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Italian Family Festa - Madonnari Coming to Tallahassee, FL April 13th-14th, 2013

Hi Everyone,

Wendy and I here at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv have learned about the Italian Family Festa in Talahassee, FL and wish to tell you a little bit about it... Check it out this April!

 

Here are some thoughts from the Italian Family Festival Directors Blog Now is happy to share with our readers - enjoy!

Elizabeth Ricci and Shelley Duke are the Executive Directors of Italian Family Festa, Inc. As two Italian Americans, they decided to start a local Italian club in Tallahassee, FL, call CIAO! (Capital Italian American Organ.) in order to promote positive Italian and Italian American images. In their words below:

"With some of the negative stereotypes that we see on tv, we thought it would be important for our young daughters to see what real Italian culture looks like. A few years later, we decided to try our hands at bringing the Florida Panhandle's first large Italian Family Festa! The Festa has grown over the past three years and last year we decided to incorporate a new cultural aspect to the Festival by having a "Madonnari" sidewalk chalk contest. The response was huge! We featured Jennifer Chaparro's work over that weekend. Festa goers from as far away as Georgia, the FL beaches, Jacksonville and Alabama came to our regional Festival to try their hand at winning prize money! We had an Italian theme for the Madonnari artwork last year. This year's theme for our Festival is "A Venetian Voyage" and the artists will be creating works based off of this theme! We are excited about promoting this art and educating the public on the beautiful works and Italian origins of the Madonnari street painters!" 

Beautiful Street painting Art reproduction by Madonnara Jennifer Chaparro.

A street painting artist from Georgia created a piece featuring the beloved character Pinnochio...

The finished street painting of Pinnochio on his way to school...

Best in Show at the 2012 - 'Pinnochio' by newcomer Lee Mobley.

We're excited about new festivals developing and making the presence known in the street painting community!

A couple of Madonnara at the Italian Family Festa...

 

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are bloggers and moderate 'Blog Now on streetpainting.tv' a dedicated street painting/chalk art blog started in 2007 to reach the street painting art world with interviews and news about festivals and events in a journalistic fashion. Blog Now on streetpainting.tv ia part of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc.

Support the Italian Street Painting Marin!

Hi Everyone!

 

 

 

News about the Italian Street Painting Marin... As the festival is in its first year - the call is out for all to support and join their artist family. All donations big and small help the festival and Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is very supportive of this new festival from a rich tradition of fine street painting. All donations are tax deductible. Festival dates are June 29 and 30 in downtown San Rafael, CA. Learn more:

[email protected].

Do check out and join their page on Facebook too!

 

Although Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is supportive - we are not affiliated with the Italian Street Painting Festival Marin.  .ed

Chalk Art at the Uptown Art Expo, Altamonte Springs FL: February 16th -17th, 2013

Hi Everyone!

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is getting out there and reaching out to street painting (chalk art) festival and event directors to bring the art to our readers.  We just had a chat with Jim Barton, director.

 

 

• Please share with Blog Now on streetpainting.tv readers about the Uptown Art Expo back-story and recent event.

The Uptown Art Expo is now in our 2^nd year at beautiful Cranes Roost Park in Altamonte Springs, Florida which is just north of Orlando. Our festival was located previously in Downtown Orlando for 7 years.  This year the art & music festival will be held on Feb 16-17^th. The free festival includes over 130 art exhibitors from around the country and concerts with Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane and Firefall.

•  How did you get interested in bringing the chalk art component to the Uptown Art Expo?

After seeing chalk artists at the Festival of the Masters which is an art festival at Disney World and the chalk art festival in Sarasota, Florida. Visually it was just amazing what these chalk artist create and we had to add this excitement to our festival.

•  Is this the first year for chalk? If not, lets look at some of the work.

This will be our third year of our chalk street painting competition. Here are some of the photos from last year’s competition.

• What is the chalk art plan for this year?

The Expo will feature 25 chalk artists in this year. We have been reaching out to let the Chalk Art Community know about our festival. Learning more about the different websites that promote chalk art and requesting that our festival be included in their listings. We have line-up some amazing new artists for this year’s festival and will be excited to see them in action.

Also, we have increased our awards for the chalk artists. This year the Expo will present cash prizes and ribbons for:

(1) $500 – Best of Show
(2) $250 – Awards of Excellence
(2) $200 – Judges Choice
(2) $100 – Awards of Distinction

•  Is the community excited? How will you bring the community to socially invest in the chalk art, activities, reaching out, etc.?

