Sarasota Chalk Festival

Event Details

Time: October 30, 2010 to October 31, 2010
Location: Burns Square
Street: South Pineapple Avenue
City/Town: Sarasota
Website or Map: http://www.chalkfestival.com
Phone: 941-954-1818
Event Type: festival, performance, art, street, painting
Organized By: Avenida de Colores, Inc.
Latest Activity: Oct 25, 2010

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Event Description

Join us as we celebrate the spectacle of a 500-year-old performance art tradition, Italian street painting. With this years theme… a little funny… and a little spooky... Halloween style!!

Come watch as hundreds of Madonnari and artists transform South Pineapple Avenue into a one-of-a-kind chalk art gallery for 40,000 visitors. Jay Schwartz from California states, “the biggest allure of the medium is that it is a pure art form – a mix of Fine Art and Performance Art. The paintings are ephemeral – vulnerable to the elements – and only viewing them in context can provide a lasting impression.”