It's here art and craft nerds. The one and only Detroit Urban Craft Fair.
On Saturday and Sunday, artists, crafters and fans from throughout metro Detroit will descend onto the massive Masonic Temple in Detroit for the Detroit Urban Craft Fair. The Detroit Urban Craft Fair, created by and sponsored by Handmade Detroit, is in its sixth year. It happens on Saturday, from 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m., at the Masonic Temple in Detroit. The event will be two days, bringing nearly 100 vendors for your shopping pleasure. A number of those vendors call Ferndale home -- including Handmade Detroit and Detroit Urban Craft Fair co-founder Carey Gustafson. Vendors from Ferndale include: ...and a few of them even answered a couple questions we had: Ferndale Patch: What do you do? Gustafson: I'm Carey Gustafson…
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A month after signing its lease, is ready to open with the works of more than 60 artisans to be featured Saturday and Sunday.
After weeks of hard work, The Rust Belt Market will be able to officially open for its first day of business Saturday. About a month ago, Tiffany and Chris Best signed a lease for the formerly vacant Old Navy building at 22801 Woodward Ave., giving them all 15,000-square-feet of the property to use toward the market, an incubator for artists to control their art and sales. Since that time, it has been a non-stop job, and an estimated $30,000 worth of work, for the couple, transforming the raw, colorless space to suit their bold vision. “We’ve crammed so much in a four-week period,” Tiffany Best said. “It’s crazy around here.” For all the changes that have been made, such as murals by local artists and a central stage area for musical …
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rolfsy
2:01 pm on Thursday, May 5, 2011
Exciting stuff! Wonder if it will turn into more of an all-week thing. Maybe rotating functions? Burton Theater just lost it's home - Art Film Thursdays? Farm Market Sunday afternoons? Anways thanks for betting on Ferndale... more ›