Sat 12/2-Sun 12/3
It’s going to be a busy weekend in the Superior/St. Clair arts district with opportunities to finish all your holiday shopping at local artisan markets.
You can start early on Saturday morning: both the Cleveland Bazaar at Lake Affect Studios and Artists at the Twist at the Twist Drill Building open at 10am.
The Lake Affect Studios Cleveland Bazaar offers a more manageably sized preview of its huge holiday market at 78thStreet Studios the following weekend. If that one is so big that it paralyzes your ability to make choices, this one still has the wide range high-quality makers and vendors Cleveland Bazaar is known for without the overwhelming numbers. There’s a bar in the second floor event space to sit and relax between purchases. Some of the building’s resident artists are typically open as well, including fashion maven Dru Christine whose retail shop will be open during the bazaar’s hours, 10am-6pm.
The Artists at the Twist will be holing their 35th annual holiday sale at the Twist Drill Building Saturday at 10am-7pm and Sunday at 11am-5pm. If you’re wondering how a building that has only hosted artists for a couple of years is holding its 35th sale, it’s because many of these artists used to work at or participate in the holiday sale at the old Artcraft Building. About 15 of those artists made the move to the Twist, but they’ll be joined in the building’s second-floor event space by many more familiar faces who used to participate in the Artcraft sale, for a total of more than 50 artists. There’s free admission, free parking and an elevator that reliably works.
And from noon-8pm Saturday you can drop in at the Tower Press Building where the artists with live/work spaces and studios will be opening their doors or browsing and socializing as they show of their painting, photography, sculpture, prints and small items such as cards. It’s a chance to meet the artists where they work and see a large selection of their output.
In addition, in the same general neighborhood there’ll be music and arts fest going on at Asia Town Center, hosted by Negative Space. Admission to that is free. Read more here.
1252 E 49th St, Cleveland, OH 44114
Cleveland, OH 44114
Cleveland, OH 44114