One of Mt. Pleasant’s most unique retail spaces is hoping its supporters will help it show off their support by filling its front windows with little squares of art.
For Art’s Sake, a maker’s space at 117 S. Main St. — in the old New Yorker, is selling blank 3×3 canvasses for $10, with the idea that the person purchasing them will make their own art so they can put them in the store’s Main Street-facing windows.
Lisa Webster, one of the store’s co-owners said she came up with the idea about a month ago. It not only allows the store to make a little money while showing off what kind of community support they have, but it also indulges one of her passions.
“I love mini-art,” she said.
For Art’s Sake is a combination public art studio and retail store, and is described by Webster and her co-partner Megan Bair as a maker’s space.
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