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This fierce Oak Cliff businesswoman grinds hard 

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Interview by RACHEL STONE / Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

Find Iris Candelaria at her family’s bakery six days a week.

When she’s not decorating cakes, managing Candelaria’s Bakery or parenting, she’s in the art world.

A self-taught artist, Candelaria throws herself into promoting other artists. She was executive director of Art, Love, Magic for three years, and she volunteers with the Latino Cultural Center. Recently she opened Candelaria & Co. on Clarendon Drive at Oak Cliff Boulevard. It’s a permanent location for Candelaria’s sidehustle — those paint parties where everyone has snacks and wine while instructors guide them through the steps.

With Candelaria & Co., she wants to offer space to other artists to teach their techniques. The studio begins offering metal tooling, pottery and illustration classes this year.

What advice would you give to other female entrepreneurs?

A lot of it is a bunch of trial and error. I take a lot of risks, and for the most part it works in my favor. When it isn’t perfect, and my visions don’t go as planned, I just take it as a learning opportunity. The key to entrepreneurism is really remaining true to yourself. Especially now, with social media, everyone is copying each other and comparing themselves to other people. I have two teenage daughters, and I always tell them, “Do things to stand out and be unique and be yourself.” Stay authentic and true to yourself rather than try to emulate something that is unattainable.

Do you think risk-taking is part of your personality?

I had my daughter young, and I had to force myself to grow up. I also got married young, and that taught me a lot about myself. I got divorced at 25, and I didn’t have my own identity. I was wrapped up in this other personality, and it took awhile to ﬁnd myself. I had to learn how to start all over. I had to start from scratch.

Why is helping other artists so important to you? Because that’s how I got my start. Art was something that helped me cope with ﬁnding who I was. Art, for me, was a release or coping mechanism. Finally, I got the courage one day to post a painting online. A photographer friend was like “that’s really great,” and he asked me to be in a show. I didn’t even know Dallas had an art scene because I was so busy working and raising my kids. And that’s when my life completely changed. It takes just a few people to believe in you and push you to reach your potential. A lot of artists really don’t believe in themselves, and it’s really sad.

How do you achieve work-life balance?

I call my life “organized chaos.” My house is not always perfect. You have to do some sort of balancing because when you give so much to one end, the other end suffers. I learned that the hard way because I had some health problems. I was working alone in an art studio, and my back went out. I almost fell off a chair, and I thought, I’m going to fall and break my neck, and there’s no one here to help me. So I realized that you have to say “no” to certain things. You can’t do everything, and I was trying to do everything.

What essential items do you never leave home without?

My phone, of course. Because I’m always working, everything I do is on my phone. I always have a battery pack and extra charger. I always have art supplies in my bag like Sharpies, all different colors, and they’ve come to the rescue many times. I have a writing pad to sketch ideas. Oh, and I always have candy and chocolate in my bag too. It’s like an instant present for my friends or people I’ve just met.

How do you relax?

Mondays are my day off, so I try to schedule absolutely nothing to the point where I don’t even want to talk. I don’t want to speak. I stay at home and watch Netﬂix and be a lazy bum on the couch and not do anything. That’s sometimes, like after a big event. I have to have quiet time. I’ll even drive without the music on to collect my thoughts. And making time for your friends. Everyone is busy, but you have to get away with your friends and not talk about work, not talk about business but just have dinner and kind of live in that moment.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

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“The key to entrepreneurism is really remaining true to yourself.”

WORLD-CLASS WELLNESS

NEIGHBORHOOD SPLIT ON NEW METHODIST FITNESS CENTER

THE FOLSOM FITNESS CENTER at Methodist Dallas Medical Center is like a very fancy corporate gym.

New equipment, soft ﬂooring, wall-to-ceiling windows that bring in the beauty of that tree-ﬁlled corner of the hospital’s campus.

It’s nice.

But for a ﬂagship hospital that is the largest employer in southern Dallas, the 1984-built ﬁtness center is small potatoes.

The hospital’s leadership envisions something a little more like the Baylor Tom Landry Fitness Center in Old East Dallas, which has aquatics, racquetball, kettle bell, pilates, triathlon training, sports-performance programs, youth summer camps and on and on.

