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Resources to support your growth

Find resources that expand your opportunities as an artist and help with navigating the business side of working as a creative. We’ve assembled information for artists on grants, residencies, workshops, business licenses and more.

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Licenses & Permits

For artists and crafters, there are a variety of markets and festivals where you can sell your artwork and connect with the community. Here are a few to consider:

Soda City Market

Takes place along several blocks of Columbia’s Main Street every Saturday morning, year-round, with space for artists, crafters, and arts organizations. Buskers (with permits) also perform here.

Soda City Market

Takes place along several blocks of Columbia’s Main Street every Saturday morning, year-round, with space for artists, crafters, and arts organizations. Buskers (with permits) also perform here.

Soda City Market

Takes place along several blocks of Columbia’s Main Street every Saturday morning, year-round, with space for artists, crafters, and arts organizations. Buskers (with permits) also perform here.

How you can get involved

Community engagement is key to the poet laureate’s work. The public is welcome to participate in programs, which you’ll find on the One Columbia calendar.

Organizations can host readings and workshops. If you are interested in sponsoring or hosting an event, please contact poetlaureate@onecolumbiasc.com.

Learn More

Board Members as of January 2025

Donaven Doughty

Board President

Donaven Doughty is a documentary filmmaker and founder of Another Story Acknowledged, where he develops and produces community-focused campaigns for companies and organizations to further a movement’s impact through powerful, unheard stories. His clients include Redbull, Major League Soccer, Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Historic Columbia, and Benedict College.

Donaven Doughty

Board President

Donaven Doughty

Board President

“Poetry allows us to perceive our experience with greater richness and complexity”

- from the City of Columbia resolution establishing a poet laureate position

Resources to support your growth

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Licenses & Permits

How you can get involved

Board Members as of January 2025

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