By Mari Pizzini<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools across the country in March, but led to a surge of people opening Etsy shops or online small businesses. Many of these stores are run by young adults and college students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kassidy Hart, a Morningside College sophomore, was one of these students. Hart created an Etsy shop to sell canvas paintings after a poll on her personal instagram indicated there was an interest in her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hart said that when she was looking to buy similar products, she couldn\u2019t find anything in her price range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI wanted to buy a painting or photo in a modernist, simple style, but I couldn\u2019t find anything that wasn\u2019t outrageously priced,\u201d Hart said. \u201cEven for pieces that were graphically designed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hart said she attempted to create the pieces on her computer, but wasn\u2019t savvy in the technology. Hart said, \u201cAfter that I tried to paint one. I posted it to Instagram and people supported me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erika Damerow, a Senior at Lindenwood University, also started an Etsy shop during quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was bored in quarantine and had a lot of leftover jewelry supplies,\u201d Damerow said. \u201cI started making pieces of jewelry and [my boyfriend] Isaac encouraged me to do something with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve learned that not everything I make will fit someone else\u2019s style,\u201d Damerow said. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see how everyone is different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similar to Hart, Damerow received support on her personal Instagram as well. Damerow even started a series of jewelry dedicated to her closest friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both creators have few sales on their Etsy shops, but each has enjoyed their new business. Both shops can be found online. Kassidy Hart\u2019s can be found at https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/TheWillowTreeArt?ref=shop_sugg <\/a>an Erika Damerow\u2019s can be found at https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/DesignsByErikaWithaK?ref=search_shop_redirect<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Mari Pizzini The COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools across the country in March, but led to a surge of people opening Etsy shops or online small businesses. Many of these stores are run by young adults and college students. Kassidy Hart, a Morningside College sophomore, was one of these students. Hart created an Etsy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12173,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions\/12173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}