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Playa to plaza Nonprofit wants to display artwork from Burning Man in Rancho Cordova Imagine you and your best buds touring a vast field of free interactive art exhibits. There is a three-story “head maze” to explore, a stairway of floating stone steps to climb and a temple made of recyclables to examine. Ed Fletcher is a Sacramento documentary filmmaker This isn’t a dream. This is Burning Man. and board president of Sacramento Valley Spark. In addition to all the other things you’ve heard about the one-week event in the Nevada desert, it’s the world’s largest outdoor art gallery with 400 pieces spread over a vast open area referred young to dream, that encourages us to be our to as the “playa” (Spanish for the beach). truest selves and that invites us to participate in While Burning Man Project, the nonprofit making our community a better place. organization that produces the event, partially We envision a space with six to eight funds a small percentage of the art, more than car-sized one-year exhibits, with three to four 80% of the artists self-fund their projects or shorter-term art experiences that emphasize local use crowd-funding campaigns. As many people participation, including chalk exhibitions, walls to know, “The Man” and “Temple” art structures spray paint and perhaps flower art. burn at the end of the week. What many people Sacramento Valley Spark will host quarterly don’t know is that the vast majority of works gatherings at the location to further showcase created for Burning Man are taken home by “Burner” culture and creations on an the artists. While a handful have found accessible scale. However, true long-term or temporary placement success in creating community as public art in San Francisco, space is seeing existing and San Jose, Las Vegas and spontaneous groups—poets, Reno, the vast majority are What many people don’t Pokemon enthusiasts and hidden from the public. others—use the space in know is that the vast Sacramento Valley imaginative ways. That’s Spark, a nonprofit inspired majority of works created when it becomes “ours.” by the 10-principles of for Burning Man are taken Sacramento Valley Burning Man, is working to Spark will work to find home by the artists. place interactive art created permanent homes for the art, for Burning Man within but at the end of the one-year the region and to open the engagement, the Sacramento “Sacramento Playa Art Park” in Playa Art Park moves on and the Rancho Cordova this fall. space takes on a future life shaped by Rancho Cordova cares about art our positive human interactions. and creating opportunities for its residents. On Creating this transformative space will not be Feb. 3, Sacramento Valley Spark received a $16,000 ceremonial check from the city’s 2019-20 cheap or easy. We need to secure the site, prepare the site, find the artwork, pay the artists, transport community enhancement fund. The allocation and mount the work and many other steps. will fund preliminary work developing the Rancho Cordova’s support is a start, but we’re project and our July 25 summer arts celebration asking for corporate, community and private “Summer Spark,” which is expected to raise support. thousands of dollars towards the art park. We’re asking the Rancho Cordova and While the one-day event will offer art, surrounding community to embrace this project mutant vehicles, music and food trucks, the as we transport a taste of Burning Man playa-toone-year installation aims to take a vacant plaza, minus the dust. Ω property and turn it into a vibrant amenity for the community—a place that inspires the old and