Paint the Street: Bird's Eye View

On September 26, 2010, over 1,500 people from greater Cincinnati and beyond came together for Paint the Street: an event conceived by ArtsWave that transformed a half-mile (a Bengals' football-field sized area) of center-city pavement in Over-the-Rhine into a vibrant and colorful visual art installation.

Local artists developed the design for Paint the Street based on community input gathered at a meeting hosted by ArtsWave weeks before the event. This exclusive preview offers an early morning time-lapse view of the artists using chalk to create the design outline on the street at dawn, citizen painters with rollers and paintbrushes completing the street art during the day, and concludes with an overhead view courtesy of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s helicopter.  You can also see the work of art up close and personal as it runs along 12th Street, stretching from Main to Elm. 

ArtsWave has conceived and organized surprising arts activities in the Cincinnati area, including one of the nation's first surprise flash mob dances, unexpected holiday singing at the annual downtown train display, and dancing and galleries on Metro buses. What's next?

ArtsWave - Paint the Street from ArtsWave on Vimeo.

One Sunday in September, 1,500 people of all of ages and from all over painted a half-mile of center-city street pavement in an unprecedented act of community art-making conceived & organized by ArtsWave.

Watch what happened in this time-lapse video - 12 hours in a minute and half.