Savannah's College of Art and Design is celebrating it's 30th birthday this year and the birthday weekend was a big open-to-the-public event.


The SCAD Sidewalk Chalk Festival shared the same weekend as SCAD's birthday this past Saturday, and the turn out was the biggest one yet.
A few thousand people came out Saturday for the annual Sidewalk Chalk Festival to show support for the Savannah based art school. Food, drinks, music, entertainment and plenty of slides, blow-up castles and trampolines were all over Savannah's center piece of the Historic District, Forsyth Park.
The sidewalks that run through the center of the park were marked with numbers which identified the square to it's corresponding artist. The artists began chalking the walk ways bright and early in hopes to be finished by the judging of the art at 3:30pm

"We've been here since 10:00 am and we are so happy for the great weather. We hope we win today but even if we don't, this festival is so much fun," said Arron Ralther, 19, a sophomore. Ralther and his friend Tarjin Arzan, 20, a junior, have been to the festival before but have never participated in the art part, "This will become a tradition for us. I wish I had done it before, it's so much fun, even though its a temporary medium."

Though the event is open to the public, the sidewalk art is only for SCAD students, alumni, or prospective students. The artists either preregistered and reserved their sidewalk square or late registered at the park on festival day.


SCAD provided each square one box of chalk and the artists were limited to just the use of the chalk provided or else would face disqualification.
The judges were: Fernanda Cohen, vice president of the illustration conference ICON6;
Peter Giffen, the editor of Applied Arts Magazine, Canada's premier magazine of visual communications.
Ed Murrieta, senior creative director of character art for Cartoon Network's Trade Creative Services, which is the art department for the network.



Kayvon Gerami