Methodist is planning a 35,000-square-foot ﬁtness center just northeast of the Folsom’s current location.

To build it, they need two zoning changes, and so far neighbors are split on whether to support the plan.

Two things currently prohibit the proposal: A personal-use business is not allowed within 200 feet of Greenbriar Lane.

And no new buildings are allowed under the current zoning in the area surrounding the current

ﬁtness center.

When the case headed to City Plan Commission last year, 30 nearby neighbors and 10 businesses responded in favor, and 45 neighbors were against.

The center will create trafﬁc, parking woes and perhaps worst of all, neighbors say, it requires cutting down trees in a neighborhood noted for its beautiful old-growth canopy.

Originally, the plan called for cutting down 27 trees totaling 717 caliper inches. But after negotiating with neighbors, the hospital came up with a new plan that would remove only 11 — one hackberry and 10 pecan trees — totaling 295 caliper inches. To mitigate the loss, they will plant 53 new trees totaling 380 caliper inches.

The hospital also agreed to downzone to the currently vacant land adjacent, at Beckley and Greenbriar. That’s currently a surface parking lot where zoning allows nine stories to be built. As part of the deal, the hospital would change that to allow no more than two stories fronting Greenbriar. Beyond the 125-foot setback from the residential street, they could still build up to nine stories along Beckley.

The City Plan Commission approved the plan last year, and City Council is expected to vote on the proposed zoning changes Jan. 9.

Story by RACHEL STONE

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Methodist wants to replace its existing fitness center, built in 1984, with a new, of‐the‐art, 35,000 square foot Folsom Wellness Center, to be located

to the

northeast of the current facility.

A rendering of the planned Folsom Wellness Center at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. The hospital needs two zoning changes to build it.

WORK OUT HERE

FITNESS OPTIONS ABOUND IN OAK CLIFF

WHEN CLAIREVISTA and Anytime Fitness opened over a decade ago, our neighborhood ﬁnally gained choices in where to sweat it out.

Beyond the ﬁtness center at Methodist hospital, City of Dallas recreation centers and a few boxing gyms, there wasn’t much else.

Then came a (now-defunct) yoga studio, a couple of Planet Fitness franchises, and soon after, that marker of a hip neighborhood that’s no longer esoteric, a smattering of personal- and cross-training gyms.

Now the ﬁtness game is really on.

A pilates studio opened on West Davis in October.

Dana Jones opened Duro Pilates because she needed a place in the neighborhood to practice the discipline.

Jones and her family live on the second story of the old Cannon’s Village shopping center on West Davis at Edgeﬁeld.

“Since we own that building, and we had a tenant moving out, I thought I’d just do it myself,” she says. “I want it to be a place for neighbors to come and do pilates without going outside the neighborhood.”

Besides that, our neighborhood also is getting a mega gym.

LA Fitness signed onto the new plan for Wynnewood Village and will build a 34,000-square-foot center on Illinois Avenue. An LA Fitness of similar size opened in Delaware last year, boasting indoor swimming pool, full-court basketball gym, racquetball courts, a whirlpool spa and strength and exercise classes such as boot camp conditioning, cycling, kick-box cardio, Pilates and yoga.

Construction could begin this year.

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TEENAGE TAX HELP

DALLAS ISD FINANCE ACADEMY STUDENTS CAN PREPARE YOUR FORMS

Story by RACHEL STONE

WHEN TAX SEASON arrives this year, one Oak Cliff high school has got you covered. About 30 students at Sunset High School’s National Academy of Finance have been taking online classes provided by the Internal Revenue Service to be certiﬁed to prepare taxes under the IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program.

After a certiﬁcation exam at the end of December, they will be able to calculate and ﬁle taxes for anyone who made less than $58,000 in 2018.

The students studied for and passed several IRS exams before the ﬁnal certiﬁcation exam that offers real-life scenarios followed by questions.

“You only get two chances to pass it,” says Sunset AVID coordinator Denise Tucker.

Tucker brought the tax-preparer certiﬁcation program to Sunset after successfully implementing it at Woodrow Wilson High School in 2015.

“There are not that many high schools that do taxes,” says Tucker, who is pursuing the certiﬁcation as well. “Even for me it’s hard. The kids do better than me.”

