June Events!

Cattyshack has several events in June that we have to tell you about!

First we have Introverts Night Out! Your time has come to sit with kittens, play with kittens, read a book while being crawled on by kittens (and cats), and just enjoy not having to be social. Reservations can be made at https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/april-11-introverts-night-out

Next we have Kitten Yoga! join us for restorative yoga twice this month. The yoga is for you, but the kittens and cats can help relax and enjoy the experience. Please bring a yoga mat as we cannot provide one for you. Reservations can be made using the following link https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/2025-kitten-yoga

We also have our once yearly event KITTYPALOOZA coming to you. This event is one of our biggest fundraising events of the year! We will have art, baked goods, and merch for sale. Other rescues will be there with their adoptable kitties. We will have a meet and greet with a wonderful children’s book author. We will have 20 minute kitty snuggles in the lounge. Our award winning Cherry will be there for a meet and greet and she will be signing pictures. Plus, so much more!

Our online art auction will begin on June 14th. You can see the art on the first floor of Lowe Mill – it is called The Feline Gaze: Art for and by cats. Our closing ceremony for this will be on July 12th. You can check out our facebook page for the link to the auction.

Our June book club will be reading the book Still Beating by Jennifer Hartman! Link is available on our Facebook page or you can try this link https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/may-book-club

Thank You Lowe Mill and Other Artists

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We want to thank all of the following artists and vendors for donating to our online auction, which ends at 6pm TODAY (Sunday, December 8)! The current sick kittens thank you and the future sick kittens thank you!

In no particular order we thank these artists from Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment:
Aplin Artworks
Foothills Folkarts
Fletcher Fancies Lapidary
Half Fire Glass
Torchfire Studio
Sunshine Studio
Creative Arts by Melanie, LLC
Symmetrical Universe
Studio 11
Kait Makes Art
Cre8tive Sistas
Paper Wasters Club
Kristin Hudson Graphic Designer and Printmaker
Chris Wade
Zierman-Felix Fine ArtKar’s
Char Texas Style BBQ
Theatre Huntsville
Emily Wallace Handwoven Designs
Star Light Pinball Arcade in Lowe Mill
Cigar Box Guitar
Irons one Whiskey
Clever Cottontail
Red Streake Paintings
Stephanie Weaver
Denise Anderson
Remedy
Cut a Rug
Purejoy Plants
Dennis Potter
Delta Dogwood Studio
Moon Maiden Studio

Artists not located in Lowe Mill:
Artistic Visions
Capitalist Tools Artworks
Stacy Kingsley, Author and Artist
Chrome Addict
Ann Vann Art

Other Donors:
Jim and Diane (Cattyshack Volunteers)
John and Sonya Costanza (Cattyshack Volunteers)
Kimberly Muse (Cattyshack Volunteer)

Businesses:
Innerspace Brewing
Earth and Stone Pizza

Without your donations we would not have been able to have this auction, and we sincerely appreciate and thank you.

Below are some of our FIP kittens – Bashful, Angelica, and Twilight

 

Auction Featured Artist of the Day

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Our last artist feature is another Lowe Mill Artist with a studio called Symmetrical Universe.

Symmetrical Universe is run by the artist Steve Pitts, who creates all of the work you can see in his studio. The studio is on the second floor of Lowe Mill in studio 2051. Steve draws all of his work with a Radiograph pen which is a technical pen often used by engineers, architects, and drafters, and often uses an ink cartridge rather than refillable tubes. His art is all very sleek and several are fine lined. He has a variety of different types of work ranging from architectural places to machines to mandellas. Steve Pitts has donated several items to the auction and we are happy to feature him in our blog.

You can visit his website at symmetricaluniverse.com

Below is one of the pieces that he donated to our auction

Website for the Auction is zeffy.com/tick…/cattyshack-incs-silent-auction

Auction Featured Artist of the Day

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Today we want to focus on someone who seems to specialize in big cats and the female form.

We received donations from the artist Briana Zierman-Felix. She used to have a studio on the first floor but moved up to the second so she could have more space, and everyone is lucky she moved. She has so many original paintings that moving to a bigger studio helped get everything she had seen. Her art is powerful and passionate and all of it evokes a feeling, what that feeling is will be up to the viewer of the art.

You can buy her art in her studio at Lowe Mill at 2005, or visit her website brianaziermanfelix.com.

Here is one of the items she has donated to our auction.

Website for Auction zeffy.com/tick…/cattyshack-incs-silent-auction

Auction Featured Artists of the Day

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Today, we want to introduce you to Cut A Rug Tufting Studio. The studio is located at the Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment building in wonderful Huntsville, Alabama, Studio 326, which is on the third floor. The artist, Brent, is a friendly, nice guy who was willing to donate two cat rugs to the Cattyshack Online Auction. He has rescued a dog and cat himself. His rescued cat was seen on the side of the road, after having been hit by a car, and lost one of his back legs due to the incident. The kitten has now grown to be a cat and gets around fine as a tripod! Brett also holds workshops, so you can learn to tuft your own unique rug. You can visit his website at cutarugtufting.com.

Here you can see one of the rugs that Brett of Cut A Rug has donated.

Aplin Artworks is another studio that donated to the auction. The studio is located at the Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment building, Studio 2000, which is on the second floor. The studio is run by Dennis and Patricia Aplin. They have a great studio with a lot of light, which is great because their work is stained and melded glass works. Their son also makes beautiful glass chessboards. They have lessons where you can learn to work with glass in a mosaic application. Check out their website at http://aplinartworks.net/

 

Website for Auction zeffy.com/tick…/cattyshack-incs-silent-auction