Archive: 2007 Chalk Festival
2007 Chalk FestivalSaturday September 15, 11:00-4:00
Sunday, September 16, noon-5:00
Fine Arts Garden
Enjoy chalk artists and entertainment at no charge!Chalk your own pictures for a modest fee.
For more information, please contact the Community Arts Department, 216-707-2483 or neisenberg@clevelandart.org
The I Madonnari Chalk Tradition In 16th-century Italy, beggars, using chalk on the plazas outside cathedrals, copied paintings of the Madonna by Raphael and his contemporaries. With these street painters, called
I Madonnari (painters of the Madonna), an artistic tradition was born. Today
I Madonnari festivals are held annually in Europe, Africa, and the United States. Our festival brings this Renaissance tradition to Cleveland.
Chalk Festival Brochure available in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format (PDF). The Adobe Acrobat reader is a free download available from
the Adobe website