Last year we arranged for Chalk Artists Ron Hawkins and Carolyn Schultz to chalk live in front of the Fox 35 Studios. The Station broadcasted them live during the morning show as they created a masterpiece of the stations Good Day morning show logo.

Our festival attendees just love the art work that is created and its heart warming to see all the children try their talents with what I call their refrigerator art in a section nearby.

• Anything that we are missing but would be great to add to the post…

I am just pleased to work with and create an event which provides a venue for such amazing talent.

 

And we are too!  Watch for more posts from Blog Now on streetpainting.tv!

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are bloggers in the street painting art industry and co-founders of Innovative Street Painting Group, a street painting/chalk art media and entertainment company.

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Happy New Year 2013, New festivals and a look back at 2012

Happy New Year from Wendy and I at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv!  We are very excited about 2013 in terms of the festivals and events for the street painting community and are sharing what we are seeing.  stay tuned on developments for these festivals, events, and sharing of pictures from our experiences over the years.

 

We are particularly happy to see the return of one of our favorite street painting festivals, albeit in a new form - The festival is now Italian Street Painting Marin, scheduled for June 29th and 30th, 2013, led by Festival Director Sue Carlomagno!  As a historical note, it is at the former Youth in Arts Italian Street Painting Festival in which I street painted for the very first time in 2001, and we see where that has led as a street painting artist!  Again very happy to see these developments and hope to be sharing more about the Festival with our readers during 2013!

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv has learned of the developing Blumberg Street Art Festival in Blumberg, Germany, scheduled for July 13th and 14th 2013.  More on the festival as information comes in...

The Fourth Street Painting Festival in Toulon, France will be on May 25th and 26th, 2013 at the Place D'Armes.  Blog Now encourages the public in these locations to stop by and experience the beauty and artistic challenge that is street painting, and of course to pin what you see on our new pinterest site coming on line next week.  And of course visit us on Facebook and Twitter.

And a look back at some Festivals in 2012...

Grazie:

Grazie, the first modern street painting festival celbrated its 40th Anniversary, a nexus for the etire street painting worldwide community.

Madonnari from Mexico posing by  the street painting created by Juandres Vera (in red) during Grazie 2012.

Festival Director of Festival Bella Via, Rosy Loyola poses with Grazie Award Winner Cesar Paredes from Peru.  Judges from Grazie look on.

Festival Bella Via:

...Street painting at the top of the mountain the challenge of opening a new cultural space, can be said that it was a challenge to overcome. Street painting between the Sun and the clouds, framed by the Sierra Madre, the Cerro de las Mitras, the Cerro del Topo and our flagship Cerro de la Silla. It has been a unique experience, and perhaps even repeatable.

This experience, Festival Bella Via, reaffirms as a cultural gesture, and socially strengthens as a formative activity, and service vocation to the citizen. 

During the two days of the realization, we were visited by around 20,000 spectators, who came to live the already traditional ephemeral art of the FBV.  To the beating of drums, and our flag (Mexico) hoisted, the soil of the Esplanade from the viewpoint of the bishopric, was covered with art centenary art madonnari...

'At the top of the mountain' ...

Festival Bella Via Photographer Erick Estrada Bellmann with Festival Bella Via Director Rosy Loyola in the midst of it all...


Always looking up!

Sarasota Chalk Festival:

Welcome to Sarasota!

Truman Adams, street painting artist

Street Painters hanging out after a long day on the pavement:  Left to right:  Anthony Cappetto, Eduardo Relero, and Gary Palmer.

A 'test walk' on the 'High Wire' by none other than Daredevil Nik Wallenda!

Now it's ok for us!  Left to right: Wendy Stum, Shawn McCann, and Anthony Cappetto (lead artist).

A wonderful time at Sarasota Chalk Festival!  Left to Right:  Anthony Cappetto, Wendy Stum, Nik Wallenda, Denise Kowal - Event Chair, Sarasota Chalk Festival, and Shawn McCann.

 From left to right: Wendy Stum, Anthony Cappetto, Mark Peer, and Stacey Williams-Ng at the Artists' Party.  Always fun to see our friends in street painting...

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are Bloggers and Founders of Innovative Street Painting Group, a street painting art media and entertainment company encompassing street painting festivals, events, exhibitions and launches utilizing traditional street painting art and emerging technologies such as augmented reality and figurative animation.  Cappetto is an internationally recognized 3D chalk artist with emerging technologies traveling worldwide creating his art for advertising, public relations, branding, and exhibition clients.

