Businesses Invited to Participate in Local Gift Guides
Downtown Marquette businesses have the opportunity to be featured in two local gift guides this holiday season: a Downtown Marquette Holiday Gift Guide and Handcrafted Holidays: Local Art Gift Guide. Please see details below for each opportunity.
Downtown Marquette Holiday Gift Guide
Feature A Signature Item From Your Business This Holiday Season!
Here’s an opportunity for your business to showcase a new and exciting item this holiday season. The Marquette DDA will be promoting an online Downtown Marquette Holiday Gift Guide throughout the 2020 holiday shopping season. Each Downtown Marquette business who completes the below form will have their Item and business highlighted on our website and on our social media channels. This is a great opportunity to get people excited about shopping at your business for Small Business Saturday on November 28 and all through the 2020 holiday season. This information will be published on Monday, November 23. Be sure to submit your information by November 20 to be included in the initial publication.
You can also access this information on the MDDA website.
For more information, contact Tara Laase-McKinney, Marquette DDA Events and Promotions Coordinator at tara@downtownmarquette.org or (906) 228-9475.
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CALL TO ARTISTS - HANDCRAFTED HOLIDAYS: LOCAL ART GIFT GUIDE
The City of Marquette Arts & Culture Division invites independent artists residing in Marquette County to submit their online selling information and photos of their work to be included in a holiday gift directory, “Handcrafted Holidays”, for no cost. The Handcrafted Holidays guide serves as a free platform that offers low investment-high return advertising to our local artists and acts as a single source for online shoppers who want handmade gifts, high quality art, and to support their local economy. Due to COVID-19, summer art festivals and holiday craft shows were cancelled. This stunted opportunities for both buyers and sellers, yet the demand for locally crafted goods remains high. This online guide will help bridge the gap left by the loss of in-person interaction this holiday season. The guide is open to all art forms, including fine art, music, literary art, lessons, and anything else that may offer a product/service for purchase. Please note that this guide is solely an advertising resource and artists are responsible for their own selling platform and products. Artist submissions will be compiled and shared the first week of December via an interactive pdf that will be widely advertised, shared by local artist groups, and made freely available to the public. Artist applications should be emailed to apruiett@marquettemi.com. Full project and submission details are available at https://www.marquettemi.gov/departments/community-services/arts-and-culture/ and on the City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center Facebook page. Do not wait to apply! The hard deadline for applications is December 1, 2020 by 5: 00 pm.
For More Information: Amelia Pruiett, City of Marquette Arts & Culture Center / (906) 225-4020
