Saper Galleries has been in East Lansing since 1978 and, after a recent renovation, continues to have a strong presence in the Capital region art community.
According to excerpts from the article:
Walking into Saper Galleries, at 433 Albert Ave. in East Lansing, you realize that all your preconceived notions about art galleries are untrue.
Roy Saper first opened the gallery in 1978 in his home on Bailey Street in East Lansing and saw customers by appointment only. The gallery was the culmination of Saper’s dream to “buy artwork and share it with people.” In 1985, things started to get too big for his home, so he looked for a new location.
“We looked all over the area: Lansing, East Lansing, Okemos,” he said. “Then we found this junky, vacant lot. So I designed our building, and we moved in May of 1986, a week after my son was born.”
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