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3D/AR Chalk Artist Anthony Cappetto's Experience in Montevideo, Uruguay

Hello to our Blog Now on streetpainting.tv readers!

I just got back from a week of bringing the concepts of 3D chalk art to students and faculty at the Universidad de La Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay.  The experience was great!

Here I am sitting on the stone bridge of my 3D chalk art demonstration piece that I did for our group exhibition.  We're indoors as (for our northern hemisphere readers) its the closing of winter here and the temperature and the forecast for intermittent rain played a big factor in location.

I gave a lecture and hands on workshops to a very interested and talented group of students and faculty, eager to learn and grow their appreciation and experience in creating their 3D chalk art works.

Here are some examples of the first 3D chalk art works:

The students did a great job coming up with conceptual, engaging pieces with a small work size and shorter time to finish them!  Lots more 3D chalk art from Uruguay to come!

Here are some photos interacting on my 3D chalk piece - Enjoy!

The class picture:  Here we are interacting with the 3D chalk art - some (left) interacting more than others... :D!  I had a great time working with everyone at the Universidad.  A special thanks to the US Embassy in Montevideo, the Espacio Arte Contemporaneo, Infantozzi, and my friends at the Universidad de la Republica.  Looking forward to coming back to Uruguay soon!

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are bloggers at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, a street painting art themed blog reaching out to street painting (chalk) artists, festival directors, and fans throughout the world with posts presented in a journalistic fashion.  Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is part of the street painting/chalk art media company Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc. founded in 2007 by Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum to bring 3D/AR chalk art festivals and media to the new generation of artists, festival directors and fans worldwide.

Winners Announcement of the 3rd International Festival of Street Painting of Toulon

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Here we are (although in Mexico in 2010) with Joelle Tabournel, Festival Director of the Toulon Street Painting Festival in Toulon, France, to share information we recieved from Joelle on the winners of this years 3rd Annual Festival. Left to right: Wendy Stum, Joelle Tabournel, and Anthony Cappetto.

 

Here we go... via translating software...

Quality, diversity and eclecticism were the theme of the 3rd International Festival of Street Painting Toulon whose ambition is to offer the public always more fun and excitement, to make visible artistic approaches to here and elsewhere.

The festival honored this year to Italy to discover (or rediscover) the Art of the Madonnari throughout its rich artistic and historical dimension. Among the Italian artists present, a large delegation of the Italian group ACPC, Vera Bugatti, Bruno Fabriani, Fabio Fedele, Luigi Legno, and Tony Cuboliquido.

Other highlights of the Festival, the production of frescoes realized by 3D Planet Streetpainting, a Dutch artist collective composed of Ruben Poncia, Remko van Schaik and Peter Westerink.

Revelation of the Festival, Cristian Truca, Romanian artist, who has noted the public Toulon with a work he admits 3D in mind, not a piece of paper, inspiration unfolds over the creative process and participatory with spectators.

To bring out new talent, the Festival offered again this year, a drawing contest.

Awards 2012

Special Prize International
- 1st prize Vera Bugatti (Italy)

- 2nd Prize Aziz El Garoui (Morocco)

Free Prize Draw
- 1st Prize Roger Boubenec (Toulon)

- 2nd Prize Hamaïda Jamila (Toulon)

On the sidelines of the Festival, Galeries Lafayette, fashion shop in Toulon, invited artists, Jamila Hamaïda, Jean-Marc and Jean-Marc Navello Tedone to invest in store windows for a performance "live" under the sign fashion through three different artistic worlds.

And in French...

Qualité, diversité et éclectisme ont constitué le fil conducteur la 3e édition du Festival International de Street Painting de Toulon dont l’ambition première est d’offrir au public toujours plus de plaisir et d’émotion, de donner à voir des démarches artistiques d’ici et d’ailleurs.

Le  Festival a rendu hommage, cette année, à l’Italie afin de faire découvrir ou redécouvrir l'Art Madonnaro à travers toute sa richesse artistique et sa dimension historique. Parmi les artistes italiens présents, une large délégation du groupe italien CCAM, Vera Bugatti, Bruno Fabriani, Fabio Fedele, Luigi Legno et Tony Cuboliquido.

 Autres temps forts du Festival, la réalisation de fresques en 3D réalisées par Planet Streetpainting, collectif d’artistes néerlandais composé de Ruben Poncia, Remko Van Schaik et Peter Westerink.

 Révélation du Festival, Cristian Truca, artiste roumain, qui s’est fait remarquer du public toulonnais avec une œuvre en 3D qu’il admet avoir en tête et non sur un bout de papier, l’inspiration se dévoile au fil du processus créatif et participatif avec les spectateurs.

