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1/23/2012 Preschoolers paint mural bound for auction block [The Detroit News] Jan. 21, 2012 — Painter Tim Yanke didn’t mind if his class of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds made a mess of the canvas stretched before them at the Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency. When finished, the work will be auctioned off, likely at the Southfield-based Park West Gallery, which provided the art supplies, with all proceeds going to the human services agency.
1/19/2012 Local artist Yanke works with Pontiac children on art project for fundraiser [The Oakland Press] Jan. 18, 2012 — In Pontiac, 68 kids between three and five years old were armed with paint brushes on Wednesday and given 50 feet by 10 feet of space to paint. Birmingham resident Tim Yanke describes himself as an “abstract neo-southwest artist,” and four groups of 17 children each spent 30 minutes painting with him. Yanke sells his art at Park West Gallery, a Southfield art gallery with 1.2 million customers in 70 countries.
12/27/2011 Park West Gallery on CBS ‘Michigan Matters’ Holiday Show On a holiday edition of CBS Detroit’s Michigan Matters, host Carol Cain sat down with Saba Gebrai, Program Director of the Park West Foundation, and Tim Yanke, an artist with Park West Gallery.
12/9/2011 Artist Marcus Glenn Making His Mark [The Michigan Chronicle] Southfield-based Marcus Glenn is an artist on the move. He is a featured artist at Park West Gallery, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History has acquired one of his works to be part of its permanent collection.
12/6/2011 Local child rights activist lauds Michigan adoption law [The Michigan Citizen] Saba Gebrai is the director for the Blue Babies Park West Foundation, an organization in Detroit committed to supporting and uplifting youth in the social welfare system eager to improve themselves, as well as those who are in foster care.
12/2/2011 Abstract painter pushes the envelope to create art no one’s ever seen before [The Oakland Press] Detroit artist Tim Yanke strives to create art no one has ever seen before. And he needs noise to do it.
11/28/2011 WDIV Voters Name Park West Gallery “The Best” in Detroit For the second year in a row, clickondetroit.com voters have named Park West Gallery as “The Best” Art Gallery in Detroit!
11/16/2011 International Artist Dominic Pangborn Visits SPF Middle Schools [Scotch Plains/Fanwood News] On Monday, Nov. 14, internationally renowned Michigan based Artist Dominic Pangborn visited the Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District. Pangborn was visiting courtesy of Park West CARES, the philanthropic arm of Park West Gallery. In addition to making one of their premier artists available to speak to students, Park West is also making a generous donation of 20 works of art to the Education Enrichment Foundation of SPF.
11/7/2011 Cruise Radio Interviews Park West Gallery Cruise Radio, an informative and entertaining online resource for cruisers, recently interviewed Park West Gallery about its popular on-board art auctions.
11/1/2011 Beyond Basics at Park West [DBusiness] Beyond Basics, a local organization embracing literacy and the children of Detroit Public Schools, hosted a fundraising event at Park West Gallery in Southfield on Oct. 26 where guests enjoyed cocktails, strolling appetizers, and a live auction.
10/10/2011 Gallery paintings impress, not just for show [South Oakland Eccentric] Prior to a 1999 renovation at Park West Gallery on Northwestern Highway, window shopping was a popular pastime. On one side of the 63,000-square-foot building were seven tenants, including a popular pizzeria, which attracted potential art fans, according to gallery owner Albert Scaglione. With art sales increasing, Scaglione completed a $3 million renovation, turning the entire building into a gallery...
8/8/2011 Park West Gallery Featured in Art World News June/July 2011 The June/July 2011 issue of Art World News featured an article entitled “Park West Gallery Named Best Michigan Gallery by ‘Official Best Of’ Travel Program.” Art World News is widely known as one of the most popular trade magazines serving the art and framing industry.
7/29/2011 Park West Gallery founder’s lifelong mission takes him on 42-year journey [The Oakland Press] Park West Gallery in Southfield is celebrating its 42nd anniversary and has been named “The Official Best Art Gallery in Michigan 2011” by the “Official Best Of” travel TV program.
7/8/2011 WJR’s ‘Paul W. Smith Show’ Salutes Park West Gallery Metro Detroit’s popular Paul W. Smith Show (airing weekday mornings on WJR News/Talk 760AM), recently saluted Park West Gallery and its CEO Albert Scaglione. This touching tribute came in light of Park West Gallery’s newly earned accolade as “The Official Best Art Gallery in Michigan – 2011″.
6/27/2011 Park West Gallery CEO on Sydney University’s Fundraising Picasso Sale [Podcast] Park West Gallery CEO and founder Albert Scaglione speaks to 1240 WJIM to provide expert insight into a recent Picasso sale making art news headlines around the globe.
