Chalk It Up For Art Fest This Weekend In Rock Island’s Schwiebert Park
Quad City Arts on Tuesday announced the full schedule of events for Chalk Art Fest in Schwiebert Park, downtown Rock Island, June 26-27.
SATURDAY, JUNE 26
10 a.m. to 7 p.m. — Chalk art competition
Live Music Lineup:
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. — Live DJ Mark Manuel, Alt 104.5/Kiss FM
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. – Chrash
3 p.m. to 5 p.m. — The Textures
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. – Doug Brundies Big Acoustic Show
SUNDAY, JUNE 27
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Chalk art competition
Live Music Lineup:
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Mo&Co
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. — QC Rock Academy
3:30 p.m. – AWARDS CEREMONY
4 p.m. — Charlotte Boyer
Additional activities will include kids’ face painting (Saturday only, $5 each, cash or Venmo only), kaleidoscope bus, community chalk art piece and kids’ chalk zone.
Food vendors will be Westmoreland Concessions, Café Fresh, Cindy’s Shaved Ice, Here’s the Scoop, Quick E’s Tacos, Bent River Brewery, Broken Shovel Coffee, El Mariachi, and Kona Ice.
Inspiring and engaging for people of all ages, this free, two-day street painting festival
brings together hundreds of local and regional artists that spend hours transforming the blank cement pavement into magnificent works of art, using only the medium of chalk.
Visitors strolling by can see the wonderful works of art as they come to life, vote for their favorite and even do some chalk art of their own, by taking part in the collaborative community piece. This year’s community piece is rock, fashion and art icon, David Bowie – for a $5 donation, you’ll be given a set of pastels to fill in a 2’x2’ square of the larger image.
When finished, the larger image comes to life as a complete work of art!