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15th Annual Art Break Day!
Make art with the world on September 5, 2025Santa Monica, CA — Join us for the 15th Annual Art Break Day on September 6, 2024, at Virginia Avenue Park, 2200 Virginia Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90405, from 11 AM to 4 PM. This free event includes all art supplies and facilitators. In collaboration with Santa Monica Parks and Recreation, Art is Moving Co-Founder Lisa Rasmussen, her Harmonia Institute, and Beth Benson, founder of the Crestline Creatrix Matrix, we invite you to participate in this global art-making event and help make the world a better place through creativity!
Since 2011, over sixty thousand people in cities across the world have participated in Art Break Day, a free public art-making event. This daylong celebration encourages people to pause, take a short break from their busy lives, and make art for free. Tabled booths are set up in highly trafficked locations across the globe, providing art supplies and the opportunity to create art. The event occurs simultaneously in all participating locations on the first Friday of September. This year’s Art Break Day will take place on 9/5/2025, with both virtual and in-person events adhering to safe practices.
Art Break Day was created by the nonprofit art organization Art is Moving. Co-Founding Director Lisa Rasmussen shares, “Art Break Day is an event for the people that is hosted by the people. While providing everyone with an opportunity to discover the positive impact of art, I hope it also ignites their inner artist and they leave encouraged, empowered, and ready to engage with art again and again.”
Co-Founding Director Lauren Odell Usher Sharpton adds, “Art Break Day is all about connection. People connect with their creative sides while making art. People also connect with one another by making art at the same table. And, because several locations simultaneously host an Art Break Day, people also make art with the world.”
Volunteer host Vasvi Srivastava of New Delhi, India, reflects on her experience, “It was amazing to see strangers connecting with each other over art. New friendships were formed.”
We invite you to host an Art Break Day site. Visit www.ArtBreakDay.org to register your site today! Art Break Day is free and open to the public. People of all ages are encouraged to participate, and no prior experience is required. There is no time limit on participation. Visit any of the locations to take a break and make art with your neighbors. For more information about this year’s event and locations, visit www.ArtBreakDay.org.
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Art is Moving creates, initiates, and shares community art projects that educate, encourage, and empower people to “take an art break” and make art part of their daily life. We do this because we know that art makes people better. And, better people make a better world.
Press Contact:
Lisa Rasmussen MFA, Co-Founding Director, Art is Moving
Phone: 415.377.4956
Email: takeanartbreak@artismoving.org
Website: www.ArtBreakDay.org
