Community art projects have become a regular part of Vermont's built landscape. Nationally, the Cow Parade set the pattern: find sponsors for figurative objects of some kind, have area artists and schools decorate them, exhibit them at the sponsoring businesses (especially in central business districts), then auction them off to raise money for some worthy cause. In Brandon, where artistic pigs raised so much money that the Brandon Artists Guild could buy their headquarters, internationally known folk artist Warren Kimble thought of a project that would be easy to do statewide: decorate palettes of the kind used by painters. At Brandon's 2006 Independence Day parade, palettes from BAG artists and others from around the state were on display.