2024 Holiday Market Digital Program Book
It’s Handmade Arcade’s 20th Birthday!
Our mission is to empower makers of all ages through professional development and connections to customers. Since 2004, we have helped over 3,000 makers connect with more than 215,000 shoppers, leading to makers reporting over $4 million in sales at Handmade Arcade-hosted events alone!
By shopping small at today’s Holiday Market, you are not only discovering unique, handmade products you won’t find anywhere else. You are also supporting local creative entrepreneurs in achieving their small business goals.
Enjoy your exploration of the Holiday Market, and be sure to check out Handmade Arcade’s Virtual Catalog after the event so you can shop small from makers all year long.
Handmade Arcade Team
We are hiring!
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Kelsey Ford, Executive Director
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Kyrie Bushaw, Youth Maker Support
Tara McElfresh, HOHA Coordinator
Jasmine Mao, Volunteer Coordinator
Zena Ruiz, Youth Maker Coordinator
TJ Young, Box Office Coordinator
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Caitlyn Abt
Samantha Bower
Seiko Sisco
Emmanuelle Wambach
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Mia Hooper, President
Shannon Richardson, Vice President
Ariel Beach-Westmoreland
Nicole Zellie Lann
Shaqui Scott
Beth Slagle
Hands-On Handmade Activities
Saturday, December 7 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
FREE
DIY Wrapping Paper with Artists Image Resource & CAPA
Booth 276
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.
Candle Making Demos with Wigenton Candle Co
Booth 277
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.
DIY Tote Bags with Assemble
Booth 278
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!
Clay Wheel-Throwing Demos with Union Project
Booth 279
Stop by for ceramics and clay wheel-throwing demonstrations from Union Project artists.
Felt Sugar Cookie Ornaments with House of Paidia
Booth 281
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!
Interactive Rug Weaving with Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh
Booth 282
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!
Screenprinting with Prototype PGH
Booth 283
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.
Glass-Blowing Demos with Pittsburgh Glass Center
Booth 284
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.
Typewriter Poems with A Poems Purpose
Booth 285
Share a feeling and your hopes with poet Haley Clancy and receive a spontaneous, personalized poem typed on the spot on her typewriter.
Youth Maker Accelerator
Handmade Arcade’s Youth Maker Accelerator provides entrepreneurial support to both individual youth makers and groups of youth makers. Applications for next year’s cohort of Youth Makers will open in the spring of 2025.
Individual Youth Makers:
Ariana Gebhardt
Badamo Photography
Caitie Paige Designs
Cone 6 Studios
Dazey’s Greenhouse
Double Suds
Extrud3D
HoneyBee Makery
LeAnn’s Crochet Creations
Octopus Trash Hoard Crafts
raisArts
Stitches and Stems by Liv
Tabulous
Twin • Carp
zenMetal
Youth Maker Groups:
BatCat Press
Eagle Pride Production
Golden Oak Design
Innovation Shop
Made to Learn
Pittsburgh Perry High School
Specially For You Cards
The Krunk Movement
The Rustic Duck
Weird and Wild by Troop 9109
The Youth Maker Accelerator is generously supported by the The Grable Foundation & AEO Foundation.
Bridgeway Capital Artists
ErieMade Business Academy, Alliance for Creative Rural Economies, and ORIGINS are three of Bridgeway Capital’s Creative Business Accelerator (CBA) programs. Bridgeway Capital has sponsored the following CBA creative entrepreneurs as they realize their small business goals. Please support them at the 2024 Handmade Arcade Holiday Market!
AKLW Gemstone Jewelry LLC
Allegory Gallery
Broken EGG Clay
Burnt Cabin Press
CJ Sews
Facemadics
Forest Crossing Friends
Heather Heitzenrater Art
Hill + Holler Herbal Company
Inkspiration by Richelle LLC
James Joseph Designs & Photography
Jamie Keim Studio
Mad Artist Paradise LLC
Madison Rose Ceramics
Mountain Creek Glass
Naptural Beauty Supply
North Fork Jewelry Design LLC
Paddy’s Workshop
Petra Eff Studio
ReClaimed Threads
Sarah Hunter
Sealed by Nature LLC
Shalya Marsh Studios
Shapelessflame
Spring Fox Studios, LLC
The Sweet Squid
Thoughts in Paint
Uncle Dave’s art Studio
Waterhouse Pottery
Wild Indigo Wares
Donate to Support Handmade Arcade
Your donations are critical to sustaining Handmade Arcade as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to supporting makers.
$25 covers a ticket if we charged you to shop at our markets. Help keep our events free so you spend more on makers!
$50 covers application fee waivers for makers who can’t afford to apply for our Holiday and Spring Markets.
$75 covers a month of keeping our Virtual Catalogs online so you can discover maker small businesses to support all year.
$100 covers the cost of one of our free creative entrepreneur workshops to help makers achieve their small business goals.