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Above: The beautiful ivy-lined
vaulted brick arcade building
beside Occidental Park. The
Summer Funky Market takes
place every Saturday from
11 am-5 pm, beginning
June 4th through August 27th.
Its original concept, the Art
in the Park occurs during
the First Thursday Art Walk
from 3pm-dusk. Both creative
enterprise takes place at the
Occidental Park in the quaint
Pioneer Square neighborhood.

As a spin-off to the First Thursday Art in the Park, the Summer Funky Market launches this Saturday, June 4th at the posy and cobblestoned fanciful Occidental Park in the Pioneer Square neighborhood in downtown Seattle.

Every Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm, expect funky and unordinary handmade jewelries, beadwork, metalwork, woodwork, knitwork, colorful pottery and ceramics, homemade candle, soaps, and assorted aromatic potions, and other fantastic whimsical arts and crafts from local independent artists. In addition, the Saturday Funky Market will also offer resale items, clothing, antiques and other uncommon fab bargains. This is not your ordinary drab crafts fair.

The Art in the Park at Occidental Square originally started as an organic gathering of artists who sold their work during the First Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square. Now, the tradition and all the artsy pleasure expand through the last Saturday of August for the Summer Funky Market in Occidental Square.

Not only will you get fabulous handmade one-of-a-kind finds at the Funky Market and the Art in the Park, you’ll also be supporting our local independent creative talents!

A whole lot of funk going on
at the market.

Interested in becoming a vendor at the Saturday Summer Funky Market or the First Thursday Art in the Park? Here’s how:

.. Items for sale or on display must be unique art objects, displayed and sold by the artists who created them. Artist must be present and selling their art.
.. The City of Seattle requires that participants intending to sell items at this event need their own current Seattle business license. It is the responsibility of artists to follow other laws for operating a business (such as collecting sales tax).
.. Qualifying artists may participate on a first-come, first-served, space-available basis.
.. $8 for an 8′ x 3′ space.
.. $17 for a 10′ x 10′ space.
.. Free 8′ x 3′ space for artists who will be showing their work but not conducting business. Show-only artists will not be allowed to set up along side fee-paying artists. A separate area will be designated for show-only.
.. Up to 4 artists may share a space. (Because work for sale at this event must be sold by the person who created it, each artist selling work must have their own business license.)

For more information on the Saturday Funky Market or the First Thursday Art in the Park, contact the Pioneer Square Community Association at (206) 667.0687 or visit www.pioneersquare.org.

Related posts: “For the Love of Art: First Thursdays & Other Art Walks in the City”; “Edibles*: Neighborhood Farmers Market– The Old Hot New Thing.”