Potlatch Auction a Smashing Success

On Saturday, March 1, Potlatch 17 sponsored the annual Clarion West Scholarship Fund Benefit Auction, which brought in over $2800 thanks to your donations and purchases.

Original art by cartoonist Don Martin of MAD Magazine fame brought in the auction’s highest bid at $369. Other items that excited our bidders included a copy of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, autographed and inscribed to CW co-founder J.T. Stewart; “No Costumes,” a signed, limited edition print Kelly Freas created for the 1984 LA Con; and a kitsch-laden “Conquest of Space” beer stein with a kneeling astronaut on the lid.

Luke McGuff’s photo “Leaves on Canopy” sold in a parallel auction to benefit the Anita K. Rowland Medical Fund, which raised an additional $365.

Many thanks for your donations, bids, and purchases, and for the time and energy many of you volunteered to make this our best auction yet.

Auction volunteers Natasha Oliver and Eva Folsom in full regalia

CW Instructor Pat Murphy considers her bidding strategy ­