The plan is to provide free tax help to anyone in the community who wants it.

Students learn professionalism and problem solving while using math and accounting skills. Plus, they’re doing community service.

The students stay after school and come in on weekends to study the materials.

“It helps our school, but also we want our families and the community at large to take advantage of it,” Tucker says.

They open their doors to the public this month. If it makes you nervous to have a teenager do your taxes, rest easy. Quality reviewers from Dallas Community Tax Centers are on hand to check every return before it goes out.

BUSINESS BUZZ

CHAMBER AWARDS

Nominate your favorite Oak Cliff businesses, volunteers, events and developments for the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce’s annual awards. Find the nomination form at oakcliffchamber.org and make your suggestions by Jan. 17. The winners will be announced at the chamber’s awards ceremony, hosted by State Rep.-elect Jessica Gonzalez at the Kessler Theater Jan. 31.

SMOKE CLOSES

The restaurant at the Belmont Hotel closed last month after nearly 10 years in business. The hotel’s new owners bought the restaurant, Smoke, and have plans to rework the space into more than one restaurant concept.

YOU HAD US AT CAKE

Baker Heather Harbord opened a new coffee shop, Crumb & Kettle, at Tyler Station in December. The shop offers custom cakes, cake by the slice, baked goods, coffee and tea.

CLIO WINNERS

Oak Cliff-based advertising agency Kickstand won an international recognition, a Clio award, for their campaign for a video game, “We Happy Few.” Kickstand, a two-person agency, is the only Texas ﬁrm to win a Clio at the Nov. 15 awards in Los Angeles. Kickstand’s Bo Bartlett and Matt Bull live in our neighborhood and ofﬁce out of Tyler Station. The game is from Frisco-based Gearbox Software. Watch the award-winning ads at advocatemag.com.

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JANUARY 2019 oakcliff.advocatemag.com 11 Adam Murphy adammurphy@dpmre.com 972.795.0125 adammurphyhomes.com Oak Cliff Advocate Top Realtor ® It has been an honor to represent you in 2018! I look forward to working with you in the New Year! 32 Homes Sold in 2018 16 Average Days on Market for My Oak Cliff Listings Thank you, Oak Cliff, it’s been an honor to represent you in 2018! Thank you, Oak Cliff... SOLD! SOLD!

TEXAS BOOKBINDERY

It is a wonder that Oak Cliff is, to this day, home to a bookbindery. The Book Doctor on West Davis is sort of like a telephone repairman. Books can be repaired, but there’s little call for it unless they’re antiques or of irreplaceable sentiment.

But in the mid-20th Century, before all these screens, bookbindery was in demand. The Dallas Public Library had a mending department, where torn pages were patched using tissue paper. Seriously damaged books were sent to the Texas Book Bindery in Arcadia Park. There they were rebound, the pages trimmed and the covers embossed with gold lettering.

On Dec. 29, 1962, all of the Texas Book Bindery’s 67 workers were taken to the hospital after fumes from a gas heater

knocked out 16 of them. Five ambulances were called to the one-story sheet-metal building at 714 N. Justin Ave.

The building ﬁlled with gas a little after noon that day, and workers, who were mostly women, started dropping one by one.

“Some women were lying on the front porch, and one was across the backseat of a car,” ﬁre captain Joe Hardman told the newspaper. “A lot of the women, 12 to 15 maybe, were pretty sick, and some had a hard time breathing.”

They were given oxygen and rushed to the hospital, while others were taken by car. Everyone recovered.

