Art from the Heart

Benefiting Capuchin Community Services

Art from the Heart logoArtists, 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.