By JUDD WEIL
Hutch Post
Hutchinson, Kan. – This month's Third Thursday on March 16, is set to put visitors to downtown Hutchinson in an artistic mood.
“This Third Thursday, typically in the March month, is themed street art,” Loribeth Reynolds, Hutch Rec Marketing Manager, said. “What the purpose of that Third Thursday is, is just to kind of bring the community down to Ave. A Park. We have about eight artists that are lined up to do live demonstrations of paintings or mixed media, just any kind of art they want to show the public.”
The pieces of art showcased in Ave. A Park will then hang in the Hutch Rec community art hallway.
The pieces will be auctioned off this July during that Third Thursday's Art's & Eats event. All funds raised from the auction will go to support artists at future Third Thursdays.
There will be opportunity for the community to flex their artistic side as well.
“Themed activities will be all about the arts, so if you're going in businesses or anything like that, I know that there will be a giant chalk drawing on the sidewalks there around Ave. A Park where it will be a chalk by number,” Reynolds said. “You'll get to pick out your own chalk and you'll get to kind of have a ‘community chalk drawing,’ if you will, around Ave. A Park.”
Then as usual for Third Thursday, local downtown restaurants and businesses will have specials.
Third Thursday will take place on March 16 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information visit the Third Thursday Facebook page or the Hutch Rec website.
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