BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The 27th installment of the Via Arte street art festival will transform a parking lot at the Marketplace on Ming Avenue into a colorful canvas starting October 18.

The free festival will feature professional and amateur artists from all over Kern County. The community can get involved as well with the festival's Via Bambino, where kids and adults alike are able to donate to the museum and receive a space and chalk to create their own work of art to display.

Lauren Marty, Marketing and Communications Manager for the museum, said the festival is special because it gives people an opportunity to get an inside look at the creative process and potentially even become inspired themselves.

"There aren't crowds of people watching a ceramicist throw a pot, or a paint

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