Day of city-limits art

Under altogether brilliant skies, two intermingling contest Saturday created an burghal caricature of art, music and food.

In its aboriginal year, the South Bend Applesauce Festival began at apex with chargeless performances alfresco the Morris Performing Arts Center.

And accepting beneath way about the aforementioned time was Art Beat 2012.

Artisans lined the city-limits streets, abounding awash beneath tents and umbrellas, as they awash their articles until 6 p.m.

Outside the South Bend Museum of Art, Kathy Fodness, a volunteer, guided 14-year-old Rebecca Broawick through the action of throwing a pot on a wheel.

"Give it a acicular egg appearance on the bottom," Fodness said, "and bang it down with all your might."

Rebecca complied and again smiled as she got her easily wet and delved into the clay, administration it delicately, as Fodness instructed, "like a babyish bunny."

The point of the exercise wasn't necessarily to actualize a accomplished piece, Fodness said, but rather to allocution about address and let humans accept a adventitious to try it out.

Across the street, in the parking lot of the College Football Hall of Fame, the "Community Art Project" aswell affianced festival-goers in a hands-on way.

Artist Ben Roseland created a painting of Mark di Suvero's carve "Keepers of the Fire," which stands in the St. Joseph River abaft Century Center.

One-inch squares were cut from the plan and participants were asked to acrylic anniversary area assimilate a one-foot area of bowl tile.

The tiles will be accumulated central Century Center and a high-tech awning press action will ultimately be acclimated to alteration the angel assimilate the ancillary of a architecture downtown.

Aaron Perri, controlling administrator of City-limits South Bend, the alignment that puts on Art Beat, said he came up with the idea.

"I achievement it works," he said of the project. "There's a lot of pressure," he said, as he pleaded with passersby to stop and participate.

An hour or so into the event, there were just 15 tiles done with about 700 larboard to go.

Alex Homann, 14, called a baby aboveboard and application a blot brush, corrective shades of the amethyst and blooming and gray angel assimilate a bowl tile.

"It's super," her mom, Jackie Homann, said about the project.

"We appear every year," she said of the event, adding, "there are added abundant aliment choices (this year)."

Indeed, beyond from Century Center, the aliment covering offered one comestible contentment afterwards another.

Apprentices from the American Comestible Federation's South Bend Chapter fabricated Bananas Foster for $3.

The Burghal Gourmet offered several items, including "twisted nachos" that looked like their acceptable counterpart, but was fabricated with cinnamon-flavored tortilla chips and was covered with fruit, amber and aerated cream.

Tippecanoe Place awash prime rib sandwiches and lobster cakes.

Volunteers from Unity Gardens fabricated vegetable quesadillas.

And Fiddler's Hearth offered servings of seafood paella from a flat, metal pan as big as two ample arms.

The restaurants city-limits kept active too, as festival-goers sat alfresco at places like Cafe Navarre, and enjoyed a bottle of wine as they listened to the reside entertainment, which graced assorted stages.

As the day wore on and the artisans began cerebration about closing down their booths, the applesauce acts were basic to move to calm venues for the evening.

Memories of the day's contest will be imprinted on city-limits South Bend for acceptable years to appear if the Community Art Activity mural is installed on a brick bank of the Ward Block Architecture in the advancing weeks.