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WALNUT CREEK, CALIF. — Californians live in an inflatable world. There’s the blow-up promotional gorilla towering over a car dealership, Wacky Men bouncing\u00a0up and down on a business rooftop near the freeway, replica helium blimp inflatables, and of course, kids bouncy house inflatables seen at every festival and in yards for birthday parties. And who can forget the giant rubber duck sensation<\/a> to welcome the Tall Ships at the Port of Los Angeles in August 2014? \u00a0If\u00a0inflatables\u00a0didn’t draw attention companies such as Inflate Co. would be out of business. \u00a0Inflatables are magic! They even garnered Walnut Creek’s Bedford Gallery<\/a>\u00a0a National Endowment for the Arts grant for a traveling exhibition called\u00a0“BLOW UP: Inflatable Contemporary Art”. \u00a0Pictured is an inflatable Pontiac Trans Am car\u00a0created by San Francisco artist Guy Overfelt, who will give a talk on how to design and fabricate a large-scale inflatable sculpture on April 28, 2015. Part of the launch weekend for the lively exhibit guests can visit and see at Lesher Center for the Arts between April 26 and June 21, 2015, the inflatables are scheduled to travel to galleries in Chandler, AZ; Huntsville, AL; Ashland, OR; Storrs, CT; Elmhurst, IL; Muskegon, MI; and Loveland, CO through August 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WALNUT CREEK, CALIF. — Californians live in an inflatable world. There’s the blow-up promotional gorilla towering over a car dealership, Wacky Men bouncing\u00a0up and down on a business rooftop near the freeway, replica helium blimp inflatables, and of course, kids bouncy house inflatables seen at every festival and in yards for birthday parties. And who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}