The ART LINE Across the HEART of America
With art as a conduit, the Art Line will foster a sense of unity and awareness by promoting a series of connections - between the individual and Nature; between the community members themselves and by linking the communities on the Art Line.
The Art Line is a 28 mile wide band centered on the 39.1 north latitude between 38.9 and 39.3 degrees .
Alex and Joan Champion and Marilyn Larson met at the home of Toby Evans
*An earthwork of the Flower Wand Design, 25-50 x 142 feet. 2000
Nevada, Ely. Alex and Joan Champion, Anne Walton
Utah, Green Rivers. Gary and Sue Anne Foster
Colorado, Marble and Aspen. Roger Klarl
Kansas, Manhatten . Jim Buchanon, Scotland
Missouri, Sibley.
*A base quartz crystal, 9 Vesica-Petaled-Flower design,
Illinois, Effingham. Marilyn Larson
Indiana, Bloomington (Indiana University) Brad Hansen Smith
Ohio, Cincinnati (University of Cincinnati) . Rafala Green
West Virginia, Cave, two state Parks. . Marty Cain
Virginia, Winchester. Robert Poesshel
Maryland, Rockville. . Marty Keermen (9 vesica-petaled
flower design with art pavers).
Deleware, Dover. Alex and Joan Champion
New Jersey, Wildwind. Joan Champion and Marilyn Larson
Additional sites of land art on the 39 degree latitude.
California,
California, Philo
California, south of Grass Valley
Nevada,
Missouri,
Sibley, Missouri - Concentric circular 7-circuit, the Prairie Labyrinth
Illinois.
Fosterburg, IL-66 foot 7-circuit labyrinth ............. May 15, 2000,
Ohio,
Great Serpent Mound, a thousand year old Native American earthwork
January 2002, in Grass Valley, CA, eight Gaden Shartse
Tibetan Monks created a Yamantaka sand mandala . Grass Valley is located on the 39th latitude. They asked to have the mandala be considered as part of the Art Line.
If you know of other labyrinths or other interesting landmarks already
existing on the line,
Toby Evans, Sibley, MO
Marilyn Larson, Northfield, MN
Alex and Joan Champion, Philo, CA
The Art Lineis a line of walkable, interactive, outdoor artworks stretching across the heart of America on the 39th Latitude.
Known as Earth Art, these geometric reflections
of Nature's patterns will be created by artists and local community members in the 14 states that stretch from California to New Jersey and the District of Columbia.
The line starts in California and runs across the heart of the country through Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Virgina, Maryland, Delaware, and the southern tip
of New Jersey on the East Coast.
Several artists are involved in researching sites and developing designs to impliment the Art Line vision. 
The idea of a straight line across the country developed when Alex Champion saw an aerial photo of three earthworks he created on his land in Mendocino County, California. The three sites straddled a small flat hill and the end designs were invisible to each other from the ground. He discovered that they lay in a straight line.
In the spring of 2,000, Alex began construction of the flower wand design
as an earthwork.
The idea then came to make a line of earthworks across the country
with the flower wand at each end.
(an hour east of Kansas City, MO) in Nov. 2000 to install one of Alex's earthworks.
This 55' diameter
9 petal vesica flower design was laid out in sand with base quartz crystal
near the existing Prairie Labyrinth. Toby calls this new installation....
The four developed Alex's initial idea into the Art Line Project after discovering the unlikely coincidence
that the earthworks at Toby's and the Champions were at the same 39 degree latitude,
one fifth of a mile from being exact.
In addition to their multiple earthworks, the Great Serpent Mound in south-central Ohio was also found to be on the line.
A 1987 visit to this site created by the Hopewell culture was the inspiration for the mounded patterns developed by Alex Champion.
In addition to the *completed sites at the Champion's and Toby's residence, the following locations are being explored.
California, Philo.
Alex & Joan Champion residence
Gschwend road, Anderson Valley.
called Chanti
Esti, 55 feet diameter. 2000
Toby Evans Residence
(flower wand as an earthwork.)
This design will point east to west while the California
flower wand points west to east.
Gschwend Road, Philo
Right hand Cretan, earthwork, 62 feet................... 1987
Double spiral, earthwork, 28 x 34 feet........................ 1989
left hand Cretan, rock/earthwork, 78 feet............. 1995
Viking Horse Trappings, earthwork, 72 feet................ 1991
Infinity symbol, earthwork, 10 X 30 feet..................... 1997
2-Ring Cretan, earthwork , 22 x 28 feet.................1997
Vesica Triangle, earthwork ,32 feet.......................... 1997
Spinning Meander, earthwork, 38 feet...................... 1998
------Alex Champion
Vesica Figure 8, earthwork (38 x 44 feet)..............1998
4-Ring Cretan Earthwork (48 x 57 feet)................1999
------Alex Champion
Chartres-style labyrinth, stone (40 feet)....................... 1998.
------Lynn Goodman.
Carson City
left-hand Cretan Labyrinth, stone (30 feet)..............1990s.
------John Wayne Blassingame, then Alex Champion and others
Nevada, desert, route 839 off of route 50.
Stone 3-ring Cretan (18 feet).....................2001
------Alex and Joan Champion, Anne Walton.
(166 feet) cut through 6 foot tall native prairie grass.1995
------Toby Evans & Mary K Barge
------- Virginia M. Long
1/4 mile long, 15 to 20 feet wide and 4 to 5 feet high
Geshe Yeshe Phuntsok and Geshe Lobsang Donyoe conducted a Twenty-one Tara blessing for the Art Line Project at the request of Joan Champion and Marilyn Larson.
Following the dissolution of the Yamantaka, packets of sand
were presented for inclusion at other Art Line sites.
We are looking for contact people who live in towns or
cities within 14 miles of the 39.1 degree north latitude.
Ideally, we
would like to have someone to help get their local community interested
and involved in the project.
The goal is to make the construction a
community event. We are also looking for a caretaker for each site
who
will oversee its maintenance and who we can be in touch with to
coordinate an Art Line event.
please send a description to contacts below.
The
location of any site can be determined by going to
Alex and Joan Champion, Philo, CA
artline@earthsymbols.com
toby@homeisp.com
malarson@mymailstation.com
Tax deductible contributions can be made to the "Community Gardens-Art Line Project"
c/o Community Gardens
78175 Ave 42 Bermuda Dunes, CA 92201
#33-0684205 
Toby Evans, Sibley, MO