At the end of August, I had the pleasure of meeting three quarters of the group of minds behind Little City, a website designed to promote and nurture talented Toronto artists. Dardana Mustafa, Alyssa Bistonath and John Mani sat down with me to share their insights into our city and its art world.

Jasmine Chorley Foster: How did Little City come to fruition?
Alyssa Bistonath: I shot for this competition called Show Your Ontario, and I won. Part of the prize was an ad in the Globe and Mail. Johnnie was taking web design classes, and we decided to start Little City as a way of using that ad space as a portal, so that everyone could have representation through it.

JCF: What are your mandates as bloggers?
John Mani: Part of the reason we set up Little City is to give creative people a place to expose their work. Having that forum to do so was an incentive to get artists working and motivated.