Ventures Marketplace at Pike Place Market - Helping Beginning Artists to Become Entrepreneurs

Of all the places we visited in Seattle, the one place we spent the most time and enjoyed the most was the Pike Place Market Centre.


There were many things to see and lots of shops to visit.

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We recently visited the Ventures Marketplace at Pike Place Market.

Among the numerous stores we visited at Pike Place Market, Marketplace stood out the most for me.









The goal of the Ventures store is to " empower individuals with limited resources and unlimited potential to improve their lives through small business ownership."

Ventures Marketplace, Pike Place Market, Seattle

  The Ventures Marketplace is a modern, clean and hip store. We enjoyed looking at all the mechanize displayed throughout the shop. The items displayed  in the store were not only beautiful, but original, unique and practical.

Decorative signs made out of recycled colourful paper at Ventrues Marketplace

For instance, these beautiful signs in the store were made by a local artist who collected different types of used paper of various colour. These paper were rolled up and arranged together to form the background for the creative inspirational 1 word messages to be displayed in homes or offices.

What a great way to recycle used paper, books and magazines!

The artist's self introduction displayed at the Ventures Marketplace 

Another aspect of the Ventures Marketplace I found unique and touching was the self introduction written by the artists being displayed in the stores.

Very often we buy things without knowing one iota about the people or country who produce them.

But at Ventures Marketplace, I felt a sense of personal connection with the artists whose creative items I was admiring and might consider having some of them displayed in my house.






















Ventures Marketplace at Pike Place is an awesome store providing opportunities to local artists with limited resources to sell their creative work.

I was glad that we visited the store, I even gave a suggestion to the storekeeper for a souvenir plate made by a local artist. The store keeper assured me that she would relate my suggestion to the artist.

We plan to visit Seattle in the fall again and hope that I would be able to find the item to which I gave a suggestion for improvement in the Ventures Marketplace Store.


R.T.
Ventures Marketplaces Store
Pike Place Market
Seattle, USA