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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 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.
2008 sponsors: De Mattei Construction, Stanford Shopping Center, Inventures Group, Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto, Townsend & Townsend & Crew LLP, Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, Al & JoAnne Russell, Barbara & Michael Klausner, Haverstock & Owen LLP, Mike's Café, The Sands family, Gary & Annette Fazzino, Wayne Renshaw Architects, Accent Art, JSW Financial, Hal Mickelson, Hank & Anne Barry, Barton Architect, Susan & Jim Sweeney, Tom & Sharon Wagner, Greg & Anne Avis and Peter & Cindy Ziebelman.
2008 Invitational artists were: Duke Collins, Alice Crittenden, Ninh Dam, Karen Fourgo, Genevieve Lamothe, Cecelia Linayao, Hien Nguyen, Cheryl & Wayne Renshaw.
2008 participants in the Open Division were: Anushweta Asthana, Isabel Benatar, Julia & Lynn Benton, Jack & Richard Betz, Helen Cane, Laura Carpenter, Jeff Chang, Blade Chapman, Molly Chen, Sara & Lizzie Chun, Shawn Clayton, Jean Crilly, Eyra Dordi, Shaneen Essabhoy, Katie Faulkner, Rose Fitzgerald, Mark Harrington, Darin Hoagland, Byran & Ariana Hoyt, Clio Jamason, Yelena Kasianova, Alexi Kenney, Liana Krakirian, Abby & Grace LaPier, Michelle Lee, Sabrina Lee, William Lee, Mim Lennig, Eduardo Llach, Melissa Mauriege, Hannah Mernyk, Garrett Morton, Sarah Napoli, Sam Neff, Debii Otto, Maria Poggio, Olga Prikhodko, Katerina Pyatnova, Becca Rhoades, Colleen Sauer, David Sebastian, Claire Simons, Julia Singleton, Terman Middle School, Jamie Tipton, Jasmine Tosky, Emily Viggiano, Mai-Chi Vu, Irene Wang, Pamela Wong, Emily Yau, Amanda Zunino
If you would like to be a participant in this year's Italian Street Painting Expo, click here to request an application. |
