorite piece of art “off the wall” to take home. It gets exciting as you never know what piece will go next! This event will be hybrid, meaning we’ll offer a limited amount of in-person art and companion tickets, and some online virtual tickets! In-person guests will enjoy delicious food and an open bar. Online guests have the same chance to select art off the wall, but from the comfort of their home.

There will be plenty of donated art (from our generous artists!) all valued at more than the price of a ticket! We invite you to see all the artwork ahead time in two ways, in-gallery or online. Visit the gallery the week before the Gala to see all the donated art hanging. Also, preview the works here as they are donated.

A limited number of tickets are available at the door. Please call ahead to check availability.

Silent Auction Now On

Bid on amazing items, including art, local experiences, restaurant gift cards and much more. Bidding closes Saturday, Oct. 18 at 8:30 pm.

SEE THE AUCTION

VIRTUAL ACCESS

For Virtual Gala ticket holders only.

Get Zoom ready: If you don’t have Zoom installed on your device, go to https://zoom.us to download the Zoom app.

Check in from 6 pm to 6:30 pm on Saturday, go to: https://ncsu.zoom.us/my/brandfortner

Click on “Join with video”

Please orient yourself with the features and layout of Zoom, and use “chat” to ask us questions during the event, Feel free to call us at the gallery if you have questions before the event.

During the Gala, Keep yourself muted. Then when your name is called for the Off The Wall drawing, turn on your camera and your mic.

Tell us the number of the art you are choosing, and the artist’s name.

And, write your number selection on
a piece of paper and hold it up to the camera so we can be sure we heard you correctly!

Donated Artworks

Here are the available works of art for this year’s Off the Wall Gala. Come into the gallery to see the art in-person. Download our Gala program to print out a complete list of art donations and event information.

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Anita Wolfenden, Bundles, textiles and papers, 18.5″ x 16″

Theresa P-Tan, Santa Cruz ii, Mixed media, 24 x 30 inches

Keith Allen _“When Dylan went electric, George went green”_maple, poplar, milk paint_21 1_2” wide X 16” deep X 26” tall

Bill McAllister , Huangshan Path & HuangshanTrees, Photo construction, 14 x 11 inches each

Bill McAllister, Pines Huangshan Isis, Photo assemblage, 20 x 52 inches

Alan Dehmer, Bunker, Gum Bichromate Photography, 29 x 29 inches

Carroll Lassiter, Haw River Path, oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches

Carroll Lassiter, Sunset Parrish Field , oil on panel, 48_x 24 inches

Ali Givens, Vessel Ninety & Vessel Nineteen, 10 x 10 inches

Dan Gottlieb, Back in the Berkshires, 2023, 24 x 42 inches

Linda Prager 2 Necklaces Aquamarine & Sterling and Crystal and Black Tourmailine and Silver 15.5_ and 19_

Dan Gottlieb, Eno River Forest, 2025, Archival Pigment Print , 40 x 22 inches

Elijah Kell, Midnight Garden Mist, Glass Sculpture, 10 x 8 inches

Rose Warner, Midway, Threads, canvas and paint, 20_ x 24_

Susan FIlley _Copper Red Teardop Vase_Porcelain _10_ x 8_ x8_

Kaidy Lewis _Grandma_s Kitchen_Map Home _mixed media and acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas_20”x 20”

Keith Allen _“George_ He’s always been ‘holier than thou’”_maple, poplar, milk paint_26 1_2” wide X 16”deep X 27” tall

Paul Reamey, Ripple Vase, Glass and Wood, 8 x 8 x 8.5 inches

Chris Boerner, Cherry Burl Natural Edge, 7 x 5

Carol Retsch-Bogart and Linda Prager, Coffee Break and Vase, mixed media and ceramic, 14 x 14

Carol Retsch-Bogart, Love Letters, mixed media with textiles, paper, paint 25″ x 38″

Carol Retsch-Bogart, “I’d like to buy a vowel please!” mixed media, 28″ x 34″

Lila Bacon, “Norman’s New Garden Flowers”, Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 20” x 30” x 1.5”

Amy Deystone, Set of three Forest Vases, Ceramic

Deborah Harris, Set of bowls, Porcelain

Michele Maynard “Botanical Circus no. 101”, Acrylic on canvas, 30”x30”

Catherine Gregory, C-Horse, mixed media on stretched canvas, 15″ x 15″

Gordon Jameson, Sequoia, Acrylic, 14_x10”

Gordon Jameson, Cedar, Acrylic 14″ x 10”

Gordon Jameson, Greenhouse, Acrylic, 14″ x 9″

Donna Stubbs, “Bird’s-eye view”, Mixed Media 24″ x 24″

Jean LeCluyse, Memory and Magic, colored pencil, 15″ x 18″

Donna Stubbs, On the Horizon, mixed media, 20″ x 20″

Nerys Levy, From Lenno, Lake Como, Italy – a diptych in one frame, Gouache,and mixed media water color on paper, 6.5 x 18

Katherine Armacost, From the West Oil on canvas, 30 x 30

Kerry Schroeder, Tracks, acrylic and graphite on panel, 24 x 24

Marguerite Jay Gignoux, REDS1,2,3,4, Hand dyed & printed silks, hand stitched, 12.5” x 12.5”x 2”

Mary Lee Kerr, “Sentinel”, Ceramic, 6″ x 32″ x 6″

Judith Ernst, “Overflowing Embrace”, Glazed Stoneware, 13″ x 11″

Linda Prager, Set of Ceramic Plates, Clay, Misc Sizes

Pearl Arnold, “Celestial Canopy”, Oil on canvas, 36 x 42

Pete Sack, “Quicksand”, oil/watercolor on paper, 15″ x 15″

Tama Hochbaum, “Curved Matrix IV” Archival Digital Print on Metallic Paper, mounted onto Dibond, 12″ x 20″

Clarke Munford, Haw River Mill #2, oli on canvas, 20″ x 16″

Susan Paulsen _101 Lindsay Street_oil_11″ x 14″

Susan Paulsen _Spring at Magnolia View Farm _oil_13″ x 23″

Fabrizio Bianchi_Yesterday_s Ocean_Acrylic Inks on Wooden Board_30″ x 40″

Ley Killeya_Held aloft by the river’s grace_acrylic on canvas

Ley Killeya_The memories of your devotion on my body_acrylic on canvas_36″ x 36″

Ley Killeya, I know how the flowers felt, 18″ x 24″

Shelly Hehenberger, Peninsula, oil and cold wax on wood, 11″ x 14″

Shelly Hehenberger, The Place Where I Live, 11″ x 14″, oil and cold wax on wood

Karen Day _Marsh at Topsail_Acrylic and colored charcoal on canvas with floater frame_20″ x 20″

Karen Day “Triad” Acrylic and charcoal on gessoed paper, framed, 16″ x 20″

Untitled, Glass, 4″ h x 5.5″ w

Lew Graham, Square the Branches, encaustic on panel, 24″ x 24″

Rebecca Mclaughlin Neigher Necklace and Pin Pair Large Baroque Pearl, Fresh Water Pearls, Smokey Quartz, Handmade Sterling Silver Clasp & Textured Sterling Silver, Button Pearls, 2 Pink, 2 White