These lanterns light up the night as they hang outside Rhynsburger Theatre over the crowds below. Made from found and recycled materials, these light sculptures explore humanity’s history with venturing off the paths presented to us.

A wild reclamation of Columbia’s beloved Parklet, artist/forager Emily Hemeyer (STL/Mid-Mo Native) has transformed a pocket of 9th Street into a forested microcosm. Snuggle into a piney corner or search for hidden natural treasures amongst the mossy floor. This piece is sponsored by the MO Conservation Department’s Trees Work campaign.

Joining the lighted path along Alley A is Alicia Eggert’s epic neon sculpture, which alternates to reveal to linguistically similar but philosophically different messages, encouraging passersby to think not just about the way the world is but the way it could be.

On your way into the Picturehouse, linger on the lawn to explore Chicago-based artist Duncan Bindbeutel’s CAMERA OBSCURE, a giant pinhole camera which transforms the everyday into the extraordinary, bending your view of the world. Don’t miss your chance to get your photo taken – hours will be listed on-site during the festival weekend.

Flanking the Tiger Hotel end of the Alley A is Glenn Rice’s newest sculpture COOL WHITE, a giant chandelier that brightens the darkness with a thousand watts of color and warmth.

Upstairs at the Picturehouse, wandering artist Maggy Rhein leads festgoers into the space between functional art and fine art with CRAFTING THE PATH, a handwoven highway rug.

Gabrielle Parish and Jessica Waller have created a geometric woodland space, taking festgoers through a mystical crystal cave and into the festival’s biggest dance party. Shake your tail among the lost and found artifacts of a bizarre and slightly creepy forest, and explore imagined paths that surprise and disorient.

By literally framing the ordinary, local artist Fergus P. Moore highlights the strange and amazing found all around us. Take some time to appreciate what’s often overlooked in the daily grind and appreciate the beauty of all the paths we take.

T/F welcomes back this most portable theater, freshly arrived from the Rockies. Davey’s cargo trailer has been converted into a four-seat cinema; step inside this magical spot to watch short, silent Super 8 films and enjoy the live musical accompaniment. Open the following hours: Thursday 3–4:30, 5:30–7pm; Friday 11am–12:30pm, 2–3:30pm, 5–6:30pm; Saturday noon–2pm, 3–4:30pm, 5:30–7pm; and Sunday noon–1:30pm, 2:30–4pm, 5–6:30pm.

As you pass by the Globe Theater, take a gander at the late, great Willy Wilson’s freshly painted DRAGON, drawing power from the mycelium of the Globe lawn.

Experience the great outdoors, a new source of light, and colorful paths while attending this year’s Field Sessions, held in Fred Smith Forum at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. Sasha Goodnow has extended her experimental filmmaking into a scenic landscape for your viewing pleasure.

Tree by TREE, Michael Marcum continues his metal reforestation project—2016 boasts his eleventh hand-crafted metalwork tree. In the theater, Fran Lakatos’s SHADOW BOXES flicker inside the infamous moonlit birch forest.

As you enter the atrium you’ll be struck by Nicole Baker’s mixed-media installation GHOST/GROVE, which explores the collision between the natural world and the human-made world. A hallucinatory video, projected onto a screen of artificially re-created forest, recalls breezy days under a leafy canopy, a place in which we can safely get lost.

Camellia Cosgray’s lighted MAP continues to beam inside the theater, while the south side of the room features stained-glass panels designed by a local gang of merrymakers; these glowing marvels are made entirely of tissue paper and glue. You’ll also want to play with the interactive MAPACUS! Finally, everyone’s favorite buffalo, BARB, returns for her sixth year, once again sporting thousands of keyboard keys.

We are proud to present JERRY’S MAP. Michigan-based artist Jerry Gretzinger has been creating this piece off and on since 1963. Made up of over 3,200 8 x 10 inch panels, this mixed-media piece (which we can only display part of due to its immense size) is well worth a special trip to Uprise Bakery.

In the depths of the Blue Note, you’ll come across over 20,000 feet of rope lovingly hand-knitted by a small army of locals, led by fiber artists Tracy Greever-Rice and Jessica Dekker.

