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Gallery Hop Spring 2026 Review After a brief experiment with Saturday mornings, the city’s self-guided community walk through uptown galleries returned to the original Friday evening format. Sometimes, when we go “hopping”, we will try to visit all of the participants. For the first hop of 2026, though, we kept a leisurely bounce through half… Read more: Hoppers

“In a day and age where we are constantly fed information, both through the internet and in our everyday lives, it is important to continue creating, no matter how the world revolves around us…”Third Shift statement on the 2025 festival theme, ‘Revolve’  A dragon dressed in electric green floats high above the sun-bleached sand, eventually… Read more: Persistence.

There’s a romanticism that comes with the written letter. This came to mind with Mark DeLong’s piece for Three Quarks Daily; his piece initially explores handwriting as a technology that is both utilitarian and demonstrative of the writer’s personality (if one can read their unique font, of course!). Then, he muses on the art and… Read more: Postcards