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 Algoma Central GP 7 163 $3.99 Time Remaining: 2d 23h 55m |
 Algoma Central SD 40 180 $3.99 Time Remaining: 2d 23h 59m |
 35mm Orig Slide Algoma Central RR Locomotive 187 Hawk Jct Ontario 1975 $0.99 Time Remaining: 3d 25m |
 Rail Road Algoma Central 1 in Collectible Lapel Pin $4.90 Time Remaining: 3d 1h 18m |
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Power in Numbers: MMCA Marketplace Offers Artists a Livelihood Through Online Marketplace
They have no headquarters, which is good for the heating/cooling bill. They have no boss, no timekeeper and no employee handbook. Then again, they have no fixed income. What they do have is group purchasing power in a world market.
They are diverse. A farm wife, a stay-at-home-mom, an arts-gallery owner and several full-time artists are among them. Most have never met face-to-face. Yet many of the members talk daily about issues affecting their business. Given that the art world relies on disposable income, there is much to discuss these days.
“Although not a co-op in the purest sense of the word, MMCA Marketplace offers some of the more important benefits to its members,” explains founder Debbie Overton, a native of Arkansas now living in southeast Georgia. “Members receive large-scale exposure through advertisements otherwise unaffordable for individual artists. Additionally, the Marketplace provides a group forum where its members find camaraderie and support. I feel that membership is more akin to being part of a family-owned store.”
The idea for MMCA Marketplace originated in the work Overton does with another group, MMCA, which she started in 2005 as a virtual community for mixed-media collage artists. It has grown into a forum of ever-changing numbers of member artists who work in multiple mediums. Overton had several goals in mind when she started the MMCA community. The Internet provides artists the opportunity to share collective knowledge, exchange ideas and techniques, and mentor each other. She also wanted to offer what professional artists had given her when she was just stepping into the art market – support.
“When I started working full-time as a professional artist, there were many art peers who graciously shared their knowledge, techniques and even their supplies with me. I wanted to do the same for other talented emerging artists,” Overton notes.
In keeping with this vision, the MMCA Marketplace is implementing a Student Artist venue where students enrolled in an accredited art program will have the opportunity to sell their art, as well as to become part of the MMCA group forum.
Most of the artists in MMCA Marketplace are professionals with records of exhibitions and publications. For example, Cloth, Paper, Scissors—a popular national magazine—featured artist Sue Minier’s work. Residing in New York’s Hudson River Valley, Minier makes landscape collages in fabric and hand-painted floor cloths, as well as table runners and placemats using faux painting and collage techniques. She exhibits in New York and New Jersey, and leads workshops in collage and floor cloths. Primarily self-taught in mixed-media work, she studied graphic design and fine art at several Florida colleges.
Mentoring and networking aside, Overton indicates that the growth from online community to virtual store is an idea she had for some time, primarily through administering the MMCA and realizing how the Internet facilitated 24/7 networking among artists worldwide. “I saw the marketplace idea as a way for professional artists to promote their work to thousands of potential clients around the world. The artists accepted into the MMCA Marketplace agree that the Internet gives them an opportunity to share and sell their work to customers they cannot reach through traditional bricks-and-mortar galleries and show venues. Although many of its members do their own marketing through retail and virtual venues such as websites and blogs, they recognize that their participation in a larger group-marketing effort enables them to reach new audiences.
“I spent more than $400 on a single ad in an upscale, regional monthly magazine,” said Christine Goldbeck of central Pennsylvania. “In addition to that being a small fortune for one artist struggling in a poor economy, that sum only bought me a reach that extended into a single region. When I saw what MMCA Marketplace was offering, I jumped and, thankfully, was accepted.”
Goldbeck, a former business-news editor and newspaper photojournalist, works in traditional arts disciplines and new-media arts. She makes photographs, paintings and stories for canvas, paper and screen. Goldbeck earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing and history, and a Master of Fine Arts-Interdisciplinary Arts (MFA-IA). She owns Arts on Union, a gallery and studio near Harrisburg, in Middletown, PA.
“When I first stumbled onto the original MMCA site,” explains Sue Pieper, “I had been thinking maybe I really could be a professional artist.” Formerly a florist, Pieper is now a full-time artist who works from her home studio in Dyckesville, WI. “The group and its members seemed like a perfect fit and I found that it was. Since I have my art represented by a local gallery (The Flying Pig Gallery & Greenspace in Algoma, WI), I felt it was a good move to also have a professional online shop representing me as well and that’s why I applied to join the MMCA Marketplace.” Pieper designs jewelry, and creates collages and paintings.
Weathering the current economy has not been easy for many people no matter their income or profession, the artists agreed. However, because many consumers see art more as a luxury than a necessity, artists especially are feeling the effects of the downturn.
“Thankfully, we have some power in our numbers,” Overton observes. “Our marketplace will be here and open 24/7, even for folks who may not be in a position to buy right now but still appreciate the opportunity to view quality art by diverse, independent artists.”
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