GREENFIELD — Chalk is all the talk in downtown Greenfield this Saturday for the 10th annual Chalkfest at the Courthouse Plaza from 3 to 6 p.m.
With a theme like Superheroes, organizers are hoping for a big turnout.
For a $5 registration fee, participants will be given a 3-by-3 foot square of sidewalk and supplied with chalk. Cash prizes will be given away for first, second and third places in five age groups: kindergarten through 3rd grade; 4th through 6th grades; grades 7 and 8; grades 9 through 12; and adult.
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Attendees to Chalkfest can participate as an artist or watch the artists create. The event also features 10 x 13 foot chalk murals created by local students outside the Courthouse Annex at 111 American Legion Plaza.
As part the Chalk festivities, the Hancock County Arts Council’s latest show, “The Grace of Pastels,” opens to the public with an artists’ reception at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Twenty North Gallery, 20 N. State St.
The pastels show runs through September 28 and features work by Fran Auker, Corrine Hull, Deb Lathrop, R.L. Lathrop, Julie McCullough, Beverly Mills, S. June Presnell, Donna Shortt, Carol Strock-Wasson and Jeanne Zeigler.
The gallery will also have on display a 20-foot mural on roofing paper presented by chalk artist Vandra Pentecost. During a recent event hosted by Pentecost in Broadripple, artists were invited to stop in and re-interpret famous masterpieces in chalk.
The gallery’s hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. It will also be open during Main Street’s ChalkFest from 3 to 6 p.m. on Saturday.
