THE A & F STORY

Thank You, 8 Years Later

November 23, 2011 THE A & F STORY

On the eve of what inevitably becomes a start to the mad dash finish of the holidays, we wanted to say thanks for an awesomely exciting adventure. We started this journey on November 23, 2003 — 8 years ago today. We loved markets. We loved stuff. But more importantly, we loved and longed for a [...]

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Change is Good (for you & your business)

January 13, 2011 Re:sources

Artists & Fleas co-founder Amy Abrams runs In Good Company, an innovative office and community co-working space for women entrepreneurs in Flatiron. She penned this post yesterday for their blog and it begged to be re-posted here. When my husband and I started Artists and Fleas 8 years ago, it was initially an experiment and [...]

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Lessons Learned for Indie Biz

January 12, 2011 Artist News

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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(Flea) Market Moves

January 4, 2011 THE A & F STORY

We closed down 2010 and bid farewell to our old, humble digs on North 6th Street (below) late last week. Few of the vendors who have treated the market as their home away from home (or storage locker, or hoarding station, or pop-up shop) for the past few years shed a tear as they packed [...]

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Williamsburg 2.0

December 17, 2010 THE A & F STORY

We started Artists & Fleas in 2003 with a simple mission: to create a place that would welcome anyone in and around the neighborhood who made something, collected something and wanted to try and sell it. It was about providing a low-to-no barrier to entry place for people to try and ply their trade and [...]

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The Birth of Artists & Fleas: 7 Years Ago This Weekend

December 9, 2010 THE A & F STORY

In 2003, we started Artists & Fleas and promoted it largely through email, grass-roots networks, word of mouth. We’re picking up where we started and sent out an email to friends earlier today. Below is that email. 7 years ago this weekend, Amy and I woke up at the crack of dawn (8am), rolled up [...]

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A Letter to Duane and Stumptown

November 16, 2010 Re:sources

Dear Duane, I had the chance last week to spend some time at Stumptown Brooklyn and stood in the shadows of the roaster (the person and the machine) and wanted to share a few of my thoughts on the experience. I wanted to do so because, honestly, I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. I’m [...]

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Counting Down: 7 Weeks to 7 Years

November 10, 2010 Re:sources

7 years ago today, I was riding my bike around the Northside after my daily evening swim at the Metropolitan Pool (it was a lot nicer then, having recently undergone a renovation a few years earlier). My mind was free and clear and I was working hard at a job but was feeling a little [...]

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The More Things Change, the More They…

September 15, 2010 In Case You Missed It

We spent yesterday evening under a blissfully clear night sky at East River State Park for OSA Presents Modest Mouse at the Williamsburg Waterfront. The scene, the vibe, the mood, the temperature, the music, the vendors were all AMAZING. We had a rock solid line-up of local artists and designers from the Artists & Fleas [...]

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The History of A & F

October 13, 2008 THE A & F STORY

In December 2003, we opened Artists & Fleas in an empty warehouse on N. 6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn . Artists & Fleas was established as a weekly marketplace to bring artists, collectors, designers and anyone seeking a place to play show and sell together in a non-intimidating retail environment to network, sell and get [...]

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Georgia Varidakis

October 1, 2008 THE A & F STORY

Georgia Varidakis is the Director of Market Operations. She first joined the Artists & Fleas community in the Fall of 2005 as an artist and continues to grow her jewelry business – Georgia Varidakis Jewelry – to serve countless retail, wholesale and direct-to-consumer accounts throughout the New York metro area. Her attention to detail and [...]

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