Battle of the Brushes: Round 4!

Name: Battle of the Brushes: Round 4!
Start: 2025-03-22T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-22T22:00:00-04:00
Location: 8th Ave. Gallery

Schedule

Sat Mar 22 2025 at 01:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

8th Ave. Gallery | Ocala, FL

Battle of the Brushes: Round 3 Champion Mel Fiorentino, People’s choice German Lemus and Galleries Choice Jordan Shapot will be back to compete for the Title & $2500 in cold hard cash against artists, Christian Stanley, Dj Reynolds, Charlita Whitehead, Pawel Swiderski, Mike Knapp, Ettore Bechis, Dana Donkle and Lili Hart!
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Each Artist will start and finish a 4ft x 4ft piece of Art live! Throughout the event you’ll enjoy live music, free beer/Wine, food trucks and you will get the opportunity to vote for your favorite piece for the peoples choice award! At 8:30pm artists will stop working and the awards will be given out!
🏆BOTB Champion - $2500 - chosen by
3 Expert Judges (to be announced.)
🏵Peoples Choice - $750 - to the artist with the most votes.
🎤8th Ave. Galleries Choice- $250 - to the artist who creates Seth Benzel and Justin Alsedek’s favorite piece.
This event is not only a fun and unique experience but a fundraiser for Two of Ocala’s great art non-profits, the Marion Cultural Alliance (MCA) and the Magnolia Art Xchange (MAX). We will have an official event merch table with T-Shirts, limited edition Event Posters, and stickers! You will also have an opportunity to purchase tickets for a chance to win Original Artworks from several talented artists!
Proceeds will be donated to these wonderful Non-profits.

We will also be displaying artwork from each competing artist in the main gallery. A portion of all sales in the gallery will also be donated!

Event Breakdown:
1pm - Artists Introduction Ceremony!
1:30pm- Painting will begin!🎨
8:30pm - Painting stops, final votes get cast.
By 9pm - winners are an announced and a champ is crowned! 👑
9pm - 10pm Continue to Celebrate and Dance!🕺💃🏻

Live Music lineup:
-To be announced-
As always free beer and wine and delicious food trucks (to be announced) will be on location!
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