{"id":24515,"date":"2017-12-09T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=24515"},"modified":"2017-12-09T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:55:04","slug":"art-basel-parties-8th-annual-bombay-sapphire-artisan-series-finale-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/art-basel-parties-8th-annual-bombay-sapphire-artisan-series-finale-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Basel Parties: 8th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, December 9th,\u00a0Insecure\u00a0actress, writer, and producer\u00a0Issa Rae\u00a0and Global Arts Platform\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artsy<\/a> hosted the 8th\u00a0annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombaysapphire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bombay Sapphire<\/a> Artisan Series Finale party at\u00a0Miami\u2019s infamous\u00a0Villa Casa Casuarina\u00a0\u2013 formerly known as the\u00a0Versace Mansion.\u00a0Rae hosted an illustrious mix of celebrities, musicians, socialites, designers and industry innovators to celebrate the extraordinary work of the program\u2019s 16 finalists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24520\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24520\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BFA_22897_2751107-e1512834264766.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">8th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale hosted by Issa Rae, BFA.com\/ Samantha Deitch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VIP guests including\u00a0Olivia Culpo,\u00a0Eva Longoria, Mark Ronson\u00a0and Issa Rae\u2019s\u00a0<em>Insecure<\/em>\u00a0costars Broderick Hunter\u00a0and\u00a0Sarunas Jackson; models\u00a0RJ Kingand\u00a0Beau Dunn;\u00a0artists\u00a0Gregory Siff\u00a0and\u00a0Allie &amp; Lexi Kaplan;\u00a0designer\u00a0Gigi Burris;\u00a0and influencer\u00a0Olivia Lopez\u00a0who\u00a0mingled and sipped artfully crafted Bombay Sapphire cocktails while dancing to music spun by\u00a0designer and special guest DJ Heron Preston.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24516\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24516\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BFA_22897_2751073-e1512834241245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"572\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Heron Preston,\u00a08th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale hosted by Issa Rae, BFA.com\/ Samantha Deitch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bombayartisan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series<\/a> is an annual arts competition to uncover emerging artists across North America and provide them with a national platform to showcase their work. This year, the series had a record breaking number of submissions before the 16 finalists were selected to debut their work at a special exhibit at<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scope-art.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCOPE Miami Beach<\/a>\u00a0before the finale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the night winded down, Issa took the stage to announce\u00a0Vancouver\u2019s Vanessa Lam\u00a0as the Grand Finale Winner of the8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual\u00a0Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series\u00a0competition (a first-time Canadian winner for the program). In addition to Lam, Issa Rae announced the\u00a0Second Place Winner Ariel Vargassal\u00a0(Los Angeles) and\u00a0People\u2019s Choice Winner Charity White\u00a0(Chicago). Following her win, Lam will collaborate with the\u00a0renowned global arts platform,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsy.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artsy<\/a>,on a\u00a0groundbreaking public arts installation set to debut in New York City next spring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24517\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24517\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BFA_22897_2751125-e1512834253239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"468\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Charity White, Issa Rae, Vanessa Lam, Ariel Vargassal,\u00a08th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale hosted by Issa Rae, BFA.com\/ Samantha Deitch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>top image \/\/\u00a08th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale hosted by Issa Rae, BFA.com\/ Samantha Deitch<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, December 9th,\u00a0Insecure\u00a0actress, writer, and producer\u00a0Issa Rae\u00a0and Global Arts Platform\u00a0Artsy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":24518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}