We wanted to make sure that the artists made money: Colorado Springs business owners work to create accessible art market [Video]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – A local business is working to make art markets more accessible to artists by reducing fees. Co-owners of Cronk Art & Curiosities Andrew Cronk and Chris Dantzler have created the Moon Market, a monthly marketplace that holds space for artists and vendors of all kinds.

Andrew Conk said, “we made sure that our prices were low to the point where we can still pay the venue, we can still pay for marketing but the artist isn’t being ran through the ground with money.”

According to the Co-owners profits are not their priority, instead they want artists to be able to make money from their craft.

“The way we’ve designed the pricing for the vendors at the Moon Markets is the least amount of overhead of cost for them and the least amount of extra cash for us so that we’re not really profiting,” said Chris …