Nancy L. Steinmeyer's environmental art exhibit “First We Scream Then We Act,” is on display at Santa Monica Airport Park on Friday, April 24, 2009. The public art exhibit is designed to increase awareness and promote solutions to global warming.

(top) Artist Anthony Schmitt, 51, builds his 12th Annual 'Edgemar Holiday Tree' on Wednesday, November 19, 2008. This years art sculpture/instalation is titled, "The Thank You Tree." It is 36 feet tall, (three feet higher than last years holiday tree) and is constructed from 86 shopping carts (three more than last year). No scaffolding was needed to erect the sculpture, it served as its own scaffolding. Schmitt uses shopping carts because they are a symbol both of adundance and of those less fortunate. (above) Assistant, Eron Nelson, 34, hands Schmitt a shopping cart.

A temporary art installation, "Proposition to Fly" by Valerie Tymoczko, seen here on Saturday, March 8, 2008, at Santa Monica Airport, will continue its temporary installation until July 25. Airport Park is located at 3201 Airport Avenue, next to Santa Monica Airport. 

Boxing coach 'Pete G!' puts his student Karen through some sparring drills atop of the public art sculpture titled "Ocean Park Segue" (by artist Joyce Kohl) on Ocean Park Beach and Barnard Way in Santa Monica on Sunday, February 24, 2008. Fabricated on the site, Ocean Park Segue consists of two raised concrete performance platforms, each made of six horizontally stacked concrete slabs, pivoted to create stairs and overhangs. The surface of the slabs is imprinted with cast beach artifacts both human-made and natural. The platforms are used for sponsored and spontaneous performances, picnicking and playing. The installation measures forty inches in height with a total area of fifteen feet by fifteen feet for each slab.

Jonathan Borofsky's controversial 30-foot-high sculpture "Ballerina Clown" graces the Renaissance building at the corner of Rose Avenue and Main Street on Saturday, February 23, 2008. The Ballerina Clown was fabricated in 1989 out of aluminum, steel, fiberglass and an electric motor that activates the extended kicking leg. This sculpture is an accommodation or resolution of opposites in one. Not only does this image bring the male and female together into one figure, but also, two opposite types of performers are represented: the formal classical ballet dancer and the traditional street performer.