35th Annual I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival

The festival, scheduled for May 29-31, Memorial Day weekend, also provides the Children’s Creative Project /CCP the funding it needs to help partner 67 artists with 80 schools serving nearly 40,000 students annually.

Each year, I Madonnari’s sponsors and participants help provide 80 schools with more than 400 assembly performances by 135 different touring companies in dance, theater, music and visual arts.

I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival 2021 is going virtual. While we do not know if we can be together in person at the Old Mission this year, we can share the spirit of this wonderful festival virtually. New street paintings drawn with chalk pastels will be created by artists on their driveways for festival sponsors during the Memorial Day weekend on May 29-31, 2021. Photos of sponsored street paintings with sponsors’ names will be posted each day on our website, Facebook and Instagram accounts. Sponsored street paintings will remain on our website until the next year’s festival.