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Excerpt from 27 tributes in art to former Sacramento dispatch station on display in Winn ParkRead By Tania Azhang Updated August 22, 2026 10:10 AM Those selected were given three weeks to transform the space. “I think having artists from Sacramento is really important to me. It’s very easy to get artists from L.A. or Oakland, San Francisco into a project like this,” McKinnie said. “But I was very intentional in making sure that these are homegrown artists based here, working

Once designed to coordinate emergency response across the city, Sacramento's historic Fire Alarm Dispatch Station becomes the site of Coordinates: Dispatch, bringing together over 30 Sacramento artists in one of the city's largest site-responsive contemporary art exhibitions. Featuring newly commissioned works, the exhibition transforms a long-vacant civic landmark into one of the city's most ambitious contemporary art experiences. Participating artists share in the exhibitio