Owner Jessie Stevens said she opened The Studio, a private community art space in Magnolia, in August 2019 with the goal to design a creative community in her hometown.
“Everyone in my family is an entrepreneur,” Stevens said. “So I’ve been wanting to start a business in our community since I was a teenager, and this sort of fell into my lap.”
Originally used as more of a makerspace, Stevens said she transformed a previously unrentable building into a creative rental space for teachers.
The Studio has grown to host three different professors offering multiple classes and art mediums, which are open to all ages, including children and adults, with registration.
Teachers at the space include Linda Marie, also an art teacher at Extraordinary Education in Magnolia, who teaches drawing, painting, art history, art studio, ceramics and animation; Anna Chasovskaia, an instructor at…