 Afin de faire émerger de nouveaux talents, le Festival a proposé, cette année encore, un concours de dessin.

Palmarès 2012

Prix Spécial International
- 1er prix Vera Bugatti (Italie)

- 2e prix Aziz El Garoui (Maroc)

Prix Dessin Libre
- 1er Prix Roger Boubenec (Toulon)

- 2e Prix Jamila Hamaïda (Toulon)

 En marge du Festival, les Galeries Lafayette, magasin de mode à Toulon, a invité les artistes toulonnais, Jamila Hamaïda, Jean-Marc Navello et Jean-Marc Tedone à investir les vitrines du magasin pour une performance « en live » placée sous le signe de la mode à travers trois univers artistiques différents.

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are bloggers for Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, a dedicated blog for street painting and chalk art festival directors, artists and the fans throughout the world presented in a journalistic manner since 2007.  Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is a part of Innovative Street painting Group, Inc.  www.ispg-inc.com. @Blog_Now, @Blog_Now on SPTV, @ISPG.

Latest Chalk Art from Steven Platt: At Mission Viejo 2012 - Arts Alive

Hi everyone!

Today we have the latest from chalk artist Steven Platt who was just at the Arts Alive Street Painting Festival in Mission Viejo, CA.   

 

Steve was one of 87 artists who participated in the Arts Alive Festival in Mission Viejo, CA May 5-6^th.  The theme was animation and the 50’s, so Steve devised a scene from War of the Worlds, Batman & Robin from the era, a Newman sculpture for the hood ornament, and the best car ever made- a 1956 Chevy Bel Air.  This of course being special to him as he was born in 1956 - his report not ours ;). This is framed by a 50’s- style TV.

All the above being our adaptation of Steve's paraphrase from his event experience.  Here is the artwork, enjoy all!

Street Painting Art by Steven Platt.

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are the bloggers for Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, bringing interviews, posts, and the latest from street painting festival directors and artists for the fans who follow the growing art form. Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is part of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc., www.ispg-inc.com

 

 

Latest Street Painting Art from Madonnaro Joel Yau

As the street painting art season is on, we are sharing images from some of our favorite artists form around the world.

Here we have the first street painting this year from madonnaro Joel Yau from California.  Joel reproduced an artwork by Gil Elvgren (below):

 

Looks great Joel!  See more of Joel's work when he travels to New Paltz, NY to the Hudson Valley Chalk Art Festival, July 20th through July 22nd.

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are the bloggers for Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, bringing interviews, posts, and the latest from street painting festival directors and artists for the fans who follow the growing art form.  Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is part of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc., www.ispg-inc.com

I Madonnari: May 26th -May 28th, 2012; XXVI Anniversary Italian Street Painting Festival

As Blog Now on streetpainting.tv covers the 2012 street painting festival season, we turn to the oldest running festival in the USA, the I Madonnari  Italian Street Painting Festival in Santa Barbara, CA.

Beginning in 1986 and founded by Kathy Koury who brought the concept of this festival from the International Street Painting Festival in Grazie Di Curtatone, Italy, the I Madonnari has been and remains a cornerstone in the US street painting community. This festival benefits the Childrens Creative Project, a nonprofit arts education program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office serving 50,000 children in 100 schools in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.  

The public in front of the Santa Barbara Mission where I Madonnari is held.

Looking forward to seeing 2012's new street paintings from I Madonnari!

If you are street painting this year, we want to hear from you.  Please send images for Blog Now on streetpainting.tv to add on an upcoming post.

Enjoy!

 

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are the bloggers of Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, bringing the events of street painting worldwide to the artists who create street painting art, the festivals that bring the artists together, and the fans who follow the art.

Street painters of the day: Azucena del Carmen Elizaldi Mejia and Veronica Cecilia Arevalo Jaramillo from Monterrey

Good Morning!  Today Blog Now on streetpainting.tv highlights the street painting art reproduction of 'Cabezas Religiosas' originally created by Guillermo Meza Alvarez in 1950 by madonnari Azucena del Carmen Elizaldi Mejia and Veronica Cecilia Arevalo Jaramillo from Monterrey.

 

'Cabezas Religiosas', autor: Guillermo Meza Alvarez (1950); Museo Nac de Bellas Artes, Mexico DF

Madonnari: Azucena del Carmen Elizaldi Mejia and Veronica Cecilia Arevalo Jaramillo