The Splash Pad Neighborhood Forum sponsored a CHALK TALKS Festival on September 16, 2000 at a time when many people were questioning the wisdom of spending substantial sums of money on a project so close to the freeway -- arguing that the traffic noise rendered the space unuseable. The festival proved otherwise as it was a huge success. In addition to two live bands, we had some twenty local artists and one hundred children participate. Six of the participating artists chose the freeway pillars -- rather than the sidewalk -- as their canvas. These murals were so well received, we managed to obtain permission from Caltrans to spray them with varnish and make them permanent.

Artist, Yvonne Browne	Artist, Olga Singer	Artist, Alan Templeton
Artist, Deborah Quay	Artist, Matt Maddox	Artist, Lila Wahrhaftig

The following photos are all compliments of Jeanette Sayre.

Advertising Poster by Peter Lee	Artist, Andrew Keating	Olga Singer and Alan Templeton

Artist, Karin Turner

Artist, Peter Lee

Deborah Quay and Alan Templeton

Lila Wahrhaftig