WICHITA — An excess of space is leading to another new venture at Bluebird Arthouse.
Owner Emily Brookover already uses the second story above her Delano shop to have an art market once a month, and she uses a wall downstairs for gallery space.
Now, she’s going to use an area near the front of the store to operate Bang Bang, a T-shirt business featuring original art.
“We’re banging out some T-shirts,” Brookover says.
She says she’ll be doing it more economically than Internet sites that help artists create shirts.
“It’s really cool, so I was thinking I could do something (like) that but on a local level,” she says. “We are hopefully going to do it grassroots style.”
Brookover is partnering with Phil Ross and Adam Phillips of Straight Screenprinting to create T-shirts from art.
“So we’re keeping it all local,” she says.