Our Mission

To gain professional and non-professional artists more exposure and profits at home and abroad, the Mike Hopkins Center for Arts and Crafts is the catalysts for art consulting with a couple of artists at a time.

Our Vision 

The Mike Hopkins Center for Arts and Crafts is a dynamic hub for marketing and selling extraordinary artwork and crafts, researching international works of art and crafts, exhibiting them, and increasing their profitability, leading to artists being more knowledgeable of visual art and more successful in the art world.

Who We Are 

As an online art gallery and artist services business in South Carolina marketing for professional and non-professional artists, the Mike Hopkins Center for Arts and Crafts offers virtual gallery space and a variety of services, that are supplied for an hourly fee. For artists, we plan exhibitions; create labels for artwork and websites; write price sheets, artist biographies, grant proposals, and press releases; and market their work on social media. Also, we research artistic styles from around the world for artists. The Mike Hopkins Center for Arts and Crafts hopes to have exhibitions at the Union County Arts Council in Union, South Carolina in the near future. Our staff consists of only me, but I am looking to hire interns and form a board of directors. The center is financially supported by art sales and the owner’s own money. In addition, our owner, Allen, is second-generation multiracial. His mother is Casusian ,African American, and Native American; his dad is African American.His grandmother was both Native American and African American;his grandfather was African American and Casusian. Therefore, we strongly desire artists from all backgrounds to use our services. We welcome artists of races, genders, skin tones, religions, national origins, ages, abilities, political affiliations, genetic backgrounds, and other protected statuses to use our services. We desire that all artists have an equal chance to succeed in the field of art.

Our Location and Community History 

Founded in December 2023 and published in July 2023, the Mike Hopkins Center for Arts and Crafts continues to be dedicated to assisting artists with becoming more successful and knowledgeable about art. The center is located in Union County, a small town near Spartanburg, South Carolina. Our center assists with enhancing Union’s art scene.  

Also, our center is 1hr 50mins away from Greenville, 34mins away from Spartanburg, and 1hr 15mins away from Columbia, placing it in a prime location to offer museum-quality exhibitions, artistic events, and artist services to Union, Spartanburg, Greenville, and Columbia-area residents, students, and visitors.  

We wanted to add another art institution for the display of contemporary art to Union in addition to being a business which services artists can use to achieve their career goals.  

We started this home-based business to improve the art scene in our town. We wanted Union County, our small town, to have more of an art scene which we hope will be similar to the New York art scene. In addition, we want artists to have virtual and physical exhibition space and be able to meet and share their ideas with each other and create contemporary art together in the upstate and Columbia. If it is not contemporary art, we still welcome every artist’s work in our virtual gallery, rental galleries, and eventually our own physical gallery. 

If you would like to purchase artwork or artist services, send your payments through my website, https://www.mikehopkinscenterforartsandcrafts.com, or Venmo account, @MikeHopkins-ArtsandCrafts.If I would like to know more about my business right now, you can email at Hopkinsmalan567@gmail.com or call (864)762-1172.