Promptly, after the program end at the Orpheum Theatre all participants walked up to the first block of State Street where the high school students and their art teachers were paired up with graduate and undergraduate art student mentors.  Each school created one or two twenty by ten foot murals on the street in front of the capitol building.  The grant provided high quality chalk pastels from Koss International, Pizza from Pizza Pit and soft drinks donated from Pepsi.  Each high school student participating in the Chalk mural event received a ten dollar gift certificate from the ArtMart art store on the 200 block of State Street.  Each mentor and high school art teacher received an originally designed Students for Students T-shirt.  Crowds of people looked on as these high school art students had their day in the artistic spotlight of Madison.  In all approximately 120 people participated in this worthwhile event.  From noon until four in the afternoon each school and their mentors worked to create twenty incredible masterpieces.  Subject matter ranged from commemorations of the September 11th tragedy to collaging parts of famous works of art or creating new twists off of old masterpieces.  The event was covered the weeks leading up to the event by the city newspapers and news stations.  Street painting has a rich history and tradition that dates back to the 15th century in Italy.  Temporary images were rendered by arts in the streets relating to religious iconography.  In a sense this form of art making is a performance art.  The excitement and purpose is in the act of creating these uniquely original and ephemeral works of art that will only survive in the memory of the artists and spectators.  This event also created a distinction between our societies sense of graffitti (which is usually associated with our youth culture) and something that can be appreciated as a beautiful art form by our teens.