Join Assemble in creating your own DIY (Design it Yourself) shopping tote! Whether you need a bag to carry your Holiday Market purchases, a little bit of extra storage, or a specially designed tote you can give as a gift, this is the right stop!

Let the artists from Pittsburgh Glass Center blow your mind! Hot Wheels, the center’s traveling glass studio, will roll into the market and bring furnace-fired fun and glass-blowing demonstrations to all attendees, creating fiery works of art from molten magma.

Make an adorable felt sugar cookie ornament using felt sheets and embroidery thread with House of Paidia! These felt ornaments are perfect for hanging on a Christmas tree or in a window during the winter season. Take home your own paper pattern foldable so that you can share this sweet little craft with friends and family!

Watch the process of large-scale silk screening up close as AIR artists and CAPA students create silk-screened art on enormous sheets of paper. A few lucky attendees can take a sheet home to use as handmade holiday wrapping paper.

The members of the Fiberarts Guild will do an interactive demo of rag rug weaving! The focus will be simple weaving skills and sustainability using spools of fabric strips that were intended for a landfill. Contribute to a large rag rug that will be donated as a 2024 Holiday Market raffle prize!

Stop by for ceramics and clay wheel-throwing demonstrations from Union Project artists.

Participants will have a hands-on experience with real mid-fire clay with Westinghouse Arts Academy! You will have access to tools and stencils to make a creation that stays at the table for other visitors to enjoy.

Learn to screenprint using the CNC vinyl cutter with Prototype PGH! We will show you how to make vinyl stencils that can then be applied to screens and printed onto posters! Everyone who participates will leave with their own screenprinted poster.

Come and spend some time with Wigenton Candle Co as they demo their candle making process. You'll have an opportunity to not only see their process but also purchase a candle of your own.

Share a feeling and your hopes with poet Haley Clancy and receive a spontaneous, personalized poem typed on the spot on her typewriter.