Closing Physical Doors. Opening Virtual Ones.

After almost three years of kick ass service Laity will be closing its physical doors at the end of January. The economy sucks and pretty much nothing we could have done short of robbing a bank would have saved us. The landlord even dropped the rent a thousand bucks but it was too little too late. I fear they may lose the building altogether because of latent greed and ignorance of the market.

There is a silver lining. Although the Institute will not have a physical location (for now) and the management of it has now been taken over by the Arts Foundation, it will have a virtual presence. 98% of all of our student have been placed and the real cool thing about it, is they have been placed with their Laity instructors! They've all decided to teach privately in their homes or at pre-arranged locations. Cool thing is they're still connected to the Institute.

Laity will now place incoming clients with our highly qualified teachers at their own base of operations. This essentially wipes out Laity's overhead and still allows us to provide outstanding artistic instruction to parent or individuals seeking a high level of art instruction. Further, we are reaching out to other qualified free-lance teachers to work through the non-profit arm of Laity which will entitle them to access to grants and other benefits they would not be able to get on their own. We now begin building an association of highly experienced, highly qualified teachers through one source, thereby taking the guesswork out for the parents in finding legitimate teachers for their children.

Yes, we're sad to see our physical space go, but we are now free to explore new possibilities in networking and collaborating that will afford Laity a greater reach and the ability to serve more people. Yeah, the economy sucks! So what, the arts still rock! so with that said.

"Welcome to the Laity Institute of the Arts, your virtual Arts Institute!"