6 2014 Art & Balloon Festival Lincoln Daily News.com August 25, 2014
dressed downtown Lincoln walkways for festival
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owntown Lincoln sidewalks were once again dressed up
for guests and the community to enjoy over the weekend.
Local schools, groups, families and local artists utilized their
gifts creating numerous balloon themed chalk art.
Near the entry to the Arcade on Pulaski Street,
artist Kristi Wells uniquely blended imagery
of an artist paintbrush painting Van Gogh’s ce-
lestial Starry Night with hot air balloon. Wells
teaches a segment of Inter-discipline Studies at
Lincoln Christian University.
4-H members stamped their four-leafed clover
near the new coffeehouse, By the Bean.
And just down that walkway a shark appeared.
As scary Mr. Shark took shape, it was a bit of
a mystery how he would play into a central
Illinois festival. But soon it made sense. Sharks
are hungry and thirsty too you know. A surf-
board covered with sparkling, thirst quenching
glasses of wine and brew to go along with piles
of delicious BBQ appeared, and he was lurch-
ing for it.
Word of this great event apparently spreads far
and wide, even reaching the ocean.
Sadly, many of the chalk creations were washed
away on Friday morning by a heavy rain.
Story and Photos
By Jan Youngquist
Thursday
