Sidewalk Chalk Day

Sidewalk Chalk Day returns this year with local favorite David Zinn leading the charge at Top of the Park. This year, Zinn is joined by local artist Asha Jordan who will create a mural on Washington Street for you to color in with chalk! Join us on June 11 for an extravaganza of personal expression. Chalk at Top of the Park, on your own sidewalk, or wherever you choose to make your canvas!

About Asha Jordan: Asha Jordan is an Ann Arbor local Artist, Curator, Event Coordinator, and Creative Director. She has been studying and practicing art for over 20 years. Asha studied every medium from Pencil to Conte Crayon and Acrylic to Oil paintings, and hopes to open the eyes of everyone to know and realize how important the arts are to the communities, to maintain mental health, and open Ingenuity dialogues to the world. Asha was inspired by maintaining my mental health and willingness to get through life by creating and surrounding myself by beautiful muses of the earth. I had a lot of childhood trauma from bullying, mental, and emotional abuse. Asha wants to advance the Black community, advocate for artists of color, and is an activist for finding value in artists.

About David Zinn: David Zinn’s chalk work began in 2001 as an excuse to linger outdoors, but has since achieved global notoriety through the sharing of photos on Facebook, Huffington Post UK, The Cheezburger Network, Street Art Utopia, and Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of Awesome. Be inspired by his ability to incorporate 3-D illusions into familiar scenery and have fun searching for his most frequent characters, Sluggo, a bright green monster with stalk eyes and irreverent habits, Philomena, a phlegmatic flying pig, and many entertaining mice.