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Article: CHALKING IT UP STREET ARTISTS PUT BEAUTY AT ADMIRERS' FEET.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 7, 2001
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Byline: Amy Raisin Staff Writer
VALENCIA - Nearly 150 artists wielded their pastel chalks, the spectrum of hues emerging as familiar famous works of art and tributes to current events, at the third annual Bella Via street painting festival Saturday.
Deanna Sanderson Helsten spent the day hunched over her allotted square of pavement, painstakingly re-creating American artist Norman Rockwell's 1921 piece titled ``No Swimming.''
``I wanted something happy and something American,'' said Helsten, the director of KidsArt in Valencia, participating in her third Bella Via. ``I wanted something that people would recognize, where they'd stop and say, ...