Sunday, May 25, 2008

From: R. R. Anderson
Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Subject: Friday Frost Park Chalk Challenge NO. 7
To: tacomaart@cityoftacoma.org


frost park sidewalk chalk challenge:
THIS challenge is owed and produced cooperatively by THE PEOPLE.
A REVOLUTIONARY and not REFORM chalk challenge--chalk art
with a sense of HUMOR and NO RESPECT for the respectable;
chalk art Directed against RIGIDITY and DOGMA wherever it is found;
ILLUSTRATING what is to NAKED or TRUE for a "SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP";
a chalk challenge whose final policy is to do as it PLEASES and CONCILIATE NOBODY,
not even its SPECTATORS--tacoma's only free chalk challenge :)


Friday, 12 Noon - 1PM
Larry Frost Memorial Park
9th & Commerce

STANDARD TIME TABLE for ARTISTS
1200 - ARRIVE, CLAIM YOUR SLAB (TIP: AVOID DISTRACTION!!!)
1205 - BEGIN DRAWING
0100 - STOP DRAWING (TIP: YOU CAN KEEP DRAWING IF NOBODY NOTICES)
0115 - YOU ARE DOCUMENTED BY THE MINISTRY OF PRIZES (TIP: FRIENDLY DUDE WITH A CELLPHONE CAMERA)
0130 - PHOTOS OF EVENT BEGIN TO TRICKLE ONTO INTERNETS.
...ONLINE VOTING BEGINS
0200 - RALLY YOUR FRIENDS! GIVE YOUR HONEST OPINION OF COMPETITOR'S WORK
2400 - VOTES ARE TALLIED, THIS WEEKS "BEST ILLUSTRATOR IN THE UNIVERSE" CHAMPION IS CHOSEN.


Corporate Sponsorship
Chalk Challenge No. 7 FREE CORINA BAKERY ONE WHOLE CAKE COUPON is made possible through charitable donation by Owner Julie Rex and Kate. "Whenever I am [depressed], which is most of the time now lately, I go to Corina and enjoy a slice of home style red velvet cake... life doesn't seem so bad. Just thinking about it makes me [happy] in that part of my chest that remembers what it is to be a child [happy]" ~ Art Chantry, 2008

Official Rules (for entertainment purposes only)

please get pumped, visit FeedTacoma.com's TACOMA URBANIST.


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PREVIOUS SIDEWALK CHALK CHAMPIONS (by week)
  1. Andrea "LupinGoddess" Trenbeath Lowen

  2. RR Anderson (sponsored by Erik Bjornson Attorney at Law: Military Divorce Specialist)

  3. Life of Elle (sponsored by Puget Sound Pizza)

  4. James Stowe (sponsored by EMBELLISH SALON)
  5. Andrea "LupinGoddess" Trenbeath Lowen (sponsored by THE RED HOT)

  6. James Stowe (sponsored by BRICK & MORTAR EXECUTIVE CONDO SUITES )
  7. your name here ??


Honorable Mention


  1. Lance "Loves the MM Bridge So Much Why Doesn't He Marry It?" Kagey of Beautiful Angle
  2. Dave L
  3. Laura Hanan
  4. Mark Monlux

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