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Sarasota...... just when you think you have seen it all you walk 🚶‍♂️ around a corner and wham... The 'Avenue of Art', started as a Chalk Festival event during covid. Artists have already completed 150 sidewalk paintings for viewing pleasure. This social-distancing cultural community event started in 2021 to celebrate Sarasota County Centennial from 1921-2021. 

Artists of all ages and skill levels, local, regional and national are participating in this event. Lori Escalera traveled from California. Lori participated in the Sarasota Chalk Festival since its inauguration in 2007 and every year since. There were also two sisters, aged 2 and 4, that did a sidewalk painting of the sarasota sun, handprints and footprints.

Phase I of the Avenue of Art is complete and QR code are affixed to the bottom right corner of each painting. The QR code directs visitors to information about the painting and how it is celebrates Sarasota County, as well as the artist and sponsors. Visitors can take this walking tour through the Burns Square historic district to view the street paintings anytime day or night.

The stroll starts at the South West corner of Laurel Street and S. Orange Avenue. Proceed south on the sidewalk towards The Fountain where it continues on the other side of the building heading north up the east side of S. Pineapple Avenue to Laurel Street; at Laurel Street cross over to the west side of S. Pineapple and walk south towards LBoutique. The Avenue of Art stroll ends at the corner of S. Pineapple Avenue and Oak Street.Read more