EXCLUSIVE: Chris Sorenson Studio closing, artists must leave by Monday

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Artists moving and selling astatine the Chris Sorenson Art Studio person been told to stitchery their belongings and vacate the abstraction by Monday.

Katherine De Soto has been showing her creation astatine the workplace for astir the past 4 years.

"It was lone a substance of clip earlier things did hap due to the fact that of however things person been managed. So, it sucks that it's happening now," Soto said.

Now- she's focused connected moving her belongings.

"I person a batch of a assemblage successful Fresno. A batch of potters successful Fresno who I cognize volition beryllium blessed to instrumentality immoderate worldly that I person that I don't needfully need, truthful it's conscionable a substance of uncovering abstraction for everything," Soto said.

She believes the artists determination volition beryllium capable to bounce backmost due to the fact that of the beardown assemblage Chris Sorenson built.

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Sorenson was known arsenic the antheral of alloy who created creation successful the Central Valley for decades.

He owned an creation workplace adjacent the celebrated Fresno motion connected Van Ness. The abstraction is astir 40,000 quadrate feet and houses astir 60 section artists.

"Chris Sorenson would beryllium devastated implicit what has happened successful the past 3 days," Karen Clark said.

Clark has been visiting the workplace for the past 25 years. On Sunday, she was helping a friend, who's an artist, determination their worldly retired of the workplace space.

She says she's heartbroken implicit the assemblage of artists won't person a abstraction to telephone home.

"Just from my perspective, it was a cleanable storm, unfortunately. There were galore factors progressive successful this," Clark said.

She adds, the workplace is unsocial and says artists she's spoken with are unsure of wherever to spell next. But she's inactive hopeful.

"What I anticipation to spot hap is that we are capable to support this abstraction somehow. That the artists tin travel backmost erstwhile the issues are resolved," Clark said.

We did scope retired to the existent proprietor of the creation assemblage but our messages went unanswered.

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