Adults learning to paint can lubricate creativity with alcoholic beverages at a new Clarkston art studio.
To give classes and workshops a party-like atmosphere, the aptly named Picasso’s Grapevine lets attendees bring wine, Natalie Broda writes at Crain's.
Leanna Haun opened the business in June after 20 years as a corporate controller; she explains the business as one part wine, one part paint and one part entertainment.
The Oakland shop's slogan is "Everything's more fun with wine!"
And who knows -- this new type of DUI (drawing under the influence) could produce impressively uninhibited works . . . or an art studio version of writing that seems profound when stoned and bewildering the morning after.
-- Alan Stamm
