Having "agency" will allow creatives to realize the possibilities of what once was a side hustle into a viable and sustainable source of income. Making Agency will also be an excellent resource for fine art, graphic design, and other creative majors that have honed their craft academically but now need to apply it professionally.

What are the Benefits of Making Agency?

What makes MAKING AGENCY unique is the focus on the development of the individual that allows them to craft their career destiny. Ophelia’s Making Agency picks up where other programs leave off, providing one-on-one support for success.

Making Agency is a tiered packaged offering based on individual goals with a personalized touch. The packages are designed to help all artists and makers achieve their self-defined career goals professionally and sustainably. They accomplish this through education and training that addresses their internal practices, external business relationships, and essential business management.

The program works for the established artist looking to grow their market or find new applications for their work, as well as the recent fine art graduate who needs to develop a business approach as part of their creative regimen.

Benefits

• Development that is designed to meet your goals at your pace
• Connections to grant opportunities
• Professional development solutions that create efficiency and allow more time to
• Practice your craft
• Preparedness to be able to take advantage of project opportunities as they arise
• Create tools and formulas for self-sufficiency

Recognition
of the Need

In the new post-pandemic economy, small, minority, and creative businesses must be adequately prepared to succeed. As a result, more and more small companies will need tools and resources to establish and conduct what used to be their “side hustle” into a professionally run and executed business. ​

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Agency is the capacity to act independently, to take responsibility for your life or as an individual, and to determine and make meaning from your environment through purposeful, conscious, reflective, and creative action.

The Need Exists

Why the Name "Making Agency"?

Making Agency is an organization that
provides services that combine creativity,
culture and career development into a viable
business professionals and serves as an
economic driver to the downtown area.
   Making Agency is designed to develop the individual as they grow their career through skills beyond their craft.
   Making is the process of creating or
producing, especially with your hands.
   “Agency” represents the capacity to act
independently, to take responsibility for their
life or as an individual, and to determine and make meaning from their environment through purposeful consciousness, reflective
and creative action.
   Having “agency” will allow creatives to
realize the possibilities of what once was a side hustle into a viable and sustainable source of income.

Making is the process of making or producing something as a business or organization established to provide a particular service, typically one that involves organizing transactions between two other parties.
 
Agency because when a person has agency, it represents the capacity to act independently, to take responsibility for their life or as an individual, and to determine and make meaning from their environment through purposeful consciousness, reflection, and creative action.
 
Having agency will allow creatives to realize the possibilities of what once was a side hustle into a viable and sustainable source of income. Making agency will also be an excellent resource for fine art, graphic design, and other creative majors that have honed their craft academically but now need to apply it professionally.
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About the Logo

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• Registration for Ophelia's Making Agency is to provide the services needed to help small and minority-owned and creative businesses be successful.
•Registration mark represents a pair of fine wires or lines crossing at right angles of complete focus.
•Registration is precisely lining up cyan, magenta, yellow, and black printing plates to overlap and produce the full-color spectrum.