Helene Forbes Memorial Chalk-In 23rd St 500sBlock NYC July12 of 2012

On Thursday 12 July 2012, in memory of self appointed "art maven" Helene Forbes [ fb ], 200 or so labeled sidewalk chalks (and unknown additional chalks) appeared on a block of 23rd Street. Some friends and fans left memorial messages. Whether removed by business-owners or by local children, all chalk sticks had vanished from the north side of the street by Saturday morning.

Courtesy of Marjorie Blum & family.



Unknown chalker.



Holding something in her beak, a pigeon waddles over to help.



Art bloggerist Frau Kolb left touching words (as did those leaving comments) on her own page [ www ].

Interesting "Mother Jones" article about arrests of chalk-users (not at our event, but maybe a clue as to why or chalks disappeared so fast): here [ article ].


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SIDEWALK CHALK to be left in 500 block of 23rd St NYC. Scrawl your HELENE FORBES memorial love thoughts. Bring chalk to share if able. Invite yourself. Share this.

Facebook event --leave your comments [ here ].

TinyURL for this page:
http://tinyurl.com/helene-chalk-in

MAP by google [ here ]:
http://goo.gl/maps/b8M4

SIDEWALK CHALK LABELS full-sheet (png image).

This page's QR code permalink [ here ].



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