SEE YOU
AUGUST 2024!
2023 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
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Color the Creek is teaming with the Battle Creek Area Disc Golf Association and the Small Business Development Office to turn the Linear Trail in Downtown Battle Creek into a Disc Golf Course - for one day only! Take part in this fun event that supports multiple grassroots projects in Battle Creek. Participants will receive a souvenir disk designed by a Battle Creek artist.
Register: colorthecreek.com/discgolf
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Art of Soul is an exhibit at the Art Center of Battle Creek showcasing the work of young Black artists - as curated by Battle Creek artist Teaira Gray. Join us on Sunday Aug. 13 from 3 to 5pm for a celebratory reception to meet and mingle with the artists
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Watch our social media pages for the release of this year's Mural Map or head to Downtown businesses to pick up your map
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Color the Creek is excited to host its 3rd annual Youth Day on Wednesday August 16th at Mill Race Park in Downtown Battle Creek from 10am to 1pm.
Youth Day Activities include:
Learn how to Spray Paint with Local Street Artists
Help us Paint a mural!
Flower Art with Marygold Meadows
Chalk Art
Ice Cream Truck
& more!
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Color the Creek is partnering with local Rotary Clubs to help cleanup the Washington Street Bridge Graffiti Park. This service opportunity will take place during Color the Creek to highlight a space where local artists can go to practice and spotlight their work. The City of Battle Creek will partner by bringing dumb truck for waste disposal as we seek to create a safer environment for our local street artists.
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Summer Art Hop (Downtown Battle Creek - 4pm to 8pm)
Local artists will be taking over Downtown businesses and with three outdoor Vendor areas featuring local artists, artisans, craftspeople, and entrepreneurs. Take a stroll through the Social District
Que Calor Art Show at Café Rica (8pm to 10pm)
Color the Creek is collaborating with Café Rica and the Arts and Culture Collective of Battle Creek to put on a group art show featuring the artwork of over 12 local artists. Come enjoy this Gallery exhibit, good music, and specialty drinks to close out your night of supporting the Arts in Downtown.
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Sat. Aug. 19 - Battle Creek Chalk Art Festival / Closing Block Party at Festival Market Square (5pm to 9pm)
Color the Creek and Chalk BC are teaming up again to put on the Battle Creek Chalk Art Festival. Come join us in Downtown Battle Creek to see the artists in action and to vote on your favorite piece! Celebrate the end of Color the Creek with one more blast of color and fun times!
Come for the Chalk and stay for the:
Premiere Food Trucks
Live Murals
Live Music
Art Activities
Local Vendors
and more!
Color the Creek 2022 Highlights
Color the Creek 2022 was a weeklong festival held in Battle Creek, MI in August 2022. The Festival included 7 new murals painted throughout Battle Creek by world-renowned graffiti artists, muralists, and local artists. One of our biggest highlights was a collaboration with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and artist Jamari Taylor to create a new mural on their headquarters in Downtown Battle Creek.
The week also featured multiple community events including a Youth Day, opening party at Torti Taco, and Downtown Art Hop Festival that included a Chalk Art competition, Downtown Disc Golf, live music and more - bringing together more than 5,000 people over the course of the week.
COLOR THE CREEK - OVER THE YEARS
Color the Creek 2021 Recap
Color the Creek x Black Lives Matter Mural (Juneteenth 2020)
WHAT WE DO
Public Art
Since 2016, Color the Creek has collaborated with local, regional, and national artists to produce over 60 large-scale murals in neighborhoods spread across Battle Creek
Community Building
Color the Creek has produced 20 community events that have brought together over 20,000 people and over 1,000 Youth - through events like Youth Day, Pop-Up Gallery Shows, and Block Parties.
Special Stories
Her Voice Carries - 2019
In the Summer of 2019, Sarah Rutherford of Rochester, NY brought her National mural project “Her Voice Carries” to Battle Creek as part of our Annual Street Art Festival.
This mural features features Eridania Nieves of Haverhill, MA. Her guiding light was quoted on the wall, as follows: “Sé el adulto que necesitabas cuando eras niño.” (Be the adult you needed when you were a kid).
Blue the Great - Los Angeles, CA (2019)
“Here and There” - Blue the Great joined us in Battle Creek in August 2019 to paint a vibrant, playful mural of his iconic mummy character. Blue is a passionate, masterful artist who took time out of his schedule to join our Youth Day event and paint with the kids of Battle Creek. We appreciate the magic he brought to Battle Creek, proven by this image of him floating in front of his own mural.
Tubs - Chicago, IL (2018)
Tubszilla of Chicago, IL joined us in Battle Creek for Color the Creek 2018. He painted this 6 color, 3000 sq. ft. Sanskrit mural in the heart of Downtown Battle Creek.
Mural Transcription
Keep pushing forward. We will stand strong. We will stand when the rest fall. We unite when they expect us to divide. I have hope, I have dreams. I have the vision for the future generations.
Mural located at 17 West Michigan (Back of Building)
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