Eastside Winter Market 2022

Extremely grateful to be in this community with you!

The Eastside Winter Market has come to a close and yet again I'm feeling great about :

How our volunteer team at Communication came together to plan/ execute this event

Being a witness and advocate for problem resolution with community of vendors that respect , care and work with each other to ensure success for all vendors!! - Can this please happen everywhere!!

Seeing how many folks had zero issue with wearing masks. Again community showed up to support artists, musicians and small businesses

Hearing that vendors did well again this year, a handful again mentioning this was their best market of the year ( or ever!!!)

Being able to sell my own work this year and share a booth with @sturgeons.designs and her boyfriend Cass. Being able to step away multiple times to wear different hats and trust that any sales were taken care of is an amazing thing I've never experienced before!!

Raising $300 for Madison Area Transgender Association from sales of my work!! 🎉

Getting to check in with the greatest bunch of vendors, it's an honor to create this space together!!

Even though I'm forever nervous about interviews and being on video, I feel pretty good about being interviewed by NBC 15 news in Madison about the market and why/ how we cultivate this market ( Thanks Shaina!!)

The Eastside Winter Market is/ was an extension of Communication, my artwork and how we want our community to care for each other all the time .

It's like the circular nature of my most recent woodcut We Carry Us featured on the mystery bags behind me

Thank you!!

Booth and market 📷 By Cass, @jenniebee

Jam packed weekend, Thank you!

The whirlwind of this past weekend 2 events, 3 days, representing myself and 2 other organizations.

Thank you so much to @dane.arts for putting together such an amazing 2 day outdoor event. I met a ton of new people, new artists and familiar online faces I have never met in person. I sold a bunch of work, but more importantly connected over your stories about what my work means to you.

Thanks in particular to Mark Fraire, Augusta Brulla ,Justin Duris and all the DABL volunteers for creating this opportunity for individual artists.

Also helped spread the word about Northside Arts Collective ( not pictured) though Rhiannon Gurley had lots more conversations about that.

AND I spent some time in the @communicationmadison booth chatting with people, and informing people about @fwdtruth and to sign the petition to stand with the Triennial Artists. Highlight of my time at the Willy St Fair was watching teens pick up handfuls of condoms and educate me about the flavored ones ( stay away from strawberry )

Thanks for supporting artists, for buying local and for connecting Madison!