The Values Project is a new public art project for the Sacramento community, by the Sacramento community. It paints "values" words that represent our shared human values in public parking spaces, in dozens of parking lots, in the language appropriate for the neighborhood, to stimulate thought and conversation.
This Spring and Summer, volunteers (with the approval of City officials) will coordinate with businesses, schools, hospitals, churches and non-profit organizations, and arrange for licensed & bonded crews to paint select parking spaces with the values words each organization chooses to represent their own values.
Councilmember Jay Schenirer is offering to sponsor the winner of a contest. To participate, please submit two paragraphs by e-mail explaining how you think the values words painted in the parking spaces will improve your environment.
The contest will run from Friday, March 1st, to Friday, March 29th. A winner will be selected by the Councilmember and will be eligible to receive four values words. Please e-mail your submission to:
mrabovsky@cityofsacramento.org
The Values Project is relying on a variety of funding: crowdsourcing, angels, grants and businesses. As a business owner for instance, your fee would cover your workshop and your painted words, as well as the workshop and words at a public school, non-profit, church or city lot of your choice. The artist, Peter Hassen, is donating his time, so the $100 per word fee covers hard costs: materials, painting and gas.
