(upbeat music) - My business is all about supporting the arts.

When we lived in Charlotte, I had some ducks.

So I thought I would name my business after all of my favorite ones.

The concept when we first moved on Main Street was to have a clay studio and a place where people can exhibit their work.

We want to wet this down a little bit.

I wanted to teach people so that they knew the idea of what goes into our... Good, Jen, whoo!

To feel how relaxing and tranquil you feel when you are engaging your creativity.

(group laughing) - I love the feel of getting my hands dirty and getting into it, but moreover I really liked the community and all of the encouragement, and everyone's so helpful and friendly, and it's become my second home.

(upbeat music) - All art's represented here, the clay, painting, music.

(upbeat music) And I really enjoy the music part now.

It's a lot of fun.

But I rotate these out and I put other artists in here as well.

And usually they're emerging artists in the area.

And I also have school art in here.

Sometimes I like to have exhibits for the schools so they can see what it's like to have their work in exhibit.

So it's just an opportunity for everyone.

- It's given me a safe space to put myself out there.

I think one of the biggest things as an artist is being perceived by others.

It can be very scary.

And so I think having a place of people who are very supportive and open has been really good, because it's given me kind of the little nudge I've needed to kind of start putting myself out there in a way that's not super intimidating.

- I can't tell you how many times I've made coffees for people time and time again and they never say a word to me, but that last time they open up about everything and it turns out they're an oil painter, or a sculptor, or a photographer, or whatever.

It's something you don't get at a lot of other places.

- I am hearing impaired.

That really did make me not go out in social environments a lot.

I am more open.

I understand it goes back to when I found it hard to be in galleries and stuff like that.

(upbeat music) - Being here is like being among my own people.

I'm not isolated.

People know that I can't hear well, so they will be happy to be repeat it.

I'm never ma made to feel uncomfortable about that.

And I think that's just fabulous.

All the people here tend to encourage others, especially newbies.

Whatever barriers there is, it doesn't impede creativity that I have.

(upbeat music) (group cheering) - It's important to me to be involved with the community, because it just raises more awareness.

- This is a 65 foot long mural that we put in last summer.

The lead on it was Debbie Wisset and it is titled "It's in Our Hands."

The mural is a community outreach and education piece that we did with the help of a bastion of volunteer artists.

And people who aren't artists came out and helped with it.

What we want folks to take away from the mural when they see it and when they interact with it is that our waterways are important.

They're important to all of us.

And we are the stewards of that waterway and we need to be better stewards of it in a lot of ways.

Art is powerful.

It is beautiful.

It's engaging.

It makes you think.

And it can just really be an emotional response for folks that maybe they wouldn't have cared so much about until they saw it and it connected for them.

- Fort Mill needs Olive's Mud Puddle.

There's not enough art in this area.

People are coming by and they're saying, "Oh, a coffee shop."

There's a ceramic studio in the back.

They're surprised.

And then they say, "Oh, can I do this?

"Can I do that?"

And we tell them, "Yes, you can."