6/20/2011 Gallery owners aid young adults [Detroit Free Press] (pdf) Albert and Mitsie Scaglione are the owners of Park West Gallery in Southfield and founders of the Park West Foundation, which assists young men and women who are required by law to leave Michigan's foster care system at age 18.
5/19/2011 Park West Gallery CEO Albert Scaglione on WJIM 1240AM Radio As an art auction industry leader, Park West Gallery founder and CEO Albert Scaglione was recently asked by Lansing’s WJIM 1240AM to share his thoughts on last week's record-setting Warhol sale.
5/13/2011 Galleries Benefit from Art Auctions [Art World News] Art World News, the popular art and framing trade magazine, recently featured an article entitled, “Galleries Benefit from Art Auctions.” Park West Gallery was among the art auction industry leaders interviewed for the piece.
5/2/2011 New ALIWOOD Exhibit to Open at Muhammad Ali Center [The Courier-Journal] Beginning on May 4th, visitors to the Ali Center will have the opportunity to view select photos of The Champ captured alongside other celebrities, in a new exhibit called ALIWOOD. In addition to the signed photos donated by Park West Gallery, this exhibit will also feature multimedia and celebrity quotes about Muhammad Ali.
4/29/2011 Arizona Broadway Theater to hold ARTrageous fundraiser [Peoria Times] PHOENIX, AZ (Peoria Times) — Arizona Broadway Theatre (ABT Performing Arts Association, Inc.) has recently received a generous donation of fine art from the Park West Foundation, headquartered in Southfield, Mich.
4/20/2011 Change a Lifetime During National Foster Care Month [The Oakland Press] During Foster Care Month, Park West Foundation & the Blue Babies encourage all to have faith. Enough to take the first step and have the privilege to be in a child’s life.
4/11/2011 WWJ Interviews Peter Max at Park West Gallery Collectors Gala Event Park West Gallery is celebrating its 42nd anniversary this weekend with the major Collectors Gala Event held at the Henry. Attendees have a chance to bid on hundreds of works of fine art. They’re also getting a chance to meet and chat with people like world-famous artist Peter Max who has a number of pieces in the auctions. Artists Itzchak Tarkay and David Najar are also attending.
4/11/2011 An Inspiring Interview with the Park West Foundation [WWJ/CBS Newsradio] DETROIT (WWJ/CBS Detroit) – For young people in the foster care system, especially those about to age out of the system or who have aged out with no place to go, life is very challenging. Help is available for young adults who are too old for foster care. WWJ’s Pat Sweeting reports through the Park West Foundation older teens and young adults are able to get their lives back on track.
4/8/2011 “Made in Michigan” Profiles Park West Gallery Every week on the WWJ (950AM) Newsradio program, Made in Michigan, reporter Marie Osborne profiles local and national businesses based in Michigan. The program recently featured Park West Gallery, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, and the company’s CEO and founder, Albert Scaglione.
3/31/2011 WWJ Newsradio 950 Features Park West Foundation (pdf) For far too many foster children who are aging out of that system, the future can be pretty bleak. But, WWJ Newsradio 950's Pat Sweeting discusses with Saba Gebrai and Kinita McDaniel a program called the Park West Foundation program that helps guide these young people.
3/21/2011 WOMC’s “Sunday Edition” Interviews the Park West Foundation Director On Sunday, March 20, Saba Gebrai, Program Director of the Park West Foundation, was interviewed by Alisa Zee for 104.3 WOMC Detroit’s Sunday Edition.
3/4/2011 “Park West Gallery ‘Art With a Heart’” (pdf) Park West Gallery and its CEO and founder, Albert Scaglione, were recently featured in an article entitled, “Park West Gallery: ‘Art With a Heart’,” published in Oakland County’s Senior Advocate.
2/21/2011 Park West Gallery CEO Albert Scaglione on WWJ Newsradio How do you re-invent yourself? Albert Scaglione, CEO and founder of Park West Gallery knows a thing or two about doing that, he recently told WWJ Newsradio 950AM. The Park West Gallery owner was featured on the Staying in Touch program hosted by Ron Dewey. During the interview, Albert Scaglione discussed his background, the founding of Park West Gallery, and shared his advice on how to be successful in this difficult economy.
2/21/2011 From Science to Art: Park West Gallery CEO Albert Scaglione on WJIM 1240 On February 16, Park West Gallery CEO and founder Albert Scaglione joined Michael Patrick Shiels as the guest of honor on WJIM 1240AM’s Mid-Michigan Business Rap. The esteemed panel spoke to Albert Scaglione all about the success of Park West Gallery and its popular cruise ship art auctions. Don’t miss this fascinating interview!
2/7/2011 Marketing Beyond the Gallery Walls [Art World News] (pdf) Official Harley-Davidson artist Scott Jacobs and Park West Gallery were featured in the January 2011 issue of Art World News.
