Based in Superior, Wisconsin, Dissociated Arts Studio works hard to keep creativity thriving in the Twin Ports.

Self declared Head Muse Calliope Kilpelainen runs dissociated and is very crafty with almost every art medium. She travels to spaces in the Twin ports to teach different art classes including one of her more recent classes, glass etching.

This was a class Calliope brought to Duluth’s Best Bread in Superior and she says that even the workers were interested in hoping in on the lesson.

Glass Etching is a practice where you sick a stencil on a piece of glass and and use an acidic past to eat the outer layer in the shape of the stencil.

Through Dissociated, Calliope is able to reinvigorate the creativity in everyone that takes her class.

“Our area is actually insanely blessed with creativity. I don’t know if it’s the lake or what, but we are insanely blessed with creativity up here. I just feel in a way as a creative person, a duty to try to help other people with their creativity and kind of enhance their skills,” says Calliope.