About Us
What is Market 365?
We’re a team of designers, artists, and advocates for black economical opportunities, who fell in love with the idea of using technology to improve the advancement of black organizations. Today, we’re proud to create a Virtual Marketplace for your vendors to connect with your loyal festival communitee daily instead of one time per year.
The Story Behind The Vision
Every year, our founder Kehinde Ardrey has attend the International African Arts Festival as a child when growing up in Brooklyn who’s parents were part of the East Organization in 1969. The Festival is a Marketplace where people of African decent would sell their crafts and food over the course of 4 to 5 days during the July 4th weekend. During Kehinde’s childhood he enjoyed the youth programs and performances, food, art, and unique crafts from Africa and the diaspora. This festival has gone on for well over 50 years, but unfortunately the attendance has declined over the years. The fact that it had to change it’s park location, increasing permits and licenses, gentrification, and more.
Thus a valiant effort towards a solution was born. In recognizing the fact that we are in the age of the internet and apps as our main form of communication and shopping. There is a huge opportunity to further engage the community patrons of the festival such as Kehinde Ardrey to support the crafts vendors year round. The Market 365 Platform can be constructed as a Website and/or an App