HUMBOLDT — A coming street festival aims to bring people to Humboldt's downtown with an evening market, chalk artworks and live music.
The Humboldt Downtown Business Improvement District Streetfest Evening Market will be held Aug. 16 on Sixth Avenue beside the Humboldt and District Museum.
There will be vendors, food, bouncy castles and a barbecue hosted by Humboldt Collegiate's Travel Club.
Live music includes the Horse's Mouth from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., as well as Brian Grest and Walter Bushman from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Local artists Laura Kneeshaw and Dylan Burton will be working creating chalk art. Everyone is invited to see the works in progress and add their own creations to the pavement in the surrounding area.
Kneeshaw is based in Humboldt. Growing up in the new media era she began making art digitally from a young age, starting with computer graphics and moving to a painterly style over time. She is self-taught and has studied art full-time since 2015. Currently, she is exploring ways to bring visual internet culture offline while using digital techniques in traditional oil painting. Laura’s work uses shape, design, and high contrast colour to create striking images with unique personalities. Focusing on portraiture, she aims to showcase how individuals present themselves online. Her work is heavily influenced by art movements such as tonalism, American realism, and draws a lot of inspiration from the baroque period.
Dylan Burton has been making chalk art since her childhood and has slowly expanded from making chalk doodles to more advanced creations. Dylan’s family has been very supportive of her hobby, often buying out a store's chalk supply when she would run out. One of Dylan’s favourite things about chalk art is that she can share her art with a lot of people and hopefully make their days a little brighter. Besides chalk art, Dylan also enjoys writing, crocheting, and acting. Dylan is an artist at heart and likes to make things that others can see and enjoy.
The Humboldt Fire Department drone program will take aerial photos and video of the chalk artworks created during the Street Fest Evening Market event which will be shared on our website.
Free chalk is available at the Museum from August 1-16th (while supplies last) for anyone who wants to create their own works of art on the sidewalks of Humboldt.
