A faire showcasing creations and inventions from local artists and makers!
Sunday, December 4th ~ 1:00-5:00pm
721 5th Street (at Brush)
Oakland, CA 94607
Featuring surprising gifts, artist demos, hands-on activities, music and live entertainment, and the opportunity to BUY LOCAL and support BAY AREA ARTISTS. Artists will display works in progress. Come learn about their process of creation!
This event is FREE and open to the public. Rain or shine.
RSVP on the Facebook event and spread the word!
Here’s a list of Artists we have confirmed so far, and a sneak peak into some of their work!
Rob Bell
Zomadic Artifacts
Rob is an Artist, Designer and Engineer who is famous for his gorgeous Zomadic Architecture. He founded Zomadic in 2006, a Design/Build studio that creates unique artifacts, furniture, and structures using state of the art digital fabrication tools.
Jason Porath
Rejected Princesses
Jason is the Author and Artist who started “Rejected Princesses”: a blog celebrating the inspirational badass women of history and myth, who were too awesome, awful, or offbeat for the animated princess treatment. The blog took off, and he’s since turned “Rejected Princesses” into a book that’s going viral across the country right now.
Ashley Newton and Sean Stevens
Sustainable Magic – Interactive Robotic Flowers
Sustainable Magic is a collective of technology-inspired artists, makers, and educators who make interactive art to share and inspire people to want to create, then teach them how using their high-tech traveling maker studio, the Magic Box!
Stacy Speyer
Cubes and Things
Stacy will be featuring “Cubes and Things” — 3D coloring books that make it fun and easy for anyone to color and construct their own geometric shapes, and will teach visitors about the geometry of these cool shapes. She’ll also be offering her book “Polyhedra: Eye Candy to Feed the Mind”
Julian Hartline
Flickerstrip
Flickerstrip is a WiFi LED strip that lets you browse through an endless number of user-submitted light shows or create your own from scratch using the intuitive graphical app interface.
Inspired by nature, love, and the mystery.
Cards, giclee prints, and original drawings.
Babysnake
Hallucinations+Dreams Art
Babysnake is an artist who began making 2D art a year ago after a brain injury brought with it an intuitive understanding of the uncertainty of reality. She uses neural networks to digitally process images, which mirrors the structure and cognition processes of the human brain.
Nicole Catrett
Mouse Workshop
Nicole is an artist who uses science to transform fantastical ideas into real, working contraptions. Her work includes a special telescope that makes the world look like a little toy, a camera that captures time, a mouse-powered knitting machine and tiny paper camera obscura birthday cards. She is currently teaching mice how to build things and would love your help.
Catherine Rose
Cath-art-ink
Catherine Rose, Interdisciplinary Artist, is the creator of Slinky Press: pole dance flip-books and The Eye-Line: hand painted eyeball t-shirts and pendants. She will be selling her Eye-line works, as well as original and digital copies of her most intimate body of drawings and doodles that chronicle life, grief and eros at the half-century mark.
Anna Hirsch
pyrographic #NotFeathers
#NotFeathers are playa-friendly feather-shaped earrings made from wood with a wood burner utilizing the art of pyrography — writing with fire
Diana Stapleton
Mandalas
Diana Stapleton is an interdisciplinary artist who uses experimental video, performance, poetry, painting, printmaking, puppets & cut paper to express her multifaceted experience of the world.
Anthony “T” Maes
Generations Deep – Laser engraved art
Found and recycled wood and stone etched with laser, where precision meets organic. Investigating lineage, wisdom, and justice. Original art and commissions.
Chris Cerrito
Brush Bots
Chris is an interactive artist and educator interested in creating playful, surprising, and meaningful real world experiences. His recent work has been focused on using technology to illustrate and amplify human behaviors and interactions, as well as on using simple systems to re-imagine public spaces. Chris will be featuring BrushBots at the Market. BrushBots are tiny machines that work in tandem with the user in creating generative art.
The Le Mysterium is a collective of artists, designers and makers creating beautiful items in a supportive collaborative community. We embrace the unknown and the mysterious. We take historical inspirations from late 19th and early 20th century aesthetics including art nouveau, Victorian and Edwardian influences. Many of our pieces reveal a juxtaposition between old and new; industrialized elements and nature; dark and light.
Rennie Lum
All Squishy Inside
Rennie will be showcasing soft-sculpture pillows, anniversatrees, and more.
Jennifer Devine
Revolution Gear and Prints
Sex Educator by day, revolutionary artist and activist by night. JD will be offering uniforms, arms and subversive literature for the coming uprising of justice and art revolution. Hats pins, and headgear, guns and ammo, icons from the past, pins from the future. We will need these symbols to recognize each other in the coming dark days. After you’ve joined our army of lovers, JD will be teaching a hands on shaving cream, wood cut and linocut printmaking workshop. Revolution Gear takes found objects and lets them inspire creative cobbling with the goal of subverting old junk into beautiful imaginative tools and symbols that will be needed to end all forms of systemic oppression.