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Chalk It Up!: Chattanooga, TN

Chalk It Up Chattanooga!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
8am - 5pm

My dad asked me to post some information about Chalk It Up Chattanooga. It is an event that benefits Girl Scouts Art and Education programs, including at-risk youths and children with disabilities, in the Chattanooga, TN area.

The event is a day long art festival where artists young and old create art using chalk on the sidewalk. See masters of sidewalk chalk art such as Lee Jones create extraordinary images right in front of your eyes.

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Lee Jones

Ike Taiga: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Enjoying the Moon in a Riverside Cottage, 1765
Ike Taiga
Japanese Ink on paper; mounted as a hanging scroll
Painting: 12 3/4 x 12 1/8 inches
Purchased with the Thomas Skelton Harrison Fund, 1968

“I splashed ink without inhibition, as my hand led me.” --Ike Taiga

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will exhibit works by Ike Taiga (1723-1776) and his wife Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727-1784) from May 1, 2007 until July 22, 2007. These two Japanese Brush Masters were poets as well. As a painter, Taiga was extremely prolific and his inventiveness help create the Nanga Movement.

Click here to read the press release from the Philadephia Museum of Art about the exhibit.

To purchase the book about the exhibit published by Yale University Press click on the link below:
Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush