Chalk Festival

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• Special Event

Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025, 12:00–5:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 21, 2025, 12:00–5:00 p.m.

Location:  Fine Arts Garden

Free to Attend; Fee to Participate

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About The Event

“The Chalk Festival features sidewalk artistry by professional chalk artists and local community groups, families, and individuals, all using the CMA’s south plaza and walkways that wind through the Fine Arts Garden and down to Wade Lagoon as a colorful canvas.

The Chalk Festival is a modern expression of a Renaissance tradition from 16th-century Italy in which artists copied paintings of the Madonna by Raphael and his contemporaries using chalk on the plazas outside cathedrals.”

Visiting the chalk festival is free and open to the public. You can also purchase a square to partition the chalk festival. More info on that here