An all ages, free, 3-day festival celebrating artists, musicians, and community, since 1991. This is our 35th year!
Since 1991, Chalk It Up to Sacramento has hosted a safe and clean festival at Fremont Park at 16th & Q Streets in Midtown Sacramento where the community can listen to live local musicians, patronize local craft, maker, and food vendors in the marketplace, and watch local artists create murals on the sidewalks out of chalk, turning the sidewalks around Fremont Park into colorful works of art. This is part performance art, as the artists are creating the work during the festival.
Community members come from throughout the greater Sacramento Valley region several times over the 3-day weekend to watch the art work come to life. Kids of all ages are inspired after a walk around the outside of the park to admire the work of these professional artists, so we supply plenty of free sidewalk chalk for folks to use to experiment on the interior walkways of the park, or folks can purchase premium sidewalk chalk from our merch tent to use at the festival or take home.
The Chalk It Up Festival is a Sacramento tradition, a gift to the community, and with the help and and partnership of generous sponsors and donors and volunteers we’ve kept it 100 percent free to the public for over three decades!
About us: Chalk It Up To Sacramento aims to empower the next generation of artists by providing grant funding and programs for teachers and schools to give equitable access to the arts for all students, with an emphasis on serving our region’s most vulnerable populations. The annual three-day Chalk It Up! Chalk Art & Music Festival, a vibrant celebration of our local arts community and artists of all ages, is offered free to the public over Labor Day weekend, serving as a gift to the city and the greater Sacramento region. Chalk it Up to Sacramento is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Visit Chalkitup.org to sign up to participate as a volunteer, an artist, musician, or vendor, and to see sponsorship opportunities.
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