The Palmerton Concourse Club returns with its annual art show and a chance for everyone to show their creative skills with a Chalk the Walk contest. The show will also feature a tribute to local artist Jeanne Stemler, who is turning 93 this month.

Stemler worked as an RN, having studied nursing at Palmerton Hospital’s school. She was encouraged to begin painting by a supervisor on her nursing floor. She studied some at The Baum School and painted locally with a group of artists in Palmerton.

Her medium is oil and she favors an impressionistic style.

“Her true love is working with color,” said Carol Curcio, president of the Concourse Club.

Stemler is originally from Nesquehoning and she and her husband, Milt, owned Stemler Hardware on Delaware Avenue.

Stemler’s work will be shown during the festival. One of her paintings will be awarded as a prize in a raffle.

The show, held in conjunction with the festival, was not held last year because of the pandemic. This year the show will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Sacred Heart Church, across from the borough park.

In a normal year the art show would be judged, but because of the pandemic, the club is offering a general community art show. The only prize will be a $100 people’s choice award. The piece of art with the most votes wins.

Categories include watercolor, oil, photography and drawing.

The club received a grant from the Horsehead Resource Foundation to fund the show and the Chalk the Walk contest. From 8 a.m. to noon Saturday people will be able to decorate a sidewalk section of Third Street. The Concourse Club will provide chalk.

Participants are then asked to share their creations on Instagram or Facebook with the hashtag #ccchalkthewalk. The most popular one wins a gift certificate to Claude’s Creamery.

Registration has passed for the chalk walk, but be sure to stop by and cheer on participants and cast your vote.

The rain date for the chalk walk is Sunday.

The Concourse Club will not have its bean soup sale at the festival. That has been postponed because of bean availability and will be held in conjunction with the basket raffle Oct. 9 at St. John’s Towamensing Lutheran Church on Fireline Road.

The club turns the money it raises back to the community, helping nonprofit groups and different projects such as Friends in the Park.