—RACHEL

STONE

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JANUARY 2019 oakcliff.advocatemag.com 13 DRIVE TIME HOW MUCH TIME DO OAK CLIFFERS SPEND ON THEIR COMMUTES? 3,366 15 MINUTES OR LESS 7,710 15-29 MINUTES 7,681 20-59 MINUTES 1,103 60-89 MINUTES 265 90 MINUTES OR MORE 661 WORK FROM HOME Source: U.S. Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics based on zip codes 75223, 75224, 75208, 75203, 75216 and 75211. Numbers are derived from 2010 U.S. Census data with projections to be accurate as of Jan. 1, 2017. GO FIGURE 2302 Kessler Pkwy $1,035,000 5 Beds | 5.1 Baths | 4,087 sqft/Tax Kessler Park | Stevens Park Golf Course Views 1228 Lausanne Avenue $800,000 5 Beds | 3 Baths | 3,187 sqft/Appraiser Kessler Park | Architectural Gem with Pool/Spa 1214 N Clinton Avenue $869,000 3 Beds | 3 Baths | 2 LA’s | 2,571 sqft/Appraiser Kessler Park | Picturesque Prairie with Pool/Spa 1629 Junior Drive $1,300,000 3 Beds | 2.1 Baths | 2,625 sqft + 391 sqft Ofﬁce East Kessler | Epic Soft Modern on Half-Acre Vista melissa@dpmre.com 214.616.8343 opgdallas.com Because of you... 21+ MILLION SOLD IN 2018!

JUST DESSERTS

SQUARE CUPCAKES, BIG COOKIES AND ‘STUFFERS’ SET THIS BAKERY APART

LET’S JUST GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY.

A “stuffer” is a cupcake baked inside of a square cookie frame. It’s both a frosted cupcake and a cookie.

“You can’t eat it and drive,” says co-owner Darla McCuen.

That is the kind of self-taught culinary genius that makes the owners of Kookie Haven unique.

Three sisters — Nita Briggs, Kim Haynes and McCuen — opened the ﬁrst Kookie Haven with their mother, who was known as Ms. Kookie, in Desoto in 2002.

That location closed two years later, and

Kookie Haven 337 W. Jefferson Hours: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, closed Sunday-Monday Price range: $2.25-$5.75 kookiehaven.com

then their mother and sister died in the same year.

They reopened in Mesquite in 2014, but more family tragedy struck, and they closed again.

Then they blessed Oak Cliff with their sweet kookiness, opening at Jefferson Tower about a year ago.

All of the cookies are based on their mother’s recipes. She worked from her own memorized creations — a little of this and a little of that. When they decided to make it a business, the sisters had to watch their mother bake the

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FOOD

Story by RACHEL STONE Photography by KATHY TRAN Strawberry cupcakes, called “square bites,” from Kookie Haven

treats and stop her at every turn to weigh her measurements. They were amazed to ﬁnd that even though every recipe was different, every single one of them used the same amounts of sugar, ﬂour and butter.

Ms. Kookie always encouraged her daughters to put their own unique spin on everything they do in the kitchen, and that spirit continues in their professional lives.

As kids, they baked and sold cookies and cakes to earn extra money for their family. About half of Kookie Haven’s recipes come from Briggs’ own creativity.

“Nita started cooking at age 9,” McCuen says. “She has a way of making things taste good.”

JANUARY 2019 oakcliff.advocatemag.com 15 DID YOU KNOW? Kookie Haven makes vegan desserts, including seven varieties of cake, two cookies and a stuffer. DINING SPOTLIGHT shaynasplace.com 1868 Sylvan Ave., Suite D150 469.575.3663 Shayna’s Place Now Open daily from 7am-9pm. Come enjoy delicious sandwiches, salads, smoothies and pastries, as well as a local selection of coffee and sodas. BYOB.

Above: Cake varieties at Kookie Haven include Oreo, red velvet, chocolate peanut butter, German chocolate, lemon and Italian cream. Below: Cookies taste like homemade and include butter toffee crunch, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin and snickerdoodle.

Whatever happened to ...?

FROM NASCENT NEIGHBORHOOD BEER, BETTER BLOCK CREATIONS, THE CALATRAVA AND AUNT STELLE’S, HERE’S AN UPDATE ON SOME OF THE MOST INTRIGUING NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES AND PHOTOS OF THE YEAR.

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Story By RACHEL STONE | Photos by DANNY FULGENCIO

BELLY UP, BABY

The dream of brewery ownership became a reality, following years of work and planning, for Joel Denton and Oak Cli Brewing Co. in 2018.

An accomplished home brewer, Denton started working on opening his own brewery in 2015.

By late 2017, the brewery had taken up space at Tyler Station, and Denton expected to open the brewery and taproom in early spring.

Between converting a second-story space in a 100-year-old industrial building to hold massive brewing equipment and receiving approval from state and federal licensing agencies, it took a little longer than expected.

