Marketing
Your marketing is in many ways the lifeblood of your artist-led space. Any sponsorship or funding will be easier to obtain if you have a proven profile and documented successes.
Initially, use your personal network of contacts to spread the word, including in advance of the space opening up. Email invitations, although cheap and easy to use, get lost very easily in increasingly full inboxes, so if you are planning to use them make sure they are memorable and easy to use. Your curatorial policy and the projects you are planning are all part of your ‘brand’, which can be entrenched with the graphic and type styles you use.