Marquee Ball: Illusion
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1. Joyce Scott Day at the Museum

  • Value: priceless | Starting Bid $500

    Donated by Joyce J Scott, John Shields of Gertrude’s, The BMA, Amy Raehse, and Goya Contemporary
    In celebration of beloved Baltimore artist, Joyce J. Scott, you can own a “signed by the legend herself” 50-year retrospective catalog, plus four additional exhibition catalogs for friends, and two passes to her current ticketed exhibition, Walk a Mile in My Dreams, at the Baltimore Museum of Art. After enjoying the exhibition, treat yourself to a fine dining experience at Gertrude’s with a $100 gift certificate. The winner also receives a beautiful Joyce J. Scott necklace to wear on this fabulous outing!

  • Gertrude's in the Baltimore Museum of Art

    Package Includes:

    50-year Retrospective Catalog (Baltimore Museum of Art/ Seattle Art Museum)

    4 additional catalogs

    Joyce J. Scott Necklace

    $100 Gift Certificate to Gertrude’s

    2 passes for Walk a Mile in My Dreams

    A printed pic of the GURLZ of Baltimore!

  • Necklace by Joyce J. Scott

2. Neat? Or on the Rocks?

  • Value: $450 | Starting Bid: $300

    Donated by Union Collective, R. House vendors
    Receive a sampling of everything that Union Collective has to offer, including spirits from Baltimore Spirits Co. and two passes to their Blend Your Own Whiskey Experience, which includes a production tour, tasting, and a one-of-a-kind whiskey blend made by you! In addition, the winner receives four free ice cream scoops from The Charmery, two passes to Intro to Bouldering at Movement, and a $20 gift card, coffee beans, and a mug from Vent Coffee. Hop over to Remington after your day of fun, to relax and enjoy cocktails and a meal with a $100 gift card to use at R. House.

  • Baltimore Spirits Company Whiskey Experience

    Package Includes:

    Private production tour and Blend Your Own Whiskey Experience at Baltimore Spirits Co.

    $100 Gift Card to R. House

    4 Scoops from The Charmery

    2 passes for Bouldering & Movement

    $20 gift card for Vent Coffee, coffee beans & mug

  • Bouldering & Movement

3. Pampered Pooches

  • Value: $800 | Starting Bid $350

    Donated by: Vic Yambao, Back Social, Howl
    Celebrate the true love of your life: your PUP! Win one custom 9”x12” pet portrait from Creative Alliance’s own Vic Yambao, a year-long membership to Bark Social—Canton’s dog-friendly bar where dogs and humans go to have fun—and a $25 gift certificate to Howl in Hampden, plus some yummy snacks for your pooch.

  • Artwork by Vic Yambao

    Package Includes:

    1 year membership to Bark Social ($365)

    Custom illustration of your pet and 9x12” print (Value $400)

    Howl Gift Certificate ($25)

    Doggy Snacks from Howl

  • Bark Social

    Bark Social is a bar for dog lovers. It's a clean, monitored and gated dog park that serves coffee and breakfast items in the morning and beer, wine, and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and lunch items in the afternoon and evening. We also serve dog treats like doggy ice-cream, pupsicles, etc.


    As a Bark Social Club Member, you can bring your dog(s) into our fully staffed, off-leash dog park as often as you please. In addition, you'll receive over $1,500 in perks from a shopping spree at our retail store (annual members only), discounts with our premium partners, 50% off our ticketed events, and more!

4. Refocus on Glamour!

  • Value: $3,000 | Starting Bid: $900

    Donated By: Refocus Portraits Studio
    Time for some glamor! Bring your loved ones (or just yourself!) for an in-studio photography session with Refocus Studio. You will also receive an 11”x14” commemorative fine art portrait from this photo session. Refocus Portrait Studio has over a decade of experience creating fine art portraits in the heart of Baltimore City!

  • Refocus Portrait Studio

    Package Includes:

    Portrait session with Refocus Portraits Studio

    11 x 14 art print

    $150 Gift Certificate to a local Salon

5. Host your own Trivia Party with Bmore Trivia!

  • Value: $750 | Starting Bid: $400

    Donated by Bmore Trivia & Off The Rox
    Host your own TRIVIA PARTY! You and up to 20 guests can test your knowledge of everything (or a topic of your choice) for a great party!

    BmoreTrivia, aka Joe Mahach & Katie Pumphrey. These longtime supporters of Creative Alliance are also BIG NERDS for trivia.

