Tuesday, April 11, 2017
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Join this engaging panel to learn how to diversify your product line and income, design eye catching displays and forge good deals and partnerships to increase your creative business profits!
Learn from our panel of successful creatives how they scale up and find successes in their creative businesses.
Our Panelists
Suzanne Akin
Akinz Founder & Designer
Suzanne Akin is the founder and designer of Akinz, a local clothing line featuring hand printed shirts and handmade beanies and accessories. Akinz experienced a diverse start as it started as a side project with a grassroots growth and little to no outside funding. Akinz now has a home in Old Town Fort Collins in the flagship store where Suzanne and her staff make the majority of their product line right in the back of the shop. Akin is now setting her sights on expansion outside of Fort Collins via wholesale and e-commerce.
Trimblle Court Artisians Coop, President
Findley Pottery & Fine Art, Owner & Operator
Diane Findley: A 1976 graduate of Colorado State University and reining president of Trimble Court Artisans cooperative for decades, Diane is a longstanding presence in the Fort Collins art community. She takes pride in her numerous transformer cabinet mural projects about town. Besides painting like a wild thing and maintaining a studio pottery, Diane's creative interests include music and dancing.
Chris Bates
Mighty Fine Art, owner
local muralist, pen and ink artist
Chris Bates is a Fort Collins native that has worked as a professional artist for the past 8 years. He has completed over 30 murals in Northern Colorado. He stays active in the community by teaching mural workshops to grade school students, working at two local galleries and sitting on numerous boards, the latest being the Downtown Plan. He feels strongly that good communication, collaboration and accountability has led to his success as an artist and aims to share his passion and skills with everyone that he encounters.
Logistics
Location: This event is at the Community Creative Center
200 Matthews St
Fort Collins, CO 80524
