Our story
Building the studio
Crystal Worthy Art didn’t start as a storefront — it started at Crystal’s home, making how-to videos late into the night while her family slept. From there it grew into a small rented space in the historic district, and finally to buying the house on the main strip of historic Wentzville. Here’s how it came to be.
It began with a dream — and a paintbrush
In 2022, Crystal followed a lifelong love of art and became a Certified Bob Ross Oil Painting Instructor. She opened a first small studio on East Allen Street, and something clicked right away: people walked in nervous and walked out beaming, holding a finished painting they never believed they could make. Wine-glass nights, blacklight classes, packed group sessions — that little room filled up fast, and it was clear this needed a real home of its own.
We bought a house on Main Street
To give the studio a real home, we bought a house right on the busy main strip of Wentzville's historic district — the heart of Old Town, where the community already gathers. It wasn't a studio yet. It was a house at 212 W. Pearce, with an attached garage, good bones, and a vision for what it could become.
We built it with our own hands — and a lot of help
Then came the work. We did a great deal of it ourselves — but we didn’t do it alone. With family and friends pitching in, and wonderful contractors handling the electrical, plumbing, concrete, and framing, we gutted the garage down to the old brick, poured new footings, reframed walls and a roofline, wrapped it, and set the big black storefront doors. Inside, we framed the rooms, built the staircase and the display niches, hung drywall, painted the teal ceiling, set the tile, and rolled the splatter floor as a family. Kids with paintbrushes, long nights, brick dust everywhere. Photo by photo, a garage turned into a studio. (If you ever need a recommendation for any of the trades that helped us, just ask — we’re glad to share.)
“We didn’t just open a studio — we built one, on a street we love, for a cause that matters.”
Art with a worthy cause
The name says it: Crystal Worthy Art. From the start, the mission was to give back — proceeds from Crystal's own original paintings go to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, so no family ever receives a bill for treatment, travel, housing, or food. Making art and doing good were always meant to go together here.
Today — a place to gather and create
Now the studio is open and full of life — Bob Ross oil classes, wine-glass nights, chunky-blanket sessions, paint parties, and Open Studio Fridays. First-timers become regulars, strangers become friends, and the walls fill with new work every week. The house became a studio. The studio became a little community. And with the café coming next door, we're just getting started.
Come be part of it
The next chapter is you.
Every class fills these walls with new faces and new work. Create a keeper of your own — and become part of the story.