Washington Pavilion Management Inc. is taking a new approach with space it originally leased downtown as a retail store.
Alcove, which offered a variety of art- and science-themed merchandise, sold its final inventory earlier this year at The Steel District. In its place, Washington Pavilion Management is offering the space to artists on a rotating basis.
“We started asking, what can we do to utilize it to support our mission but in a different way,” CEO Darrin Smith said.
After more than a dozen conversations with artists, “a theme quickly emerged,” he said. “That was an artist residency program, and a very flexible one.”…