Local artist competes for small business development grant

REINBECK - One local artist, Julie Russell-Steuart of Caveworks Press & Studios in Reinbeck, is currently competing in the Dream Big Grow Here contest, a small business development competition in which winners are awarded $5,000 to grow their dream business. For Russell-Steuart, the dream is to move her printmaking business out of her home-shop and into her very own storefront.
Russell-Steuart, a graduate from Maryland Institute College of Art, was always interested in painting and drawing, but it wasn't until her internship after school that she was introduced to printmaking.
“I fell in love with this process,” she said. “But it wasn't until a long time later that I had the opportunity to buy a printing press - it kind of just fell in my lap.”
To hear more about Russell-Steuart's dream of getting her own storefront, read the full story in the March 17 edition of The Grundy Register!