(May 19, 2010 - Littleton, Colorado) - The Arapahoe Community College Foundation will host a chalk art festival on Saturday, Sept. 11, at the ACC Main Campus, and booth space is available for non-artisan businesses, restaurants and caterers. Called Chalk it up for Education, the event on the ACC West Lawn will be from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and is a fundraiser for the Arapahoe Community College Foundation.

This is the inaugural chalk art festival at ACC and is the first of its kind to incorporate professional and student chalk design in one place. The event will include four Colorado Chalk Artists who have built pieces for places such as La Piazza, the Belmar Italian Festival and the Winter Park Arts Festival, plus at least 25 other artists from around the Denver Metro area and 10 student artists from the College. In addition, there will be an entertainment stage all day, food vendors and fine arts vendors.

Courtney Loehfelm, ACC Foundation executive director, anticipates that this one-day event will bring together more than 4,000 people. “This promises to build into one of the finest events in South Denver,” she said. “We invite you to apply for a booth space at this exciting event. As a reminder, the more diversified and new or unique your merchandise, the more likely you are to have visitors. Think about how you can entice people to stay and play at your booth with a free activity, a drawing for a donated item, or an interactive opportunity at your booth.”

Booth spaces are a single 10 feet x 10 feet for non-food vendors. For food vendors, single booth spaces will be 10 feet x 20 feet (10 feet wide from the street and 20 feet deep). Additional space is available per the instructions on the terms and conditions in the booth application section. The application deadline is Aug. 1, 2010, but spaces will be given out on a first-come first-served basis with the first applications getting some of the best spaces. The number of food vendors will be limited. Applications can be downloaded at the Webpage http://www.chalkituptoeducation.com. For questions regarding booths call Sara at 303. 907.4452.

During the festival, prizes will be awarded in a number of categories including amateur, professional, age group, original design and use of color for the chalk drawings designed at the event. Education will be the main theme for the event. Students and faculty from K-12 and higher education will be encouraged to participate. Booths for sponsors and ACC departments and programs will be designed as interactive educational experiences, such as face painting for art students, nursing simulation man demonstrations and an Alchemy Club magic show.

The Main Campus of Arapahoe Community College is located on the east side of Santa Fe at College Drive, 5900 South Santa Fe Dr., just south of historic downtown Littleton. The West Lawn is southwest of the main building.

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