5 New School Photo Galleries
Chalk drawing and street painting in California schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley and Alameda. Updating from a busy year! Visit our new gallery posts!
It’s Chalk Day – Franklin Elementary 2014
In 2001 my oldest kid started at Franklin Elementary School in Alameda California USA. I'd been chalk drawing at festivals like the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival and San Rafael Street Painting Festival. I decided to do this with the entire school and that... changed my life - and twas the seed of Drawing on Earth, our Guinness World Record for the largest pavement art (chalk drawing) which we still hold! I've been chalk drawing every year since (I think I skipped one). Here we were again! I recently returned from a trip to Nepal and was moved to created a mandala theme, circles all coming out from each other - worked out really wonderfully. A surprise was in [...]
Nepal and Lincoln School
Two months ago Mark Lewis Wagner, Founder and Creative Director of Drawing on Earth was in Nepal chalk drawing at Lincoln School in Kathmandu. To see more:
ORCA Chalk
Middle School is another world unto itself. I mostly work with elementary schools, the students are mostly fun, innocent, creative, and alive. Middle school students are a different animal and... it was still a wonderful experience. With the help of the fabulous art teacher Lindsey Shepard and her students, and the two PE teachers who gave me their students for a day, we had two days of good work. The theme was ocean life and health. Students were encouraged to draw ocean themed imagery and everyone got to draw, many kids drawing several times, and a few would come up and ask to help me. I focused on an anamorphic perspective chalk drawing of an orca killer whale. [...]
Creative Spirits – TED talks
These are two wonderful TED talks on creativity. Sir Ken Robinson's piece is legendary with over 28 million views... and the work of Phil Hansen is fantastic.
Home is Where the Heart Is – Ceremonial Chalk Drawing Reflections
Well we did it, an epic adventure, an experiment in big creative, and an initiation experience for several of us. From a vision and a vague idea, to conversations, research, collaborations, team building, plane tickets, supplies, packing, travel, to seeing the site for the first time, and knowing things would be changing fast. Journal by Mark Lewis Wagner When we arrived Tues. night we discovered that the street we would be working on wouldn't be available for us until Friday evening due to traffic. We had planned to start Weds. AM. And on top of that the street was recently paved and had bright traffic direction signs painted on it. OK... what I do love is a creative [...]