This past Saturday, I covered Bacchanal, a wine festival and auction that raises scholarship money for Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) here in Philly.
There's something about PAFA events and auctions. When I covered the lighting of their Claes Oldenburg sculpture, my wife/photographer bid on a decorative shovel used in the groundbreaking of Lenfest Plaza, where the sculpture is.It's hanging in our guest bedroom. And when the music stopped at the end of Bacchanal, and the wine had been enjoyed, and the story for the Weekly Press had been flushed out, I found myself being handed a double magnum sized bottle of merlot (Columbia Vineyard) that I had to lug back to the car because the wife "just had to go home with something from the auction."
Good thing she didn't just have to go home with one of the bottles of wine or trips to Italy that went for tens of thousands of dollars.
Even better thing she didn't just have to go home with a guy who needed someone to take on a newly acquired trip to Italy.
My story for the Weekly Press focuses on an artist, Sasha Diehl, a PAFA student who receives some of that Bacchanal bucks. That scholarship money allows her to create with some of the best art instructors in the U.S.
To read the Weekly Press story, click here.
You can also learn more about Sasha's love of art, and see some of her work, and get an idea of what Bacchanal is all about by watching the videos below.
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