The 2009 Telluride Festival of the Arts offers delight for food, wine, art, and music lovers alike by bringing together a common passion for food, art and entertainment. Highlights of the 2009 Festival include celebrity chef demonstrations, food and wine seminars, a celebrity chef dinner and the festival favorite grand tasting, along with a nationally juried art exhibit organized by the producers of the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, one of the nation's most well known and most competitive outdoor juried arts festivals.

The art show is free admission and will feature national and regionally recognized artists in 13 different media categories including: ceramics, digital art, drawing, fiber, glass, graphics and printmaking, jewelry, metal-works, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture and wood.

Telluride Festival of the Arts has released the event's official poster, mixed-media created by artist Michael Gadlin of Denver, Colorado and titled "The Essence of Pleasures". This commemorative piece is available during the Festival and for the first time the original will be auctioned off at the Celebrity Chef Dinner on Friday, August 14.    www.gadlinscanvas.com 

To purchase the official festival poster click here.