Chalk Walk 2025 brings SQUONK to the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center TOMORROW!

Jasper Arts’ 22nd annual Chalk Walk Arts Festival will once again be held at the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center (located at 100 3 rd Ave. Jasper, IN 47546) TOMORROW, Saturday, May 17 th from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Chalk Walk 2025 will see the return of crowd favorites such as balloon art, caricature drawings, bounce houses for children, t-shirt tie-dyeing and of course, CHALKING on the sidewalks of the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center! We hope everyone comes out tomorrow to enjoy the fun, rain or shine! 

New this year, throughout 2025 Jasper Arts is celebrating being part of the community for 50 years and Chalk Walk is joining in the celebration by bringing a very unique, interactive musical performance in which families will want to be sure to participate! It’ll be complete with loud and raucous, giant musical instruments that you will only experience with…SQUONK! 

Brouhaha, Squonk’s newest show, is an immersive outdoor spectacle bursting with rollicking music, dazzling imagery, and the thrill of audience participation. 

At the center of this riotous romp is the Squonkcordion, an enormous musical instrument powered by behemoth bellows topped with towering tuba bells. At the peak of the performance, Squonk invites the audience to play this foghorn organ, welcoming them to experience the joy of a brass band and the fireworks of community. The show ends with a 30-foot head made of brilliantly colored banners, comically blinking its eyes and shooting smoke out of its ears. 

Throughout this visual extravaganza, Squonk’s musicians add driving rhythms, vibrant keyboards, wild winds, and hypnotic guitar riffs to the Squonkcordion’s rich and brassy sound. A raucous fusion of styles, Squonk’s music ranges from propulsive and exhilarating to celebratory and majestic. 

Critics have praised Squonk as “Flamboyant! Dreamy!” (Pittsburgh City Paper) and “Playful! Imaginative! Fun and outlandish!” (Pittsburgh Quarterly). Jasper Arts 100 3 rd Ave. Suite A Jasper IN 47546 Phone: 812-482-3070 www.jasperarts.org E-mail: [email protected]  

The annual Chalk Walk is supported by many local businesses and individuals, including Papa John’s Pizza of Jasper, Kimball International, Walmart-Jasper, Branded by Woods, and others. Additional information about the Chalk Walk Arts Festival and vendor forms can be found on the Chalk Walk page of the Arts website at www.jasperarts.org/chalkwalk Jasper Arts is a department of the City of Jasper. Additional support is provided by Friends of the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission, Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Jasper Arts is also a Kennedy Center Partner in Education and provides arts education programming to local schools.