Creators travel from across the U.S. and foreign countries, including Germany, Italy, Mexico and the Netherlands, to participate.
Professional artists work on their chalk drawings during Chalktoberfest on Saturday. (Caleb Groves/ AJC)
Festivalgoers crowded Marietta Square on Saturday as chalk artists from across the globe turned streets into colorful pieces of art at the annual Chalktoberfest.
The festival, in its 13th year, draws artists from Georgia, across the country and beyond. Street painters Saturday worked on more than 80 chalk drawings, spending hours turning their asphalt canvases into works of art.
Among the artists was Tara Aiken, who traveled from Minnesota to participate in the annual event.
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Tara Aiken, an artist based out of Minnetonka, Minn., works on a chalk drawing of Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr. blowing a bubble at Chalktoberfest in Marietta on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (Caleb Groves/AJC)
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Artist Chris Brake of Atlanta works on his chalk art creation at Chalktoberfest in Marietta on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (Caleb Groves/AJC)
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Douglas’ Lee Mobley has yet to finish this latex paint mural of a bull at Chalktoberfest in Marietta on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (Caleb Groves/ AJC)
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Artists from around the globe are doing work at Chalktoberfest in Marietta. Pictured is an outline of chalk art being worked on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, by Ruven Poncia, who is based in Utrecht, Netherlands. (Caleb Groves/AJC)
Caleb Groves is a general assignment reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s politics team and a Kennesaw State University graduate.
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