Part of the effort drains the creative instinct as well. Pelletier's agency helps small-business people, including artists and craftsmen, develop their businesses so they can provide livable incomes. We could lose a piece of that fabric of our community. Harmon is determined to hang on to the threads that tie her to Wellfleet. Trying to build a future After six years working in the gallery, four as a manager, she decided to take her future into her own hands.
Paintings go from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
In exchange for a lower rent on the gallery space, she paid to install a ramp for handicapped people and to do other work on the building. She is hoping to leverage a successful business into a home. And over the summer, her gamble took on a higher level of risk as the entire Mooney building went up for sale. After a summer spent working every day, she has been able to save a little money to get her through the winter. She's planning on closing the gallery for the winter, turning it into a painting studio.