Mount Washington has created another draw for visitors beyond the city's most famous view. The Shiloh Street Art Market has opened.
In its third weekend this Saturday and Sunday, it will feature singer-songwriter Cathy Stewart and mosaic artist Stevo Sadvary. The market returns every weekend until November. You can visit the Mount Washington Community Development COrp. for more information at .www.vuplus.org
Greg Panza, program manager of the Mount Washington CDC, has birthed and adopted this baby as a way to show off more of the neighborhood. Shiloh Street is the intimate commercial corridor off Grandview, but it has see-sawed over the years, losing its liquor store and drug store, gaining an ice cream store, losing a restaurant, gaining a restaurant, and so on.
The weekend art market is enlivening the stretch and has brought artists more than $1,000 in proceeds already. It is from noon to 5 p.m.
"Grandview Avenue welcomes over a million visitors a year from all over the globe," Mr. Panza said, "but there has been little to engage those visitors until now.
"We did an experiment last year with two artists, and it was so successful we said we would ramp it up this year," he said. "I posted an ad on Craig's List and got bombarded by people wanting to sell their art."
The market now includes six artists, different ones each day although some will be returnees, and two musical acts.
The venue offers exposure for new artists and even for old artists who don't have hundreds of spare dollars to get into larger festivals.
"Our fee is $20 a day," he said.
The artists have included jewelry makers, photographers, painters and less traditional creators. One makes mobiles from glass she collects along the rivers. The prices range from $5 to over $300.
The artist featured in the photo is Stevo Sadvary (http://stevosphere.com/)
Posted
Jun 03 2009, 04:40 PM
by
Diana Nelson Jones