Are We Back? I Think We Are Back!!

Hello dear reader.

It's been awhile, right? Many of you probably thought we were dead, but as a wise man once said... "It is only a flesh wound"

The Bakery Gallery is taking steps to return to what it was promising to become/had taken steps to already become which is (duh, duh, DUHHHHHHHHH) the premiere Printmaking and Book Arts Gallery in the Quad Cities and the immediate surroundings.

So, you may not be asking yourself, where have you been for the past year? Well, there is a multi-faceted answer to that question that is equally boring and pedestrian. I'll sum it up quickly, but it goes along these lines.

A.P.R. and I had a goddamn baby!

(this is him at his happiest.) 

I don't want to waste your time with talking about how difficult it has been to adjust or how he woke up  12 times a night for the first year causing me to only sleep in 45 minute increments - thus creating a shell of my former self (granted a shell that had gained some... ahem... baby weight) I don't want to gnaw on your ear about how it becomes easy to NOT do something you love after you haven't done it for a few months because it involves (should I include a "gasp") work. I don't want to restate how we thought we were moving to the downtown area where are presence would (surely) be lauded and met with ticker tape parades, only to find out that a casino was WAY more important. 

No, no don't worry about those things. They're in the past. We're talking about the present and if you can sci-fi with me (hover cars optional) the future...queue uplifting music. 

We have two years worth of shows set up. TWO YEARS. I want to make up for lost time. I want to see you again. I want to see the Eastside Bakery (the humble hosts of our gallery space) succeed in ways previously unthinkable. 

So there's that. I'm going to set up a few more posts (lets not call it a bombardment) because I don't want to mix this news/apology/return up with the great news of the upcoming shows. They both deserve equal footing. 

I hope we can provide you with some of your best art viewing experiences.