{"id":25858,"date":"2019-03-24T13:17:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T20:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25858"},"modified":"2019-03-24T13:17:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T20:17:53","slug":"chalking-up-art-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/chalking-up-art-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalking One Up for Chalk Art Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/strepain.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you missed chalk art at last weekend&#8217;s Spring Fest in American Canyon, Chalk Art Festival in Downtown Palm Springs the weekend before, or Indio&#8217;s Art on the Square the week before that, never fear! There&#8217;s plenty more chalk art here in California. We&#8217;re chalkin&#8217; it up as a really great year for chalk, a soft &amp; porous limestone composed of the mineral calcite. It may not look like much in its natural form but when colored, shaped into sticks and used for art, Voila!<\/p>\n<p>Chalk art festivals go by many names and take on different compositions and shapes in California. Some are for serious artists such as the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-barbara-street-painting.html\">I Madonnari<\/a> at Mission Santa Barbara in May. Others are kids affairs with fun sessions that included free chalk and free admission. You&#8217;ll find one of those at Oakley&#8217;s Rock the Chalk in April.<\/p>\n<p>Once you watch a chalk art event, you&#8217;ll be tempted to begin your budding art career. Here are a few chalk and street art festivals to get you enthused. Maybe you&#8217;ll spring into action!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-chalk-art-festivals.html\">California Chalk Art Festival<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>COVINA: Chalk Art Family Festival Apr.13, 2019<\/li>\n<li>OAKLEY: Rock the Chalk Apr.27<\/li>\n<li>KERNVILLE: Kernville River Festival Children&#8217;s Sidewalk Art Contest Apr.27<\/li>\n<li>MISSION VIEJO: Arts Alive &amp; Street Painting Festival canceled this April, returns 2020<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: I Madonnari May 25-27<\/li>\n<li>TEMECULA: Art &amp; Street Painting Festival June 8-9<\/li>\n<li>PASADENA: Pasadena Chalk Festival June 15-16 at El Paseo<\/li>\n<li>REDWOOD CITY: Chalk Full of Fun on the Square July 3-4<\/li>\n<li>TEHACHAPI: Chalk on the Walk Aug.10<\/li>\n<li>PALO ALTO: Italian Street Painting Expo Aug.24-25<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Chalk it Up Aug.31-Sept.2<\/li>\n<li>VENTURA: Art &amp; Street Painting Festival Sept.7-8<\/li>\n<li>BAKERSFIELD: Via Arte Italian Street Painting Festival Oct.19-20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you missed chalk art at last weekend&#8217;s Spring Fest in American Canyon, Chalk Art Festival in Downtown Palm Springs the weekend before, or Indio&#8217;s Art on the Square the week before that, never fear! There&#8217;s plenty more chalk art here in California. We&#8217;re chalkin&#8217; it up as a really great year for chalk, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25859,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25858\/revisions\/25859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}