Now that their kids are grown and gone, Steven and Carol Klepinger have the opportunity to devote time to making jewelry and art.
The Mid-Michigan couple opened the 750 square-foot Morning Dance Gallery in Okemos nine weeks ago.
Steven Klepinger fabricates and repairs jewelry, while Carol procures artwork from all over the country. She displays all art mediums, including watercolors, wood, glass and ceramics.
"I’ve worked here in Okemos for the past 10 years,” Steven says. “I felt I had a pretty strong following in the area already, and I was familiar with everything here.”
Opening a business near the more than 30,000 people who work in state government, as well as the thousands of people who work at and attend Michigan State University (MSU), helps to insulate their business from downturns in the economy, he says.
Morning Dance Gallery is located at 1754 Central Park Dr. in Okemos.
Source: Steven Klepinger, Morning Dance Gallery
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
All Photographs © Dave Trumpie
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