More than 100 artists are turning a parking lot at the Marketplace on Ming Avenue into a walk-through chalk gallery for Via Arté, Bakersfield’s Italian street painting festival.
The free, two-day event runs Saturday, Oct. 17, and Sunday, Oct. 18, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Ticket reservations are available at viaartebakersfield.com. Members of the public can also participate by purchasing a 2-by-2-foot chalk space, with chalk included.
Professional artists and high school students alike will create classic, contemporary, and original works, some measuring more than a dozen feet across, while the public is able to watch the masterpieces develop in real time…