“The business climate has changed. Sales since 2008 have been very gradually declining, yet our events were really popular,” Monica Wilson says. She’s explaining why the Clay Gallery, an eighteen-member cooperative of ceramic artists of which she’s currently president, will be closing its Main Street shop at the end of August. The thirty-year-old group will launch its new and improved online gallery in June.

Wilson says Clay Gallery will come to physical life several times a year in pop-up events. They haven’t settled on a venue yet–she envisions a bar, with music. The gallery’s last in-store event will be August 1, but don’t expect to see big markdowns, says Wilson: “It’s not a closeout sale. We’re not going out of business.”

Opening in its place in September will be the Pangborn Collection: “gifts, home decor, and fashion accessories including jewelry,” made or chosen by Detroit artist/designer Dominic Pangborn. Landlord Jim Curtis of Curtis Commercial says they’re “extremely excited” to have landed Pangborn. “It’s like Selo/Shevel on steroids,” he says.