12/29/2010 Park West Gallery CARES Featured in the St. Petersburg Times (pdf) St. Petersburg Times (December 2010) — Marko Mavrovich, an artist who has roots in Croatia, gave an art presentation to participants in the Family Resources Youth Arts Corps program, stressing the discipline of continual practice and the need to become inspired every day through painting, preparing a canvas, even rearranging a work space.
11/17/2010 Winston gets new logo, painting (pdf) WINSTON, Ore. (NRtoday.com)–The chief executive officer of a Michigan-based art gallery donated 20 pieces of framed art and a set of art books to Douglas High School. Park West Gallery, which has galleries in Michigan and Florida, has donated art and art books to communities in those two states and throughout the world.
11/17/2010 News Radio 1240 KQEN Reports on Park West Gallery Fine Art Donation (pdf) News Radio 1240 KQEN (Nov. 15, 2010)—The Public Schools in Winston received a large donation of art in a special ceremony this morning. Park West Gallery in Southfield, Michigan has donated 20 works by Park West artists as well as art books.
11/17/2010 Douglas High School art program gets donation (pdf) WINSTON, Ore. (KPIC CBS 4 News)—The Douglas High School art department got a big gift Monday morning, when they received a donation of art and books from Park West Gallery out of Southfield, Michigan.
11/16/2010 Major art donation brings free paintings to Douglas High, new Winston logo (pdf) WINSTON, Ore. (KMTR) -- Thousands of dollars worth of free paintings are being donated to Douglas High School in Winston and the city is getting a new logo all from efforts by a Michigan based art gallery. Park West Gallery of Southfield, Michigan unveiled the paintings Monday, November 15, 2010, at Douglas High.
9/19/2010 Park West Gallery Judges 2010 American Art Awards (pdf) Gallery selected as Michigan Representative in Country-Wide Search for New Talent
9/8/2010 Park West Gallery Donates Clothing, Art to Grace Centers of Hope (pdf) Michigan Chronicle article covers the Park West CARES donation of merchandise to Grace Centers of Hope in Pontiac, Michigan
8/18/2010 Gallery Gives Paintings to Local Shelter (pdf) Oakland Press Article on Park West Gallery donation of clothing, artwork to Grace Centers of Hope.
8/15/2010 Foundation gets art gift valued at $1.3 million (pdf) CHARLOTTE - The Charlotte Public Schools (CPS) Education Foundation has received a major gift of art from Park West Gallery of Southfield, Mich. Bill Callahan, president of the CPS Education Foundation, reports that Mr. Albert Scaglione, founder and chief executive officer of Park West, was the major donor of the gift valued at $1.3 million.
8/12/2010 Park West Donates Clothing, Art to Grace Centers of Hope (pdf) Detroit Free Press article on the Park West CARES donation initiative involving Grace Centers of Hope.
8/11/2010 Park West Gallery Supports Diabetes Fundraiser (pdf) Donation of artwork helps raise money to send kids to camp.
10/1/2009 Park West Gallery Hosts Benefit for Michigan’s Children Event will feature exhibition and auction of late cartoonist Nolan Ross’ artworks
9/29/2009 Art for All (pdf) Albert Scaglione, CEO of Park West Gallery, talks with Centralight Magazine
9/22/2009 Park West Gallery Director Morris Shapiro Hosts Auction for PBS Event PBS Premiere Night Will Raise Awareness and Funds for Detroit Public Television
8/18/2009 Park West Gallery Supports Institutes of Higher Learning Gallery provides framing for previously donated artwork to Central Michigan University
6/18/2009 City Honors 40 Years of Park West Gallery (pdf) Mayor Brenda Lawrence announces June 15th as Park West Gallery Day in the city of Southfield, Michigan
6/16/2009 Park West Gallery Day Proclamation (pdf)
5/8/2009 Roger’s Right Corner: It’s the People You Meet! (pdf) The most interesting people on Roger Cathcart's cruise were the Park West auctioneers – a fixture on Norwegian lines.
4/1/2009 Going Once...Going Twice (pdf) Park West Gallery's announces 40-40-40, the most extensive customer service policy in the industry.
4/1/2009 Park West Celebrates 40 Years (pdf) Ruby--the 40th anniversary gemstone--possesses an eternal inner flame, a symbol that the passion is still very alive and strong after four decades.
3/26/2009 Park West Artist Yaacov Agam Builds Sculpture at Entrance to World Games Stadium Innovative Kinetic Artist Honored by International World Games Association
3/20/2009 A Celebration of Life and Home Going for Weusi Olusola (pdf) Weusi’s Family and Pioneers for Peace invite you to Honor and Celebrate Weusi’s Life, By Committing to be A PIONEER!
