*Artsy Favela Chic hits Columbus, Ohio. Is your town next? Did you ask around?
http://thisisindependent.com/squatters.html
"Twenty-five art students have been enrolled in individual studies with Professor Malcolm Cochran for the summer quarter 2009. Their work culminates in a first-ever exhibition of projects, installations, and performances in vacant storefronts and buildings in the downtown core. Most of the works are visible through street front windows; selected sites will be open to the public for viewing and performances on the three Saturdays listed here...."
(((If you can manage to cling to your empty, dusty, bankrupt, derelict space long enough, it will become a "stuffed animal." Good luck!)))