In this augmented reality adventure, Bulgarian-based artist Mariano Equizzi has discovered a breed of psychotronic insects and euclidean hybrids that have been stealthily taking control of our political landscape. To reveal these hidden messages, which have been sent by the Black Hand Consortium, download the Aurasma App and visit www.komplex.city for instructions.

Bob Hartzell’s delicate yet tough LANTERNS—alchemized out of tissue paper, dowel rods, and glue— have graced The Blue Note during T/F for many years, and are now revamped for 2016.

On the Picturehouse lawn, take a moment to admire the great detail of Iowa artist Taylor Ross’s LAY OF THE LAND—the hand-crafted structure is a work in itself, but the real feature is the clothing inside; various plants were gathered, lovingly woven into fibers, and then knit together to create this beautiful garment.

At the Hitt Street intersection of the Alley, Glenn Rice’s complex sculpture “light>l<cone” shines down with intricate light and shadows.

Set design brought to you by Neon Treehouse (aka Becca Sullinger, Brian Doss, and Gabe Meyer).

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Inspired by Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, local artist Madeline Carl leads musical showcase-goers off the trail and into a vintage summer camp. These charming pieces are sure to set the tone and keep you feeling cozy while you stomp your feet to the beat.

The Columbia landmark sinks underwater again, with its barnacle-covered walls, coral reefs, and oceanic stalactites and stalagmites, raised from the depths by Tracy Greever-Rice and Ashley Nagel.

Nathan Truesdell, Sam Spencer, Steve Rice, Nick Michael, Chelsea Myers, Stacey Woelfel, and the MU Micro-Doc class continue their larger-than-life sociology project: video portraits of our fellow mid-Missourians, newly updated.

Minneapolis-based artist Eric Rieger, aka HOTTEA, worked closely with T/F’s Katie Jenkins to create RESILIENCE, a massive and stunning rain of color made entirely of yarn (12 miles of it!), stretching from the third floor to just above the average human’s height.

The APW’s RIVER ATLAS explores the mysterious twists and turns of the highways and byways unearthed using a once-forgotten technique involving a secret solution and high-voltage electrical current. You’ll glimpse familiar-looking paths that mirror the waterways of our great state, truly guiding us all off the trail.

Glenn Rice, T/F’s sign czar, has done it again. His largest signs transcend the strictly informational. Check out the VIMEO signs at The Blue Note, the GOOD WIZARD ARCADE sign, the PICTUREHOUSE PORTAL, directional signage on the MU campus, the FORREST THEATER sign, and the GLOBE sign on the Cherry Street garage.

Dan and Luc Goldstein continue their construction of a recycled lounge built from old festival program guides in their SITTING HISTORY ARCHIVE PROJECT; take a load off in the lobby at Rhynsburger Theatre.

Sister team Mollie Hosmer-Dillard and Zoe Hosmer-Dillard worked together to create this poetic map that transcends the physical world, spreading out in subtle ways throughout the Box Office. In order to provide us some real-world context, the sisters have also hand-painted a historical map of CoMO. Local artist and seamstress Carol Brown bridges the room with a theatrical fabric installation.

Just outside the Quad, our own APW has crafted THE TUNNEL: an immense, mind-bending portal to Jesse Hall.

TWO ITINERANT QUILTERS, Lenka Clayton (Pittsburgh, PA) and Joanna Wright (Bangor, Wales), have set up their temporary shop in the Rotunda at Jesse to collect materials for their traveling quilting project. Part documentary, part experimental blanket, the Itinerant Quilters invite you to literally give them the shirt off your back (don’t worry, you’ll get a temporary shirt to wear in the interim), as well as a short memory or story about it. When you return to retrieve your shirt (or other article of clothing), you’ll find a diamond-shaped hole in it mended with a beautiful hand-sewn patch. Post-festival, the Quilters will create a quilt using the fabric from our clothing, which can be viewed at www.twoitinerantquilters.com.

In the lobby of the Globe, explore the detailed, fantastical maps depicted in fiber artist Tracy Greever-Rice’s UNFOUND TAPESTRIES, woven by a team of Columbians out of unwanted clothing and fabric.

Ragtag’s Little Theater has been permanently transformed to honor Willy’s legacy; a favorite quote was lovingly painted on the cinder-block walls by family friend Jessie Starbuck while local artist Michael Marcum crafted an intricate maze of pipes and detritus from Willy’s personal collection.