Cape Cod Times Interviews Gallery Owner Marla Rice

Check out the Cape Cod Times interview with Rice Polak Gallery owner Marla Rice: “State of the art in Provincetown: Rice Polak Gallery committed to collaboration, exploration.” The article captures Marla’s compelling story of building Rice Polak into the beautiful contemporary art gallery that it is today. Here is an excerpt from the article:

“The journey to Provincetown was not one owner Marla Rice ever imagined. Rice, who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended college upstate, hitchhiked to Cape Cod with a friend about 30 years ago and never left.

Rice first supported herself by wood-turning and sold plates, bowls and table lamps that she made. A group of friends created a cooperative gallery where she began to promote and sell art.

She began to get more involved in the business of the gallery, and along with her former partner, Richard Polak, opened the gallery she runs today.

“It was really happenstance,” Rice said, noting she never set out to build a gallery and didn’t have an an arts education. “I had boots on the ground, and I learned and I grew and I got better, and before I knew it I had one of the most beautiful galleries in the world.”