Corinne and her team have sold the works of more than 100 artists, including relief sculptor Bill Mack, fusion artist Max Gold, sculptor Mark Hopkins and painters JC Pino, Andrei Protsouk, David Schluss and Natasha Barnes. In addition to Pino, Corinne has close friendships with a handful of the artists she works with. JC Pino (no relation to Italian artist Pino) painted a portrait of Corinne, "MS Madonna," and the original is displayed in the gallery. And a few of the artists make sure to donate their number 111 giclee to Corinne, because Jan. 1 is the date Corinne and Stacy were married.

"A unique thing that we do, we don't hold a pan out to say please come to our society," said Judy Smith, president of the DMSF board. "Our donations are all from the sale of art work."

Recently, the gallery received a large donation of 1,000 pieces from art distributor Slaymaker, which included paintings from hundreds of artists.

"If we had the funds to frame these up, they would fly out," Corinne said, sorting through the pile of unframed art. "We're slowly framing them up. It's practically like this gift was so gorgeous and so beautiful, but we can't afford to frame them to show the public."

In addition to the money for framing, there's also the space problem. Although the 1,400-square-foot building has plenty of wall space, the foundation is constantly getting donations and 25 percent of the art work must be displayed in a showroom at her home.

"There's just not enough room," she said.

About half of the staff at the gallery are paid employees while the other half are volunteers, many of whom have been affected by MS.

"I just wanted to be a part of this big ball of goodness," said volunteer Debbie Richardson. "I remembered reading the story and I thought that it was the most amazing thing that she would donate that art to MS. I was in awe of that."

Although Richardson spends a lot of her time working with a daughter with Down syndrome, she said she feels it's important to volunteer at the gallery twice a week.

"When you're in the world of disabilities, it's all one big family," she said.

Helping patients

More than 40 percent of the profits earned at the gallery go to DMSF and the gallery has so far made $200,000 for the foundation. Teamed up with the National Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, DMSF works under their guidelines to help MS patients.

"It's really neat to be able to help the different people with MS," said Stacy, who co-directs the foundation with Corinne. "It's just been a really positive experience from all of the customers and all of the people that have helped make it a reality."