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Phil Roberts and Mark Wagner I Madonnnari, Italian Street Painting Festival, Santa Barbara 1994 In 1994 Phil Roberts invited art school buddy Mark Wagner to help him with the featured street painting piece - Michelangelo's "Last Judgement." 10 x 20 ft. (6 days). Roberts is a master of the arts, creating everything under the sun from larger than life size surf sculptures, movie posters, to water theme parks around the world. philrobertsart.wordpress.com This was the beginning of Mark Wagner's chalk drawing career and the beginning of Drawing on Earth. Thank you Phil Roberts! This recent Memorial day weekend was the 25th anniversary of the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival in Santa Barbara 2011. This chalk drawing festival [...]

Ah.... what a wonderful journey it's been in redesigning our web site. It's been several months in the making and many more moons in the idea phase. Please have a look around. You'll see a new Gallery section with hundreds of photos, videos, and books for sale. You'll see that Drawing on Earth has recently become a 501(c)3 nonprofit with a small board and an amazing group of advisors. We'd like to especially thank Jeff Samorano from Entropic Studio for being our technical WordPress guru. ~Mark Wagner

We did it, we are officially exempt from Federal income tax. And we are hoping to have a soft launch of our new web site by the end of the month. www.drawingonearth.org www.facebook.com/pages/Drawing-on-Earth

  artwork by Kurt Wenner Tell MOCA Street Painting is Street Art (please sign this  -link below) facebook.com/petitions/1/tell-MOCA-street-painting-is-street-art We the undersigned ask that you please consider including street painting / chalk art into the upcoming MOCA exhibit; 'Art in the Streets'.   In regards to the upcoming exhibition at MOCA entitled 'Art in the Street', which mainly focuses on graffiti style works, we feel that street painting deserves to be recognized as authentic art of the streets & included in this show. With a rich and significant history of it's own, which predates modern graffiti, street painting has evolved and developed into it's own genre, now known globally as an artistic phenomenon, which universally appeals to demographics worldwide. We [...]

Tracy Stum is spearheading a push to see if we can get street painting & chalk drawing into the LA Museum of Modern Art show coming up on Street Art, which features mostly graffiti. Many of us street painters believe this old (began in the 1500's) and recent emerging art form is and should be acknowledged by the art world. Here is the letter I wrote to the coordinator to the show. Pure and simple, chalk drawing festivals are the rock and roll of the art world. Very different than strolling through a gallery with paintings on the wall and sculptures tucked into corners, at a chalk festival the creative process unfolds right in front of you. The [...]

Occasionally, you come across those venerable individuals who have the impressive combination of talent and how they choose to use it.  Mark Wagner is one of those characters.  His artistic ability is uncommon and impressive; just look at his art!  But, he also works to spark the artistic streak in others.  In fact, he set our entire school artistically ablaze when every student and staff member helped create our school mascot in larger-than-life-size and beauty.  How cool is that? Absorbed and engaged, my fifth graders enthusiastically participated, stepped back, and took in their part in the school-wide project.  Thank you, Mark!  It is rare when one person affects an entire school in such a positive, lasting way.  I [...]