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a part of the gallery for many years. Now a member, she said, “The support of other artists means a lot, and the criticisms they give I take seriously. I'm not sure that I could be launching into a new medium and style - watermedia collage and abstract — without their encouragement.”
Learning from others, helping others, pitching in to keep the gallery running — it's what distinguishes a cooperative from a commercial gallery, the members say. Barbara Heile, a painter from Washington. Va., put it this way: "Middle Street Gallery, as a cooperative, has given artists who are intensely individual a means to dialog and support one another in their individual work, while also creating something that the larger community can take part in.”
And Heile added, “Being a non-profit gallery, we are free of the stress of believing we have to make a profit, and I would say this is very healthy. We manage to keep the heat and lights on. And for an artist and their guests, this can be enough. It is clearly about the giving and receiving of one’s art.”
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