{"id":13626,"date":"2016-12-03T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2017-11-08T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:37:20","slug":"7th-annual-bombay-sapphire-artisan-series-selects-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/7th-annual-bombay-sapphire-artisan-series-selects-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"7th Annual BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Artisan Series Selects Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_-4614328599968022563MsoPlainText\">On Thursday night,\u00a0Russell and Danny Simmons\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/rushphilanthropic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation<\/a> along with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bombaysapphire.com\/en-gb\/lda.aspx?redirect=ourgin.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bombay Sapphire Gin<\/a>, announced Philadelphia based artist Darius Frank as the Grand Prize Winner of the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Annual BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Artisan Series. Once again, the annual arts competition embarked on a North American search for the next big name in visual arts; bringing 16 finalists to <a href=\"https:\/\/scope-art.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SCOPE Miami Beach<\/a> to showcase their work in front of an esteemed panel of judges including Rush Philanthropic co-founder Danny Simmons; SCOPE Miami Beach Vice President Daria Brit Greene; <a href=\"http:\/\/creativetime.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative Time\u2019s<\/a> Executive Director Katie Hollander, and Artisan Series Canadian Ambassador\/Painter Kim Dorland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13656\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13656\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BFA_18308_2290151-e1480786559116.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Guichard, Danny Simmons, Jimmy Jenkins Jr, Russell Simmons\" width=\"585\" height=\"391\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Andre Guichard, Danny Simmons, Jimmy Jenkins Jr, Russell Simmons at the 7th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4614328599968022563MsoPlainText\">As the Grand Prize Winner, Darius Frank<b> <\/b>will now move on to collaborate with New York based non-profit arts organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/creativetime.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative Time<\/a>, on a groundbreaking public arts project scheduled to be unveiled in Spring 2017 and win a solo exhibition at next year\u2019s SCOPE Miami Beach.<b><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13657\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13657\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BFA_18308_2290137-e1480786609139.jpg\" alt=\"A$AP Rocky\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">A$AP Rocky at the 7th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An illustrious mix of artists, celebrities, musicians, and art industry influencers came together for the private event at\u00a01111 Lincoln Road. Guests, including A$AP Rocky, Russell Simmons, Rosario Dawson, and Sasha Lane, enjoyed artfully crafted BOMBAY SAPPHIRE cocktails and hor d&#8217;oeuvres while dancing to beats by Guest DJ Jermaine Dupri.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13658\" style=\"width: 583px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13658\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BFA_18308_2290100-e1480786686681.jpg\" alt=\"Jermaine Dupri\" width=\"583\" height=\"388\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Jermaine Dupri\u00a0at the 7th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Photos \/\/ Zach Hilty\/BFA.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, Russell and Danny Simmons\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}