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On Friday (Feb. 2), three days after the president's State of the Union address, University of California, Davis, students, faculty, staff, and community members will join a national movement. They will gather to exchange stories to help a Davis artist create a chalk mural expressing community feelings for a “2018 People’s State of the Union.” The mural creation will follow with storytelling circles on the state of Davis and the nation.

The community event is part of a national event held since 2015 in more than 300 locations. The event is being organized nationwide by the nonprofit and taking place at �ٺ���Ƶ this year through the leadership of campus-based Imagining America. Other locations throughout the United States will hold story circles, write poetry or invite people to share stories in other ways. 

When

Friday, Feb. 2, 3-4:30 p.m., mural creation

Where

Imagining America offices, 207 Third St., Suite 120, Davis 

Who

Artist , a �ٺ���Ƶ graduate, will create a chalk mural on a wall at the Imagining America location. Fodor is a painter and social practice artist, specializing in community-designed and community-painted murals. She has created work throughout the region, including on the �ٺ���Ƶ campus. She earned both a bachelor’s degree in plant biology (1999) and a master’s degree in community development (2012) from the university.

Background

�ٺ���Ƶ is the headquarters for , a national organization that advances a vision of the world in which publicly engaged artists, designers, scholars, students and culture workers play critical roles in enacting the promise and ideals of a democratic society. The organization represents much of what the university has long embraced: interdisciplinary cooperation that is transformed into community action.