Saturday is the Grand Opening of the Arts Off Center gallery in Superior which features all local artists. For some, it showcases healing from the Marshall Fire.
This includes multi-media and glass artist Karla Bennett, who is excited to see her art on gallery walls for the first time.
“Start putting your pieces in where you think that they will look good and go together. It’s like building a puzzle,” Bennett said.
But like so many artists, the inspiration for this puzzle came from pain. In Bennett’s case, from memories of losing her home in the Marshall Fire.
“I thought, well, I’ll try to make myself something to feel better. That there’s something that I got out of the fire, because there was literally nothing left,” Bennett said…