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Santa Monica Airport ArtWalkImaginations take flight at this do-it-yourself exhibit  
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Art!
Wandering around the historic Santa Monica Airport, you could easily encounter as many original artworks as airplanes. Douglas Aircraft once built entire fleets of DC3’s where artists are now hard at work creating paintings and sculptures that will make your imagination soar. To showcase this cultural hub and all its assets, the City’s Cultural Affairs Division and the Santa Monica Airport will sponsor the second annual Santa Monica Airport Art Walk on March 29th, 2008 from 1:00 – 5:00pm. Airport Avenue between Bundy Drive and Walgrove Avenue (23rd Street if you are coming from Santa Monica) is home to numerous private artist studios, the Santa Monica Art Studios complex, the Sherry Frumkin and Arena One galleries, the Santa Monica College Ceramic Studios and Art Mentor Program, and the Ruskin Group Theatre. All of which will be open to visitors during the Art Walk providing a unique opportunity to view the current work of over 60 local artists and explore the spaces where their imaginations take flight. From the place where the founders of modern aviation, Howard Hughes, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart, once leapt into the air, artists now leap into new worlds with new ideas. In tiny offices where engineers once constructed models and blueprints artists conceive new visions. And in vast hangars where schematics were hammered into great flying machines of steel and aluminum artists fabricate works which carry no passengers or freight, but take flight with our imaginations and dreams. WHEN: March 29th from 1:00 - 5:00pm WHERE: Airport Avenue between Bundy Drive and Walgrove Avenue (23rd Street if you are coming from Santa Monica)   
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