Artfully Poetic The gallery Someone once said that we should live artfully. It’s easy to say such poetic things, but another, entirely, to do them. Is there an artful way to sweep a floor or unload a car? What does this dictate even mean? How does one go about living artfully? If you think about it, artful means to do something cleverly, with skill and taste. And in that sense, I can see how this journey to open an art studio somehow fits within that definition.  The world places heavy burdens upon our shoulders and many of us spend our lives doing the bidding of others. We must labor for wages to pay off our ever accumulating debts: taxes, rents, subscriptions, fees, interest, etc… It feels, at times, as if everyone has a hand in our pockets, so we sell our time and well-being just to break even.  Artfully Exploring Living Artfully But this studio has become a shelter from that world. It’s a place that has helped me to cultivate creativity, to explore the possibilities. What ...