(Photo by Catherine Sasso)

OXFORD – Owners of Gallery Three-Two-One, an art gallery and shop home to 75 different artists work, are getting ready to hand it down to the next generation of artists.

Co-Owners Bill and Diane Troxell are preparing to pass down the pottery and art studio business to their daughter and her husband, Sarah and Ron Smith.

Bill Troxell started the business when he first opened Strong Stone Pottery, which he ran out of the sub-level of a barn.

“All that was left of this divided land was a dilapidated barn and six acres of land. So I decided I would buy it, not really knowing what I was getting myself into,” said Troxell.

After spending years traveling to trade shows up and down the east coast, The Troxell's decided to open a small store front to sell their pottery out of. This eventually expanded to the barn upstairs which is now Gallery 321.

“The gallery used to be where we'd ride our bikes and play hide and seek. We'd have Halloween parties and birthdays parties up there, it used to just be an open barn,” said Sarah.

Sarah explains that her parents opened the gallery to have a second form of income in case the trade show market stopped.