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As our worlds begin to open up and people make plans to head back to the office, one of the pandemic lessons we'll carry with us is that the art we surround ourselves with helps us endure.
/ In August 2018, tens of thousands of people packed the streets for First Fridays in the Crossroads. But things slowed down in 2019, due to a fatal shooting, and in 2020, during the pandemic.
First Fridays in the Crossroads Arts District may not return as a big street party anytime soon. But, with fewer visitors for the monthly event, some say it’s returning to its roots: looking at art.
On a Friday evening in March, about a dozen people, all masked up, stood in pairs or spread out in the lobby of the Crossroads Hotel, the former site of a Pabst Blue Ribbon bottling and distribution center in the Crossroads Arts District.