Q Artists Cooperative
We are an artist-owned, producers cooperative business drawing our membership from Wisconsin, most from the Central Wisconsin area.
Our members are all working artists who pay dues to cover expenses, work gallery hours, serve on committees, and actively participate in the running of the business. Artists become members through an application and the jury process ensuring a wide variety of artistic styles and mediums.
Producers cooperative
Producers cooperatives are owned and democratically controlled by their members. In the case of an artists’ cooperative, it is owned and controlled by those who produce art, not by investors or by a local nonprofit. Cooperatives elect their Board of Directors from within membership.
Cooperatives are motivated not by profit, but by service – to meet their members’ needs for marketing fine art while educating the wider community about art. Any surplus revenues from the co-op are returned to individual members who agree to pay personal taxes on that income. By banding together, producers co-ops leverage greater bargaining power with buyers. They may also combine resources to more effectively market and brand their artwork, improving the incomes of their members.
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