Hey, I'm Graham Masters; founder of the Artichoke Initiative. We are a fledgling art and fashion collective in jeopardy of losing our base of operations/artist-in-residence gallery. First, the spiel..The Artichoke Initiatives' (A.I.) mission statement is simple: Connect artists with the Calgary business community at large. As a DeVry Business School graduate and practicing studio artist I am in a unique position to bridge the gap between these two very different worlds. Artists for the most part are terrible entrepreneurs.