But Oak Cli Brewing Co. opened Sept. 1. It’s a 900-gallon capacity brewery with a bespoke taproom, conveniently located on a DART rail line.

Manhattan Brewing Co., another home-brewer-turned pro the Advocate proﬁled in 2018, is still producing great craft beer out of another brewery in Addison. Plans for a West Dallas brewery and taproom haven’t materialized, and coowner Karl Sanford didn’t respond to an emailed inquiry about it.

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BEYOND THE GEODESIC DOME

What good is a 14-foot geodesic dome made of plywood?

The one that Oak Cli -based Better Block built for Fair Park’s Earth Day celebration last year later served as a stage for musicians and speakers.

It played the role of the Death Star in the city planning nonproﬁt’s Star Wars-themed design competition on May 4.

And in December, it was turned into “the largest snow globe in Oak Cli .”

Its real purpose,

though, is showcasing WikiBlock, the line of street furniture designs Better Block released two years ago. WikiBlock patterns for benches, kiosks, bus-stop shelters, stools and café tables are free and can be uploaded to a CNC router so that people anywhere can “print” furniture to improve their own blocks.

A router cuts the pattern out of plywood, and the pieces are ﬁtted together so that no glue, screws or nails are required.

The nonproﬁt started

staging its namesake events — transforming neglected blocks with temporary lighting, seating, landscaping, bike lanes and other amenities — in Oak Cli in 2011. Since then, they’ve taken the concept to cities around the world.

“We started to see that, by using something that was more beautifully designed and unusual looking, that it can really transform a space,” says Krista Nightengale, the nonproﬁt’s managing director. “So we started pushing ourselves to

design more interesting, beautiful structures, and the geodesic dome was one of them.”

The dome was designed with two woodcuts that repeat and snapped together like a puzzle.

This year, the Better Block is planning to start a workforce-development program that could train local youth in digital fabrication so they might “learn how to instantly reshape their community and ﬁnd creative ways to make a living,” Nightengale says.

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WHEELIE OVERSATURATED

They popped up like pimples on what seemed like every corner of Dallas.

Green Lime Bikes, orange Spin bikes, yellow Ofos and all the others.

So many dockless rental bikes hit the Dallas market in 2017 that we were knocking them over, moving them out of the way and imagining them as sentient robots here to destroy mankind.

Residents demanded something be done about the evercluttering bikes, so last summer, City Council placed fees on bike-share operators in Dallas, including annual licenses and a per-bike fee that gave companies incentives to keep the ﬂood of bikes at bay.

After that, Beijingbased Ofo pulled out of the Dallas market, abandoning hundreds and hundreds of its yellow bikes in our city. Most of them are garbage. Some have been claimed by homeless residents or spray-painted and Bedazzled by silverlining loving hipsters.

Just when rental bikes started clearing the streets of Dallas

came another rentable convenience/menace: electric scooters.

While whizzing around with little e ort in the Texas heat is a cool idea, scooter accidents are resulting

in serious injuries and deaths across the country.

While the evidence to that so far is anecdotal, gathered from news stories and trauma-center reports,

soon there will be an accounting.

The Centers for Disease Control currently is conducting a study of scooterrelated accidents in Austin.

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CALATRAVA DRAMA

One of the most stomach-turning stories to come out of City Hall in 2018 was the Interstate-30 bridge debacle.

The demure sister bridge of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Margaret Hunt Hill, the Margaret McDermott Bridge opened to carry tra c across the Trinity River on Interstate 30 in 2013.

That was all ﬁne, but then parallel bike and pedestrian lanes never opened, although they appeared to be ﬁnished.

Roadblocks with stern signs warned against trespassing on the pedestrian bridges, but neither the city nor the Texas Department of Transportation would explain the delay.

As it turns out, there’s a major engineering problem with decks designed to hold those lanes.

The Dallas Observer uncovered documents in January 2018 that revealed City Council’s choice to use “value engineering” to save money on building the $115-million bridge had resulted in ﬂaws that could potentially cause the pedestrian decks to fail.

In the spring of 2016, engineers had found that rods used to adjust suspension cables supporting the pedestrian decks had cracked from being blown around in strong wind. The cables support only the pedestrian part of the bridge, not car tra c.

