![]() ![]() Our studio artists create their art in our studio, with materials provided for them and me and Lucy serving as facilitators. Katie: We work with artists in two capacities. WS: What does your gallery offer to artists? Since we opened our doors in June 2018, we have continued to add artists to our roster, and earlier this year we moved into a new, slightly bigger space at Canopy. In the spring of 2018, we found a refurbished shipping container in East Austin for rent on Craigslist that felt like the perfect size for what we were doing. Once Rick had built a portfolio of work for exhibition and we started working with a second artist, we felt ready to find a space in the community that we could use as both a working studio and a gallery. In the beginning, we just worked with one artist, Rick Fleming, whom we had met at Arc of the Arts. We started SAGE Studio in 2017 at Lucy's dining room table. We realized early on that we have a similar aesthetic and gravitate toward the same artists, and after we both left the Arc in 2015, we spent the next couple of years daydreaming about opening our own studio and gallery for artists with disabilities. ![]() My background is in art education and I am a practicing artist, whereas Lucy is a social worker, and we both worked at Arc of the Arts, an art-based day habilitation program in Austin. We were also able to get in touch with artists Adam Lechani, Douglas Allen, and Larry Willoughby Jr., who spoke graciously about their history, their art, and their experiences with home. They filled me in on the fascinating details of SAGE Studio and allowed us to share some of the amazing work from featured HOME MAKERS artists Anthony Coleman and Mar Rodríguez on the concept animals site. I recently reached out to Katie and Lucy in regards to their most recent exhibition, HOME MAKERS, a show bearing the impact of home and its solitude, comfort, and complications, all of which is seen through a new lens in the midst of a pandemic. The studio itself supports artists by being both a maker space and gallery space for the artists it represents. Cofounded by Lucy Gross and Katie Stahl in 2017 in a refurbished shipping container in Austin’s East side, the studio has now grown to represent more than ten Texan artists, in addition to exhibiting several international artists in their quarterly shows. In Austin’s vast up-and-coming art scene, SAGE Studio is one of our leading advocates when it comes to the all too often untapped talent of the diverse community of artists with disabilities. SAGE Studio Inspiration and Art-Making with Featured Artists from SAGE Gallery’s Exhibition, HOME MAKERS ![]()
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