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I'm sooooooooo lucky!  I have a great place to enjoy painting!

Welcome to THE LITTLE STUDIO AND GALLERY located in the teeny tiny historic town of Arrow Rock, Missouri!

Come visit (personally or electronically) my little spot of heaven, my little she-shed studio and gallery.

The Little Studio and Gallery just threw open its doors to the public this past weekend at the 47th Annual Heritage Festival but the town of Arrow Rock dates back to the early 1800's when it was settled and became the first stop on the Santa Fe Trail heading West from the origination point across the wide Missouri River in Franklin, Boone County. The river in those days ran at the base of bluffs that edge our little town and ferry service as well as river boat travel was a major activity. Once across the Missouri, travelers lingered while they watered their livestock in our natural spring and out-fitted their wagons for the long trek west. Much of our town remains significantly the same as it did in those days. The entire town is on the National Historic Register, including my home and the original J. Huston Tavern which is still serving lunch and recognized as the oldest continuously run tavern west of the Mississippi. Just up the street a few doors is my personal little Victorian cottage (circa 1900) where the studio and gallery are now open for business just steps behind the cottage. Enter through the picket gate at 418 Main Street or contact me via this website or Facebook (Karen Avery Miller Fine Art).  

If you are an artist too and love to paint en plein air -- come to Arrow Rock -- the natural rural beauty and historic aspects will spark your creative senses. Contact me for possible accommodations in my cottage or local bed & breakfast referrals. And if you don't paint but have time to visit my studio, please stop by. It's a lazy quiet town that bustles with ongoing activities throughout the summer and early fall --- excellent professional stage productions at the Lyceum Theater, ice cream socials, craft fairs, fine dinning in award winning restaurants, shopping, historic home tours, fishing, camping (Missouri State Park facilities), museum and historical lectures, etc..Our winters are truly a time of silence and beauty and those of us lucky to live here enjoy the year-round peace and tranquility that descends on us daily from dusk to dawn.

Again, I'm soooooooooo lucky! It makes me want to PAINT!!