I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Welcome to our third ¤ Gallery Show ¤

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Thank you so much to all the contributing artists and creatives who have helped under1000skies every day since we began in 2015.

1. BEN ARCHER
2. DR. RALPH BELL
3. CONTESSA BROWN
4. CREATIVE THEMES
5. DAVID COLEMAN
6. MIKE DOWNS
7. NIKI FLOW
8. FREE IMAGES.COM
9. J.J. GARCIA
10. JOHN HACK
11. CHIP HALDANE
12. AL HANDA & IVY
13. NICOLE HUGUENIN
14. JONATHAN KENDRICK
15. STEPHANI PUI-MUN LAW
16. M.J.
17. STEVE MANN
18. MARVEL COMICS
19. CARLOS MENDEZ
20. MELISSA M. MORRIS
21. NOTHINGTOSEE MOVEALONGNOW
22. CHRISTIAN NITU
23. JOHN “JOHNNY O” OLANDER
24. PHOTOS-PUBLIC-DOMAIN.COM
25. PIXABAY PHOTOGRAPHY VOLUNTEERS
26. JOE RALEY
27. ALISA REAGAN
28. THE REAGAN FAMILY
29. PAUL ANTHONY SCHMITZ
30. SHELTERING GRACE
31. SHOWER-UP NASHVILLE
32. SOLIVAN C. SZUPKA
33. STOCKPHOTOS.COM
34. WILD DREAM WALKS

2013

In 2013, under1000skies was just a site Niki Flow created for random poems, photos and sketches.

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2014

She didn’t do much with it in 2014.  Then on November 14, 2014, Niki’s whole life changed.  She wrote a story about it here:  It Begins with Me.

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2015

Year 1:  Gems 1.1 to 1.81.  It took almost a year to solidify a plan to keep the promise made in the November 14, 2014 blog.  On September 2, 2015, the first “light-filled gem” was published:  Gems 1.1

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2016

Year 2:  Gems 2.1 to 2.82  On March 2, 2016, Niki’s oldest son Ben Archer, disappeared.  Ben was one of the main contributing photographers and one of Niki’s staunchest supporters.   As of this writing (1 year, 3 months later) none of his family nor any of his friends have seen or heard from him since.  Many of the posts on under1000skies were about Ben that year, but the family decided to take most of those posts down.  They thought Ben might be embarrassed at all the fuss and would come home when it died down.  So we took down all the blogs, waited and never gave up hope.  We never will. Ben’s case is also now on the Federal Database here:   Ben Archer:  NamUs MP # 33696   All updates about Ben are being kept here:  Niki Flow.   In October of 2016 we started an Instgram Account for under1000skies and in November of 2016 we started a Twitter Account. We’re also on Tumbler, G+, Pinterest and Facebook.

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2017

Year 3:  Gems 3.1 to 3.65 (so far).  In 2017 we began a brand new year with new photographers, artists and, for the first time, our first contribution from one of our homeless creatives, “Johnny O.”  We also began our first Spotlight Saturday and hope to continue these at least every other week in the years go come.  We also finally designed a signature logo and a website logo.

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JULY – DECEMBER, 2017

There’s a lot more coming in the next six months of 2017.

Website and Stationary Story

We’ll be getting under1000.org up and running as well as our stationary store under1000skies.com.

On the Road under1000skies

On or about August 1, 2017 Niki Flow will be begin a USA tour which has three objectives:  (1) to meet volunteers and supporters of under1000skies around the United States; (2) to get the word out about under1000skies with road shows, poetry slams, music shows, and on-the-road gallery shows.  We’ll have a table set up with information about us as well as boxes of stationary, volunteer packets, and artist packs; and (3) to follow in the footsteps of Niki’s son, Ben Archer who was a traveling artist.  He visited 25 states in 2015 from one coast to the other and went to dozens of artist shows.  This is where Niki will set up her under1000skies table with the Gallery Show and Ben’s photo prominently displayed.  If anyone has seen Ben, it would be these creative folks he loved to spend so much time with.  If you would like Niki to stop in your city; if you’d like to support this road trip with materials, a bed for a night, supplies, a meal or even a few hours of company, please write to us at Gems@gmail.com.

To all our artists, photographers, writers and advocates, quote suppliers, cheerleaders and especially to our homeless creatives and those who love and support them too, with all our hearts, thank you.

With deep thanks and lots of love,

☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼
We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.