Dancing makes people happy. Its energy and endorphins have a way of embracing positivity. Or, if you’re Instagrammer Donté Colley, then dancing can quite literally support, highlight, or shimmy happiness, love, and gratitude.

“The Embrace,” a proposed sculpture by two Americans for the Arts 2019 Annual Convention keynote speakers — Artist Hank Willis Thomas and Michael Murphy, co-founder and executive director of MASS Design Group —  has been selected for a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King in Boston Common.

The goal is to engage and empower arts supporters to become arts activists in order to advocate for increased public funding for the arts and educate legislators to the impact of arts, culture and creativity in California. An Advocacy Day and rally is scheduled for April 23, 2019 in Sacramento.