The Market & Our Seasonal Markets

Established in 2003, Artists & Fleas Artist, Designer & Vintage Market is a weekly Williamsburg Brooklyn indoor market where emerging and independent artists, designers, vintage collectors and DIYers can showcase their wares, set up shop and meet their market. It’s a unique destination where consumers can interact and buy directly from the source.

Located in a large early 1930s manufacturing warehouse in the heart of Williamsburg’s North Side on North 7th Street between Wythe & Kent Avenues with views of the Manhattan skyline and the Williamsburg waterfront, Artists & Fleas is a vital, vibrant and dynamic environment for the community of local artists, designers, collectors and next-generation business owners to get into retail.

Since first opening our doors, we have had over a dozen members of our community go on to open stores of their own in Williamsburg including Mast Brothers Chocolate, Malin Landaeus Vintage, Brooklyn Charm and several others.

Like markets and marketplaces all around the world, Artists & Fleas is different things to different people. It’s a pop-up shop, a rotating store-front, a place to stimulate the trend-spotting itch. It’s a place where resources, ideas and merchandise are constantly changing hands. It’s a place where discovery happens each and every weekend.

On March 1st, 2012, Artists & Fleas returns to Chelsea Market in Manhattan for a Spring season residence through the end of May.

Artists & Fleas at Chelsea Market promises to be a brand new experience in alternative retail – a curated marketplace of designers, artists and vintage dealers. Part designer showcase, part maker’s market, this pop-up will host over 30 independent creators and sellers of jewelry, art, design, home accessories, vintage clothing, and all things indie, funky, Brooklyn and bespoke from both Artists & Fleas’ 9 years in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and the larger creative community. In addition, the market will play host to an eclectic mix of weekly programming led by independent designers and artists open to the public.

Open 7 days a week from 10:30AM-7PM. Previews Thursday, March 1st at 88 Tenth Avenue (Tenth Avenue & 15th Street).

Artists & Fleas at Chelsea Market: A Holiday Pop-Up Market

From December 15th through December 31st, Artists & Fleas brings the best of Brooklyn to the heart of hip with a 2-week long holiday pop-up at Chelsea Market on the corner of West 15th Street & Tenth Avenue. Artists & Fleas at Chelsea Market is a holiday market showcasing over 30 indie designers, artists and collectors across a wide range of design categories for your perfect shop indie, shop local gift shopping hook-up.

Market Details:

• Address: 88 Tenth Avenue (accessible via the main Chelsea Market hall entrance)
• Previews Thursday, December 15th from 12pm-8pm
• Open Friday, December 16th-December 31st from 10:30am-7:30pm
• CLOSED Sunday, December 25th with abbreviated hours on Saturday, December 24th (10:30am-5pm) and December 31st (10:30am-5pm)
• For a list of participating designers, click here.

 

2011 Brooklyn Holiday Bazaar: Williamsburg, Brooklyn

As in years past, the market will be over-hauled in the spirit of the holidays for the 2011 season. Artists and designers and makers interested in showing and participating in this year’s market are encouraged to do so as soon as possible to secure dates. Availability is on a first-come, first-served basis. Special holiday market hours are below:

Friday, 12/23: 12-7pm
Saturday, 12/24: 10-5pm
Sunday, 12/25: CLOSED
Saturday, 12/31: 10-7pm
Sunday, 1/1: 12-5pm

 

Artists & Fleas @ OSA Presents: At The Williamsburg Waterfront is an exciting collaboration with North Brooklyn’s NY Parks Department organization the Open Space Alliance of North Brooklyn (OSA) and OSA Presents. Now in its second season along the Williamsburg Waterfront, the concert series has a memorable past originating in the early 2000s at McCarren Pool where it was known as the Pool Parties and played host to many headlining bands. The current series will return to the East River State Park along the Williamsburg waterfront and will have programming to include a wide range of musical acts and entertainment including several free shows throughout the season.

Artists & Fleas’ participation in the 2011 concert series is an opportunity to showcase several local emerging and newly-established artists, designers and crafters. Every show will have a rotating presentation of 5 Brooklyn-based artists and artisans to give concert-goers a unique opportunity to participate in the independent Williamsburg experience and take it back home with them.

Summer 2011 confirmed shows include:

• Saturday, June 11: Coheed & Cambria [FREE Show]
• Sunday, June 19: Children’s Show: Story Pirates with Moey’s Music Party [FREE Show]
• Friday, June 24: Thievery Corporation w/Raphael Saadiq
• Wednesday, July 6: Kid Cudi
• Friday, July 22: Death From Above 1979
• Friday, July 29: Eugene Mirman with Special Guests They Might Be Giants
• Tuesday, August 2: Death Cab for Cutie
• Friday, August 12: Sonic Youth
• Wednesday, August 31: Bright Eyes
• Thursday, September 8: TV on the Radio
• Saturday, September 17: Widespread Panic
• Saturday, September 24: Fleet Foxes

For a complete list of concerts, visit the events page on the OSA website. For information on how to participate as a vendor, please visit the Become A Vendor page above.

The Pool Parties began in 2005 in the currently-under-renovation McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg Brooklyn as a concert and performance series of concerts to benefit the Parks under the auspices of the Open Space Alliance (OSA). Local promoter JellyNYC kicked it up a notch in the subsequent years with a cutting-edge line-up of indie bands and performers. The shows moved in 2009 to the East River State Park along Kent Avenue where Jelly re-launched The Pool Parties as a mini-series of free shows to celebrate all things wonderful about the neighborhood.

Encouraged by the popularity of the shows and the awesomeness of the Williamsburg waterfront as a venue, OSA and its sibling organization OSA Presents created the Williamsburg Waterfront concert series with a roster of local and global superstars including performances in 2010 by Faith No More, Modest Mouse, Grizzly Bear and others.

Artists & Fleas is proud to participate in the concert series and present a showcase of independent artists & designers. Alongside the amazing array of local food and drink vendors from Roberta’s, El Diablo Tacos, Brooklyn Brewery and more, we are proud to present some of the creative talent that resides in our neighborhood.

Stop by, say hi and join us at the shows.

The Market in McCarren [CLOSED] was a Summer season outdoor independent artist and designer market held weekly from May through July 31st in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park in partnership with the Open Space Alliance of North Brooklyn (OSA). The Market in McCarren featured independent designers of clothing, jewelry, accessories and handmade crafts along with an array of traditional and non-traditional visual artists and a selection of local food producers and purveyors.

The Market in McCarren was held for 2 summers in 2009 and 2010.