    The winner of this private trivia game gets to pick topics and Katie & Joe will create and host a special game for you and 20 of your friends. Host in a location of your choosing OR in Katie's beautiful/industrial art studio right here in Highlandtown!

    Pair the night with wines from Off The Rox! Package includes 6 hand picked bottles from Jeryl, the shop owner, PLUS a $150 gift card to get the party going!

  • Bmore Trivia

    Package Includes:

    Private/custom game, up to 20 attendees, location of your choosing!

    Off The Rox Gift Certificate: $150

    6 bottles of wine hand-picked by Jeryl of Off The Rox

  • Off The Rox

    Off the Rox is a wine and beer shop in Baltimore’s Highlandtown neighborhood that offers sustainably produced wines and craft beers from around the world, focusing on supporting family-owned wineries and microbreweries.

6. Self-Care, Spice, & Everything Nice

  • Value: $1000 | Starting Bid: $500

    Donated by Ajit Apte, Amy Seto

    A package of pampering! Enjoy a unique, private Indian dinner for six hosted by Creative Alliance Board Member, Ajit Apte, exploring cuisine you won’t typically find in an Indian restaurant. This package also includes lots of ways to spoil yourself! Indulge in a 60-minute couple’s massage and couple’s yoga lesson from Canton Square Massage. If you haven’t had your fill of Indian food after this experience, visit Harbor Tandoor with $100 worth of dining certificates to taste even more flavors of India. Plus, a McCormick’s spice rack is coming home with you!

  • Harbor Tandoor Restauraunt & Bar

    Package Includes:

    Private Indian Dinner for 6 with Ajit Apte (priceless!)

    McCormick Spice Rack

    $125 Harbor Tandoor gift certificates

    60 minute couple’s yoga session Canton Square Massage

    60-minute massages at Canton Square Massage

  • Canton Square Massage

7. A night of Illusion with the Wizard of Mt Vernon!

  • Value $1500 | Starting Bid $700

    Donated by Heather Keating, Jimmy Edgerton & Creative Alliance Board of Trustees!

    Host your own private magic show and happy hour at the Fox Den! Work with your hosts to plan a night of surprises and intrigue for you and 15 guests. Start with cocktails from Cane Collective and wine from Off The Rox, in the beautifully renovated event space featured in Baltimore Magazine.

    As the sun sets, head to the roof deck overlooking Patterson Park for a mystical show with Baltimore Magician Lucas Gerace aka The Wizard of Mt Vernon! Hear exciting tales from his nights as a magician at Club Charles! Your guests learn a trick or two and leave with a magical goody bag!

  • Fox Den Baltimore

    Package Includes:

    Rooftop Magic Show at the Fox Den for you and 15 friends!

    Cocktails by Cane Collective (boozy & N/A)

    Wine from Off the Rox

    Popcorn and light snacks provided!

    Magical Goody Bag for guests

  • View from the Roof Deck at The Fox Den

    The event space has everything you need to host your guests. Dishes, glassware, beer & wine fridges, and a dumbwaiter to send supplies to the roof!

    Read more about the design and renovation of the space in Baltimore Magazine.

    Want to invite out-of-town guests? The house has an Airbnb on the top floor!

8. A Book Worm’s Delight!

  • Value: $600 | Starting Bid $250

    Donated By: Drama Mama Bookshop, Greedy Reads, & Creative Alliance Trustees

    You and five friends head over to the Drama Mama Bookshop located in School 33 Arts Center for a Wine & Bind create your own journal workshop with owner Alissa! Afterward, you can swing by Greedy Reads to pick up some summer reads. We will round out your collection with a pack of favorites from local authors! Need to decorate your reading nook? Enjoy a framed limited edition screen print of the NEW Creativity Center signed by Illustrator Devin Watson!

  • Drama Mama Bookshop in School 33 Art Center

    Package Includes:

    6 pack of tickets for Drama Mama Wine & Bind class

    1 Drama Mama journal

    $50 Greedy Reads gift certificate

    Local Authors Books Pack Includes: Creative Alliance Community Cookbook, Flickering Treasures Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore's Forgotten Movie Theaters (featuring The Patterson Theater), a signed first edition of Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

    Framed, limited edition screen print of the Creativity Center signed by the Illustrator, Devin Watson.

