Sneaky romantics

One way to handle gifting your valentine this year would be to swing by the Artists’ Collaborative Gallery early on Second Saturday for a date night—conveniently just a few days before February 14. Scout out which painting, photograph, piece of jewelry or blown glass blows their mind, and sneakily purchase it when they aren’t looking. It’ll be as romantic as the couple in fiber artist Louise Schiele’s “Missouri Moon Light: Russ and Reba.” In the vintage photograph printed on cotton, a young man in yellow trunks sits in a sea of blue stitching, sweetly bending over and embracing a young, red-bathing-suit-clad woman, who grins wide and looks right at the viewer. See Schiele’s piece along with work by Kristi Taylor, Andrea Simeral-Boyer, Grant Kreinberg and Marcie Bombola in Love is in the Air through February 28.