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Arts & Culture

RiSE Festival celebrating 5th year of lifting spirits, dreams
 

Sure, they’re lanterns rising into the nighttime sky. But for RiSE Festival participants, each lantern is a blank canvas that carries into the heavens messages, in the form of drawings or words, that express joy, pain, regret, gratitude, sorrow, hopeor any other emotion they need to feel, and share, in that moment.

 
Valley artist’s work requires active viewing for different perspective

Inside the recently opened Spring Mountains Visitor Gateway Center is a frosty white mural that holds hidden secrets to the naked eye. It’s only when seen with a polarized viewer that a new colorful world greets the eyes.