Mrs. Masato is building an ART SCHOOL!

[Masato]

Hey all

Super stoked here... for the past 3 years, my wife and her business partner have been developing an art-classes business.

My wife is a potter and teaches all the pottery classes (kids, adults, school workshops, parties etc), and her partner is an AMAZING art teacher who does all the visual art classes. I work for them sometimes running a comic-making/drawing class:
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ANYWAYS... for the past 3 years they have been working really hard to find a permanent location to finally put this business together once and for all. My wife has a studio in our basement which is very pretty but also very small. They were leasing space in an amazing old house for about 1.5 years, but that fell through as well. They taught summer art/pottery camps at a local private school for the summer, and also held some weeks at this awesome organic farm, which was very cool...

BUT NOW THEY HAVE A REAL PLACE!!!!

Long dull story of how it happened, but the paperwork is finally complete, and they have a mortgage on this commercial space in the exact location they wanted.

Now they are scrambling to get it ready asap, as mortgage payments/utility bills start next month.

I will post pics of the development as it starts to come together.

Here is the front on the building... they have the main level, top level, and a basement:


The main level will be my wife's pottery studio:





There are stairs leading up, and down (basement is unfinished... lights are not working right now so no pictures. The plan is to turn it into a computer lab!







The 2nd floor will be run by my wife's business partner, and will be all visual arts (drawing, painting, textiles, etc etc):








View of the back from 2nd floor:


View of front from 2nd floor:



Street:



Back of building:



Another part of the goal is to use the space to rent out for special creative events... other types of classes, guest lectures/presentations, etc. Just a main center for creative activity in the community - all kinds of potential

I hope to have some conspiracy workshops one day :)

WISH HER LUCK!!!

I will post more pics as it develops

[Canuckster]

That's awesome dude, best of luck!

[Edge Guerrero]

- Very cool.
Best of lucky.

Edited:

- For some reason whem i read the title, i tought about Capoeira.:D

[Masato]

- Very cool.
Best of lucky.

Edited:

- For some reason whem i read the title, i tought about Capoeira.:D

I will take that seriously and make sure something related to capoeira gets put inside somewhere :)

[Edge Guerrero]

- Very cool.
Best of lucky.

Edited:

- For some reason whem i read the title, i tought about Capoeira.:D

I will take that seriously and make sure something related to capoeira gets put inside somewhere :)

- Good, it's a very cool and unique martial art.


And those type of building you guys have look so cool, like a friendly home.

[Luigi]

Congrats dude.

[johnkilo]

Awesome. Congrats!

[Edge Guerrero]

- Nice work.
What type of classes you guys have already planed?

[Masato]

My wife has a bunch of different pottery classes, her business partner teaches all kinds of drawing, painting, mixed media.

I do a comic class, we also have glass, jewelry-making, puppet-making, and others as we find people who have different creative skills to teach.

We are also planning to turn the basement into a computer lab to teach photoshop, animation, video editing etc.

I hope to teach a shoop class one day :)

[greenseed]

very cool man. not to hijack the thread :) but Here's the site to my stone carving studio. http://www.facebook.com/studio4114 and my personal carving site http://www.robinunger.com i have been apprenticing for 4 years now. lovin it.