We set up the yarn coffin installation for two events in 2021: a group show, DulcePalloza (with the theme of "COLOR and LIFE after a year of COVID lockdown")  at The Neutra Gallery in May, and a Dia de los Muertos celebration in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

We had a wonderful time working with the Friends of Griffith Park during the P-22 Day Festival in 2022, painting on prepped paper with families and artists of all ages! 108 paintings were sent home with their art creators, some of whom stayed for hours to complete their pieces.    

The 24th Street Dia de los Muertos festival is a wonderful free neighborhood-family gathering, 4.5 hours filled with food and crafts and dancing and music... we draped our altar fabric up on canopy and tree and parking sign and yarn coffin and painted goodbyes with many families. Thanks to coordinating artists SharonP and MargZ and [...]

https://youtu.be/PIBFwyEtHgY   We had a great time painting with everyone over on the Avenues during the music fest this year, creating big bold shapes across the 5 lines of a musical staff on a colorful 30-foot-long scroll. Hope you were all able to get the sumi ink off your clothes! Visit the West Adams Avenues Jazz Fest [...]

Yes, it's a St. Patrick's Deer! Painted by a crew including MadelineW and TonyaJ and GlenyS....

The annual Day of the Dead event took place in the streets of the University Park area near USC and downtown Los Angeles, as local community members wrote letters and painted pictures on long muslin fabric draped around the branches of a sprawling tree. Hundreds participated in adding their remembrances of loved ones who [...]

Larger than life face-hole cutouts recreating the Christmas Nativity served as inviting props for participants to photograph themselves as the characters of the Three Wise Men, Mary, Joseph, and an attendant shepherd, for a Christmas Posada in the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles. The images were painted on cardboard and embellished with mosaic-like paper [...]

We collaborated with Shared_Studios facilitators who were managing a Shared_Studios Portal project which connects communities around the world through interactive technology. Transforming a shipping container into an art studio at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, artists drew portraits of a live facilitator whose image was live-streaming from a Portal art space in Mexico [...]

Last year at Hollywood Forever Cemetery's Dia de los Muertos festival, painting skeletons and skulls and warm loving goodbyes to friends and family on a big fabric altar #86. This year in honor of the theme of printmaker artist Jose Posada, we built a stuctured Catrina doll figure in front of our fabric altar, so [...]

In June, Urban Crop Circle created a book-scroll in conjunction with sound artists The Dirty Chaps, at 2017 sound art festival Sound Pedro, held at Angel's Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro. Working on the scroll into the night, pages were initially etched with 5 music staff lines, surrounded by lights, lined with rocks, and [...]

Developed a web site promoting political collaborative efforts: WeWatchandWeVote

Urban Crop Circle sponsored the Salon du Urban Crop Circle, a very small public painting project at Art Basil LA 2016, hosted by Mr. let's Paint, John Kilduff, in his backyard (article on Art and Cake blog here ) [most photos below by Kristine Schomaker from Art and Cake ] [...]

Abandoning a treasure trove of art books, across Los Angeles. 30 books and continuing. In conjunction with the Art Abandonment project and Flood the Streets with Art day.

At Hollywood Forever Cemetery's Dia de los Muertos festival, painting skeletons and skulls and warm loving goodbyes to friends and family on a big fabric altar #86. 9 coordinating artists (MargaretK, BeatrixZ, GlenyS, MarquitaT, AnnZ and DanZ and MargaretZ, DougB, JohnM), with approx. 2000 collaborating public art-makers and celebrants. Margaret Kruszewska's photo gallery: [...]

Collaborative painting in Marietta Ohio during their annual Ohio River Sternwheel Festival. Prepped the length of paper scroll to with blue/green watercolor and we painted a river together! Scroll rolls up and lives inside a collaged box.... These painting projects take a life of their own: the end-products look crazed and unruly, elbows are thrown, [...]

March 2016: We pulled out our sumi ink and brushes and painted this washi paper lamp in Dublin Ireland....

Oct 24, 2015 -  Saturday 12noon to 12midnight Come and be a dead person in our awesome yarn coffin, at Hollywood Forever Cemetery's Dia de los Muertos festival, tomorrow Saturday! We'll be at Altar space #86 noon to midnight, painting together to honor our family and friends' passings this year.... We lay out many tables [...]

Big Book Painting Fun on a beautifully sunny day in Altadena for their Best Fest.... 2 artist coordinators; 202 collaborative artists! 40 feet of folded pages on one long scroll. In partnership with Sharon Ward, Altadena Best Fest, and the Altadena Public Library, who kindly put the book on display after the event. And in [...]

For San Francisco's Sunday Streets program, tacked drawing paper down onto the asphalt of the Tenderloin District, and painted a vibrant portrait of the town with approx. 70 kids and families and local shopkeepers! Thanks Sunday Streets SF, and JaneB and MargaretZ!

We joined the Oakland Museum of California Art for their Friday Nights event, only we neglected to tell them, so they kicked us out. We moved half a block down the street and painted with tons of folks on 2 Japanese scrolls. 7 coordinating artists  (Margaret, Ann, Jane, Dan, Adelle, Emily, Zak), 2 unhappy Security [...]

Painted on 3 bright Japanese Washi paper lamps at the 2015 Vivid Sydney Festival in Sydney Australia; we were right near the ferry docks and got lots of attention! Thanks much to SueK, AureliaK, WallisB, DougB, SteveK and JoshuaK for setup, breakdown, and coordination help.

The Humanitas Academy of Art & Technology at Esteban E. Torres High School in East Los Angeles again requested we coordinate a public painting event at the school's open house. 2 coordinating artists (YoungS and JohnM). 80-100 collaborative artists. 2 feet x 17 feet scroll of drawing paper.

Guerilla-attempt at joining Billy Apple mega-exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in New Zealand. Was assigned a spot in the Cafe... with very little pass-through traffic. 7 artist collaborators, 1 agreeable cafe manager, 1 disagreeable cafe assistant manager. Thanks to Doug and Wallis and Matthew Laurenson for setup and breakdown!

Christchurch NZ, hard hit by two earthquakes 2010 and 2011. Their center of town is completely destroyed and there's tons of new building and renovation development projects, huge cranes, empty buildings, temporary structures, and stark, empty lots, all throughout downtown. This is what LA will look like after our earthquake. Interspersed throughout are [...]

Three coordinating artists (JohnM, YoungS, AnnZ) worked closely with the Music Center Education Department in LA, to present an experiental event for their 2015 Downtown BookFest, held in Grand Park. Long scroll of pages folded our of a big book; scroll had 5 undulating music score lines that impacted painting. An intersection between the Music [...]

An installation of a large tree painting for the "From Her" group show; public collaborators paint with branches and rip the paper and paste it onto the root system below. Initial artist coordinators: Young Summers and Ann Zumwinkle. More photos of this event here. In collaboration with Pico House,El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. [...]

3 Coordinators! 119 Artists! 1 Kitty!