{"id":542,"date":"2013-05-07T11:08:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2013-05-07T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:27:46","slug":"2013-chalk-the-walk-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/2013-chalk-the-walk-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Chalk the Walk Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every year the small town of Mount Vernon, about 10 miles east of Cedar Rapids, has an art festival called “Chalk the Walk”. Over the weekend of the fest the City of Mount Vernon closes off two blocks of the main street.\u00a0Artists decorate an 8×10 foot area of the pavement with a subject of their own choosing in the Madonnari<\/a> style. There is also a communal piece of art that everyday people can help produce. It is larger than the others. Because of its size, I could not get a picture of it.<\/p>\n

When we first started to go to the fest, we went the first day. What we discovered was that practically none of the pictures were done then. They were only just started. I recommend you go in the last couple of hours of the show on Sunday afternoon. Only the ones that people gave up on aren’t done by then.<\/p>\n

I took as many pictures of the artwork as I could. If you take a look at the last photo in this blog entry, you will get an idea of how the artworks in this exhibition look from normal eye level. When I got home from the fest, I cropped the photos and expanded them to 8×10 proportions in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

So, in no particular order, here is what we saw…<\/p>\n

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