About Us
Artist’s Alley is a website designed for the creative souls that bring us handmade items which celebrate our love of all things fan-dom and beyond!Â
An Artist’s Alley is traditionally an area in an event or convention (like a comic con or anime con) dedicated to local artists, allowing them to sell their handmade items and art to con-goers. In this spirit, Artist’s Alley creates a space for these artists to come together to offer the awesome range of creative and ingenious handmade items that one can only find in an Artist’s Alley!
As the founders of Artist’s Alley, we’re artists ourselves! We loved turning our skills in art and sewing into a hobby-hustle. We were always making this or that for a cosplay or festival, and we found ourselves selling everything from crafted bracelets to full period-specific outfits. But…..
Most sites charge to post, or take a piece of the commission, or both. Some required us to agree to use their specific payment processing, from which they took a profit, as well. When you’re making a bracelet that you want to sell for $5, that doesn’t leave much space for actual profit. So the choice is to charge more or just make less per item. A few years ago, one of the biggest sites for handmade items rewrote their meaning, allowing in many manufacturers. Who can compete with items created for pennies by underpaid workers? Many creative souls just simply stopped creating. The whole situation was breaking our artist hearts. So….Â
We put together Artist’s Alley to offer a space where artists can come together in a community and marketplace that fosters handmade fandom item sales exclusively. Â
- No commissions charged, Ever
- Hobbyists can post and sell items for free
- Monthly subscriptions allow artists to create followings, share their calendar, attend Artist’s Alley events, and more!   Â
We’re proud of what we’ve put together, and of the community of artists behind it! Thanks for checking us out, and as always- keep creating!Â
Artist’s Alley- for artists, by artists!
WHO ARE WE, REALLY?
We’ve gotten a few emails. We’ve seen a few postings. We know there are rumors out there. Our favorite is that we’re actually owned by Amazon. LOL We are privately owned by 2 people.
We’re a mom and daughter team, living in a small town with 2 dogs and 5 cats (and some other humans that mean a lot to us, too!). We really did start this because we just got tired of being the smallest voice in a really large market. We put this idea together over many, many reruns of LOTR, Supernatural, and Spiderman- to name just a few. We used sticky notes on a wall and sketches on the back of envelopes. Planning it and breathing life into this project has been a labor of love.
We like our privacy, as you can imagine, so we’ll let you know that both of us have degrees, one of us survived lymphoma, one retired from teaching, and one of us assembled an army of bee-watchers to help MSU count squash bees. We’ve been attending cons for 15+ years, and have created many cosplays! Welcome to our site- built for you, the artist!
The Artists that helped make the site art
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