"I loved the idea of an art-and-science collaboration. My two worlds coming together!" That was Sarah Flores's enthusiastic response to an invitation from the Pasadena Chalk Festival this past spring to work on a chalk mural with colleagues from the Caltech campus and from JPL, where Flores is a software engineer. Flores-who, in addition to her scientific day job, has been a street painter for 15 years and took art classes in high school and college-is no stranger to the annual June chalk test, having participated in it since 2010. But the idea for an art-and-science collaboration came from Tom Coston, president of the Light Bringer Project, the nonprofit art organization that runs the festival.
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