This past weekend marked the opening of Spruce Street Harbor Park and our first Art Star Pop Up Market of the season! People came out in droves to check out the park, lay in the hammocks, play the boardwalk games, and shop our market. The weather was perfect and the energy was amazing! On market wasn’t the only thing happening at the park. Candy Coated was set up providing hands on screenprinting, there were face painters and craft tables for kids, performers, a DJ, and our friends over at Inliquid brought in knitter Melissa Maddonni Haims to yarn bomb the flagpoles (amongst a handful of artists scheduled to create on site installations throughout the season). Also on view are murals by 8 Philadelphia artists (more on that soon, we are waiting on final placement of two important murals) It really felt like a celebration of how awesome our city can be! Please come check out our next Pop Up Market this Saturday from 11-3. Our full vendor line-up can be found here.
Here are some photos from the day – please check out our Flickr set for more.
Anthropolis Designs at Art Star Pop Up MarketAs The Crow Flies and Co at the Art Star Pop Up MarketBonnie Kaye set up a little picnic to display her hand printed textiles and accessories at our first Art Star Pop Up Market!Candy Coated busy providing hands on screen printing for SSHP visitorsKasie Strohm was selling her super cute sterling silver animal “ear” ringsTadpole Creations – We captured this adorable moment with Renee and her daughter. SO CUTE!Wear Liberty’s was set up and selling his awesome silkscreened teesYarn Bombed poles at SSHPOur friend + neighbor, John with his pup in the #visitphilly chair
The Art Star Pop Up Market is a small, open air market featuring the work of up to 20 of the finest makers from Philadelphia and the surrounding region. (please note: due to just finding out that the pop up market is extended, we will most likely just have a handful of vendors participating each week due to time restraints) The Pop Up Market will be held on Saturdays from June 28th – September 27th along a tree lined walkway within the Spruce Street Harbor Park. Customers can expect a variety of handmade goods all priced affordably with most items priced under $50. Come shop our curated group of vendors between 11am-3pm every Saturday, weather permitting. In case of poor weather, we may cancel. Please visit this page and we will update it with any cancellations due to weather.
This First Friday from 5-8pm we are having a fun little party in the shop! Our first Artists in Residence, Kelly Kozma will have her studio doors open for you to peek in, meet her and check out her work in progress. We will also have some free beer and snacks from our neighbor, El Capitan.
PLUS! Little Chair Printing will be set up with her heat press. You will be able to choose from her huge collection of 80’s iron on transfers (think cute kittens, unicorns, etc) and heat press your own Tee. We encourage you to grab a few, cut them up and create a fun collage. If you bring your own T-shirt, you can heat press it for just $5. If not, we’ll have some on hand for you to buy for an additional $5. Here is a photo of what our customers created the last time Little Chair set up:
Click on the photo to check out all the pics from our last event with Little Chair Printing!
Our friends from Cut + Paste Photobooth will be set up with all her fun props for guests to jump in and get their photos taken. You will get one free photo to take home with you too!
Photo by Chris Kendig, taken at this year’s Art Star Craft Bazaar.
And there’s more! Our brand new, handmade games will be set up for you to play! The Ring Toss was made by Cisco Griffin (bowling pins donated by our friends at North Bowl). Play as much as you want during the course of the evening, but each guest will get 1 game where you can rack up Art Star discounts to redeem this night ONLY! Each large ring you get on will get you 5% off, and each smaller ring you get on will get you 10% off. If you get all the rings on in one game, you will get 70% off – though it’s pretty hard to do that. Are you up for the challenge?
Photo by Chris Kendig. Kids playing our Ring Toss at our recent Art Star Craft Bazaar. Handmade by Cisco Griffin with Bowling Pins donated by North Bowl.
And just for fun… Play our Corn Hole game handmade by Andrew Zangerle!
Kids playing the Corn Hole game that was handmade by Andrew Zangerle. Photo by Chris Kendig.
We hope to see you this Friday for these Art Star Fun Times! Please go to our Facebook Event to invite friends and let us know you are coming! Free to attend but we hope you will do some shopping too 😉 We’ve got in lots of new goodies!
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