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CALL FOR EXISTING SCULPTURE IN DOWNTOWN BERKELEY! $25,000 BUDGET! Hey, are you an artist? Do you live in California? Do you have some large-scale sculpture lyin...g around? Sure you are, sure you do, and sure you do! The City of Berkeley has issued a call for the temporary installation of an **existing** sculpture at the BART Plaza in downtown Berkeley. It's a very prominent location and, in addition to good exposure, there's a $25K budget! Deadline is June 30, 2017. Click below for the full Call for Artists. Please help us spread the word!

Friends~! If your near Palo Alto, CA next week/end, stop by the Code:ART festival in downtown. Temporary urban interventions at the nexus of art and technology that recast the city as a laboratory for creative placemaking while engaging commuters, residents, students and visitors in dialogue to shape the future of the downtown corridor.

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Friends! In these complicated times, there are still some interesting public projects coming along in the near future. Palo Alto Public Art Program has launched CODE:Art - a festival of art and innovation that will transform Palo Alto into a laboratory for urban interventions and creative placemaking. Submit your project by January 1, 2017! MoreLab will be working with the winning artists, helping shepherd the projects to implementation. All the details are here:... http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civi/filebank/documents/54843

Two days until PARK(ing) Day! Would you kick in 10 bucks to support our PARK(ing) Day book campaign? Thanks mucho!

Only One week until PARK(ing) Day! Please support our book campaign if you can!

PARK(ing) Day! We are pleased to announce the launch of our fundraising campaign for PARK(ing) Day: The Book! Help us tell the tale of the guerilla art project ...that became a worldwide phenomenon. Please donate what you can! And, please get your images and stories ready! After the event this year, we will be asking for submissions to include in the book. PARK(ing) Day is Friday September 16th.

Bay Area Friends~ Don't miss the upcoming Aerial Arts Festival. It's going to be amazing!

Friends! I am excited to share news about a new initiative called the Play Everywhere Challenge, a national design competition created by KaBOOM! in collaborati...on with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Target, Playworld, the U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In the words of the Play Everywhere Challenge: We all have a stake in building communities where kids can grow up healthy, happy, and ready to succeed. Right now, there’s a new opportunity to make your community a better place for kids by boosting their chances to do what kids do bestto grow and thrive through play. You can help by getting involved with the #PlayEverywhere Challenge, a $1 million national competition that will award innovative, replicable ideas that make play the easy choice for kids and families. Send in your best ideas! Because play can happen anywhere, and should happen everywhere... plus, 1 million dollars!

Friends! If you are around this Sunday afternoon, I'll be making talk about the ole' art at the Artists' Network Symposium at Gray Area Arts Foundation, produced by Burning Man. Come on by!

Looking for a family-friendly art spectacle in San Francisco in April? look no further than Amanda Parer's "Intrude" ...

Thanks to all the artists, activists and citizens who participated in #parkindgay yesterday! The global movement toward more livable cities marches forward, one parking space at a time... #PD15 Here's an image of the PARK that started it all. The PARK heard around the world!