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Our public markets feature an exciting array of diverse products, diverse people, delivered by professionals with diverse skills.
Welcome to Diverse Markets Management

Diverse Markets Management (DMM), LLC is a DC-based firm specializing in the development and management of outdoor public exhibitor markets. Principals in the firm are experienced leaders in specialty vending and in managing relations with this unique group of small business entrepreneurs. Members of the DMM team have an experienced and successful history of working together on markets, especially at historic Eastern Market. Key attributes of the team include the manager of The Flea Market at Eastern Market (FMEM), decades of business activity as exhibitors and managers, as well as long working relationships with other stakeholders of the Market. Because our team has actual investments and livelihoods based on vending and deep roots in the city, we have a particularly personal commitment to a market's success. We are strongly dedicated to developing and maintaining a financially sustainable market while enhancing the ongoing integration of a market into the community.

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Announcing the 2009 Arts on Foot Arts Market
 

We are pleased to announce the 2009 expanded, three-day, Art Market at the annual Arts on Foot festival. Marking its 17th anniversary, Arts on Foot is Washington, DC’s, premier outdoor arts festival.  Spanning four city blocks, the event kicks off the Fall arts season and showcases the best that Downtown DC has to offer. Held in the vibrant Penn Quarter neighborhood and with the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture as its backdrop, the festival features:

 ·       a three-day juried fine arts market with 80 - 100 exhibitors
·       food sampling courts with 25 - 30 high-end restaurants
·       Cooking as Art demonstrations with some of downtown’s top chefs
·       a wine area for sampling and seminars
·       two entertainment stages
·       a cultural corridor with galleries, theaters, museums and arts organizations
 
In 2008, nearly 30,000 arts patrons attended Arts on Foot, a 50% increase over 2007. The Arts on Foot audience is predominantly professional, upscale and well-educated; they lead active lives and seek out the cultural experiences Washington has to offer.
 
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