Draw Together 2025

Click "Get Tickets" to reserve your chalk box or sidewalk square today!

The Art Center invites community members to draw together as a community to celebrate creative expression on our sidewalks! Our biggest summer event raises funds to support our scholarships and educational programming. There will be music, food, and fun!

Live entertainment throughout the day includes tunes by Laura Doherty & the Heartbeats, a meet-and-greet with Daisy from WTTW's Nature Cat, and a visit from the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation's Animal Orchestra On Tour. Stay for face painting and lunch from The Fat Shallot food truck!

You can even participate from home - wherever that may be! Pick up a TAC Chalk Box and share your sidewalk creations with us online by tagging them #DrawTogetherTAC #tachp.

Do you want to help us spread the creativity? Consider a Community Sponsorship to fund 10 chalk boxes to be donated to a community organization of your choice. Click on "Get Tickets" to complete your sponsorship!

Interested in other Event sponsorship opportunities? CLICK HERE.

Chicago favorite Laura Doherty & The Heartbeats acoustically rock your kid’s world with breezy folk-pop tunes from Laura's five Parent’s Choice award-winning albums, which feature her adorable puppet friends Jazzasaurus, Domingo the Flamingo, and Muddy Puddles, the Pig--whom is the main character in Laura's brand new children's book "Muddy Puddles" A Sing-Along story. This upbeat, interactive concert will have kids dancing and clapping along to Laura's original catchy tunes! "Doherty writes the perfect pop song for kids, light and breezy" - Chicago Tribune

Learn more about Laura Doherty HERE!

Daisy from WTTW Kids’ Nature Cat is a super smart bunny who loves reading, writing, and learning. She’s extremely knowledgeable about technology and always has her trusty tablet on hand. If she doesn’t know the answer to a question, no problem, there’s probably an app for that! She’s one wired-in rabbit!

Learn more about WTTW's Nature Cat HERE!

The Animal Orchestra On Tour is a children’s book written and published by Dolores Kohl, who was an educator for many years before establishing the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation. Designed for students in kindergarten through 1st grade, the story follows a group of animal musicians from Animalandia who travel together, spreading the love of music to people all around the world!

Learn more about The Animal Orchestra HERE!

Host or Publisher The Art Center Highland Park