Boston Handmade Marketplace this Saturday

July 7, 1:50 PMBoston Arts ExaminerJessica Burko

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Photo of last year's Boston Handmade Marketplace

The Somerville Arts Council and the juried artist group Boston Handmade present this second annual ArtsUnion Event: The Boston Handmade Marketplace. More than 25 artists, artisans, and craftspeople will be showing and selling handmade jewelry, clothing, accessories, housewares, art, photography, toys, sculpture and more in Union Square Somerville (at the intersection of Washington, Prospect & Somerville Ave.) on July 11, 2009, 3-7pm (with a rain date on July 12). The Boston Handmade Marketplace is an outdoor art and craft exhibition featuring work by Massachusetts area artists, craftspeople and artisans associated with the arts group Boston Handmade and Etsy.com: helping people make a living making things. This outdoor exhibition promotes local independent businesses and individuals creating one-of-a-kind and limited edition handmade works in local small studio environments, not factories.

Handmade paper items by Dawn Wilson of Creatively Anew

In addition to the individual exhibitors at the 2009 Boston Handmade Marketplace, local musicians will be performing throughout the day. Performers include Boston bands The Grownup Noise and One Happy Island. There will be also be handcraft demonstrations with Dawn Wilson, a summer Faculty member at The Eliot School of Jamaica Plain, and Members of the Common Cod Fiber Guild of Somerville will be showing and selling all forms of fiber arts. Another highlight of the afternoon will be martial arts demonstrations from the Shobu Aikido of Boston. With so much to see in one place, make this your prime Boston weekend destination.

Ceramics by Bancroft Studios

ABOUT BOSTON HANDMADE: Boston Handmade was founded in March 2007 with the goal of gathering Massachusetts artists and craftspeople actively engaged in selling their handmade work on Etsy.com, a web site dedicated to the handmade life. Gathering like-minded, independent, creative people to work together towards reaching common, professional, and artistic goals continues to be the focus of the group. Visit BostonHandmade.org for more info.

ABOUT ARTSUNION: Through funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council's John and Abigail Adams Program and the City of Somerville, the Somerville Arts Council's ArtsUnion initiative cultivates and promotes the square's diverse artist and business communities to boost the cultural economic development of Union Square, Somerville. The Somerville Arts Council and the Mayor's Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development created ArtsUnion, in partnership with ArtSomerville, Brickbottom Artists Association, Washington Street Art Center, the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission, Somerville Community Access Television, Somerville Open Studios, Third Life Studio, and Union Square Main Streets.