Chalk This Way at ColorPalooza

04/26/2026

Thank you to all of the artists and guests who made Chalk This Way at ColorPalooza such a tremendous success yesterday. It was a day filled with beauty!

04/26/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 Chalk This Way at ColorPalooza Scholarship Winners! Thank you to our judges from the Visual Art League of Lewisville and Art Club with Amber for your professional assistance!

1st Place: Allysa Miller, Marcus HS, “A World Under Water”
2nd Place: Payton Curtis, Marcus HS, “A Gentle Evening Drift”
3rd Place: Isabel Perez, The Colony HS, “The Blow Beneath the Blue”

More information will be sent to the recipients on how to claim your scholarship. Thank you to all who participated! There was so much amazing artwork!

04/22/2026

Come out to ColorPalooza this Saturday, 10 AM to 5 PM and bring the whole family for a fun, colorful day!

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04/16/2026

There are 4 more days for LISD High School Juniors and Seniors to enter the Chalk This Way Scholarship Art Contest! For more information and to apply, click the website link!

04/07/2026

Entry is now open for the Chalk this Way Scholarship Contest!
Lakeside Arts Foundation invites Lewisville ISD High School Juniors and Seniors, intending to major in any arts-related field, to participate in Scholarship Art Contest at Chalk This Way to earn one of three possible scholarships. Contestants will be given a 6 x 6 foot area of concrete and professional quality chalk, to create a work of art, in six hours. The First Place scholarship is $1,200, Second Place is $700 and Third Place is $500.
Chalk This Way, at ColorPalooza, takes place on April 25, 2026 outside Lewisville City Hall from 10 AM to 5 PM. In addition to the scholarship contest, this day-long event features a professional chalk artist exhibit, amateur chalk art gallery, a children’s gallery, interactive art activities for children, art and food vendors, Eco-Alley, art demonstrations by professional artists, and live performances by cultural groups and musicians.
There is no entry fee for the scholarship contest, but student artists are asked to submit the application and a full-color, sketched rendering of their planned work by April 20, 2026.
Scholarship winners will be announced online on Sunday following the festival (April 26). Details, rules, and entry forms are available on the website at https://www.chalkthisway.org. For more information, contact Lakeside Arts Foundation at (214) 334-4584 or email [email protected]. For more information about the overall ColorPalooza festival, see lewisvillecolorpalooza.com.

04/29/2025

Chalk This Way 2025 at ColorPalooza was a tremendous success! Thanks to all of the talented and lovely artists and viewers who came out and enjoyed this wonderful event! Thanks to the many volunteers who made it possible and thanks to the City of Lewisville for supporting it! We appreciate you all!
If you have photos of this year’s event, please share them here!

04/27/2025

Congratulations to winners of the Chalk This Way 2025 Peoples Choice Awards: Reese and Payton Oldenkamp, for their joint work, “Jujutsu.”

04/27/2025

Congratulations to our Chalk This Way 2025 Scholarship Winners!
1st Place, Alexa Irazabal, TCHS, “Parguito Venezuela”
2nd Place, Isabel Perez, TCHS, “No Work”
3rd Place, Eden Yow, Hebron HS, “Sunset Drive”

04/11/2025

Margarita Butler, professional artist from Arlington, Texas, will return to Chalk This Way at ColorPalooza for her fourth year. Margarita (Maggie) has worked at numerous chalk art festivals in Texas and other states including The Friends of O.S Gray Natural Area, in Arlington, 7th Street chalk festival, in Forth Worth, Chalk art festival Carrollton. And Chalk Festival, in Bedford. She has also worked at Chalk Art Festival Denver, Colorado, and internationally at Historias de la ciudad chalk festival, in Cd. Juárez.
Come see Maggie’s spectacular work on April 26, at Chalk This Way!

04/07/2025

Today's featured artist is Ashley Wright, who is returning to Chalk This Way for her 10th year! Ashley is an illustration and painting artist from Denton, Texas, who found a passion in chalk art. After her first chalk festival win in Denton 2014 she was asked to participate in the 2015 Chalk this way Lewisville festival and has been creating large scale chalk art throughout Texas ever since.
Come see Ashley’s work at Chalk This Way at ColorPalooza on Saturday, April 26!