ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Morean Art Center is hosting the Art Yard Sale this Saturday, Sept. 14, at 9 a.m., where nothing is over $100.

“Before I was even born, my mom wanted to raise an artist,” said Erica Bleu, smiling as she looked down at her pottery wheel.

Bleu is in the middle of a two-year Artist in Residence program at the Morean Center.

She uses her hand-thrown vessels as her canvas. All this started thanks to her artist parents—especially her mom.

“We’re Native American, so she’d sell her bead work. And so, all I knew was art growing up,” said Bleu.

She is one of about 20 artists the Morean Center invited, adding their treasure troves to the organization’s annual yard sale. In addition to her ceramic earrings decorated with bone sketches, Bleu’s currently working on shadow frames for her work.

“I do a lot of insect imagery,” said Bleau.

Once dried, she fires and glazes the frames. And she’s not alone in her work.

“So I raise a lot of tarantulas,” Bleu said, holding a baby named Tobey Maguire.

He hangs out in her art space, along with friends Webony and Sprinkles.

“I find spiders and other bugs very inspiring,” said Bleu. “I look to their behaviors and how they mirror our own. I love having them around. They’re very comforting to me, at least.”