Julie Kirk joins La Piazza dell’Arte from Chino, Calif. where she resides and works as an art professor at California State University Fullerton and Irvine Valley College.  Kirk has been street painting for 14 years and has been a featured artist at chalk art festivals throughout the United States and Europe.  She has worked with numerous corporate clients as well as managing an internationally known website devoted to street painting, www.streetpainting.net. In 2003, she placed first in the category of “Semplici” at the International Street Painting Competition in Italy.