WINTER MAKERS MARKET
JOIN US IN CELEBRATING 30+ LOCAL ILLUSTRATORS,
SMALL ARTS BUSINESSES, COMIC ARTISTS, CRAFTERS,
PUBLISHERS, AND MORE IN OUR WINTER MAKERS MARKET
AND THE LIGHT GREY FINAL SALE
ARTWORK, FRAMES, FURNITURE, FIXTURES
END-OF-YEAR & END-OF-SPACE SALE
Handmade bags, postcards and prints, artisan teas, screenprints, risograph zines, art books, and so much more! Join us at Light Grey Art Lab for the Winter Makers Market on December 5th from 12-5 pm – a sale and celebration of some of our favorite local creators and small art businesses! We invite you to shop small, support artists, and check out all of the creative and crafty things they made for the market. We will have artist booths set up from 12-5 pm, along with a holiday wrapping station, card-making station, refreshments, and a big Light Grey Art Lab sale of products, fixtures, and art resources.
Minneapolis-based Uncivilized Books has been publishing smart comics and graphic novels for over a decade. They’ve published books by some of the best cartoonists in the world: Gabrielle Bell, Matt Madden, Peter Wartman, Joann Sfar, David B., Peter Wartman, Alan Moore, Noah Van Sciver, and many more. They’re currently serializing Ginseng Roots, a major new work from Craig Thompson (Blankets).
Cattail Workshop crafts useful, durable soft goods from natural materials in South Minneapolis. Items include totes, backpacks, work aprons, tool rolls, and more! The artist mainly works in waxed canvas, hemp, and organic cotton.
The goal with Tenderheart Studio is to facilitate healing for the artist and others by using illustration, writing, and herbalism as tools for connecting with each other and the land. Works include illustrations, screenprints, original artwork, t-shirts, and tarot-inspired imagery.
Come shop our end-of-space sale of artwork, projects, desks, frames, equipment, and furniture in preparation for the big move! Light Grey Art Lab has been a staple in the Twin Cities illustration community for the last decade, hosting events, classes, and collaborative projects for new and seasoned creatives alike. This past month, we announced that it will be moving away from the space in the Whittier Neighborhood, and transitioning into publication, creative travel programming, community events, and interactive workshops among other endeavors
While you are here, check out the work from the newest show, The End is Nigh Exhibition, a collection all about the end. The End is Nigh Art includes nearly 200 artists from around the globe. Each artist has created work about notable symbols, processes, rituals, clothing, and cultural figures of death, burials, and the beyond. Artists from around the world have contributed to this project, and often chose topics from their own cultural heritage and mythology about creatures, the afterlife, and mysteries surrounding death. Each artwork is accompanied by a written description by the artist.
The End is Nigh is the final exhibition and project created in the Minneapolis gallery space– but is the end ever really the end? Light Grey Art Lab continues to offer creative travel programs, make interesting projects and creative prompts, pop-up events, online classes, and more. Follow along @lightgreyartlab
Light Grey Art Lab is a women-owned, community-oriented arts organization bringing practicing artists together to teach, collaborate, and explore. For over ten years, Light Grey Art Lab has hosted interactive workshops, exhibitions, and public events for the Twin Cities art community. And aboard, Light Grey Art Lab hosts international creative travel programs and unique experiences. Since opening in 2012, Light Grey Art Lab has exhibited and collaborated with thousands of illustrators, designers, concept artists, and makers of all types.
Gallery Hours: Wed-Friday 4-8pm, Saturdays 12-7pm, Sundays 12-5pm
WINTER MAKERS MARKET ARTISTS:
Ashley Masog, Beth Rapatz, Ellis Anderson, Jen Beaupre Designs, Jill Kittock, Jocelyn Suzuka Figueroa, Yao Jian, John Wilson Barlow, John Vogl, Tenderheart Studio, Kyle R Harabedian, littlebearillo, nh.elic, Mushki Arts, Homemade Salt Art, Stacie Kammerling, Cattail Workshop, Theodore Kidd, Uncivilized Books, Mia Frances Stratman, Claire McKevitt, Gavin Hladio Nixon, Max Paulin, Katelynn Van Dusseldorp, Rammy McKee, and others.