  • Local Authors Book Pack

    Creative Alliance Community Cookbook

    Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler (signed first edition)

    Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore's Forgotten Movie Theaters, by Amy Davis, Foreword by Barry Levinson

9. Lounging in Lewes

  • Value: $5,500 | Starting Bid: $1,700

    Donated by: Diane Sypolt & Creative Alliance Board of Trustees

    Soak in a long week by the ocean! This beautiful classic five bedroom house in Lewes, Delaware, sleeps up to 12 people and is just a hop, skip, ‘n’ a jump away from the beach (2 blocks)! The renovated kitchen, featuring sea glass countertops, has room for multiple chefs and a large dining area for feasting with friends and family! Not up for cooking? This package includes a gift certificate to Lewes Oyster House! Relax on the beach by day and head out on the town by night while wearing a stunning, one-of-a-kind Brutalist style sterling silver and pewter necklace designed by Robert Larin, evoking coral reef.

    House Details:
    Beautifully decorated classic beach house
    5+ BR, 3.5 bath home (Sleeps 10-12 people)
    Front & back decks for grilling and having dinners alfresco

    Location:
    .7 mi to downtown Second St., 1 mi to the State Park.
    Near biking trails and bike path to Rehoboth

    New kitchen with sea-glass counter and room for multiple cooks! Dining room table seats 10+.

    Office area, outdoor shower, play-structure for kids.

    4 Kayaks, 3 bikes, beach cart, beach chairs. Games and puzzles.

    Private, surrounded by dense trees, 4 off-street parking spaces

    Pool table, TV, W/D, Wi-Fi

    Pet Policy: One medium or two small dogs allowed.

  • A week long getaway in Lewes, Delaware

    Package Includes:

    1 week in Lewes, DE Beach House during October 2024 (Market rental $700-$800 per night)

    Silver, pewter, modernist/brutalist style necklace. Signed by designer Robert Larin.

    Lewes Oyster House: Tavern by the Sea Gift card ($150)

  • Lewes Oyster House

    DelawareToday’s ‘Best of Delaware’ award-winning chef Sean Corea and team serves inspired tavern fare, expertly prepared with regionally sourced ingredients along with crisp lagers, interesting wines, and artisanal cocktails.

  • Necklace

    One-of-a-kind Brutalist style sterling silver and pewter necklace designed by Robert Larin

    Donated by: Diane Sypolt

10. A feast from Mera Kitchen Collective!

  • Value $1060 | Starting Bid: $700

    Donated by: Julia Kim Smith & Scott Smith, & Mera Kitchen Collective

    Receive a $1,000 gift card to Mera Kitchen Collective to cater a private event in your home and two Mera Kitchen Collective hoodies featuring art by Amelia Reinhardt, artist and Mera Kitchen Collective’s Bar Manager. Mera Kitchen Collective is a worker cooperative in Baltimore, serving story-worthy food from chefs from around the world. They opened their first restaurant in Mt. Vernon in November 2021 and have provided over 215,000 free meals (and counting) for Baltimore neighbors in response to COVID-19.

  • Catering by Mera Kitchen Collective

    Package Includes:

    $1000 Gift card to Mera Kitchen Collection

    2 Mera Kitchen Collective Hoodies with art by Amelia Reinhardt

11. Food as Art

  • Value $1200 | Starting Bid $700

    Donated by: Chef Peter Chang, Chef’s Expressions, Schola School & Francesca Gallucci

    Take a tour of the most artistic cuisine in Baltimore! Enjoy dinner and a commemorative signed personal recipe from James Beard nominated Chef Peter Chang at NiHao, and two tickets to a Chef’s Expressions dinner with wine pairings at the beautiful Gramercy Mansion. And if you’re not full yet, you’ll also have a private dinner for 6 with Francesca (of sell out Art To Dine For fame!).

    All this food may ignite your passion for cooking, so you will also receive a cooking lesson for 2 at Schola cooking school’s new location on the Canton Waterfront!

  • Cooking Class with Schola

    Package Includes:

    Cooking lessons for 2 at Schola Cooking School’s NEW location

    NiHao Gift Certificate - ($250)

    Signed Recipe from Chef Peter of NiHao

    A Chef’s Expressions dinner at Gramercy Mansion for 2

    Dinner for 6 with Chef Francesca

  • Schola

    Chef Amy von Lange co-founded Schola with Chef Jerry Pellegrino in 2015 and greatly enjoys cooking and eating with the wonderful variety of people who join us in Schola’s kitchen!