The Art Garage is one of the featured locations in my novel All Falling Things. In the story, it’s an old mechanic shop turned art gallery in Chicago – five stall capacity with the glass garage doors left in place, concrete cleaned of all stains and polished, and moveable walls constructed to section off individual spaces or shorten the galley if a show can’t fill the entire thing.
In reality, this is an art gallery in Green Bay, WI, that I first encountered when I lived there for college. I thought the concept was great, and I opted to transport it to Chicago for this story.
If you are ever in the city (Green Bay, that is), stop by and check out the latest show or shop the local author fair, maybe take a class.
If you want to visit the Chicago version of the gallery, well, you can once the book comes out. The gallery becomes a second home, a sanctuary, for one of the characters to find their path in life. It was fun to get to live within its walls, even if on a page, and create shows and art pieces to fill the space.
Ami Maxine 