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Bourbon with Hart commissioned 21 artists to create art from bourbon bottles and ballet shoes.

The blended creations were displayed at the Mercedes-Benz of Louisville, the aptly named Bourbon Ballet and Ben Show is the subject of this week's Arts and Culture, a segment we call Tapestry.

I had never seen painted ballet shoes before, so we'll be gave these to the artist.

I had no idea what to expect or what was going to be coming back to us whenever we picked them up.

And I was just blown away as usual by the creativity and how different they all are.

Kentucky has such a thriving, rich arts culture that so many people outside of Kentucky don't seem to know about, and even people in Kentucky.

So part of our mission is we're taking that existing popularity of bourbon.

Everyone knows where the leader of the bourbon industry, and we're using that to bring awareness to our arts culture.

And it's working.

And so today we have the winning artist with us.

It's John Cecil and we have his art piece here.

The title of this piece was the Fifth Edition, which was a play on a ballet physician and then also a fifth bourbon bottom.

So this is the story of bourbon and ballerinas and how they're similar.

A ballerina story starts at the bar.

Bourbon ends at the bar.

So on the show, you see ballerinas practicing, honing in their craft.

On the other side, you see the beginning of bourbon.

You've got fermentation that goes through distillation and the snow in the middle all the way to the barrel.

Now, once it's in the barrel, the only thing that can affect bourbon and ballerinas is time.

Putting in that time, putting in the work, putting in the effort to become a product.

And hopefully, eventually, one day you want to share on the back side of the bottle.

You've got the barrel bourbon pouring straight out of it, something that they want to share directly with the world.

Or a ballerina on the back pouring out her passion for the world to see.

I grew up dancing for at a jazz hat ballet.

So this one, this exhibit, being a ballet exhibit, was a really important thing for me to be a part of, because, I mean, if there are two things in this world that I care about, it's ballet and bourbon.

So this is kind of a perfect way to do a little bit of art to give back to both of those causes.

So we approach level ballet with this idea.

They loved it and they jumped on board.

They provided us with the shoes.

So these were actually shoes that were worn by their dancers, and they let us just take it from there.

And we were able to end up donating to them almost $4,000 to go towards a scholarship for a young aspiring dancer to afford ballet school that maybe couldn't otherwise afford it.

Our goal was to get at least $3,000, which would provide the uniforms for 20 students this year.

And we went we went well beyond that.

And this is just an unbelievable way for the bourbon with heart to be able to pull people who maybe wouldn't have been made as comfortable or as confident sharing their pieces with the world or their passion with the world.

This is an opportunity for them to finally be seen and to be recognized.

And that's something really special.

Congrats, John.

Thank you.

Special indeed.

Bourbon Ballet.

And Ben's finished its run, making it the seventh exhibit, Bourbon with Heart has presented winner within the last year.