Art & Commerce, A Love Story...

by Shawn Vinson

DIFFERENT TRAINS GALLERY Partner/Director

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art.
When artists get together for dinner,
they discuss Money.
- Oscar Wilde

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Earlier this year at the opening of the Decatur Art Festival Fine Arts Exhibition at Agnes Scott College's Dalton Gallery, I was introduced to a charming local banker from Cornerstone Bank. I didn't realize that we still had any community banks left and it was nice to meet Jamie Ensley. When he learned that I had just opened DIFFERENT TRAINS GALLERY his eyes lit up!

Do you want to open another gallery in our bank? he asked.

Turns out that Jamie and his team were just discussing the best use of some extra space they had at their Decatur office. Ideas were floated: a community room? a wi-fi cafe? 

Jamie, who was once the chair of the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, had another idea: ​
What about an art gallery?

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