Nicole Murray A Business development professional helps entities build with intention
Nicole Murray, founder of Agape Creative Group and Agape Collective, is a marketing and business development professional. Photos provided by Christi Love
Nicole Murray A Business development professional helps entities build with intention
BY TIA CAROL JONES
Agape is the highest form of love.
Nicole Murray is the founder of Agape Collective, Agape Creative Boutique and Mogul Nation. Murray is looking to align with businesses, groups and individuals to work with them and add value. She believes personally and as a business ethic when people seed things with real, positive intention, it grows organically.
Growing organically means that you are working with people on projects that align with Agape’s purpose, from marketing, business development, expansion, branding, fundraising, sponsorship, and strategy.
Murray is not only a business development professional; she also is a marketing professional and a writer. Murray is the author of “Autumn’s Child,” which was published in 2013.
With Agape Creative Boutique, Murray represents Black artists from Chicago. Murray enjoys the arts and artistry. The artists she works with represent what it means to be a Chicagoan and embodies one’s purpose through a vessel, whether it is using a canvas or a sculpture to tell their story.
“Naturally, I’m a storyteller, and from that I see their art as being an expression to really get the message of empowerment and the message of love and so many things they are expressing in a visual way,” she said.
The artists that Murray works with have come organically. The first one was Roger J. Carter. She had always seen his work and he saw her work on the marketing side. She has always appreciated artists work and it expanded from there.
Murray has been in the marketing business development industry for some time and has had the pleasure of working with a lot of great people. She has had the opportunity to work with them without the confines of corporate America. Instead, they are defined by the purpose of why they are working together on a particular project. It has enabled Murray to cultivate a rolodex of contacts whose work speaks for themselves.
In October, Murray and the Agape Creative partnered with the Art of Banksy Exhibit and featured the work of Paul Branton, Uneq’ka McNeal, Robert Lewis Clark, Fantah Celah and Alan Emerson Hicks. It was an opportunity to showcase what art means to the culture of Black people in Chicago. It also was an opportunity to show the work that will be in the Kulture Museum, which is set to open on Sunday, Dec. 10. The Kulture Museum is located at 629 W. Cermak.
“We really wanted to show the work in a place where the conversation was already being had, and we were able to put the empowerment message in a place where it may not have been otherwise,” she said about the experience of having Agape Creative artists work showcased during the exhibit.
Murray describes the artists she works with as “dynamic.” One artist, Robert Lewis Clark, created a flag out of newspaper from when President Barack Obama was elected. Alan Emerson Hicks makes his art out of recyclable materials. She described the work of Paul Branton and Fanta Celah as phenomenal.
Mogul Nation teaches youth entrepreneurship for young people ages 7-24. Murray believes that people don’t have to wait to step into their purpose. The intention is to expose the youth to what it looks like to be in business.
For more information on Agape Collective, visit www.agapecollective.com.
Agape is the highest form of love.
Nicole Murray is the founder of Agape Collective, Agape Creative Boutique and Mogul Nation. Murray is looking to align with businesses, groups and individuals to work with them and add value. She believes personally and as a business ethic when people seed things with real, positive intention, it grows organically.
Growing organically means that you are working with people on projects that align with Agape’s purpose, from marketing, business development, expansion, branding, fundraising, sponsorship, and strategy.
Murray is not only a business development professional; she also is a marketing professional and a writer. Murray is the author of “Autumn’s Child,” which was published in 2013.
With Agape Creative Boutique, Murray represents Black artists from Chicago. Murray enjoys the arts and artistry. The artists she works with represent what it means to be a Chicagoan and embodies one’s purpose through a vessel, whether it is using a canvas or a sculpture to tell their story.
“Naturally, I’m a storyteller, and from that I see their art as being an expression to really get the message of empowerment and the message of love and so many things they are expressing in a visual way,” she said.
The artists that Murray works with have come organically. The first one was Roger J. Carter. She had always seen his work and he saw her work on the marketing side. She has always appreciated artists work and it expanded from there.
Murray has been in the marketing business development industry for some time and has had the pleasure of working with a lot of great people. She has had the opportunity to work with them without the confines of corporate America. Instead, they are defined by the purpose of why they are working together on a particular project. It has enabled Murray to cultivate a rolodex of contacts whose work speaks for themselves.
In October, Murray and the Agape Creative partnered with the Art of Banksy Exhibit and featured the work of Paul Branton, Uneq’ka McNeal, Robert Lewis Clark, Fantah Celah and Alan Emerson Hicks. It was an opportunity to showcase what art means to the culture of Black people in Chicago. It also was an opportunity to show the work that will be in the Kulture Museum, which is set to open on Sunday, Dec. 10. The Kulture Museum is located at 629 W. Cermak.
“We really wanted to show the work in a place where the conversation was already being had, and we were able to put the empowerment message in a place where it may not have been otherwise,” she said about the experience of having Agape Creative artists work showcased during the exhibit.
Murray describes the artists she works with as “dynamic.” One artist, Robert Lewis Clark, created a flag out of newspaper from when President Barack Obama was elected. Alan Emerson Hicks makes his art out of recyclable materials. She described the work of Paul Branton and Fanta Celah as phenomenal.
Mogul Nation teaches youth entrepreneurship for young people ages 7-24. Murray believes that people don’t have to wait to step into their purpose. The intention is to expose the youth to what it looks like to be in business.
For more information on Agape Collective, visit www.agapecollective.com.
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