Countryside Arts has been providing art classes, private lessons, and artist workshops to friends and neighbors for more than five years now. The Countryside Arts Gallery, which had been located in downtown Scandia, was a showplace for several local artists and craftsmen. But after five years, Ken and Mary Jo Milbrandt have moved their art gallery Home.

The Milbrandts have spent the last few months in finishing a brand new base of operations on their picturesque ten-acre farm on Scandia Trail (Highway 97). The new location offers more scope for artistic inspiration--spring bulbs, rose gardens, wildflowers, lilac bushes, songbirds, fruit trees, flowering vines, stands of ferns, grape arbors, vegetable gardens, and a cedar grove.