Chalk
Art
Walk
2007
by
Brooke Plastino, Luke Tolley & Bob Kinyon
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Recap:
With the early heat-wave and
competition from a number of other events around town this
weekend, Hillyard's ChalkArtWalk still drew 128 artists.
Though the number of participants willing to sit out in the
hot sun was down a little, the quality of the artwork was
way up, as was the number of teenagers and young adults
participating. Judges had to break a tie for "Best of Show"
between two teenagers in the 11-15 and 16-20 year old age
groups. Both young men were judged with higher scores
than previous "Best of Show" winners drawing in the adult
category, Bill Blair and Sara Van Camp, who placed first and
second in this years adult category.
 
Upon re-evaluating both teens
artwork, judges Senator Chris Marr, Commissioner Bonnie
Mager and Councilwoman Mary Verner awarded "Best of Show" to
fourteen year old Jonathan Rooney of Spokane. Jonathan
drew a memorial portrait of his friend and hero USMC Lance
Corporal Nicholas Bloem. Bloem died in Iraq on August
3, 2005, one day after his twentieth birthday. (Click
here for more
information on Cpl. Bloem)
Best of Show Winner by Johnathan Rooney
Jonathan received $100 and gets
a custom framed photo of his artwork. But, the real
prize for Jonathan is that his artwork will be showcased on
next years T-shirt, guaranteeing his friend and hero
Nicholas will be remembered.
The Hillyard Festival Association hopes everyone had fun and
enjoyed the art, music and Hillyard pride in the downtown
Hillyard business core and would like to thank their
volunteers and supporters for making this all
possible: ACES E-Z-Go, Cliff’s Quality Auto, Country Homes
Reality, Guardian Self Storage, Howe’s Auto Service,
Signs for Success and Sterling Savings Bank.
Special thanks to a new sponsor this year!
Entertainment:
Sean Saugen opened with his acoustic
guitar and solo vocal set. He also accompanied himself
with his own background music via a synthesized loop
machine which enables him to overlay his own rhythmical
and backup sounds and then play his solo work over the
top. He has completed his own EP CD titled 'Watching
the Paint Dry'. Sean embarked with his own artistic
evolution and tried his hand on his first ever attempt
at putting chalk on the sidewalk.
Shane Evans played the second set. He
too is an accomplished local musician that has played
many of the all ages stages in and around Spokane.
Shane is looking forward to recording his very first EP
CD some time this summer with one of the local recording
studios. We extend our greatest gratitude to Shane for
filling in at the last moment and entertaining with his
great ability.
The third group was 'The Nightfly'
from Lewis & Clark High School, and their front man is
from Whitworth college. This band has some of the most
talented individual artistic musicians in the local
Spokane scene. Their contemporary Blues/Jazz style is
easy to listen too and very rhythmically solid. These 4
young men can lay down a solid thematic idea and then
just sit back and let their magic work as the theme just
keeps developing and building to an ambitious
pulsation of rhythmical phrases. They are looking
forward to traveling to Seattle this summer where they
will be recording their first CD with Delve Studios.
The
entertainment for this event ended with the
Rogers High School Steel Percussion Ensemble. A very
talented group of 15 accomplished percussionists with
mallets in hand provided a full hour of soothing metal
drum sounds emulating from the small park in downtown
Hillyard. Some of these students have been with the
ensemble for 3 years. Their director, Ron Crenshaw, has
directed these students with technical and disciplined
styles to allow the students to entertain without the
assistance of a director throughout the entire program.
It is impressive to see all of the students rotating
through the full range of steel drums to engage all of
the ranges from the bass 50 gallon drums to the cut down
8 pitched drums. They will be performing their
last show together at the Rogers 2007 graduation
ceremony.
To ALL of the very talented musicians,
a HUGE THANK YOU from the Hillyard Festival
Association for entertaining the chalk artists while
they work diligently on their concrete canvases, and too
all the local vendors and support personnel that enjoyed
your talents throughout the very sunny day in downtown
Hillyard.
The Hillyard Festival Association
would like to thank Audio Roadrunner for providing the
sound system and crew.
Winner's List:
Best Of
Show:
Jonathan Rooney
Age 0-5:
1st place- Tyler Scharff
2nd place- Chase Newman
3rd place- Tristen Brown
Age 6-10:
1st place- Sarah O'Brien
2nd place- Hannah Hustad
3rd place- Maddie Gendreau
Age 11-15:
1st place- Laura O'Brien
2nd place- Laura Orr
3rd place- Makayla Miracle
Age 16-21:
1st place- Levi M. Allen
2nd place- Teara Antry
3rd place- Leann Johnson
Age 21+:
1st place- Bill Blair
2nd place- Sara Van Camp
3rd place- Kris Mautel
Thanks to all our
artists!
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