Featured chalk artist Mark Jenks works on his street painting alongside young chalkers.
Free to visitors wishing to enjoy the artists’ work and listen to the musical entertainment, the Chalk Festival takes place on the museum’s south-side pathways, which wind through the Fine Arts Garden and down to Wade Lagoon.
The Indian Kalighat Paintings exhibition gave Chalk Festival founder and artistic director Robin VanLear the germ of an idea for her street painting, which she developed with her own artistic sensibility.
Feature artist Rafael Valdivieso Troya incorporated a three-dimensional structure into his street painting.
A group of friends who met in a museum adult studio class incorporated the Fine Arts Garden stairway treads into their street painting of a sailing ship.
Art class friends incorporated the sides of the Fine Arts Garden steps into their street painting of a flotilla of balloons.
For a small fee the museum provides a square and a box of chalk; participants supply their own artistry.
The grid on this preliminary sketch will help the artists enlarge the image on the sidewalk.
Individuals, families, schools, and neighborhood groups are all invited to participate or watch.
The Chalk Festival attracts Northeast Ohio artists of all ages and levels of experience.
Individuals, families, schools, and neighborhood groups are all invited to participate or watch.
Young artists and art critics make pointed observations as they discuss the chalk art.
Chalkers choose large or small squares; some chalk one square and some multiple squares; some chalk their own individual squares and some chalk jointly with friends, family, or classmates.
The image of the Goddess Kali in the Indian Kalighat Paintings exhibition inspired featured artist Jan Stickney-Kleber's street painting.
Even when it's shirt-sleeve weather at the Chalk Festival in September, an artist may draw a winter scene.
