Name of Event: Danville Fine Arts Faire
Location: Hartz Avenue
Dates/Times: June 18 & 19, 2011
This year’s twentieth annual event is hosted by the Danville Area of Commerce. It attracts over 50,000 people to tree-lined Hartz Avenue in downtown Danville – an upscale community 40 miles east of San Francisco. Highlights include 200 high quality fine art and crafts exhibitors, Italian street painting exhibition, street entertainment, kids’ activities, great food, fine wines & micro-brews.
Sculpture
The ART of Natural Hair African Venus” was created by the sculptor Charles Henri Joseph Cordier in bronze in 1851. The sculpture was created as a companion piece to an earlier work created by Charles Cordier entitled “Said Abdullah of the Mayac, Kingdom of the Darfur”. The model was a young African woman by the name of Seïd Enkess who was a former slave in France. Both busts became popular after France abolished slavery in 1848. Charles Cordier himself was sympathetic to the abolitionist movement and believed in the beauty and equality of all races.
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