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“To date, we’ve paid over $200,000 in commissions to our artists,� said director of external relations and cofounder Lucy Gross. “We have artists that earn upwards of $30,000 a year from their art sales.�

The nearly 50-year-old festival, which kicks off Saturday, is moving from downtown Austin to the Hill Country Galleria in Bee Cave. Vendors said that in recent years, setting up their booths at 5 a.m. felt stressful and scary.

The longtime Austin tradition takes place Saturday from 11 a.m. until sunset at Pease Park.

Just like the original site, the new gallery will be free and open to the public. The building and its accompanying concrete structures spell “HOPE� from a bird's-eye view, an acronym for Helping Other People Everywhere.

Big Medium said the Austin Studio Tour “will continue in some form or fashion,� and that the organization is committed to “exploring every avenue possible� to keep the event going.

Applications are open for the park’s artist-in-residence program, which includes housing and a small stipend for supplies.

Our question asker wondered who put it there and if it should be moved somewhere else. Jasper Johns has no connections to Texas. Who is this secret admirer?

Austin’s troll is the latest of 129 similar sculptures that Danish artist Thomas Dambo has built across the world. Dambo, a self-described “garbage artist," specializes in art with environmental themes and recycled materials.

BEPI Park has been a mini-golf course, a Squid Game-inspired holiday display, a community vegetable garden and even an active volcano. Now, it’s a wild troll that its creator imagines as a perfect companion for Pease Park troll down the street.

Students at AHB Community School in Hyde Park have been hard at work building tiny homes for the fairies on campus.