Events

Bad Bitch Bazaar is an outdoor vendor market for women-, nonbinary-, and queer-owned businesses, and this Sunday is the last one of the season. It runs the last Sunday of the month at Allegheny Commons East Park (Cedar Avenue and East Ohio Street, North Side), from noon to 5 p.m., and it's free to walk through. Along with the vendors there is a DJ series presented by FITA House Music, local food trucks, and a dessert hearse.

I'll be there with prints, originals, magnets, and postcards of Pittsburgh places. Thank you to the Bad Bitch Bazaar team for a season of Sundays. Come by, say hi, and bring a friend.

The Pittsburgh Honky Tonk is a monthly Friday night of classic and contemporary country music, led by Jon Bindley and his band, at venues around the city. This month is the Halloween edition, Zombie Tonk, at Spirit (242 51st Street, Lawrenceville) from 7 to 11 p.m. The night has live music from The Steel Cowboys, line dancing, and drink specials. It is a 21+ event. This will be my first Honky Tonk!

I'm vending at this one as a makeup date for the August Block Party event that got rained out. Thanks to the Honky Tonk organizers for giving me another opportunity to share my work. I'll have prints, magnets, and postcards of Pittsburgh places, including music venues. I still have to come up with a costume!

The Last Minute Market is I Made It! Market's final stop of the holiday season, on Saturday, December 12 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Robinson Town Center. I Made It! Market describes itself as Pittsburgh's pop-up marketplace and maker community, and this one is set up for last-minute holiday shopping, with early bird shopping from 10 to 11 a.m.

I'll be there with prints, magnets, and postcards of Pittsburgh places, plus originals. Thank you to the I Made It! Market team for having me. Stop by and finish your gift list with something local.

My first tabled market, set up at Velum Fermentation during a packed South Side weekend (pierogi-eating contest, pet costume context, and the whole city buzzing with NFL Draft energy). I brought a full booth: two display tables and a pair of gridwalls hung with originals and prints, plus my newest postcards. I even got to dance with Hannah Jalapeño (watch on IG), which felt fitting for an artist who draws Pittsburgh's icons for a living. 😆

Tucked in a back corner on a rainy afternoon, the setup still pulled people in. My new postcards were a hit, conversations were good, and I walked away with a commission request from a local restaurant. Not bad for my first official market, and a reminder that the work travels well beyond the neighborhoods it's drawn in.

Art All Night is one of Pittsburgh's best traditions: a free, all-welcome, around-the-clock show where the whole city's creativity ends up on the walls. I hung my "Bananas" original and got to meet Scott Kowalski, the Pittsburgh artist and muralist who helped organize the night's live painting and art auction. But the what I'm proudest of from that night wasn't on a wall at all. I played a set on the Coffeehouse Stage, the first time my visual art and my music shared the same room.

Nothing about that night was transactional, and that was the point. It was a reminder of why I love making art in this city in the first place, and the first hint of something I didn't originally forsee: shows where art and music happen together. Already looking forward to next year!

My first solo feature: a month-long show at Tazza D'oro in Highland Park, with nineteen pieces on the walls. Tazza invited me to take over their walls after seeing my work at their December holiday market.

The work moved from day one. The Highland Park Houses original sold during setup, before the show even opened. After that, something sold nearly every day of the residency: originals of the Heinz Ketchup Bottle and the Kennywood Dog & OG Beer, a steady run of prints, and even online orders from the QR codes on each label (including my first out-of-state sale). Several Tazza regulars bought pieces of the places they see every day. I met so many new friends and neighbors and was delighted by the stories of what their purchase meant to them.

My very first art market! I live near and love this coffee shop. I'm on the email list so I was notified about their call for artists. Since I had recently started to noticed an increase in people asking me about prints, I decided to go ahead and follow the thread and see if I could sell anything.

I featured prints of the following pieces:

• Tazza D'oro
• Park Place Pub
• Row House
• Bryant Street Market
• Biddle's Escape
• Mr. Smalls Theater

I ended up selling 11 prints and made $267, which was more than I spent creating the prints. Sharing for transparency, as someone who wished I had more mentors as a baby art entrepreneur. ❤️