The girls in Theresa Roden’s ever-growing I-Tri program who packed the East Hampton Middle School’s auditorium for a Mentoring Day were urged by the Rev. Tisha Williams to “show up and shoot your shot.”

There is seemingly no end to the number of artists associated with the East End, past and present. Annual exhibitions that attempt to bring more of them to our attention should be commended for giving us a fuller picture of the creativity that has existed in our midst for more than a century.