A Flavorful Mix
Cuisine Art Cocktails with
Honorary Chair Maria Kalomenidou
Saturday, Nov. 23, 5–10 p.m.
Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St.
$2,500 Contemporary Cincinnati Sponsor
4 VIP tickets | Recognition on CAC website and social media | Recognition on events signage and program.
$600 Host/Hostess
2 VIP tickets | Recognition Host/Hostess on CAC website and social media | Opportunity to invite friends and family with discount code.
$300 VIP
1 VIP tickets. 1-hour early admission, VIP access and exclusive art experiences with food and drink from Chef Jose Salazar and Molly Wellmann.
$225 General Admission
One General Admission ticket, includes food, drink, art experiences, and more.
$175 Member General Admission
One General Admission ticket, includes food, drink, art experiences, and more.
What’s the best part of a party – the food, the drinks, the crowd?
Sample the best of all three during the Contemporary Arts Center’s largest fundraiser of the year – Cuisine Art Cocktails.
This evening supports and celebrates the contemporary culture of Cincinnati with an artful collaboration between community, chefs and mixologists, creatives, and business leaders.
“Since it’s founding in 1939, CAC has been a champion of emerging ideas in contemporary art and culture,” says Carolyn Hefner, CAC’s external affairs director. “And for longer than that, food and drink have played pivotal roles in art movements around the globe.”
In 2016, CAC enlisted the talents of the city's finest chefs and mixologists to create a coffee-table cookbook, “Cuisine Art Cocktails.” Every dish or drink was inspired by provocative works of American and international contemporary art.
“We are most excited to revisit the idea because Cuisine Art Cocktails – in its past and current form – reflects the creativity, nourishment and sense of community that are central to the CAC and to those partnering with us for this year’s event: brilliant chefs, mixologists, restauranteurs, dancers, visual artists, singers, and more,” says Hefner.
CAC is also teaming with other non-profits, including American Sign Museum, Brewing Heritage Trail, Cincinnati Art Museum, and Newport Aquarium, yet still showcasing contemporary culture and contemporary art only the way the CAC can. Cuisine Art Cocktails is an example of CAC’s cutting edge approach, providing a platform to lift up the work of those contributing to contemporary culture in Cincinnati all, including mixologist, restaurants, tattoo artists, and more
“In our events in more recent years, we’d departed from showcasing contemporary culture in our region, focusing much more on presenting contemporary visual arts,” says Hefner. “This year’s Cuisine Art Cocktails gets back to our roots of being sensitive to a multisensory approach of experiencing culture and art, but also sets the tone for our future and reminding folks that CAC serves as the premier venue in our region for all forms of contemporary art.”