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ART
THERAPY
STUDIO
12200 Fairhill Road              Cleveland, OH  44120              216.791.9303
SINCE 1967
Jill Wolf,  Pastry Chef  at  
Mitchell's Fish Market in
Woodmere, enters  her
Tropical Chocolate Torte and
wins Best of Show!
Viktor Schreckengost,
Moroccan Lute
Featured in Collection
Joseph O'Sickey,
Potted Plants
Featured in Collection
EVENTS
The bi-annual event features a competition between  Northern Ohio's finest Pastry Chefs as
they compete for recognition. A panel of culinary judges from the area's top cooking schools
and media  awards Best of Show, Crowd Favorite, Most Decadently Delicious and Most
Artistic desserts.   This  year's event raised over $47,000 to support our art therapy
programs in the community.

All of our competitors did a wonderful job!  Hope you saw the terrific coverage in the October
13th Plain Dealer Out & About Section.  When you place orders with the fine establishments
and pastry chefs, please let them know you heard about them at the Competition!
A big THANK YOU goes out to Tina Korting, Benefit Chairperson, the pastry chefs, corporate
sponsors, guests, volunteers and donors for making this year's CREATIVE CONFECTIONS
DESSERT COMPETITION one of our best.

On Saturday, October 4th, over 400 guests had a great time learning about art therapy while
sampling 48 decadently delicious desserts surrounded by the RainForest!.
2008 WINNERS LIST

BEST OF SHOW
Mitchell's Fish Market
Tropical Chocolate Torte:  Jill Wolf

CROWD FAVORITE
Sweet Melissa's
King of the Mist:  Ashley Zinicola & Stef Troy

MOST ARTISTIC - CAKES & TORTES
First Place Sweet Melissa's King of the
Mist: Ashley Zinicola & Stef Troy

Second Place Clarencedale Cake
Rainforest Frog: Ellen Harvischak

Third Place ICASI (International Culinary
Arts & Sciences Institute)  Monkey
Business: Sandy Sherwin, Matthew
Anderson & Mary Pisanelli

MOST ARTISTIC - PLATED DESSERTS
First Place Bob Sferra Culinary  Occasions
Tropical Flavor Fusion: Bob Sferra

Second Place Chef Barry & The Baker
Babes La Vida Dulce:  Barry Karrh

Third Place Patisserie Baroque  A Sweet
Taste of Malaysia: Karen Garback

MOST DECADENTLY DELICIOUS -
CAKES & TORTES
First Place Coquette Patisserie It Takes
Two to Mango: Britt-Marie Horrocks Culey

Second Place Chef Barry & The Baker
Babes Paradyce Found: Barry Karrh

Third Place Slices Fabulous Pastries            
Pumpkin!: Efty Simakis

MOST DECADENTLY DELICIOUS –
PLATED DESSERTS
First Place The Ritz Carlton, Cleveland
Banana & Cacao Trifle: Courtney Bonning

Second Place Polaris Career Center
Passion Fruit Coconut Tart: Elliott Callahan
& Students

Third Place Intercontinental Cleveland
Cibus Deorum: Maureen Leonard-McCarthy
Ashley Zinicola & Stef Troy,  
Pastry Chefs at Sweet
Melissa's in Rocky River
enter  King of the Mist and win
Crowd Favorite as well as
First Place in Most Artistic,
Cakes & Tortes Category
Britt-Marie Horrocks Culey  
Pastry Chef & Owner of  
Coquette Patisserie enters    It
Takes Two to Mango and
wins First Place in Most
Decadently Delicious, Cakes
& Tortes Category
Bob Sferra,  Pastry Chef &
Owner  of  Bob Sferra Culinary
Occasions, enters  Tropical
Flavor Fusion and wins First
Place in Most Artistic, Plated
Desserts
Courtney Bonning,  Pastry
Chef  at  The Ritz Carlton
enters  her Banana & Cacao
Trifle and wins First Place,
Most Decadently Delicious,
Plated Desserts
Thanks to Greg Tokar for the great photos!
Be sure to point at the photos for details!
Special thanks to Corporate
Sponsors

Patron of Painting ($5,000)
Developers Diversified  

Benefactor of Brushes
($3,500)
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

Medical Mutual of Ohio

Benesch

First American Title Ins. Co.
Nat'l Commercial Services
ART LOAN - GEORGE STREETER CIRCULATING COLLECTION
Click here to
Download Program
from the 2008
Competition "Sweet
Treasures in the Mist"
Including a Listing of
all Competitors  
Our Artloan Benefit  features the George Streeter Circulating Collection which contains over 200 pieces of artwork
contributed by recognized Cleveland artists such as Viktor Schreckengost and Herb Ascherman, as well as
patients/artists who have participated in the Studio’s creative, therapeutic arts programs since 1967.

These paintings are “loaned” to guests for a one-year period in return for a donation. The benefits of the Circulating
Collection are two-fold: it gives Cleveland artists and our patient/artists the opportunity to showcase their work and it
provides the Art Therapy Studio with a continuing means of generating funds. Since the inception of the ArtLoan
program, over $150,000 has been raised to support our therapeutic arts programs.

You will also have the opportunity to see Artists at Work - watch artists in action, speak with them about their creative
process, and bid on artwork created that night at the event.  Personal interaction is the greatest value in the Art
Therapy process — when people create together in the Studio, hope is also created - hope that support, growth, and
healing is possible.

View Online Catalog of Artists and Artwork
Artist: Thomas Frontini
CREATIVE CONFECTIONS DESSERT COMPETITION - 2008