3/17/2009 Park West Gallery Spring Sale: Ideal for All Your Spring Gift-Giving Needs Fine art and jewelry treasures make perfect birthday, Mother’s Day and graduation gifts
3/11/2009 Art and Soul (pdf) (pdf) Peek Inside the Personal Collection of Park West Gallery's Director
3/10/2009 Park West Celebrates 40th Anniversary (pdf) Park West celebrates its 40th anniversary with a star-studded gala.
2/20/2009 Weusi Olusala Inspires in Battle Against Cancer (pdf) Park West Gallery and the Park West Foundation Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Pioneers of Peace Founder Weusi Olusala
12/17/2008 Park West Gallery CEO Albert Scaglione Delivers Commencement Address at Central Michigan University – Receives Honorary Degree (pdf) Park West Gallery Founder and Chief Executive Officer inspires students with message of “the four C’s” of success
12/10/2008 Park West Gallery Winter Sale provides perfect escape from “mall madness” Fine art and jewelry treasures await online or in a serene and elegant gallery setting.
9/30/2008 Art World News Interviews Albert Scaglione (pdf) As Park West Celebrates it's 40th year in business, Art World News covers their 40th Anniversary event
9/1/2008 Young Detroiters Meet Muhammed Ali (pdf) A special group of Detroit-area young women and men enjoyed the once-in-a-lifetime experience of meeting Muhammad Ali.
7/17/2008 Park West Gallery Receives 2008 Best of Southfield Award (pdf) Park West Gallery has been selected for the 2008 Best of Southfield Award in the Art Galleries & Dealers category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).
6/5/2008 At 80, Yaacov Agam still vibrant with his artwork and other ideas (pdf) “I think he’s a stone genius,” said Morris Shapiro, the gallery director at ParkWest Gallery® in Southfield, Mich., which has exhibited and sold Agam for decades, and also hosted a birthday party for him May 18 in Detroit. “He took up the thread of aesthetics that had been cast aside by conceptual artists such as Marcel DuChamp, added the dimensions of time and space, and taken painting to another level.”
6/1/2008 Figuratively Speaking (pdf) From June 6-22, Park West will present "Tarkay: Recent Works," a collection of more than 40 paintings, watercolors, mixed media and limited-edition serigraphs by figurative artist Itzchak Tarkay.
5/24/2008 Buy it because you love it (pdf) The real dividend people should seek from art is not financial but emotional.
5/22/2008 Gallery's cruise ship strategy makes splash with art sales (pdf) The globally-renowned art dealer/gallery is the world's largest in terms of unit sales, based largely on the strength of its "cruising" strategy. Park West has sold thousands of works of art on 85 cruise ships and eight cruise lines.
4/1/2008 Albert Scaglione: The Art of Art Sales With an affiliate location in Miami, which supplies art auctions in cruises, Park West® sells more than 300,000 pieces of art every year while generating some $450 million in annual revenue. Leave it to a rocket scientist to engineer this level of success.
1/17/2008 The Art Of Community Building (pdf) Albert Scaglione grew up in Nutley, New Jersey, a good Italian boy who knew how to work. When he was eight he began tagging along on weekends with his father, who drove a truck and hauled industrial waste...
11/1/2007 Going Once, Going Twice (pdf) Detroit's Premier Business Journal presents Park West Gallery's CEO, Albert Scaglione, who passed up a promising career as a rocket scientist and instead created a high-powered fine art gallery and auction house.
9/2/2007 Israeli artist's works on display (pdf) Works by Israeli master kinetic artist Yaacov Agam will be featured at the Jewish National Fund's Tribut & Farewell Dinner...
8/23/2007 Art in the City (pdf) It's a gem many might overlook in a bustling city packed with residences and office buildings. The Park West Gallery - well-known for running art auctions on cruise lines - is a 63,000- square-foot find in the city of Southfield
7/19/2007 Taking Art to the People - Dealer's auctions on land, at sea help grow business (pdf)
10/27/2001 Animation Art Today Animation Art, 11 a.m. - 6p.m. today and Sunday Park West Gallery 29469 Northwestern, Southfield. 800) 521-9654 or www.parkwestgallery.com
10/26/2001 Exhibit Opening Tonight An Animation Art Exhibition and sale including a comprehensive collection of Hanna-Barbera artwork will be hosted by Park West Gallery®, in Southfield
2/19/1999 A Taste Of Tarkay (pdf) Three women at a café engrossed in intimate conversation. A female figure draped in a patterned skirt lounging on a chair. A melancholy lady alone at tea
2/4/1993 Dalí: Surrealist Master Guides on Journey
10/24/1991 Park West Gallery Hosts Israeli Painter October 26 Itzchak Tarkay, Israel's most important figurative painter and currently one of the world's most sought after and collected artists, will be featured at Southfield's Park West Gallery with a major exhibition of his work Oct. 26 through Nov. 21.