It took 9 artists and 1,793 sticks of chalk pastel 6 days to create Canada's largest chalk street painting.
Assisted by 11 local high school students from Oakridge and Saunders Secondary schools and 1 teacher (Oakridge)
We created an 18 x 92 foot carpet of soft pastel illustrating the 9 stories from the book of Genesis from the Central Panels of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.
Over 500 man hours from start to finish.
The Deluge panel , depicting the great flood and painted by the amazing Genna Panzarella, had 63 people.
The ceiling, commissioned by Pope Julius II and painted by Michelangelo between 1508 to 1511, has a series of nine paintings showing God's Creation of the World, God's Relationship with Mankind, and Mankind's Fall from God's Grace
The 10 bronze medallions represent episodes from the Old Testament.
Artistic Director & Artist:
Melanie Stimmell Van Latum
Artists:
Genna Panzarella
Lysa Ashley
Andy Gillet
Axl T. Ernst
Thomas Duncan
Noel Sargent
Morag Webster-Lasarge
Ryan Yager
Photographer & Videographer:
Remco Van Latum
Architectural Border Team from Oakridge & Saunders Secondary Schools
Teacher:
Krystal Caldwell
Nick Antonopoulos
Nathaniel Armistead
Julia Castrogiovanni
Natalie Castrogiovanni
Vicki Chetwit
Gordon Graham
Kendall King-Congram
Hailey Luo
Meghan Meadows
Rowa Mohamed
Colleen Peaselee
Kalyn Rae
Allee Scott
Ashley Seath
Megan Sundercock
Bushra Taqui
So exciting! Everyone did such an amazing job this past week on the Sistine Chapel Project. The painting and the Expressions in Chalk Festival turned out beautifully. We had some amazing press from London's 'A' Channel to the National Canadian News Channel all week long. I did lots of interviews and they took hours of video footage. Remmie was our photographer and videographer for the weekend and just finished an amazing video of the project start to finish which we will post soon.
More pics to come.
Thanks to everyone involved!
Jan, Chris, Kathy, Brad, Richard, Linda, Bill, Cheryl, Paul, and anyone I may have forgotten.
What a great year!