On September 24 and 25, Centennial residents were treated to a colorful collection of chalk art, displayed on Centennial Center Park’s concrete parking lot. Both amateur and professional artists came to enjoy the weekend and share their creativity.
The weekend event was free, and was sponsored by Arapahoe Community College and Colorado Community Media. Artists and visitors alike enjoyed live music, food trucks, and vendors’ booths.
Artists included Laurel Thompson, a Heritage High School sophomore, who worked with another artist to create a black-and-white portrait of a woman holding fairy lights. Thompson said she wanted something challenging, and black-and-white is difficult to work with.
Trina Baird came from Denver and spent two days creating a huge gorilla face in rainbow colors. Baird, who has participated in chalk art festivals in both Denver and Centennial for the last three years, says chalk art is just a hobby for her. For Cherish Flieder and Benjamin Hummel, however, the festival is one way everybody can appreciate artwork.
Flieder and Hummel, who are husband and wife, are known as ‘People of the Chalk’, and came from Golden to share their work. They were the festival’s featured artists, and created a 3-D illusion of a gigantic pumpkin.
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