Every year on the first Friday in September, along with dozens of volunteers across the globe, I host Art Break Day in Downtown Corvallis, Oregon. Join me, take a break, and make some art. It’s free and open to the public.

Art Break Day converts public areas into social clay that is constantly shaped, reconfigured, and molded through human interaction and creation. Specifically, we set up art spaces (i.e., canopies, tables, chairs, art supplies, etc.) in public locations where people can make art for free over the course of a day. These spaces provide people who are normally unlikely or unable to make art with the opportunity to create and to interact with their neighbors while they do so. The art produced by participants is used to build a dynamic public gallery. The result is the transformation of an empty public space into a vivacious center of creation.