Author Event - Roger Stelljes

Roger Stelljes, author of "The St. Paul Conspiracy", gave a fascinating talk in our coffee bar area last Thursday. He answered questions about how to find an agent, how to self-publish your own book and the costs involved, and told many interesting anecdotes about writing his first book. He also told us what to expect in his second book!

We enjoyed our first author event so much, and got good enough attendance, that we will try to have an author event in the coffee bar every month. Our next author, on August 20, will be children's author Patrick Mader. See details on our August class schedule! If you have some favorite authors who live in the Twin Cities, let us know and we'll try to schedule them.

We sure have been remiss this year in adding to our blog. We have already had another open house (in June) since our last blog entry. To the left is a photo from the latest FREE open house, where our customers made photo pendants, father's day "cloth tie" cards, metal handstamped pieces, beaded bracelets, fused glass necklaces, etc. KidzArt had their usual good projects for the younger set.

The big news of today is that The Studio made the front page of the Source section in the Star Tribune! If you haven't seen it, it may still be online at http://www.startribune.com/389/story/1288891.html. We had to laugh a little when we read it, because it didn't tell much about our business and what we really do. Like emphasizing our daily art classes and art parties. And we don't really have a graphic design service although we do very simple graphics projects. (Plus Natalie does website design.) BUT the reporter, Mary, who was super nice, was writing the article for the Family section and I think she just wanted to capture some family dynamics instead of focusing on the business aspects. Dave was the most quotable with his usual wry comments. We are thrilled to have the publicity.

More soon.

Pictures from Open House

Saturday was our second-ever open house. We had free art projects for teens & adults, and our collaborator, KidzArt, had free art classes for kids. We're pretty sure at least a couple hundred people showed up during the 5 hours ... maybe more! We hope everyone had fun making the stained glass suncatchers, copper hammered earrings, wire wrapped silverware, digital refrigerator magnets, and embroidery greeting cards. People who liked working with stained glass or jewelry making should check out our stained glass panel classes or sterling jewelry classes this month!

Here are a few of the projects people made:

Here are a group of people starting their suncatchers...

and kids doing the KidzArt class:

If you missed this open house, we'll probably have another one in late spring or early summer.