Market Applications now available here!

Thanks for your patience while we get our tech caught up with everything else! You can link HERE to the applications and more information, or click the link in the column on the right. More info coming soon!

The Community Booth at 2nd Saturday Artist Market

The 2nd Saturday Artist Market is dedicated to promoting artists, craftspeople and musicians in an environment that offers patron-artist interaction and a diverse marketplace of hand crafted work and fine art.

The larger artistic and creative community has always been integrally connected to the communities we live in. Artists & Musicians teach in schools and community centers, artists donate their time and work for benefit events, and organize community renovation and beautification projects, to name a few.

The 2nd Saturday Artist Market strives to not only promote artists who serve the community, but also those organizations that directly serve the community. One booth space each month will be donated to a community organization, giving them a venue for direct outreach and to promote the programs and/or needs of that particular group.

In addition, 2nd Saturday Artist Market will collect canned and non-perishable food for MANNA FoodBank each month.

Event producers have already started identifying community groups that might be interested in participating in the monthly Market, and any group that feels they may benefit in having a booth for a month are welcome to contact producers at 'info' at 'crazygreenstudios.com'.

2nd Saturday Artist Market has a new home!!

Exciting things are brewing for the 2010 season of the 2nd Saturday Artist Market!

First, we're thrilled to announce that The Rocket Club has become a new sponsor and will be the new home for the monthly juried Artist Market!

Those of you who faithfully followed and/or vended in last year's Markets know that while we always had a great selection of talented artists and craftspeople, we suffered greatly from being 'hidden in plain sight'. Thanks to Ken Klehm and The Rocket Club, we now have a very visible address on Haywood Road!

Here's what's new for 2nd Saturday Artist Market:

**Artists will be given an area to accommodate a 6' table and chairs, with a bit of space behind for additional display.

**Ten display spaces will be available.

**'Booth' fees will be $25 per market.

**The Market will start in March, and hours will run from 11:00am - 5:00pm.

**Food will now be available!! We're still working out the details, but we'll feature local favorites like Suzy Phillips' cuisine from her soon-to-be-opened Zeytoon, and local favorite Roots Cafe just to name a few!

What's still the same:

*We'll still feature all hand crafted work, sold directly by the artist.

*We'll still host a Community Booth each month to highlight the good work of a local organization.

*We'll still collect canned and other non-perishables for MANNA FoodBank each month.


Artists interested in applying for the Market may join our mailing list (in the column on the right) to receive the official announcement, or may email 'info' at 'crazygreenstudios.com' for more information. Market applications will be available on the blog site soon!!

Community organizations wishing to take advantage of the Community Booth may also email 'info' at 'crazygreenstudios.com to reserve a spot.

Stay tuned for more!!

And still one more!

Lady Di's Creations:

I studied fashion design in the UK. I worked in London as a merchandiser for Debenhams and for Wallis Fashion Group as a production assistant. I eventually started my own small business selling women's separates to a few boutiques and the local Camden market.

I worked in Bangladesh for a few years, (via VSO) helping to orient the handicraft products to western tastes and for more income for the rural women. I incorporated the local women's hand sewing into garments and instigated the formation of Bangladesh's first handicrafts forum: ECOTA.

Now I live in Asheville North Carolina. Here we have many dance and theatre performers. I like to hear of dancer's dancewear dreams!

I love to dance; and have done so all my life; ballet, jazz, bellydance, burlesque, contact improv. I have seen many different types of dancewear. I decided I needed to make practical yet beautiful clothing.

I love to see how fabric moves on the body, how it drapes and how to best flatter the body and make it more beautiful. I get inspired by either fabric or designs I see around on the street, at festivals or in dance class. Typically I will make two or three pieces in the same fabric; but in slightly different designs.

I occasionally recycle fabrics from vintage dresses or skirts.

I believe in the revival of local economies and slow design. The slow design movement promotes design that looks at longer cycles of human behavior and sustainability and manufacturing with local/regional materials and technologies. Slow Designers support local industries, workshops and craftspeople.

And yet more about the artists!

Repose Jewelry, by Renee Gaudet:

The mechanics of nature have intrigued me my whole life, whether it be the wings of a butterfly or the veins of a leaf. So inevitably, my art reflects my love for nature and extends to humans' imitation of nature. In a sense, my art gives me reason to be on an endless scavenger hunt. Each piece I create is inspired by found objects or specimen: retired butterflies, small watch gears, animal bones or what ever else catches my eye. The process begins with each new object or specimen found. The eclectic finds are then used to inspire my work. After looking at all the found relics I piece together my vision.

I have experimented with a few mediums in my work, including glass, metals and resin. In one collection I have made pendants through a non-lead stained glass technique pressing butterfly wings, leaves, ferns, spider molts, insect wings, and other specimens in between two pieces of glass to preserve the beauty.

In another collection, I have incorporated my interest in blacksmithing with my jewelry design. I delicately forge nails into wearable jewelry. The industrial sense of this collection is elegant, but bold.

Most recently, I have been experimenting with resin to create 3-D pendant collages. These pieces have a story to tell.

I hope this jewelry inspires you to enjoy nature. Questions and custom orders are welcome. Please contact my by email: reneegaudet1 'at' gmail.com or visit reposejewelry.etsy.com.

More Artists of 2nd Saturday/Shop West Asheville

Roberta Mattson is the creative force behind Piece Blossom. She lives here in lovely Asheville, NC and has been crafting for many years now. She started out in the world of sewing and then picked up fabric dying, batiking, beading, crocheting, and most recently needle felting.

From Roberta:
"I love the feeling of finishing a project and putting it out in the world to make someone else smile."

You will definitely smile when you see these sweet creations!

Shop West Asheville/Holiday Artist Market

Meet another of the talented and creative artists who will be showing his fine work at Crazy Green Studios on Saturday, December 12 from 12noon - 8pm:

Gabriel Shaffer

From his website biography, by RC Miller:

Gabriel Shaffer is that rare artist who fiercely explores his own vision and refuses any easier life as a compromise. Gabriel’s talents are born out of an endless reservoir of ideas and a necessity to share what he cannot control. He has no choice but to paint, and generously offers his viewers realms beyond immediate understanding.

We are arrested by his three-headed feathered reptiles wearing evocative bone masks of erotic woman and lively mystics. We dwell in his rigid cities awash in biblical comedy, onionskin shadows, and the gore of a gallbladder burst. Sometimes a childlike innocence invades his canvas, providing an incubator of relief while outside red blizzards burn the ocean to crust. Through his intense paintings, drawings, and collage, Gabriel Shaffer reminds us that freedom from the known is the only way to survive.