Fixing the westbound lanes could cost about $500,000 and take about six months to ﬁx. The eastbound lanes could cost more than a year and a half and $10 million.

They remain closed.

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YOU’LL NEVER HEAR SURF MUSIC AGAIN

Summer was canceled in 2017 when it was announced that Oak Cli ’s beloved snow cone stand, Aunt Stelle’s, would not open for the season.

We waited to see if she would return for 2018, but no. Husband-and-wife owners Lee Albert and Ed Schwartz and their business partner Mark Harris decided to call it quits.

Albert’s mother, Estelle Williams, opened the stand in 1962. Utilizing the ice-shaving machine that Albert’s dad fabricated, Aunt Stelle’s at one time was open yearround from morning ’til night.

But they started scaling

back their hours about 10 years ago until they were open half days only on the weekend and only in the summertime.

Albert told the Advocate in 2010 that the business is too personal to sell. Their daughter has a career in academia, and they had no one else to whom they could hand it down.

Summer days are long and ﬂeeting, and Aunt Stelle’s is just a memory.

In the summer of 2018, Aunt Stelle’s reopened for one day. There were no snow cones. But the owners arrived to say goodbye to customers and sell o remaining merchandise.

The building, on Clarendon at Marlborough, is expected to go up for sale late this year.

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FACES AND PLACES

LOCAL ARTIST’S #HEADHUNTDALLAS MAKES GIFTS FOR EVERYONE

EXPLORING DALLAS HAS ITS OWN REWARDS.

But if you follow Mattson Plummer on Instagram, it could also lead to a piece of unique art.

Plummer, 37, is a freelance food-styling assistant who has lived in Oak Cliff for 12 years.

About four years ago, he started #headhuntdallas, wherein he creates funny faces out of plywood and spray paint, then hides them around Dallas. Plummer gives clues to their locations on his Instagram account, and whoever ﬁnds them, keeps them.

Usually they’re claimed within an hour, he says.

The ﬁnders can tag him or use the hashtag in their own insta posts. Sometimes, they don’t.

“I’m hiding them and letting them go,” Plummer says. “It’s nice when people share, but I’m not worked up if they don’t.”

The hiding places tend to be natural areas and parks that people might not otherwise visit.

“I usually try to pick an interesting landmark

or a nice place to walk around,” he says. “That way if you’re not the ﬁrst one there, you won’t mind because it’s a cool spot to walk around.”

A few times he’s gained attention from groups of middle-school age boys who compete and collaborate to ﬁnd the heads. Families often go out and ﬁnd them together.

Once, a woman arrived ﬁrst but didn’t ﬁnd the head until another Instagram follower came along and pointed it out.

“He said, ‘You were here ﬁrst, so you can have it,’ ” Plummer says. “But then I gave the other person a free one.”

Plummer got the idea to give away art when he saw another artist on Instagram pin a drawing to a coffee shop wall for someone else to ﬁnd. He’s taken that idea and made it his own.

“As a pastime I like to go explore the city,” Plummer says. “Get outside and do stuff that’s off the beaten path. Walk around in creeks. I like to be outside.”

Story by RACHEL STONE Photo by DANNY FULGENCIO

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SPOTLIGHT

STORIES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Oak Cliff-based artist Mattson Plummer started giving away his work on Instagram about four years ago.

After Instagram changed its feed from chronological to algorithmic in June 2018, it put a bit of a damper on the head hunt because fewer people see posts the day they’re uploaded. He doesn’t do as many, but he’s still putting plenty of artwork out there for the taking.

“Whenever I have some art to give away, it’s fun to go ﬁnd a place to hide it,” he says.

Follow Mattson Plummer at @ mattsonmattsonmattson and #headhuntdallas.

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‘THEY NEED IT WHETHER THEY KNOW IT OR NOT.’

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CALEB JACK left the door open while working at a studio above Artisan’s Collective in Oak Cliff.

When people walking by asked what he was doing, he invited them inside to experiment with his art supplies.

“They would say, ‘I can’t do anything,’ ” Jack says. “Three hours later it’d be like, ‘Alright dude, are you done?’ ”

His enthusiasm for art even motivated his grandmother, Lynda Sparks, to experiment. She’s devoted hours to perfecting handmade jewelry, making hats and concocting quirky collages of cats’ heads on humans’ bodies.

