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GRAND RAPIDS -- Downtown flooded Saturday without a drop of rain or a dam bursting. Instead, sidewalks were awash with color as thousands of children, college students, adults and senior citizens descended on a sunny, warm central city for the first-ever Grand Rapids Chalk Flood, a free event organized by 20-year-old Rob Bliss.
"I'm really happy. It's such a beautiful day, easily the best day in all of April," said Bliss, as artists of all shapes, sizes, ages and colors were spilling over from Rosa Parks Circle on to sidewalks throughout downtown.
Dozens of boxes of thick, pastel sidewalk chalk sticks were being cracked open, the contents, purchased with private donor funds, distributed free to all who came. By day's end much of the stock of 30,000 sticks had been worn down to tiny chips and nubs.
The result was several downtown blocks decorated with what may be the largest single-medium instant art display this city has ever seen -- at times beautiful, sometimes hilarious, always colorful.
Read more here.
"I'm really happy. It's such a beautiful day, easily the best day in all of April," said Bliss, as artists of all shapes, sizes, ages and colors were spilling over from Rosa Parks Circle on to sidewalks throughout downtown.
Dozens of boxes of thick, pastel sidewalk chalk sticks were being cracked open, the contents, purchased with private donor funds, distributed free to all who came. By day's end much of the stock of 30,000 sticks had been worn down to tiny chips and nubs.
The result was several downtown blocks decorated with what may be the largest single-medium instant art display this city has ever seen -- at times beautiful, sometimes hilarious, always colorful.
Read more here.
