Blink

The work on Court Street Plaza, called Embrace No Evil by local artist Tom Tsuchiya, is five-feet tall, made of fiberglass and steel and emits ambient light.

Fans of the four-night light and art festival can now start planning ahead for their 2024 experience.

Organizers have released the "footprint" map of BLINK showing the boundaries of the outdoor light and art festival.

Blink has grown from 22 projection mapping displays, 35 light-based installations, and murals from 8 artists in the first year, to more than 80 in 2024.

The art and light festival will be in Cincinnati, Covington, and now, Newport.

The four-night art and light BLINK festival has drawn hundreds of thousands of people each night since 2017.

BLINK Executive Director Justin Brookhart says the festival's focus is — and will remain — a local event, but they would like to attract more visitors, and explore taking the show on the road.

The festival's largest mural was completed in the last week, nearly a month after Blink started.

The executive director of BLINK says the 2022 version of the festival may have drawn more people than 2019 and 2017.

“We really think of Thursday night as little bit of a dress rehearsal for some of the projection stuff because we don’t know how it’s going to perform totally at scale.”