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Republic of Georgia. The city of Chiang Mai hosted their first street painting festival in March 2012, with the help of Melanie, Remco, and 3 other We Talk Chalk artists. To celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of Tel Aviv suburb Ramat Hasharon, Israeli and 8 International artists from 'We Talk Chalk,' including Melanie, used 3-D chalk drawings to transform Bialik Street into an urban art compound. The festival had as many as 50,000 visitors, including Israel’s President Shimon Peres who posed with paintings by Melanie Stimmell and Ruben Poncia.
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that she even added three additional paintings that were still being worked on in her studio—and all three of those paintings sold out as well. But that wasn’t
Stimmell’s only milestone this past weekend. The artist also premiered two new graphic works for Park West’s New Year’s auctions, which were quickly embraced. The first, “The Countess Ova Rose,” was sold 48 times. The second, “The Messenger,” was sold over 120 times—shattering the previous Park West record for the most works of the same image sold by any artist in a single day.
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Stimmell is co-founder of 'We Talk Chalk', a company that offers solutions to event or marketing needs through the use of (3D) street painting and multimedia. Led by
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In August 2013, Stimmell and We Talk Chalk created the longest anamorphic painting in the world. The piece, commissioned by
Smirnoff and developed in partnership with Index Creative Village and Nannapas Publisher Co., may be found in Asia’s famous Siam Center. Total length, an astounding 165 meters
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Weekend live-streaming auctions and immediately proved popular with the collectors in attendance. 12 original paintings by Stimmell were featured, and all 12 sold out during the weekend’s auction events. In fact, there was such a demand for Stimmell’s work
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at 18 x 92 feet. Stimmell also worked as a featured artist on the 2002 San Rafael
Sistine Chapel Project. Since then, Stimmell has secured her Maestro status in Europe with her second win in the Netherlands and the highest honor a street painter is bestowed, Italy's Maestro Gold Medal in
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almost always sport incredibly sculptural, fantastical hair. In 2021, Stimmell and her team (We Talk Chalk) created the murals in the domed ceiling of the new Grand
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