FOURTH ANNUAL INDIANA ARTISAN MARKETPLACE

Only once a year, the state’s highest-quality Artisans come together, and the Indiana Artisan Marketplace provides that opportunity. Talk with the state’s exceptional artisans, recognized by both art and food jury panels, taste their foods, wines and beer, see what makes them the best at their craft, and enjoy the opportunity to take home some of their work. Artists from the juried Kentucky Crafted program, and foodists from Kentucky Proud, join Indiana Artisans at this event each year. Nearly 150 artisans will participate in the 2014 Marketplace, and you are invited at the 2013 ticket price. The Marketplace is a once-a-year opportunity to buy one-of-a-kind artwork and foods directly from the artisans who make it. Here is a great example, of Indiana Artisan Megan Winn making one of her leather-covered journals. The event provides opportunity to meet the artisans and to share their stories. Come and watch 19 artisans create work – potters throwing, painters painting, weavers weaving, and some exciting looks at candy making are just a glimpse of what’s in store. Four artisans – painter Douglas David, chocolatier Jayne Hoadley, fiber artist Sylvia Gray, and Mark Cox and Josh Henson of Fermenti Artisan – will demonstrate their work all weekend in the center of the Exposition Hall. Also, Aurora-based Great Crescent Brewing Company, which recently had two beers recognized by Indiana Artisan, will sample and sell three of its craft brews. All food artisans again will offer samples of their candies, cheeses, wines, chocolates, noodles, pretzels, jams, and more. In addition to browsing through the work of the Artisans, visitors again will enjoy Indiana music, this year sponsored by radio station 92.3 WTTS, sharing locally produced music all weekend from the station’s annual Collectors Edition CDs. The work of more than 250 artisans in nearly 60 Indiana counties has been juried and is part of the Indiana Artisan brand. An Indiana Artisan is a Hoosier recognized for careful attention to detail, knowledge of a craft and an entrepreneurial spirit. His or her talent contributes to Indiana’s reputation for quality work, and the Artisan brand includes glass, wood and leatherwork; oils, watercolors, acrylics, and colored pencil; wine, jewelry, weaving and fiber art, specialty cheeses, pottery, fudge, chocolates, popcorns, and more. Greg Adams will exhibit his handmade rustic willow furniture in booth 135 and will continuously demonstrate his craft durning the show. He will sell bundles of freshly cut pussywillows and will offer free starts to patrons who are interested in starting their own pussywillow tree.