Name/Title
Reimagining Our Holiday Artist MarketDescription
Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College
Traverse City, MI
Although 2020 is far from over, the Dennos Museum Center staff has been hard at work innovating the way we “educate, entertain, and enlighten.” While many of our museum programs have certainly been a challenge to transition to virtual and modified formats, perhaps no other program has required more radical reimagining than the longstanding holiday art sale.
“What we’ve come up with is a MINI 2020 version of the Holiday Artist Market,” said Nicole Zeiler, Museum Store Manager. “Artists will have a small display of their works that will be open over an extended time period following Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve and restocked by museum staff as needed. Limiting the size will allow us to display selected artists in an area that encourages social distancing.”
Thanks to generous financial support from Art Bridges, The Dennos Museum Store recently launched a completely redesigned website with the option for curbside pickup, providing customers a more comfortable and convenient shopping experience from home. “We hope to preserve the feel of meeting and interacting with artists by giving customers a peek into the studio or a glimpse at how art is made. This is as new for us as it may be for our visitors, and it offers fun and creative routes to welcome as many customers as we can,” said Zeiler.
The new online store can be viewed at shop.dennosmuseum.org
