News from the Sidewalk

CHALK4PEACE is the global chalk art project about peace. We celebrate our eleventh year as a worldwide event encouraging peace. CHALK4PEACE, Inc.  is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization.

We've had more than 1000 events in 50 countries and have covered more than 12 miles of pavement with messages and visions of peace in sidewalk chalk...

We believe in  "Drawing the World Together..."

CHALK4PEACE participated in the Peace Day Student Observance at the United Nations in New York City in 2016 to honor the International Day of Peace. Hundreds of thousands of young artists of all ages have joined us since 2005.

Our goal: ONE MILLION artists Chalking 4 Peace at the same time...

Because we need Peace...Now more than ever...

CHALK4PEACE invited to "Draw FergUSon Together: A Vision of Peace" at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley

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CHALK4PEACE has been invited to Ferguson, Missouri by St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley to participate in "Drawing FergUSon Together: A Vision of Peace"  as part of a Social Justice Summit/Weekend of Healing  Sept. 18-19. We are working closely with the College and Community leaders to bring the population of Ferguson together with a symposium of discussion, message and visions of peace and reconciliation. St. Louis Community College has been involved in CHALK4PEACE as a peace, art and photographic project since 2007. It's been guided by Janice Nesser, Professor of Photography and Chair of the Arts and Humanities Dept. 

It is a great honor for CHALK4PEACE to be selected to be part of the healing process for the Community of Ferguson. C4P will be documenting the weekend with the College and Paradigm Pictures. Documenting this event as a film is the focus of our impending Indiegogo campaign.

Some of the C4P photos from the College's events...

Photos courtesy Drew Foster, Gus McNeil

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CHALK4PEACE CHALKSTARS: St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, S.A.

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The Community Arts Therapy Programme, CATh, founded by Angela Rackstraw, was one of the first organizations to step forward to join CHALK4PEACE when it painted the steps of St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa in 2006. Archbishop Emeritas Desmond Tutu told Angela about CHALK4PEACE; and the Cathedral offered its space to CATh to spread their messages and visions of love and peace. The steps in these photos are the steps where Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu stood when they first publicly denounced Apartheid. From the early years.... thanks to Angela Rackstraw and Gabbie van Heerden

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CATh's St. George 2007 CHALK4PEACE photos: http://modernarf.smugmug.com/Art/CHALK4PEACE-2007/Community-ARTS-Therapy/3557157_N7tHmR#!i=203231612&k=TbnvSMs

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CHALK4PEACE CHALKSTARS: The Groveton Tigers

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The Groveton Elementary School, in Alexandria, VA is excited about its eighth CHALK4PEACE event this coming fall. Marielle Mariano, Markeen Sutter & other Peacebuilding educators have encouraged the student body to learn all about Peace: its history, its leaders, how to deal with conflict resolution, how to visualize and write about peace and share their hopes and dreams of a better, more peaceful world. CHALK4PEACE is honored to have such CHALKSTARS dedicated to TEACHING PEACE. Tigers, you are mighty! For more of their photos see:

C4P photo gallery of Groveton E.S., 2014: http://tinyurl.com/ngea447

C4P CHALKSTARS: Festival Clown e Clown

More than 1500 artists joined in to Gesitto por Pace at the Piazza Aldo Moro during the Clown and Clown Festival in the City of Smiles, Monte San Giusto, Italy, 2010. photo: Luciano Brandimarti. As full of magic as it gets... 

CHALK4PEACE Photo gallery: http://tinyurl.com/oldx3op