JASPER — Jasper Community Arts is pleased to present the work of Jasper, IN photographer Jay Hamlin for the months of July, August and September 2023 at the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center. Hamlin’s exhibit features photographs from his recent travels to Jasper’s Sister City, Pfaffenweiler, Germany.

“Travel affords us the opportunity to step out of our comfort zone and, for a period, modify our routine. It allows us to integrate into a world outside ourself and discover the commonalities we share as humans, while at the same time, discovering new and fresh ways to create solutions for wants, needs and problems we have at home. Travel, if we are open to it, has the ability to heighten our compassion and empathy for others as we see that the hopes, dreams, struggles, stresses and anxieties of humans are universal, and the decisions we make to achieve or overcome them are rooted in the same deep desires for life, liberty, and happiness for ourselves and our family,” Hamlin stated.