Local glass artist Jon Baker will heat up First Fridays with a live glass-blowing demonstration.
Read more...The first thing you notice when pulling up in front of the Art-n-Soul Gallery on Oakley Avenue is the clothesline hanging in the front window.
Unframed paintings are strung along the line, ready to be matted and framed and bought as is.
“Over 100 years ago, when an artist finished a painting, she would hang it on a clothesline,” says gallery owner Beth Colville. “If someone wanted to buy it, they didn’t have to bug her. They could just take the painting and leave the money on the clothesline. It was a time when everyone trusted everyone.”
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