WINE AND FOOD FESTIVAL

A toast to the arts

Wildwood Park for the Arts sets the table for annual fundraiser

With chardonnays, merlots, rieslings and zinfandels, more than 170 wines were available for tasting at Wildwood Park for the Arts' 17th annual Wine and Food Festival.

Tables of wine and food from local restaurants lined the arts complex interior. Restaurants included Bravo Cucina Italiano, Copeland's, The Southern Gourmasian, Three Fold Noodles and Dumpling Co., 1620 Savoy, Table 28, So Restaurant and Bar and Chenal Country Club. There were sweets from The Blue Cake Co., The Lemon Cakery, The Cupcake Factory and Menchie's. The wines were provided by Glazer's.

It wasn't all wine and food, though. The band Dizzy 7 provided entertainment from the stage. However, they were facing guest tables and cocktail tables in the backstage area. In the outdoor pavilion, the floor was covered with plastic and guests were given squeeze bottles of paint to drip and splatter on paper and create artworks in the style of Jackson Pollock. Inside, just off stage, guests could also make art in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an artist from the 1500s who painted portraits of people using fruit and vegetables for their features.

More than 450 guests attended the festival. Money raised at the festival, about $18,000, supports Wildwood Park, which includes a 105-acre park and gardens and a 625-seat theater complex where the nonprofit provides artistic and educational programming.

High Profile on 06/07/2015

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