Art from the Heart
Benefiting Capuchin Community Services
Artists, collectors and art patrons Tony and Patricia Busalacchi invite the public to participate in Art from the Heart, an online art sale benefiting Capuchin Community Services. Roughly 200 original artworks created by Tony Busalacchi and others are being offered for sale to the public in exchange for a donation to Capuchin Community Services.
Art from the Heart affords an opportunity for the sharin’ o’ the green around St. Patrick's Day to benefit the needy. Funds raised through Art with a Heart will support the mission of Capuchin Community Services. The Capuchins attend to the spiritual and basic needs of people experiencing homelessness, poverty and hunger through their two sites: St. Ben’s Community Meal and the House of Peace.
“Every day, Capuchin Community Services serves hundreds of hot meals at St. Ben’s, provides emergency clothing and food distribution at the House of Peace, and accompanies people as they navigate difficult circumstances,” said Br. Robert Wotypka, ministry director of Capuchin Community Services. “None of this work is possible without the support of so many like Tony and Pat and those who come out to show their support at events like Art with a Heart.”
**** Note that the live sale that had been scheduled for March 13-14 has been canceled. Artworks will be available online-only. ****
Preview the Art from the Heart collection
These and other artworks are available for pre-purchase with a minimum donation amount.
To order: Contact Tony Busalacchi.
Please be sure to include the name of the artwork you are interested in, and your donation amount.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - $325 minimum donation amount
A Bird in the Book is Worth Two in the Bush - $375 minimum donation amount
A Tale of Two Cities - #1 - $375 minimum donation amount
Abe and Friends - $350 minimum donation amount
About Birds - $350 minimum donation amount
Adam - $375 minimum donation amount
The Adventures of Pinocchio - $350 minimum suggested donation
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - $325 minimum donation amount
American Gothic Revisted - $350 minimum donation amount
American House of Cards - $375 minimum donation amount
Apollo with a Classical Pounding Headache - $650 minimum donation amount
Arabian Tales - $375 minimum donation amount
Arpesque Fried Egg - $400 minimum donation amount
Arpesque - $400 minimum donation amount
Audubon House - $450 minimum donation amount
Audubon - $400 minimum donation amount
Birds and Fishes - $400 minimum donation amount
Boys will be Boys - $600 minimum donation amount
British House of Cards - $400 minimum donation amount
Building It - Please email us for minimum donation amount
Carousel of War - $600 minimum donation amount
Chair for the Lakefront - $750 minimum donation amount
Charles Dickens - $375 minimum donation amount
Charlie - $300 minimum donation amount
Chinese Shovel with Giant Blueberries - $950 minimum donation amount
Chipopolis - $150 minimum donation amount
City at Night - $250 minimum donation amount
Cold Cash 2 - $200 minimum donation amount
Condos on the River - $500 minimum donation amount
Copernicus' Daughter - $375 minimum donation amount
Crowns for the Order of St. George, the Czarina, Czar and Czarevitch $1800 minimum donation amount for set
Diana and her Girls - $450 minimum donation amount
Dilly Dalí - $400 minimum donation amount
Disney Fantasy - Please email us for minimum donation amount
Donald's Duck Boat - $450 minimum donation amount
Edgar Allan Poe - $350 minimum donation amount
Flying in the Clouds - $200 minimum donation amount
From Downtown to Uptown - $450 minimum donation amount
From the Czar to Vince Lombardi - $400 minimum donation amount
From the Czar to the Czarina - Folk Musicians - $350 minimum donation amount
From the Czar to the Emperor of Rome - $350 minimum donation amount
From the Czar to the Empress of China - $375 minimum donation amount
From the Czar to the King of Denmark - $375 minimum donation amount
From the Czar to the King of Portugal - $300 minimum donation amount
Frontier Days - $325 minimum donation amount
The Garden of Eden - $200 minimum donation amount
Get Me Out of Here! - $375 minimum donation amount
Glass-fed Beef - $350 minimum donation amount
Grimms' Fairy Tales - $350 minimum donation amount
Henry's Wives - $350 minimum donation amount
Holy Men of India - $250 minimum donation amount
I Fell - $400 minimum donation amount
Icarus with MAM Wings on Shoulder - $750 minimum donation amount
Jacob's Ladder Mobile - $950 minimum donation amount
Journeys Through Bookland - $325 minimum donation amount
King Teddy - $550 minimum donation amount
Lakefront Duck - Please email us for minimum donation amount
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - $200 minimum donation amount
Madame Mondrian Must Have Been a Saint - $700 minimum donation amount
Madame Mondrian - $850 minimum donation amount
Matisse-Lichtenstienish Mobile - $450 minimum donation amount
Matisse-esque Mobile - $1,200 minimum donation amount
Matisse-esque Mobile 2 - $450 minimum donation amount
