Summer Entrepreneurial Experiences

Higher Art Galleries Week #1

Thursday, June 1, 2017 11:16 pm

My name is Hana Polizzotto, and I am a co-founder of Higher Art Galleries along with recent Wake Forest graduates Alexandra Dow and Brooke Einbender. In a nutshell, Higher Art Galleries is an online art gallery that showcases and sells student artwork to alumni and parents across the nation. With every piece purchased, a portion of the profit goes back to the student artist and their art department. Brooke, Alexandra, and I launched our company this spring at Wake Forest, but this summer we are putting a majority of our effort into expanding to other universities (primarily in the North).

We are so excited that we are a part of the Summer Fellows Program because the resources from it will help us with our goal to expand! I am already living in NYC working on the company, while Brooke and Alexandra are currently working remotely. However, they will be moving to NYC in the coming weeks, and we cannot wait to be back working together in person!

This week, I spent a lot of time working on our website. Since we are an online art gallery, our website is the core of our business. We have received tons of entries from extremely talented artists, so I have been diligently working on getting their artwork up and available for purchase on our website.

The rest of the week was devoted to launching our GoFundMe. As a startup, we need all the funding we can get. If you are interested in learning more about Higher Art Galleries or want to donate, please check out our GoFundMe here: https://www.gofundme.com/support-higher-arts-growth. Please help us reach our goal and spread the word!

 

 

3 Responses to “Higher Art Galleries Week #1”

  1. Well done on getting the GoFundMe page up. You might want to think about giving away a print as a prize to one of the donors – drawing to be held when goal is reached, or something like that. Just to encourage more donations. In fact you could think of a structure that allows for people’s names to be entered to win for each multiple of $XX dollars, so as to encourage higher donation amounts. e.g. someone donating $50 would get one chance to win but someone donating $100 would get their name entered twice, so two chances to win. Just a thought.

  2. The website looks great Hana! Congrats on the progress you’ve made so far on GoFundMe. Awesome video too! Watching the video made me wonder about the printers you all use – they have to be pretty big!! Do you rent that or already have one, or plan to buy one?

  3. That’s a great idea Professor Black! Ashley, we have decided to outsource our printing/matting (I will talk more about it in week #2 blog post).

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