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This exciting "artist-in-action" component of the festival can be seen on Tasso at University. Talented artists from Palo Alto and neighboring communities throughout the Bay Area will come together to create a multi-faceted collage of color, style and subject matter for festival attendees to witness and to enjoy as they stroll through the festival.
Artists will begin laying the groundwork an hour or so previous to the festival opening at 10 a.m. on Saturday and work throughout the weekend creating these impressive-but temporary masterpieces in chalk just for this festival.
The Italian Street Painting Expo and Kid's Chalk-a-lot area, part of the Palo Alto Festival of the Arts, are presented by KDFC benefiting the Palo Alto Partners in Education. Thanks to the generosity of our 2007 sponsors, proceeds will provide vital teacher grants for the arts and innovative instructional projects for nearly 10,000 students at all grade levels in Palo Alto classrooms. Particular thanks go to University Arts for sponsoring the kids Chalk-a-lot event and the artists’ chalk, Country Sun for artists’ lunches, the Sheraton/Westin Hotels for artists’ accommodations and Graniterock and Bragato Paving for resurfacing the street.
We also thank our 2007 supporters: De Mattei Construction, Inventures Group, Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto, Townsend & Townsend & Crew LLP, Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, Al & JoAnne Russell, Gary & Annette Fazzino, Wayne Renshaw Architects, Accent Art, Haverstock & Owen LLP, Hal Mickelson, Hank & Anne Barry, Susan & Jim Sweeney, Tom & Sharon Wagner, Carol Scott & Christian Pease, Greg & Anne Avis and Peter & Cindy Ziebelman for their sponsorships.
Last year's participating artists were: Genevieve Lamothe, Melissa Maureze, Hien Nguyen, Darin Hoagland, Wayne & Cheryl Renshaw, Debbi Otto, Mai-Chu Vu, Duke Collins, Jeff Chang, Erin Castelan, Jevana Bonquin, Alice Crittenden, Karen Fourgo, Ninh Dam, Kristin Burnahm, Deb Larkin, Robin Blinde, Colleen Sauer, Maria Poggio, David Sebastian, Kristina Xiang, Jasmine Tosky, Lori Krakirian, Camille & Manon vonKaenel, Sara Chun, Mary Bender, Ariana, Emily & Bryan Hoyt, Emily Viggiano, Michelle Soltis, Alexi Kenney, Anthony Ambrosio-Meir, Mackenzie Pope, Miriam Lennig, Brandy Taylor, Lauryn Park, Megan Tony, Mark Harrington, Meg Hine, Irene Wang, Claire Simons, Michelle Lee, Abby & Grace LaPier, Anu Asthana, Olga Prikhodko, Ekederina Pyatnova, Garrett Morton, Kelsey Liu, Angela Hsieh, Linda Papanicolaou, Carlo & Marco Behtash, Pamela Wong, Emily Yau, Amy Xu, Yu Zhang, Qiongni Shi, Ayumi Tsurushita, Laura Carpenter, Jean Crilly, Catherine Anderson, Emilie Seubert, Lilian deGreef.
If you would like to be a participant in this year's Italian Street Painting Expo, click here to request an application.
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