Bella Terra – Beautiful Earth….. new blog site!
- We are in a several month mode of moving our name, blog, redesigning our web site, writing new proposals and business plans, and applying for our own 501(c)3 nonprofit status, which includes a new board of directors, and lots O fun in creating a really strong foundation as we set out into the world with our marching orders to inspire the creative spirit on the planet. Please stay tuned and turn your friends onto us, it's a beautiful thing! And thanks for your support, all the unknown, unseen faces that visit this site, that are interested, passionate, curious, in need of more creativity in your life, and in the life of our children and communities. Blessings to [...]
Mark Wagner ev Caracas (Venezuela)
- See the You Tube Video Exciting... a new video from the wonderful, amazing, and creative people from IARTES (Instituto de las Artes de la Imagen y el Espacio), the Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura, and the videographer Luis Hurtado. www.drawingonearth.org -
Drawing on Earth
- If you noticed we just renamed our nonprofit, we are filing for a new 501(c)3, building our board, rewriting our business proposal, begin to redesign our web site, and seek for new sponsors as we step into this new 5 year Global Storybook project. Pretty exciting! And seems like lots of work from here. Stay tuned. ~MW www.reenchantingtheworldthroughart.org -
Drawing on Earth
- Hi Everyone, Moving slow these days. The focus is creating our own nonprofit - Drawing on Earth. We have been a full affiliate of Bridges With Youth and after consulting with a few mentors we have decided to be our own. So it's paper work and understanding the process. Along with this comes business plans, proposals, and beginning to look for grants funding. Add being a dad of two teenage girls, teaching art at two colleges, other exciting free lance graphic design gigs, and my first art show since 1994. I recently had the wonderful honor of hanging out with Daniel Dancer who also works with kids creating large art projects that are photographed from above in [...]
USA TODAY Guinness Book of World Records
- In the NewsUSA TODAY Guinness Book of World Records Slide 19 = Largest Chalk Drawing Largest Chalk Pavement Art The largest chalk pavement art measures 3, 361.31 meters (90,000 sq. ft.) and was created by 5,678 children from the schools in Alameda CA, for the Kid's Chalk Art Project between May 27 and June 7, 2008. -
Blessing of the Urban Animals
-Mark Wagner & Clayton Thiel chalk drawing at the Youth-in-Arts annual Italian Street Painting Festival in San Rafael CA, June 13-14 2009.This year we followed our interest in pushing the 3D aspect of chalk drawing. We created our sketch using foam core and made a 3 dimensional maquette that we light and photographed.We started Friday evening and needed to be done Sunday by noon for we were both going to a wedding. Clayton and I have been chalk drawing at this festival for the last 4 years. Clayton was actually going to leave Sat. night at 6pm. I was going to stay late and then finish solo on Sunday. We had our work chalked out for us.We continued [...]