The Studio

A studio built to make independent artists viable.

A Kind of Majik was started by Juan and Tina on a simple observation: the hardest part of selling handmade work is almost never the work.

Four people who are very good at what they make can each spend years stuck at the same wall. Nobody can photograph their own work well enough to sell it. Nobody wants to build a storefront. Nobody has time to market on top of a full time job and a family. The craft is ready long before the business around it is.

Majik exists to carry that part. Each one is an artist in their own lane, in their own craft. They keep their own name, their own work and their own customers. The studio supplies the three things none of them could get alone.

What the studio provides

Three things, and they are the hard three.

Photography

Every piece, every order and every event is photographed properly. Handmade work does not sell from a phone snapshot on a kitchen counter.

A place to sell

A storefront, an order path and a way to take a deposit, so an artist can say yes to a customer without building a website first.

Reach and coordination

Marketing that puts the work in front of buyers, and the scheduling that keeps a multi artist event on time.

The model

Modular by design, and honest about stages.

A lane plugs in when an artist is ready and pulls out when they outgrow it. That is the point. An artist who builds enough of a customer base to stand alone is supposed to graduate, not be held.

Chocolate: Taking orders today. Chocolate confections now, pastries and baked goods later.
Art & Prints: Booking corporate events, working the fair circuit, selling prints.
Custom Metal: Taking a small number of design and build commissions a year.
Photography: Building a print catalog, and open to candid documentary coverage.

For artists

Make something people should be buying?

Majik takes on a small number of new artists a year. If you build, bake, print, weld or shoot something good and the business side is what is stopping you, tell us what you make.

Photo: an artist at work