Every year local artists and area residents apply to get a white bisque-fired mask. They may create whatver art out of it that they want. The mask shape is still supposed to be somewhat discernable when the art is done.

The masks are displayed for a month at the museum where people bid on them in a silent auction. The Masks event is how the museum raises most of their operating funds for the year.

Acrylic Paint and Pastel on bisque mask

(Earned money for the Fort Collins Museum of Art via the silent auction and through donation sponsorship of my mask)

Oil Paint on bisque mask

(Earned money for the Fort Collins Museum of Art via the silent auction)