The 18th annual Buckman Art Show & Sell is just around the corner (April 11th, 5-9 pm and April 12th, 10 am-5 pm). The huge fundraiser benefits Buckman Arts Elementary School, and features over 120 arists, designers, and craftspeople displaying and showing everything from dishware and jewelry to objets, toys, accessories, textiles, and more. Even better, the night of April 11th, 7 pm at the Jupiter Hotel is the Buckman Bash, a night of auctions, food, drinks, and performances from The Shins’ James Mercer and Stephen Malkmus, with openers the Well-Swung Gypsies. Plus, Andrew Dickson emcees, and the auctioned art includes work from Storm Tharpe, Jenene Nagy, Scott Wayne Indiana, and more.

(The “Perfect Trench” by participating designer Emily Katz.

UPDATE: I just got a message from Emily and she will be re-launching her Bonnie Heart Clyde line at the Buckman event, as well as selling her encaustic paintings, embedded with gemstones:

She also won’t be at the event herself until Saturday, because she along with Stewart + Brown and Toggles, will be showing the Emily Katz line in New York on the 10th at an eco-media party in conjunction with spa week. Speaking of which, make your appointments! $50 spa treatment specials from spas and salons all over town, April 14-20!