Project Jericho

This fall, Project Jericho teens worked with Jerzy Drozd to create original comics inspired by focusing on the future, and what would make the world better. You can see their artwork and read a comic at the Clark County Public Library (downtown location) through November!

Drum roll please! 🥁 congrats to our Project Scare-A-Crow winners! This year’s display was truly out-of-this-world!

🥇 WALL-E & The Plant by the Johnson, Foy and Beaschler Families
🥈WALL-E by the Hennis Family
🥉E.T. By the Hoefer Family

Great things happen at the LIBRARY! 📚Join us at the Clark County Public Library to celebrate a group of young artists who created comics inspired by the futures they dream of.

Mark your calendars and bring your reading glasses!

A look back at Chalkfest 2026 👀

You can still vote for your favorite scarecrow at National Road Commons Park until October 22 🐦‍⬛🗳️

Check out our 2026 Chalkfest Winners!

🏆 12 & Under: Addilyn Thompson
🏆 13-18: Taylor Schwarz
🤖: Future Focused/Sci Fi: Northwestern High School Art Club
🍿: Pop Culture: Stephanie Mee
👻: Spooky Season: Natalie Woodruff

🥇People’s Choice: Northwestern Middle School Art Club
🥈People’s Choice: Ryan Shaw
🥉People’s Choice: Addilyn Thompson

There’s still time for you to make your mark at Chalkfest !
Register now! https://shorturl.at/kzwnu

The future belongs to those who create it! This year’s Chalkfest shirt embraces the Project Scare-A-Crow theme, “Future Focused - Works of Science Fiction”. Iconic characters have been transformed into boxes of chalk and are now aptly named, Chalk Brown, Robo-Chalk and R2D2 (Ready 2 Draw 2day)

Shirts are available Saturday, October 3 at Chalkfest ! 🤖

Come for the music, stay for the art. Come for the art, stay for the music! Larry Humphrey & Friends are bringing the energy to Chalkfest 2026! Don't miss Springfield's favorite FREE family-friendly festival ✨

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Have you ever wanted to participate in Chalkfest and didn’t know where to begin? Join us for this fun, informal workshop that will help teach you the basics of chalk art. Not interested in competing, but love making art? You are welcome to join!

On display now at the Springfield Museum of Art (Ohio)

In a fast-paced world full of keyboard clicks and calendar commitments, ten young women and their mother figures joined Project Jericho and took the time to be together, write together, and create together. Local artist and educator Michelle Carn helped the women explore writing activities that led them to learn more about one another and themselves. Vicki Murphy, a Columbus-based artist, guided the women in the creation of multimedia butterfly wings that are unique, yet fit together. Their butterfly wings on display in the lobby of the Springfield Museum of Art through the month of May.

This program was a reminder that in this wild and busy life we have to connect with and lean on each other. Because everyone needs something to hold on to.

A special thank you to Simon Kenton Inn, Morningside Meadows Flower Farm and Springfield Museum of Art (Ohio) for making the celebration of this program extra special.

This program was funded in part by Women's Partnership Funds of Clark County, Ohio