November 2025

East Side Culture Crawl!

I love the East Side Culture Crawl. I can't go every year and some years I don't have a lot of time, but there is always new people to talk to and new things to see.

Thursday nights I love to go to 1000 Parker Place. Thursday night is the least busy night and 4 floors of studios give you hours (like 5pm to 10pm) to explore. There are a few favored artists that sell out on the first night, but most artists are happy to have guests and customers.

I've been going for lots of years but there are both new studios every year (not to mention new artists in existing studios) and there are a few locations I haven't yet gotten to. This year my big surprise was Porchlight Press. This is a retail store with a variety of mechanical presses. They have lead type and all of the parts required to make a printed page. They were doing demos of their printing machines. I really liked printing when I was in high school and this was an amazing throw back to school.