Artist Garibaldi performs for Fresno County art students at Sunnyside High

America’s Got Talent finalist David Garibaldi performed live at Sunnyside High School on Friday, May 16 to a select group of art students from Fresno County. Granville Homes sponsored the event and made the electrifying show possible for these students.

Garibaldi painted four pieces during the live performance and presented his heartfelt testimony of how the arts turned his life around. One of the four paintings, Albert Einstein, was auctioned off live for $4,800 to show students that art can be a viable career.

Garibaldi also performed at the heARTbeat fundraiser the following evening at The Downtown Club in Fresno. He painted four pieces during the performance, which were also auctioned off, along with a fifth painting that Garibaldi painted previously. The two events combined raised more than $55,000 for The Foundation at FCOE, which benefits arts programs in schools.