Danville Fine Arts Festival

Each year Danville closes off downtown main street and fills it with booths that house local artists and their work. From chalk art and stained glass to traditional Native American handmade flutes, the festival showcases the talents and creativity of Bay Area artisans. This year the Danville Fine Arts Festival opened up their festival to another group of artists, Chefs. A few of my talented co-workers: Suzy, Judy, JulieAnn, and I were asked to contribute four different culinary art pieces. We decided to be ambitious and enter something into each category. We made a sculpture of Bacchus, the God of Wine, out of salt dough, a vase full of flowers made out of vegetables and fruits, a spice mandala, and a painting using only natural food dyes. We all had so much fun with these projects and it was amazing to see the "fruits" of our labor be so well recieved and accepted as fine art amongst so many other talented artists. To top it all off Suzy entered her teapot cake into the cake contest and won first prize!