Market Your Art

Expanding the market for artists and artisans in Eastern Ontario

Background

Paul Portelli ran a series of eight Market Readiness workshops that took place in communities across Eastern Ontario in October and November 2008; providing an opportunity for 24 Eastern Ontario artists and artisans to show and sell their work in a special Eastern Ontario Artists Marketplace at the 2009 Spring One of a Kind Show at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto; and, bringing attention to Eastern Ontario as vibrant area for the production of art and craft and to rural Eastern Ontario communities as art destinations.

The funding was provided for this project through the Regional Fund of FedNor's Eastern Ontario Development Program (EODP). The EODP promotes socio-economic development in Eastern Ontario by creating, building and developing the necessary conditions to increase business and employment opportunities in the region.