The dive bar’s absence left a hole in the world of watering holes, but now as vaccination rates rise and COVID cases fall, we can begin returning to the ways of the before times.

We all have our watering hole — the local bar we visit for a drink without thinking, where we know all the bartenders, the specials and what’s on the jukebox.

Last year, the arts world spent most of the summer trying to figure out what to do next. In 2021, a majority of organizations are managing to make something work, whether it’s being done safely in-person or virtually, for now. 

Maryjo Lemanski, visual artist, had been thinking about what to do after the world opened up again; not only what she would do, but what the community would do.