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Hundreds Of Artists, Tens Of Thousands Of Visitors Expected For South Coast Street Painting Festival

The I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival in Santa Barbara features more than 200 artists

Hundreds of artists, and tens of thousands of visitors are headed to a South Coast landmark this holiday weekend for an art event which has become a more than three decade old tradition.

The artists are taking part in a street painting festival, with pavement substituting for canvas, and chalk taking the place of paint.

KCLU’s Lance Orozco catches up with the featured artist who is creating the centerpiece work of the festival, which takes place Saturday through Monday at the Santa Barbara Mission.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.