Artist News

Are You Knit-Worthy?

January 18, 2012 Artist News
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Ansley Davenport learned the ways of the world by knitting her way through it. The rural West Virginia native turned Brooklynite got her first lesson in knitting from her older sister whose sage advice was to knit her way over a bad boyfriend breakup. Fast-forward some years and Ansley, whose Ansley Knits debuted earlier this [...]

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Last Call for Dogs

October 12, 2011 Artist News
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Word from Liz & Zeph, the show runners of the esteemed Brooklyn-based, foodie fascinated and Hester Street Fair grill phenom Snap (AKA Snap Food Truck): Halloween Sunday, 10/30, will be their final market day of the season in Williamsburg before they pack it up for the Winter, hunker down and turn their food truck dream [...]

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Down Home in Brooklyn with Kelly Marks

October 11, 2011 Artist News
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All it takes is a little warm sunshine on our faces to get folks in the mood for discovery. This week brought the official debut of long-time market presence and Wisco stalwart (middle America is way over-represented in these parts, betcha didn’t know that) Kelly Marks who recently added to her jewelry collection with a [...]

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Vintage Williamsburg: Spooky Boutique

March 15, 2011 Artist News
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Anyone familiar with the vintage scene in New York City knows that it’s a very small world (do we dare list ‘em?). That’s even more true if you’ve been “in it” for more than 15 years like Ricky Becker of Spooky Boutique. Ricky has been holding court on-and-off but most recently on and on fire [...]

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Lessons Learned for Indie Biz

January 12, 2011 Artist News
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Peter from Polluted Eyeball, a Bushwick-based silkscreening and design company, shot us an email late last week on the eve of us opening our new space to share some memories of his early days at the market (excerpted below). Just so fucking great to get an email like this. Of course we remember Peter. In [...]

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Brooklyn State of Mind: Chicago + Renegade Craft Fair

September 8, 2010 Artist News
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Renegade + a Vienna Beef Red Hot = Summer is still here! This is kind of the motherlode of all the Renegades and it’s happening where Renegade first started back in sweet home Chicago. We’re a little hard-pressed to call the Chicago scene in any way a distant relative of the Brooklyn scene since it [...]

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Fashionville in the L Magazine

July 20, 2010 Artist News
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We stuck our hands into one of those lovely orange boxes that flirt with you on street corners throughout the city and pulled out the most recent issue of The L Magazine to discover a lovely little round-up that writer Laurel Pinson penned about the “essential Summer fleas.” “…Artists & Fleas gets props for actually [...]

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6 Words 4 U

September 18, 2009 Artist News
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Don’t Become the Things You Hate, the thought-provoking title of Seasick Mama’s pop-up art show opens out in front of Artists & Fleas North 6th Street location Saturday. The space – built by Stand Alone Gallery – will house works that are 6-word poetic homages to the struggles of the print media industry. With representation [...]

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Gnome in the News

September 15, 2009 Articles & Links
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Congrats to the boys (and girls) from Gnome Enterprises for being featured in today’s Thrillist. These bad boys of indie threads have been a steady stylist to the throngs of t-shirt & hoodie-seeking folks over the years. If you haven’t seen their set-up at Artists & Fleas, make a point of checking it out. They’re [...]

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