Spring Craft Mart 2016

Jun 10 - 11, 2016 / The Inc.

Spring Craft Mart* Smart Design & Craft

Art Crawl Friday June 10, 6-11pm

Saturday June 11, 11am-5pm

Join us for Friday night during Art Crawl and all day Saturday for a pop-up market featuring the best of avant-garde craft and design.

Craft Mart is a pop-up market showcasing the very best of local craft and design. Join us for a night market, Friday, June 10 during Art Crawl. And on Saturday, June 11, help us launch the Artist’s Palette Community Dye Garden with local textile artist and Craft Mart vendor, Thea Haines. The afternoon will include a community plant exchange as well as an Ecoprinting workshop with Haines where participants will use a direct method of dyeing fabric with colour from plants to create pattern and colour using dried flowers, leaves, kitchen and floral waste.

Saturday in the ArcelorMittal Dofasco Courtyard:

1:00 and 3:00 pm
Artist led workshop by Thea Haines
Ecoprinting: Bundle Dyeing with Plant Colour

Using a direct method of dyeing fabric with colour from plants, experiment and create pattern and colour using dried flowers, leaves, kitchen and floral waste.

$5.00 (material costs) Limited spaces available so pre-registration is required. Email: programming@theinc.ca

11:00-5:00 pm
Community Plant Exchange: FREE

Bring your spare houseplants, perennials, veggies, and annuals down to Hamilton Artists Inc.'s ArcelorMittal Dofasco Courtyard and exchange/ trade/ give away plants for free with fellow green thumb enthusiasts. This exchange is open to everyone and will run all afternoon. Feel free to leave a couple, take a couple, or just stop in to see what we have!