there is a wonderful art here in town and it's it has good and bad points and the bad point is that there really aren't enough galleries to represent all the wonderful talent that's in town so we're very fortunate to be able to this is my anchor career i was an audiologist for thirty four years i had a private practice in ohio and so when my husband and i moved to this area i decided i wanted to do something completely different and i started investigating some different things and this happened to come up and i just i fell in love with the gallery and just the happy colorful vibe in here and so that just went from there well the nice thing about owning a gallery is that i can assemble all the wonderful talent that we have here not only in sarasota but throughout the state of florida and as well as a few artists from out of state  if i were an artist it would be very difficult to run the gallery because it is very time consuming and so i do what a lot of artists would rather not do because they want to spend their time creating their art so that's where i towards we have a regional paintings we have wonderful glass whether it be fused glass stained glass blown glass we have pottery several different lines of jewelry that has been very popular metal are soap hand crafted soap and spa products somewhere a bar and it's just a nice mixture so there's something for everyone it's a different type of gallery called an gift gallery you know anytime you have a collection of art it's you know a gallery but by naming it it gives gallery i just want people to feel more comfortable in that it's more of a casual welcoming type of description for the shop a lot of artists that contact me each and every month and are looking for a gallery to represent them and basically what i am looking for is colorful happy  r or coastal themes that will just fit the vibe of the shop it has to be of high quality and hopefully unique in some way one aspect  of what i want to accomplish here is that customers come in and they can find things that they can't find at the mall what most of us will throw away a lot of artists will find good uses for so we have very fun colorful plaques that are made from recycled roofing tiles and so she paints them very colorfully and has funny funny and inspirational sayings on them brendan could all lives in the we have an adjacent building behind this gallery that is a paint your own pottery studio we have a nice selection of customers can come in and we have all the paints and supplies they need to create a masterpiece and then they leave the piece with us and we glaze and fire it and it's ready for pick up in a few days we have birthday parties scheduled in the patrie studio we've had bridal showers baby showers or even  just groups of ladies that want to bring a bottle of wine in and paint for a few hours in the afternoon so it's been a very relaxing nicette to vittie for for people to take some time out during the day and and get their art fix on we also offer our classes out in the pottery studio there are several local artists in town who teach classes monthly it can vary by month but we always have an acrylic painting class basket weaving fu glass and we've had beading classes and most of the classes are from two to four hours so it's a nice afternoon no one has to commit to a several weeks class they'll learn something new and have fun creating a piece of art that they'll be able to take home  the downtown village has an event monthly on the fourth friday from five to nine pm and we all the shops stay open late and we have music in the parking lot at food trucks will come we have some guest vendors that will set up in the parking lot and each shop does something little special that night whether b or d'oeuvres in our demos or one shop does complimentary henna tattoos  so there's all types of activities going on during that evening customers again just can't help but smile when they come in the shop with the colors in the artwork there's really not another shop just like this in the area almost every day someone will come in who says they drive by every day have always wanted to stop and then when they come in they can't believe that you know what we have been here and they usually will say i'm going to come back i'm going to bring my friends in so that's the best kind of feedback to have and the word of mouth advertising is phenomenal