{"id":644,"date":"2011-10-17T09:37:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2011-10-17T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:49:52","slug":"chalk-the-block-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Chalk the Block ’11"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend downtown El Paso held the 4th annual Chalk the Block<\/a> event. \u00a0The organizers bring together artists, artist teams and other performers for a free event that turns the sidewalks around the plaza and\u00a0museum into temporary art installations.\u00a0 With the recent removal of the fences around San Jacinto Plaza<\/a>\u00a0the downtown park makes for a great place for artists to create chalk and pastel works on the concrete.<\/p>\n

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\"Big<\/a><\/dt>\n
Big Red Heart<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

We arrived early Saturday morning so many of the artists were still working on their\u00a0pieces. There was still a bunch of other things to see as we wandered around. Poetic Kinetics<\/a> was on hand displaying one of their Holding Flame sculptures:<\/p>\n

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\"Poetic<\/a><\/dt>\n
Holding Flame<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Jack was\u00a0mesmerized by it but Shaun was a little afraid. \u00a0The flame\u00a0visuals created by the burner at the top really can hypnotize\u00a0you. \u00a0The heat kicked by the flames keeps you\u00a0mindful\u00a0of the danger overhead but the distance keeps you safe. Fiat of El Paso<\/a> was also using this a showcase event for their just launched 500, with artists creating works around and on the spry little hatch.<\/p>\n

\"Fiat<\/a>

Fiat 500 Art Car<\/p><\/div>\n

There was a large selection of food trucks on hand hawking all sorts of nacho-churro-relleno-on-a-stick concoctions. We\u00a0opted for a stop at Kipps\u00a0Cheesesteaks<\/a> for their\u00a0awesome\u00a0hot sandwiches.<\/p>\n

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\"Eat<\/a><\/dt>\n
Eat at Kipps!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

I guess no outdoor event is complete without some sort of protests. \u00a0The Occupy Wallstreet protests that are currently sweeping the globe have even\u00a0spawned a local group who were standing out in front of the Cortez Building. \u00a0They had wanted the center of the Plaza but were\u00a0supplanted by the arts this weekend. Go Arts!<\/p>\n

\"Occupy<\/a>

Occupy Mesa Street?<\/p><\/div>\n

Main street had been turned into an informal gallery space with several booths set up and artists displaying their wares. Local El Paso artists David \u201cGrave\u201d Herrera<\/a>\u00a0 and Mitsu Overstreet<\/a> of “Border Youth” were\u00a0on hand laying down some paint on a Sun Metro bus:<\/p>\n

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\"Grave's<\/a><\/dt>\n
Grave’s Border Youth<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

The kids were about done at this point and we had seen everything that was worth checking out. \u00a0This years event was well organized and looks to be something that will continue and only get better. \u00a0My full Flickr set can be viewed here: Chalk the Block<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend downtown El Paso held the 4th annual Chalk the Block event. \u00a0The organizers bring together artists, artist teams and other performers for a free event that turns the sidewalks around the plaza and\u00a0museum into temporary art installations.\u00a0 With the recent removal of the fences around San Jacinto Plaza\u00a0the downtown park makes for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[109,10,42],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-photography","tag-chalk-the-block","tag-el-paso","tag-graffiti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MdZY-ao","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rust2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}