Matisse Forms - $750 minimum donation amount
Matisse-esque Leaves - $1,200 minimum donation amount
Medieval 1 - $400 minimum donation amount
Medieval 2 - $375 minimum donation amount
Medieval Collage - $400 minimum donation amount
Medieval Times - $400 minimum donation amount
Metal Daphne and Apollo - Please email us for minimum donation amount
Moby Dick Nest Blocks - $400 minimum donation amount
Moby Dick - $300 minimum suggested donation
Moll Flanders - Please email us for minimum donation amount
Monopoly on Wheels - $150 minimum donation amount
New and Old - $300 minimum donation amount
Not Baroquen - $250 minimum donation amount
Old Monopoly - $400 minimum donation amount
On the Brink of Diversity - $950 minimum donation amount
Oops! - $150 minimum donation amount
Peace Dove - $375 minimum donation amount
Peace Now - $250 minimum donation amount
Pilgrim's Progress - Please email us for minimum donation amount
Posies - $375 minimum donation amount
Preserving Old Glory - $200 minimum donation amount
Propeller Beanie for a Prince - $400 minimum donation amount
Reaching for Integration - $375 minimum donation amount
Red Badge of Courage - $300 minimum donation amount
Reliquary for St. Arnold (the patron saint of beer) - $800 minimum donation amount
Reliquary for the Apple - $2,000 minimum donation amount
Reliquary for the Patron Saint of Clowns - $450 minimum donation amount
Reliquary for the Patron Saint of Runners - $400 minimum donation amount
Robin Hood - $300 minimum donation amount
Seven Gables Schoolhouse with the Seven Liberal Arts - $400 minimum donation amount
Shakespeare of London - $350 minimum suggested donation
Shakespeare's Sonnets - $375 minimum suggested donation
Sistine Chapel – It's White Smoke, It's a Pope - $400 minimum donation amount
Slavery - $500 minimum donation amount
Sons of the Gold Stars - $350 minimum donation amount
St. Cecilia 2 - $250 minimum donation amount
St. Peter's - $650 minimum donation amount
Stabile #2 - $250 minimum donation amount
Staircase to Heaven - $550 minimum donation amount
Swedish Landscape - $400 minimum donation amount
A Tale of Two Cities #2 - $325 minimum donation amount
Temple Visit - $375 minimum donation amount
The Basics - $375 minimum donation amount
The Divine Comedy – Set of Three - $750 minimum donation amount
The Face of Time - $375 minimum donation amount
The Gang - $350 minimum donation amount
The Iliad - $300 minimum donation
The Keys to the Kingdom - $325 minimum donation amount
The Lost World - $300 minimum suggested donation
The Monopolist - $400 minimum donation amount
The Odyssey - $300 minimum donation amount
The Taj – Photo Collage - $375 minimum donation amount
This Too Shall Pass - $375 minimum donation amount
This Won't Work at Mt. Olympus - $400 minimum donation amount
Ticky Tacky Neighborhood - $250 minimum donation amount
Tissue Box for the Patriarch of Constantinople - $400 minimum donation amount
Too Close to the Sun – Icarus and Daedalus - $400 minimum donation amount
Trophy Ducks - $350 minimum donation amount
Tumbling Eggs and Furniture - $650 minimum donation amount
Under the Christmas Tree - $300 minimum donation amount
Vatican Collage - $400 minimum donation amount
Venus by DiSuveropolis - $450 minimum donation amount
Waltzing at the Frank Gehry - $400 minimum donation amount
War and Peace - $300 minimum donation amount
Wild Western Days - SOLD
With Adam and Eve - $350 minimum donation amount
Wrapped in the Flag - $400 minimum donation amount
In 2018, Tony and Pat held a similar art fundraiser benefiting St. Anthony Place. St. Anthony Place was converted from Saint Anthony Hospital and now provides 60 units of supported housing for people, many of whom were formerly homeless. The apartments were furnished in part with proceeds of over $100,000 raised in 2018 in an art fundraiser organized by Tony and Pat Busalacchi.
“That hospital was built in 1931. I was born in that hospital just two years after it opened. St. Francis of Assisi said to preach action, not words. My motto was to light one candle against the darkness. So an idea was born,” said Tony.
“My wife, Pat, and I have been married 60 years,” Tony explains. “We have traveled the world, collecting art from China, Persia, India, Serbia, Egypt, South America, Russia, Poland, and Europe. We believe that art lasts a lifetime. When one is ready, pass it along to someone else who will appreciate it. I am ready to ‘pass along’ 200 works of art; some of them are my creations and some are from our private collection.”
Tony taught humanities at Whitefish Bay High School and Cardinal Stritch University. He served on the Milwaukee Public School Board, the Whitefish Bay School Board, and the Whitefish Bay Village Board. He was the first president of the Milwaukee Opera Company and has served on the board of directors for the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. Tony also served as a member of the City of Milwaukee Art Commission. Tony’s artwork is on display at the Paint Box Gallery in Door County. Tony and Pat hosted the TV program Cultura on Milwaukee PBS in the 1960s, featuring conversations on the arts and cultural affairs.