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Artist\u2019s 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!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n An Artist\u2019s 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.\u00a0 In this spirit, Artist\u2019s 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\u2019s Alley!<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”%224_4%22″ _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”%22default%22″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” module_alignment=”center” min_height=”%221499.1px%22″ custom_margin=”||||false|%22″ custom_padding=”||||false|%22″ global_colors_info=”%22{}%22″][et_pb_column type=”%224_4%22″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”%22default%22″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”%22{}%22″ custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/About_Us_Duo.png” title_text=”About_Us_Duo” align=”%22center%22″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”%22default%22″ module_alignment=”%22center%22″ custom_margin=”||||false|false%22″ custom_padding=”||||false|false%22″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”left” animation_duration=”500ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” global_colors_info=”%22{}%22″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”19px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n As the founders of Artist\u2019s Alley, we\u2019re 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\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n Most sites charge to post, or take a piece of the commission, or both.\u00a0 Some required us to agree to use their specific payment processing, from which they took a profit, as well.\u00a0 When you\u2019re making a bracelet that you want to sell for $5, that doesn\u2019t 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.\u00a0 Who can compete with items created for pennies by underpaid workers?\u00a0 Many creative souls just simply stopped creating.\u00a0 The whole situation was breaking our artist hearts. So\u2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We put together Artist\u2019s Alley to offer a space where artists can come together in a community and marketplace that fosters handmade fandom item sales exclusively.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re proud of what we\u2019ve put together, and of the community of artists behind it! Thanks for checking us out, and as always- keep creating!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Artist\u2019s Alley- for artists, by artists!<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”%224_4%22″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”%22default%22″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” min_height=”%22477.4px%22″ custom_margin=”%22|auto|-8px|auto||%22″ custom_padding=”%22242px||370px|||%22″ global_colors_info=”%22{}%22″][et_pb_column type=”%224_4%22″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”%22default%22″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”%22{}%22″ custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230114_161615-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20230114_161615″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”%22default%22″ width=”45%” max_width=”46%” module_alignment=”center” height=”236px” max_height=”%22236px%22″ custom_margin=”%22-36px|||||%22″ custom_padding=”%22||8px|||%22″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”left” animation_duration=”500ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” global_colors_info=”%22{}%22″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”19px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n RE WE, REALLY?<\/p>\n We’ve gotten a few emails. We’ve seen a few postings. We know there are rumors out there.\u00a0 Our favorite is that we’re actually owned by Amazon.\u00a0 LOL\u00a0 We are privately owned by 2 people.<\/p>\n 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!).\u00a0 We really did start this because we just got tired of being the smallest voice in a really large market.\u00a0 We put this idea together over many, many reruns of LOTR, Supernatural, and Spiderman- to name just a few.\u00a0 We used sticky notes on a wall and sketches on the back of envelopes.\u00a0 Planning it and breathing life into this project has been a labor of love.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 We’ve been attending cons for 15+ years, and have created many cosplays!\u00a0 Welcome to our site- built for you, the artist!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About UsArtist\u2019s 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!\u00a0 An Artist\u2019s Alley is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7523\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsalley.net\/demo\/staging\/8985\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n