Chalk Walk 2025, this coming Saturday, May 17 from 8am to 2pm
Jasper Arts’ 22nd annual Chalk Walk Arts Festival will once again be held at the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center (located at 100 3rd Ave. Jasper, IN 47546) this Saturday, May 17, 2025, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Chalk Walk 2025 will see the return of crowd favorites such as balloon art, caricature drawings, bounce houses for children, t-shirt tie-dyeing and of course, CHALKING on the sidewalks of the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center!
New this year, throughout 2025 Jasper Arts is celebrating being part of the community for 50 years and Chalk Walk is joining in the celebration by bringing a very unique, interactive musical performance in which families will want to be sure to participate! It’ll be complete with loud and raucous, giant musical instruments that you will only experience with…SQUONK! Plan to attend! You will not want to miss the fun!
- Participants may register online by visiting www.jasperarts.org/chalkwalk.
The list of activities at Chalk Walk 2025 will include:
- Chalk Walk t-shirt tie-dyeing will be located on the lawn of the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center where families my tie-dye their own Chalk Walk tshirt and create their very own t-shirt work of art! T-shirts will be on sale at the registration tent for only $8 each!
- Balloons by Aaron will be back in the Atrium creating amazing works of art before your very eyes, FREE of charge, courtesy of Jasper Community Arts, for those who wish to take home a fun design created especially for you!
- Rolando DeCastro will return indoors at the Black Box Theatre to draw caricatures of attendees, FREE of charge, courtesy of Jasper Community Arts.
- An exciting bounce house, just for the little ones, will be awaiting screams of excitement and fun on the lawn!
- Make-and-Take art projects for children will also be available in the Jasper Community Arts Workshops at the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center!
- And of course, CHALKING will be taking place on all the concrete surrounding the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center where kids and adults, alike, will contribute their works of art in chalk form on the sidewalks!
- Participants please register and pay the $12 registration fee online by visiting http://www.jasperarts.org/chalkwalk. Each registrant will receive a free Chalk Walk cinch sack containing a box of chalk, t-shirt (for those pre-registered) and various donated items from local businesses.
The annual Chalk Walk is supported by many local businesses and individuals, including Papa John’s Pizza of Jasper, Kimball International, Walmart-Jasper, Branded by Woods, and others.
Additional information about the Chalk Walk Arts Festival and vendor forms can be found on the Chalk Walk page of the Arts website at www.jasperarts.org/chalkwalk
Jasper Arts is a department of the City of Jasper. Additional support is provided by Friends of the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission, Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Jasper Arts is also a Kennedy Center Partner in Education and provides arts education programming to local schools.
