At Main Line show, you might buy art from a famous artist. Or from a 6-year-old

At the Main Line Art Center's newest exhibition, you might leave with a piece by an internationally renowned artist.

Or from a 6-year-old summer camper.

Artists at the Flipside Community Exhibition and Fund-raiser will present their 8-inch-square  canvas works, created in various media, which attendees can purchase for $40.  But there's a plot twist: The artist's name won't be revealed until after the purchase.

Often, we can too get caught up in labels. In the grocery store, while shopping for clothes, we go for the name brand, even if the off-label version is just as good. Amie Potsic, executive director and chief curator of Main Line Art Center, says this show is an opportunity for people to really follow their hearts when it comes to purchasing art. "You're buying it," Potsic says, "because you fell in love with that art work," rather than with the name of the artist.

"This was a way of really highlighting the emotional connection to the artwork," she said. "When we buy art, we can love it for decades. It's because it keeps giving you that emotional connection to it."

Hippie, artist, and activist Wavy Gravy, who happens to be Potsic's father-in-law, will be presenting his work. He says art is  "better served on [its] own merits than the buzz of the celebrity of the artist."

The exhibit, Postic says, is meant to correlate directly with Main Line Art Center's mission: to make art more accessible to a diverse range of people, but also to give all artists a platform, regardless of their status in the artworld.

Along with Gravy will be installation artist Sun Young Kang, contemporary artist Deirdre Murphy,  wood sculptor Eiko Fan, and DISTORT, who has exhibited at Art Basel in Miami. But it's not just professional artists who are submitting their work. You might walk home with the work of State Sen. Daylin Leach; Nahjee Grant, children's book author, publisher, and host of "On the Rise," a public-access-TV show; and Pat Nogar, host of "Living Well with Pat Nogar," also on public-access TV.  All have also made pieces for the show. In the mix will be work from the young artists who attend the Main Line Art Center's summer camps, including some as young as 6.

The exhibit is a fund-raiser for the Main Line Art Center's community-based programming, including an accessible art program for artists with disabilities that the center has financed for more than 50 years. The fund-raisers will also provide resources for the center's partnerships, such as their work with theVillage, an organization that houses displaced youth, and Carelink Community, a social services organization that builds community through the arts. The Flipside show will also fund the center's scholarship program that provides tuition for classes.

Postic says the fundraiser is "a way to invite everyone into our programs, and there are no financial barriers. Everyone who wants to be a part of the community can." Art, she says, "is a community-building force."

"I want people to  leave having internalized that sense of community," she says, "and really having a lot of fun."

For Gravy, it's an opportunity to showcase his work in a way he never has before.

"I like the surprise of it," he says. "History is a list of surprises. I like that this is an art surprise."