| Elmira Street Painting Festival
July 2010 Family Fun with Street art, kids activities, food & music Join artists and community members as we celebrate art and Elmira, outside of the box, outside of the gallery - simply and magnificently - outside! 2009 Street Painting Festival Familiar with the energy, enthusiasm and richness of the region's artist communities, Downtown Elmira became an art destination experience during the Second Annual Elmira Street Painting Festival held on July 11th and 12th, 2009.
In sixteenth-century Italy, street painting began when roaming artists transformed nondescript pavement into art with their chalks. Four centuries later and an ocean apart, street painting continues to thrive as a vital element of artistic expression in community festivals across the United States, each drawing thousands upon thousands of visitors--viewers at art. Scroll below to discover more about the art and projects on display and learn about the two artists who earned an honorable mention and the artist who won the "Best in Show" award. The Bottega Project The Bottega Project for Elmira Downtown Development was designed to create an additional opportunity for youth to participate in the Festival. Bottega is the Italian word for workshop - an artist’s workshop. Bottegas afford youths who would otherwise be unable to experience such study to work in the tradition of the Old Masters, such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Bernini, Caravaggio, Ghirlandaio, and others and emulate their work. Students who were interested, applied for the Bottega Project. Accepted students spent hours working with their masters, learning about art and planning their painting for the Street Painting Festival. di Leonardo
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di Michelangelo
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di Raphael
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This project was made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered locally by the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. The Community Dialogues Painting Series The Community Dialogues Painting Series allowed local residents, artists, and the greater public to participate in the full cycle of an art project from creation to exhibition. The first phase of this project took place at the Elmira Street Painting Festival where participants were able to create seven backgrounds by selecting and placing frozen pigment on a surface. Once the backgrounds have been created, the public can participate further by posting comments or suggestions on a blog as the paintings progress. Finally, upon creation the community will be invited to see the finished work locally and on the Internet.
This project is made possible in part, with funding from the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes' QuickArts: community arts money in a jiffy, administered in Chemung, Schuyler, and Steuben counties by The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. ART/GROUND Located at 210 West Water Street and the winner is... Near the end of the day on Sunday, judges reviewed each artist's work and nominated two street paintings as "Honorable Mention" and one for "Best in Show". Honorable Mention goes to:
Click the images above to view the full size Chris Bell for "Fish on a Line"
Click the images above to view the full size Brandi Smith for "Sybil" Best in Show goes to:
Click the images above to view the full size Vani Akula for "Mark Twain Reflection" Special Thanks to... Our sponsors:
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and the artists... Vani Akula, Bethany Blanchard, Jesse Barton, Haley Brown, Chris Bell, David Bishop, Mark Boller, Kristin Butler, Crystal Ennis, Janet Currie Fairchild-Law, Amanda Farley, Tremayne Harer, Dawn Heil, Jennifer Hughes, Megan Huddle, Maxwell Johnson, Kylene Knoll, Amber Koontz, Mary Madigan, Jesse Martin, Lauren Morgan, Georgie Purvis, Allison Smith, Brandi Smith, Monica Stadalski, Mary Terhune, Marcia Tinker, Alexis White, & John Whiting The Community Dialogues Painting Series
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