Artists of the Wall 2026

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Artists of the Wall is an annual Rogers Park event. I never participated in the actual painting, but I always loved what others had created. Anyone (although it is mostly local residents) can register to paint one of the sections of a 600-foot-long wall located by the lake near Loyola Beach. The Artists of the Wall Festival has been taking place since 1993, when neighbors banded together to cover up graffiti on the wall. Each year has its theme, but it’s usually broad enough to cover pretty much anything you want to paint.

This year’s theme is We Are All Neighbors.

First, last year’s paintings are covered with white (my mom’s photo), and all the slots are marked.

Then, for two days, participants create their paintings (sometimes, people come later to finish).

All the pictures I’ve taken.

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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