Art Bar - Fair Trade Chocolate from Ithaca Fine Chocolates

Art Bars

For the Swiss, making chocolate is truly an art. That's why Ithaca Fine Chocolates, the first US chocolate company to offer Fair Trade Certified chocolates, teamed up with a Swiss chocolatier to create Art Bars.

An art reproduction by a contemporary adult or international child artist is featured on a collectible card in each Art Bar. There are 24 different images available. The cards can be used as a bookmark or as a decoration.

A minimum of ten percent of the profits from Art Bar sales is donated to the following organizations:

-The Community School for Music & Arts, Ithaca, NY, whose innovative Kaleidoscope outreach program fosters creativity and confidence in people of all ages and backgrounds.

-The International Child Art Foundation, Washington, DC, which prepares children for a creative and cooperative future through extraordinary programs like the Arts Olympiad and Peace through Art.



The Purpose

To bring together and share two of the universe's greatest gifts: fine art and fine chocolate!

-To inspire people with the luxuries of exquisite chocolate and art in the midst of their hectic lives--because as Picasso said, "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday living."

-To promote and support artists.

-To expose people to contemporary art and educate them about it.

-To help directly fund both local and global art education programs.

-To foster a recognition of the importance and potential of art in education and society.

-To make the greatest possible social impact while leaving the smallest possible environmental footprint.



The Chocolate

In superior chocolate, as in art, there can be neither compromise nor short cuts. We use only the finest, Fair Trade and Organic Certified ingredients. Our chocolate is slowly blended (without the help of soy lecithin or other chemical emulsifiers) for 78 hours, which gives Art Bars their creamy consistency.

The chocolate is sweetened with whole, unrefined cane sugar, which gives Art Bars a rich, almost caramel character. Making chocolate with whole cane sugar requires extra work, but patience and devotion to quality are what make our chocolates so exquisite.

INGREDIENTS (all ingredients are certified organic)

ART BARS ARE ALL SOY-FREE AND VEGAN!

Dark Chocolate: cocoa liquor, unrefined whole cane sugar, cocoa butter. Cocoa 58% min.

Extra Dark 70% Chocolate: cocoa liquor, unrefined whole cane sugar. Cocoa 70% min.

Dark Chocolate with Quinoa Crisp: cocoa liquor, unrefined cane sugar, cocoa butter, raw cane sugar, quinoa rice crisps. Cocoa 61% min.