Meanwhile, at downtown restaurant Lark on the Park, a half-dozen chalkboards above the bar and dining room feature large-scale art pieces that rotate quarterly. Chalk art, long an ornamental touch ...

Chalkboards are a great medium for making fast menu changes, for adding some color to a room and even providing a laugh or an inspirational message. Some even approach the level of fine art.

Then chalk menu and cocktail boards started coming into ... She’d generated enough business to do sign art full time — and pay the bills. “I’m able to make a living,” she said.

A real chef, José Andrés, commissioned Owens to create a unique welcome to his restaurant ... afford to leave bartending and do his chalk art fulltime, but says he would miss the social interaction.

In the world of farm-to-table restaurants, chalkboards are valuable ways to announce ever changing seasonal specials as well as creating memorable art. The upscale Chalkboard restaurant in ...

I never anticipated doing chalk art as a living," said McCabe ... out so it doesn't get left on the back bar or buried in the menu," said Ken Fenton, manager of Southern Wine Spirits West ...

“I was in love,” she says. After graduation, Dugan worked in a variety of jobs while finding her art niche. Tired of one job and the commute to Boston, she wound up doing chalkboard menus at a Salem ...

When the chalk dust settles, two local menu artists prove they have major lettering skills. Old-school chalk. “It has character, texture, subtleties, and shading that you just don’t get from a chalk ...

Dangerdust, an anonymous duo of advertising and graphic design students at the Columbus College of Art Design, create weekly chalkboard designs with an inspiring quote, skillful typography and ...