No such thing as too simple, or complex Minnedosa creative studio hosts Open Studio Nights

By Casper Wehrhahn Neepawa Banner & Press

A Minnedosa business is offering up creative space to artists. Dubbed Open Studio Nights, Inspire Studio opens its doors every Monday evening– excluding holiday Mondays– from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. free of charge. All are welcome, needing only to bring a project you’d like to work on and the supplies to do so.

“The purpose behind it is to get creative weekly and surround yourself with others who also want to do the same,” said Marlies Soltys, owner and operator of Inspire Studio. “This way, you can get some ideas while discussing with others, get valuable feedback or hints and, most of all, get inspired to create more.”

Soltys added, “There’s a lot of people who enjoy doing things like this, but don’t have the space. It’s nice to be able to offer them that space and get them together with like-minded people, creating again.”

Sometimes giving people a space and creative freedom is all that’s needed to achieve that. Although

Inspire Studios has only just held their third Open Studio evening, the attendees have already made a wide variety of art using different mediums.

“We’ve had people paint, create neurographic art, mosaic, colour, scrapbook, paper art, zentangle, felt, crochet and more,” Soltys enthused. “It’s been fabulous to see such variety already. Needless to say, it seems that people enjoy having a space available to get creative,”

Anyone wishing to get involved can do so at any time, as there is no need to register and no planned cut-off date for the service.

“Just come with whatever project you wish to work on,” said Soltys. “There’s no such thing as too simple or too complex.”