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BENJAMIN STANFORD

BY SHALEEN DESTEFANO There’s an immediate tension in Benjamin Stanford’s work. One that sits between realism and the surreal, intimacy and unease, stillness ...

The Giving Grocery

For the past nine years, we’ve been South High School parents. Our kids have walked those halls, sat in those classrooms, gone to those games and made some o...

ANNE SIEMS

BY SHALEEN DESTEFANO I have been following the work of artist Anne Siems since 2020. There was something about her paintings that stopped me in my tracks fro...

She Knew Who She Was

You can’t look at a screen right now without seeing fifteen tributes to Dolly Parton, and rightfully so. And we wondered if there was anything left to say. B...

REBEKAH WOOD

BY SHALEEN DESTEFANO Our community is filled with talented people who create, inspire, and remind us how much beauty exists right around the corner. Rebekah ...

Barefoot and Sun-dazed

August. Barefoot and sun-dazed, I bite into this ripe peach of a month, gathering children into my arms, heaping my table each night with nothing but corn and t...

SUMMER NOSTALGIA

BY SHALEEN DESTEFANO When July settles in, we feel that familiar need to chase the nostalgia of summers past. The sidewalks are busied with bikes and wago...