So it is ironic that neither Sparks nor Jack is comfortable calling themselves artists.

“We make stuff. We’re creative people,” Jack

says. “When you compare yourself to some really great people, it’s hard to throw yourself in the same ring as them.”

Jack’s collages, paintings and mixed-media works have been displayed at Artisan’s Collective and shipped across the globe to Germany and South Africa. The Bishop Arts gallery gave local artists the opportunity to showcase their works in a down-to-earth, accessible space.

The rising value of real estate forced Matthews to shutter the gallery in 2017. Property owners raised the monthly rent from $3,000 to $7,000, he says.

Determined to carry on Artisan’s Collective’s tradition, Jack and Sparks opened the Art Annex in Lake Highlands on Valentine’s Day 2018,

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Sparks sells her work at the shop, but Jack has replaced creating pieces with running the shop’s day-to-day operations.

“I prefer to give other people space to sell their work,” he says. “I’m done. I can die happy. I achieved more than I ever imagined at Artisan’s, so I’m good.”

Jack and Sparks acknowledge that an art gallery isn’t a high-demand business, but they say giving the neighborhood access to local art is worth the risk.

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Sometimes, in the busy pace of life, you can see something so touching that it stops you in your tracks. It was a cold day before Christmas. I exited the ofﬁce and was heading to my car when I saw a homeless man shufﬂing across an intersection. He’s become a friend during this last year, teaching me grace and endurance.

A mom from our child development center had just picked up her child. Her expensive car was moving toward the intersection, but as soon as she saw the homeless man, she stopped and made a kind gesture for my friend to continue crossing. She waited patiently as he moved very, very slowly. I could see her expression. It wasn’t one of anger or frustration, but of quiet empathy. After a minute, he made it to the other side and nodded appreciation as she continued down the road.

Perhaps the most important cultural debate that we are having today is what it means to be human. The debate is present in nearly every political, social and civic conversation, even if we don’t think we’re having the debate. It deals with the nature and value of each person. Are we merely biological, synapses and chemical reactions, accidents of the cosmos? Are we like computers, a series of predictable functions? Or, are we something sacred, crafted, worthy of reverence? How we understand the nature of humanity affects how we look at topics like euthanasia, the refugee crisis and how we treat those who are homeless.

Many people today reject the idea of imago dei. It’s a theological term from Genesis 1:27 that means “the image of God” denoting the relationship between God and humanity. In this view, humans mirror God’s likeness in their moral, social, spiritual, and intellectual nature. It sets us apart from the rest of creation. This shouldn’t make us prideful or domineering,

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What did undeveloped Oak Cliff look like?

Many written descriptions exalt its natural beauty — verdant hills, plentiful creeks and springs, old stonewalls and dirt roads.

But there also are images.

In the early 1900s, artist Edward Gustav Eisenlohr lived in Oak Cliff and painted landscapes of Dallas, including many from the banks of the Trinity River.

Eisenlohr was born in Ohio in 1872, and his family moved to Dallas two years later.

The family roomed in Dallas’ first hotel, the Crutchfield House. Later they built a two-story white stone building at the corner of Main and Field. Eisenlohr’s father, Rudolph, ran a pharmacy on the first floor, and the family lived on the second story.

Eisenlohr’s mother, Emma, was artistically inclined, and he started drawing at a young age. At 13 he won a blue ribbon at the State Fair of Texas for a pencil drawing of a map of Texas.

In the late 1880s the family moved to Europe for their children’s education, and Eisenlohr studied in Germany and Switzerland.

When they moved back to Dallas, they settled in Oak Cliff, and Eisenlohr took a job as a bookkeeper at the American Exchange Bank. But he kept up his art studies on nights and weekends under the guidance of Frank Reaugh and Robert J. Onderdonk.

In the early 1900s, he had solo exhibitions at the Cincinnati Museum of Fine Art and the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe.

Throughout his career, Eisenlohr created more than 1,000 drawings, watercolors, pastels, oil paintings and lithographs of early 20th Century Dallas.

He never married or had children. He died in 1961 and is buried in Oak Cliff Cemetery.

Since his death, Eisenlohr’s work has

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