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Ursula Barton

Founder, URSULA BARTON

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URSULA BARTON

ursulabarton.com

from Portland, Oregon, USA

started February 2012

$3,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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1. How I Built Two Successful Small Businesses As An Artist (2019) ➜

This is a follow up story for URSULA BARTON. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published about 6 years ago, check it out here.

Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

I am a Portland-based artist, and I first started my own brand back in February 2012, featuring my cityscape and bridge ink drawings. Once my own brand became sustainable after three years of non-stop hustle, I started a female artist collective, gallery, and art studio space called Jailhouse Studios in 2016. This then grew into a larger movement once I teamed up with Bethany Von Steuben to expand into retail to amplify the voices that have historically been ignored by the Art wold: BIPOC, Queer, and Female Identifying artists. We remodeled the space in the Buckman neighborhood of Portland that was originally built as the first southeast police department complete with a holding cell, in 1902. We named this new expansion of the gallery and art space Jailbreak Studios and celebrated our Grand Opening on October 4th, 2019.

My main role at Jailbreak Studios is to curate and offer mentorship to Portland-based emerging artists from underrepresented communities. By 2015 I had created a successful mural business for my own work and was looking for a way to reinvest my growing budgets from my commercial art back into my community and help create a more...

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