Mark Wagner, Founder of DoE Speaking @ USF
"Street Painting: Creating Community Through Impermanent Art" Mark Wagner, Founder and Creative Director of Drawing on Earth will be speaking on Monday, Jan. 9 at the University of San Francisco. The lecture series is through Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER). 6:30 pm University of San Francisco 2130 Fulton Street SF, CA 94117 Room: Fromm (FR) building, Maraschi room
Kids & Parents Creating Together
One of the things that I have seen over the years is the energy that goes back and forth between kids and adults when they are being creative together. Kids are naturally creative, I like to say they are the world's most renewable creative resources. It's us adults that have more than not somehow forgotten and disconnected from that natural uninhibited creative energy. What I see is that the children call the adults out, they are an invitation to create, to get down on our hands and knees and draw with them. What I see is that the adults wake up, they get excited, and at the same time the kids love to be with their parents, they [...]
Chalk Fest 2011 – Sarasota Florida
What a beautiful chalk festival! Street painting artists from all over the world came to draw on the streets. This year a new element was introduced - vertical. Mural and graffiti artists were invited to create work all over the area where we were chalk drawing. MTO and other fantastic French graffiti artists created amazing works all around town. Master street painter Kurt Weener was chalking and lecturing, along with most of the best street painting artists in the world. This year featured many large anamorphic perspective pieces. See photos from the festival with the below links. And a special thanks to the artistic director of the event Denise Kowal and her amazing production team. Facebook: Drawing on Earth Photos/Sarasota2011 Sarasota [...]
Speaking @ Stanford “Seeing into the Life of Things” Nov. 14
Founder of Drawing on Earth - Mark Wagner will be speaking at Stanford along with photographer Rob Buelteman and musician Annea Lockwood. "SEEING into the LIFE of THINGS" Nov. 14, 2011 7pm, Free
Buy a Book, Support the Creative Arts and Drawing on Earth
We just republished our Making of a World Record Chalk Drawing book. If you haven't gotten a copy please do (hard back are the best). This is one of our products to bring in small income. You'll be supporting our new nonprofit, supporting the creative arts, and learning what it's like to dream big, to be involved in a school district, kids, community, and the inner workings of how to make a world record. www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2478504 Thank you! ~Mark Wagner Founder of Drawing on Earth
NEA
We were recently were chalk drawing at the NEA Community Learning Center, a small charter K-12 school in Alameda, CA. The school's totem is a Baobab Tree, a strange and magical African tree, that is what we drew. See more photos in our Gallery section - NEA Press: Jumbo Logo Special thanks to Tania Seabock, Lynne Minney, Maafi Gueye And here's a wonderful time-lapse YouTube video of the day by Donna Eyestone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xSOo4-DLM8&feature=youtu.be