Family’s colorful chalk art brightens Charlotte neighborhood during COVID-19 pandemic
Jared Noonan and his siblings are brightening their Charlotte neighborhood with colorful chalk art during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The drawings started small, then grew larger, more ornate and lifelike.
“It just took on a life of its own,” mom Angie Noonan, a teacher at St. Patrick Catholic Elementary School, told the Observer.
Neighbors smile as they pass Fred Flintstone, Diddy Kong, Sonic Man, Winnie the Pooh and other characters.
And that’s the point, Jared said.
“One woman said my chalk art brings a lot of joy, and that made me feel real happy,” the 16-year-old junior at East Mecklenburg High School said. He is a commander of the Air Force JROTC orienteering program at the school.
Siblings Zach, a 14-year-old eighth-grader at Holy Trinity Catholic Middle School, Alivia, a 12-year-old Holy Trinity seventh grader, and 18-year-old Grant, a senior at Charlotte Catholic High School, also created chalk art on Regency Drive outside the family’s home in the Stonehaven neighborhood. That’s off Rama Road in southeast Charlotte.
Neighbor Tom Crehan said he’s never seen anything like it.
“They bring a little talent to the neighborhood,” he said. “We did something like this in the Bronx. Nothing like this. Nothing.”