Finding Common Ground: Chalk It Up to Art
Day of the many dead
© Janine Boylan
Community Building in Chalk Art
Turning a corner in busy San Antonio, Texas, and Oh, I see! The once-drab sidewalks are filled in with colorful patches of art.
At this chalk art festival and others like it worldwide, professional artists, school-aged children, and other community members find common ground by working side by side and filling the sidewalks with glorious colors and designs.
Chalk brings them together.
Image courtesy of Artpace, San Antonio, by Francisco Cortes
Most observers step carefully between and around the art to both appreciate it and not ruin it.
But sometimes the art is too tempting, and people just have to be part of it.
So, inspired by the art, they grab a stick and add their own mark.
Adding his mark.
© Janine Boylan
Art History
Over the past few decades, chalk art festivals have been...
