20/07/2019
A beautiful day for the Gresham Arts Festival!
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Mt. Hood Art Online was developed as a place for local northwest artists to display and sell their fine art.
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Mt Hood Art Online (MHAO), like all great things, was born out of necessity. Caryn Tilton, the founder of the site came up with the idea when taking a class by Beth Verheyden, the current president of the Watercolor Society of Oregon. She discovered many of her fellow classmates were fantastic artists but they all needed a little help marketing their work online. Caryn used her years as an entrepreneur and her expertise as a website developer to build an online gallery for her and her fellow artists to show and sell their work.
Fast-forward to 2017, Caryn found herself running a thriving website with 25 artists while also trying to keep up with her large family, newly retired husband, and caring for her mother. She was ready to retire and made it known in the community that she was looking for someone to take over MHAO and continue to grow it.
Colleen Chesbrough is a local Investment Advisory Representative who originally attended Portland State University as an art major. She ran an art gallery in college for 3 years and she has worked in sales and marketing for over 15 years. Following her dreams to one day own a gallery, Colleen gladly accepted the opportunity to take over Mt Hood Art Online, which is fondly now known as MHAO.
With a strong foundation already built it hasn’t taken long for Colleen and her webmaster fiancé to update the website bringing it into the ecommerce world of sales. The site is capable of featuring a larger number of artists, taking all payment types, and offering print on demand (POD) prints of artists work in a variety of styles (metal, canvas, acrylic, wood) and prices. These changes have taken the gallery out of the small-town market and placed it on the same level as the major online marketplaces.
