Call for Artists

Are you an Illustrator, Graphic Designer or Painter? We're looking for artists who would be interested in designing our Indie Market posters for July, October, November and December. This would be a trade only venture. What we need is a 300dpi, high resolution, pdf image that's fun, funky, quirky and reflects/represents the life of the Indie Market. The finished image and text will fit on a poster that's 12" x 18" (landscape or portrait) and a card that's 4.25" x 5.5". If you prefer to do art work only, we will gladly put the text in ourselves. What you'll get in return for your artwork is a free 10' x 10' booth at the Indie Market for the month you design the poster AND free advertising.

What do we mean by free advertising? Well... Of course, your name will be on the poster to let everyone know who created it. Every poster printed will be hung up and every card printed will be passed out all over Greensboro and the surrounding areas. A jpeg image will also be sent out to all of our vendors (30+), who in turn will place it on websites, Facebook, blogs and send it out in emails in order to advertise for that month's Market. There's no telling who will see your work and what kind of business it will bring you (hopefully lots). =)

We're all about supporting local artists and helping to get your work out to the public. If you'd like to take us up on our offer to design a poster, please contact Mandy and I at FirstFridayMarkets@gmail.com.

Thanks!

May Indie Market Pictures

Thank You/Call To Vendors

The May Market came and went just as fast as the winds blew this past week. Those of you that were at the Shindig or the Kernersville Spring Folly know just what I'm talking about. =) Fortunately, the winds spared us and gave us a gorgeous day and night to work with. It turned out to be a wonderful Market, full of many talented artists and an awesome crowd to support us. Thank you so much to each and every one of the vendors, musicians and fans that came out! We truly do appreciate your support!

Hopefully we'll have some pictures to post for you in the next few days. If anyone else was out taking pictures, please feel free to send them to us at FirstFridayMarkets@gmail.com and we'll post them as well.


We're now gearing up for the June Market and are looking for vendors to fill our lot. If you're interest in participating, please click on the Vendor Application tab above, fill out and submit the form, then submit your payment via Paypal. If you have any questions or problems, please contact us by email.

Thank you again for helping us keep the Indie Markets going!!!

Chris

9 More Days Til the May Market

Wow! Time sure has flown this month. I can't believe we're already in the countdown until the May Market. 9 more days and it'll be here!!!

We have plenty in store for all of the folks who grace us with their welcomed presence. =) We have some awesome new vendors for you this month, as well as some of your Indie Market favorites. We even have a Caricature Artist coming out... a first for the Market. We're totally excited about all of the wonderful and talented vendors we have, so please be sure to come out and show them your support.

Our local musicians for this month are:

Serendipity The eclectic Jazz/Folk duo of Alison Perkins & Jeremy Wood. They will be playing from 5:30pm - 7:00pm.

Rob Disner from TV Yellow An Indie Rock group who's members are Rob Disner, Kevin Cox, Ron Moore & Curt Meinhold. You'll remember Rob as the singer/guitarist from last months market. He (or they) will play from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.


If you would like to help us get posters up and pass out cards, please contact us at firstfridaymarkets@gmail.com. They're at the printer now and should be ready by the end of the week. Mandy and I cover the downtown Greensboro area pretty well, but if we can get some volunteers to put them up in other locations around Greensboro, Kernersville, Burlington, High Point, Browns Summit, etc. we would really appreciate it.

If you're on our Vendor Mailing List, you'll be receiving the June Vendor Application by email around the 1st of May. If you're just too excited about participating and can't wait that long, the App is already up here on the blog. Just click on the Vendor Application tab at the top of the page.

We'll see ya next week!

Looking for Vendors!

We still have a few spaces available for the May 7th Indie Market. If you haven't submitted an application yet, there's still time (deadline is April 15th)!

A Few of our Many Pics from the April Market

Thank you!

Chris and I want to thank each and every one of our vendors for helping us make the April Market a huge success! We hope each of you were just as successful individually as we were as a whole. Everything about Friday night was awesome and we couldn't be more pleased. We also need to thank the crowd - turnout totally blew us away, especially since it was a holiday weekend. We knew it would be good, but it really surpassed our expectations.

We're already working on the planning for the May market! If you haven't filled out an application to be a vendor, please do it asap. The application deadline for the May 7th market is April 15th (tax day - you can't forget!). If you've already filled out an application, you can just submit your payment and send us an e-mail to FirstFridayMarkets@gmail.com and let us know you want to participate.

We hope May is even bigger than April - and hopefully a little bit cooler! See you then!