Ep.002 Starting an Art Business With Chrissy Poitras And Kyle Topping

In this episode I interview artists Kyle Topping and Chrissy Poitras of Picton Ontario about their art practice and about how they started their business Spark Box Studio. Spark Box Studio offers a fully equipped print making studio where artists can rent time on the equipment or attend workshops. They also offer a residency program to allow artists in a variety of mediums the time and space to devote themselves to creative output. They offer regular residency awards to select some artists to come free of cost. In the interview Kyle and Chrissy share how they came up with the idea and got it started and how they made it profitable while building up an arts community. Kyle does his personal work in print and Chrissy is a painter and printmaker. They shared how they finally got back to showing and selling the work that feels true to them after years of churning out work they thought people wanted. And of course I ask them how they manage to do so much! The images throughout this post are of Chrissy and Kyle's work and of the Spark Box Studio property. See Images and my top takeaways from this interview at Spark Box Studio website Chrissy's website Kyle's website

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Ep.002 Starting an Art Business With Chrissy Poitras And Kyle Topping is an episode from Art Pro Podcast by Jessica Watchorn.

This episode is 56:33 long.

This episode was published on Aug 26, 2016.

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