Two Inverness women will open a new antique shop and art gallery in the shingled house at the corner of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Inverness Way North, aptly named “Artiquity,” on Saturday, May 27. Kim Ford Kitz and Heather Mickley have spent years treasure hunting through North Bay estate and garage sales and have dreams of breathing life into downtown. With the new space, they say they are embarking on a project that has more potential than they ever imagined. “After the pandemic, we felt this weight of the world,” Ms. Kitz said. “We needed something to brighten up our lives and share what we have, and it’s become so much more than we had hoped for. There’s so much potential to have both of our skill sets and palettes emerge. But it’s not just a platform for our own work or our own collections, but for others to show their work.” Though the women have known each other for just a year and a half, their shared love of collecting vintage pieces dates to their childhoods. “Who doesn’t love vintage things?” Ms. Mickley asked. “Both of us spent a lot of time hunting at yard sales during the pandemic because that’s all we really could do at the time.” Their collections are eclectic in origin and style, but the space reflects an “Inverness vibe,” as they put it. At $60, a strand of sand-worn, jade-colored glass beads the size of quarters drapes over the corner of a vintage tray holding a miniature scene of ceramic figures. A pair of nautical brass binoculars ($30) sits next to a selenite crystal and a stick of palo santo wrapped in twine and gold wire. Ms. Mickley works as the marketing and exhibition associate at the Bolinas Museum and shoots landscape photography as a hobby. She has collected Japanese ceramics and vintage trinkets for decades and has built a respectable profile as a curator of art shows in San Francisco and Marin. Ms. Kitz collects rustic pieces and folk art, and her landscape oil paintings will decorate the gallery for the shop’s grand opening. The art will be swapped out routinely to highlight coastal Marin artists, curated seasonally to reflect the weather, Ms. Mickley said. Local vendors will be invited to consign items. Ms. Kitz, who has shown her art from the Sausalito Art Festival to the de Young Museum, has painted out of a small studio behind Saltwater for the past few years. She now paints in a back room of Artiquity that’s crowded with buckets of brushes, canvas and paints. An easel sitting in the far corner this week held her latest work: a five-by-four-foot painting of San Francisco’s sweeping hills seen from Coit Tower. Beside the painting, the view out of a small window was divided perfectly into fourths: the marshlands, the bay, the hills and the sky. The women say they are crafting plans for the garage to double as an event space for art talks, acoustic shows and movie nights to enliven downtown Inverness. “The space is so expansive and we have all these ideas to bring people into town,” Ms. Mickley said. “The patio is a great space for drinks and chess games. It’ll be great to think of what this looks like six months from now.” Artiquity is located at 2 Inverness Way North. An opening reception with music and beverages takes place from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 27. For more information on consigning items, go to https://artiquitygallery.com/.