BLINK is hot this summer! The Madison Arts Commission is proud to announce funding for five new temporary public art projects that you won't want to miss.

Projects include:

•Angela Richardson's inspired photographs of area residents will pop up in surprising places around the Schenk-Atwood neighborhood in late summer 2008. The Face of a Place will offer Madisonians a glimpse of some of the people that give the area its heart and soul.

•"Flags is a project of quiet intention," wrote Rebecca Peebles in her application to the Madison Arts Commission for a BLINK grant. Her project, which combines performance, printmaking, and textile art, involves many people wearing the five colors and traditional graphic of Tibetan prayer flags. Her flag wearers will move through Madison to symbolize "joy, care and goodwill for the places we walk and the people there." The walk will be from 11-3 on Saturday, August 16, 2008.

•Gerogia Corner is curating Porch Dances a "tour de dance" for the 40th Annual Orton Park Festival, August 24, 2008. Porch Dances is a 20-minute piece (including walking time) that invites festivalgoers to move between four different viewing sites where dancers will perform to live music on the porches of homes that border Orton Park.

•Environmental Installation Artist, Eric Melton White, will string small individual solar-powered light sculptures near the Yahara River creating a magical-realist experience that celebrates the beauty of our natural environment. Look for Living Lanterns' illuminated bagwormesque forms from September-November 2008 near the Williamson Street

•Being Car-Free has never been more fun! Let Yid Vicious, one of Madison's favorite Klezmer Ensembles, accompany you along your merry car-free way. From September 19-October 3rd members of Yid Vicious will reward environmentally conscious Madisonians with Car-Free Klezmer, free performances along bike paths, at Metro Transit transfer stations, and possibly even on our your very bus route!

For more more information about the Madison Arts Commission's BLINK! grants, or to view images from the artist's proposals, please visit our website at www.cityofmadison.com/mac or contact Karin Wolf, the Arts Program Administrator kwolf@cityofmadison.com

Next BLINK application deadline is October 1, 2008.