3rd Annual Chalk Fest

Join us for Downtown Silver Spring’s 3rd Annual Chalk Fest! A celebration of art, community and the refreshed 350′ long street mural Sweet Network by CHALK R!OT.

Stroll Ellsworth Drive and experience the art at your feet with chalk art creations by local artists and groups.

• Design a Chalk Square
  • CLICK HERE to register
• Kids’ Creative Corner
• Dine alfresco on your favorite Downtown Silver Spring restaurant patios

WIN A FAMILY DATE PACKAGE

• Visit the DTSS tent for your chance to WIN a $100 Dog Haus Party gift card & Four Regal Majestic movie passes ($150 value)!

One entry per person. Must be 21 to enter. One lucky winner will be selected and contacted during the week of May 12th.

RECEIVE A FREE $20 Uniqlo or Nike Unite Gift Card!

• Be one of the first 25 customers to make a purchase of $100 or more from Downtown Silver Spring retail shops (listed below) during Chalk Fest, show your same day receipt(s) from one or more stores at the DTSS tent to receive a FREE $20 Uniqlo or Nike Unite gift card!

While Supplies Last. One per customer. Participating Shops: ACE Hardware, H&M, LOFT, Men’s Wearhouse, MyEyeDr, Nike Unite, Ulta Beauty, Uniqlo

Chalk Art by @magicalmissmyers

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ABOUT THE STREET MURAL – SWEET NETWORK

The refreshed mural design invites the Silver Spring community to reflect on two important questions:

What do you offer to your community?
What do you receive from your community? 

Chalk Riot’s ongoing pavement art project The Sweet Network uses the metaphor of beehives and their builders to visualize what strengthens and connects us. In collaboration with Arts on the Block, young artists illustrated on worksheets responses to the prompt “What do you offer to your community?” and Chalk Riot crew members included those designs inside some of the honeycombs! We hope that when people travel through this space, they will be reminded of the vast networks of support and care that exist in this world.

Arts on the Block empowers creative youth to imagine and shape fulfilling futures, join the creative workforce, and contribute to the quality of life of their communities.  They achieve this by providing real-world experiences in the arts and entrepreneurial training geared toward opening new pathways to learning, self-discovery, and achievement.

Chalk Riot is an all-women mural production house that specializes in art on the ground, based in Washington, DC. Since 2021, they have repainted Ellsworth Drive with a new design each year. Their Sweet Network project debuted in Nairobi, Kenya in 2023 at a global peacebuilding conference, and the team is thankful to be bringing it throughout the United States and now to Downtown Silver Spring.