OneEighty’s Chalk the Lot will add color to downtown

The second annual Chalk the Lot event will take place June 29 in the parking lot at Commercial & Savings Bank at 91 S. Clay St. in downtown Millersburg next to the courthouse as a part of the Thunder Over Holmes County Independence Day celebration.

Registration will open at 7:30 a.m.

Chalk the Lot is an event sponsored by Holmes County Friends & Neighbors of OneEighty that gives both skilled and novice artists an opportunity to show their talent and display their own artwork.

“We welcome everyone to participate, and we especially invite novice artists to participate,” said Holmes County Friends & Neighbors of OneEighty treasurer Ashley Vaughn, who heads up the event. “We want to fill the parking lot with colorful artwork.”

Artists may complete a design individually or form a team to complete a design together. Artists must be over the age of 12, and any artist under the age of 17 must be accompanied by an adult. Artists are assigned a 4-by-4-foot space, and their art must be completed in four hours between 8 a.m. and noon. Chalk will be provided for the event, so entrants need only bring their imagination and their art skills to the contest.

“It was a blast for everyone involved last year, from the artists to those who just came to watch it all take shape,” Vaughn said.

To register for the event, log on to the OneEighty website at www.one-eighty.org, scroll down and click on the Chalk the Lot link. The link includes a place for people to fill out a registration form or to sponsor an artist if creating art isn’t your thing.