Perry Chalk Art Festival 2025 Come to Perry, NY July 12th for a Saturday of fine art, fantastic food and fabulous summer fun at the eighteenth annual Perry Chalk Art Festival! Stroll downtown Perry and see professional artists shape gigantic pastel artworks on the theme “Look Forward/Look Back”. Cheer on youth artists competing for prizes and encourage artists of all ages to try their hand at the chalking wall. And see artist Erika Lalita creating a super-sized chalk work under the Festival Plaza pavilion. This year's featured artist, Julia Williamson, is a Buffalo-based multimedia artist and graphic designer. Her work is inspired by graffiti/street art as well as by comic books and animated movies At a young age Julia tried working charcoal and soft pastels, and as an adult she found the transition to large scale chalk pieces was a natural progression. She enjoys the creative process from initial sketch to completed piece and finds getting her hands dirty making her works is oddly therapeutic. Every year she looks forward to exploring the possibilities of the medium and trying new things. Over the past decade Julia has participated in street art competitions across Western New York such as Sweet Chalk Lockport, Chalkfest Buffalo, and the Lewiston Art Festival.. She is THRILLED to be the featured artist for the 2025 Perry Chalk Art Festival! Event Schedule-Perry Chalk Art Festival
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Music at Festival Plaza (unless otherwise noted), Downtown Perry 8:30AM - 11:00AM Kelly's Old Timers - round & square dances, classics 10:00AM - 1:00PM Elise Kelly - wide ranging music & beautiful vocals at Farmers' Market stage on Borden Ave 11:15AM - 1:15PM Creek Bend - bluegrass & humor 1:30PM - 4:15PM The Skiffle Minstrels - American Folk Traditional Trio
10:00AM - 3:00PM at Festival Plaza View the works of this year's Feature Artist Julia Williamson (Members' Gallery) and Chalk Dust: A History of the Chalk Art Festival (Main Gallery 10:30AM - 2:30PM at Festival Plaza Arm & hand painting AND glitter tattoos with Buffalo Face Paint 10:30AM - 1:30PM at Festival Plaza Balloon Sculptures with Mr No the Balloon Guy 11:00AM - 11:15AM at Festival Plaza Pop-Up Dance Performance by KM Dance Center 11:30AM and 1:30PM at Festival Plaza Port-A-Globe Mobile puppet Theatre Company --Punch & Judy Show
Tour de Perry at Perry Village Park, Lake St8:00AM: Mass starts for bicyclists More info at Tour de Perry's Facebook page. Register by clicking this link. Perry Chalk Art Festival at Festival Plaza, Downtown Perry8:00AM - 10:30AM Adult Chalk Artist Registration 8:30AM - 3:00PM Adult Artists Chalking 8:30AM - 3:00PM Large Scale Chalking by Erika Lalita 11:00AM - 3:00PM Youth Artist Registration & Chalking 4:00PM - 4:30PM Artist Recognition, Prizes, & Closing Ceremony Perry Farmers' Market at Borden Ave, Downtown Perry8:30AM - 1:30PM Enjoy fresh produce, meats, cheeses, pastries, fresh cut flowers, and more! See more at Perry Farmers' Market's Facebook page! Perry Public Market at Downtown Perry8:30AM - 4:00PM Enjoy a wide selection of vendors offering unique, handmade goods.
Food Truck VendorsDECISIONS: Paninis & more BUCKAROOS: Poutine SMOKE 'N THE VALLEY: Barbecue DINER ON THE RUN: American Cuisine |
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Art, Inside & Out | Across the street, at the Arts Council for Wyoming County visit:
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Sponsors | Thank you 2025 Sponsors! Large Scale Chalking Sponsors Creative Food Ingredients, Inc Sustaining Sponsors and Grantors A NYSCA Re-grant I Town of Perry I Village of Perry I Arts Council for Wyoming County People's Choice Award Sponsor Grover & Bates Assoc Signage Patron Image Out Graphics Vertical Chalk Wall Sponsor MRB Group Youth Chalk Wall Sponsor Allied Financial Partners Music Patron Perry Chamber of Commerce I Southview Dairy LLC Media Sponsor KidsOutAndAbout.com Donated Art Supplies Blick Art Materials : our favorite pastel supplier! Artist Patron II Breezeway Barns and Gardens I Harding Plumbing and Heating, Inc I Hart's Insurance Agency I LaBella Associates I NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities I Sign Language, Inc I Table Rock Farm I West's Bookkeeping Services I West's Granite Art, Inc Artist Patron I Charcoal Corral I Complete Payroll I Daryl's Pizzeria I Dell Collective I Family Furniture and Eleven Covington I In.Site: Architecture LLP I Once Again Nut Butter I Sedam Tire I Silverlaken Estate, Glampground & Tiny House Village I Silver Lake Brewing Project Sponsors Basil's Repair I Bush Hill Florist I Eaton Watson Funeral Home I Parker and Lubanski CPAs, LLC I Warsaw Pennysaver/Perry Shopper Special Thanks Samantha Pierce, Christina Slusser, Amanda Bouchard - financial recordkeeping Village of Perry DPW and Department of Parks Town of Perry DPW - plaza and garden clean-up Travers Place Apartments & residents and M&T Bank - use of parking lots Harding Heating and Plumbing - parking Thrive Fitness 24/7 - parking |
This event is made possible through generous contributions from local government, businesses, individuals and from the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce.
The program is also made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Arts Council for Wyoming County.
We are pleased to share this information on behalf of the event organizers.
