Last chance, San Francisco. This weekend I will be manning my meat art table with my trusty partner Steve, and over 250 other amazing vendors. Seriously, one-stop shopping for the holidays. We’re front and center (well, slightly left of center). I’ll have all my remaining original meat art from the Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ show. Hope to see you there!
Tomorrow, will you be stuck in your office all day, with only a lunch break? Or maybe you’re playing hooky and shopping in Union Square?
Either way, you should stop by the La Cocina Gift Bazaar. This is the 4th year for the food incubator’s holiday gift show, and the first time it is taking place at Crocker Galleria, conveniently located at the Montgomery BART/MUNI stop. It was a great show last year, and if you have any food-lovers on your Christmas or Hannukah list, this is your one stop shop. Say hi!
Steve and I will be vending our hearts out this weekend at Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco. Come by and say hello. An exciting addition this year is the food pavillion, organized by Forage SF. Should be some tasty, locally made food-type things there. Uh, yeah. Oh, and my mom will be there. She’ll be the one hiding behind our art.
Saturday and Sunday, December 1 + 2
11AM – 6PM
Concourse Exhibition Center, SF
FREE
It’s that time again, folks! The annual summer Renegade Craft show in San Francisco is this weekend!
I’ll be there. Steve will be there. Meaty art will be there. Meaty chocolate will be there (from Nosh This, in the booth right next to us!)
Come on down, it should be great as usual. 
A couple weeks ago, I ventured outside of the 415 with my meaty art in tow (oh, plus Steve and some egg mcmuffins) to participate in the Renegade Craft Fair in Los Angeles. It was my first show outside of San Francisco, and despite a lower turnout than anticipated (thanks a lot, Carmageddon) I’m definitely counting the show as a success. Why?
1. An outdoors show that was actually WARM!
True, sometimes I’ll get a rare warm Sunday show with Indiemart, but for the most part in SF, it is inside shows or crazy windy outdoors ones. LA was lovely, tented, and a full 30 degrees warmer than SF at the same time.
2. Confirming that LA folks love meat too.
There were a couple of people who didn’t quite seem to “get” the strong rallying cry of “Los Angeles is for Meat Eaters” but overall, I got meet a ton of excited food and meat lovers, including numerous chefs, and friends of chefs.
3. We got and used a dolly.
No idea why it took us over a year of doing craft shows to spend a mere $28 to get the most amazing, back and marriage saving device ever. Thanks to Margaret of Paper Pastries for the insanely key tip.
4. Visiting The Bruery and Beachwood BBQ
Heading south also meant the chance to see my custom artwork I made for Beachwood BBQ in Long Beach (I might have had some amazing ribs and Telegraph Reserve Wheat on tap while I was there too). The place was fantastic, and finally getting to meet Lena and Gabe, the owners was such a treat. I’ve been delighted to discover that so many of these awesome business I love are co-owned by husband and wife teams.
Seeing the custom art in person was such a crazy trip and so exciting. As you can see.
We also managed to sneak in a private tour of The Bruery in Placentia, courtesy of the crazy nice and generous Ben, PR dude extraordinaire. I’ll have a separate post about that.
6. Palm Springs, baby.
Oh, and a quick jaunt to Palm Springs after the show didn’t hurt a damn thing. More on that later….
Why yes.
If you didn’t get a chance to say hi or snag some meat art of your own at Renegade SF a couple weeks ago, tomorrow is your chance. I’ll be selling my artwork, as featured on The Atlantic (I tried to mention that super casually. Did it work?) and hanging out with my partner in crime, Steve. Much of my new work is not available online yet, but it will be available tomorrow at Indie Mart. Come on by and say hello. I’m friendly.
Hello hello! We just finished up a loooong weekend at Renegade Craft Show in San Francisco and it went so well! (Our home, however, is much worse for the wear.) Thanks so much to everyone who came by and bought some slamming art, whether for their kitchen, to use as a study aid in culinary school (yeah!), or as a gift for another meat lover in their life. Steve and I really felt the meat love.
It was also so great to see friends (some bearing cans of champagne!!!), chat with fellow artists and vendors, catch up with old co-workers, and meet internet/twitter pals in real life. My favorite exchange of the day was with a kind woman who asked if I was from SF, and then proceeded to ask which school I attended. I told her that while I lived here now, I didn’t go to school here. And so she asked which art school I went to. Much laughter as I told her that I went to law school, not art school.*
This was my first time doing a summer Renegade show, and it did go really well. Since it was my first show since the holidays, the ole booth set up needed an upgrade. My hubby, a newly accomplished carpenter (complete with beard pencil holder) designed and constructed some great display cases. They were a classy upgrade from our old kraft paper-covered foamcore cases we had over the holidays.
Man, is there anything that beard CAN’T do?It was also my first craft show since the holidays, and after the MEAT MARKET art show in May, I had a bunch of new work to display.
Figuring out which pieces to keep from previous shows, as well as how to best display my original works, and all the new prints was challenging. In fact, on day 2 we completely changed our display, which I think worked even better.
Set up on day one. Nice display shelves, right? Also, we only have 2 of the original tiny cheeky meat watercolors (lower shelf, left side) remaining!
Oh, and I bought myself a little treat! A bamboo watch from Mistura.
Now, to buckle down and create a meat poster for LA, where I’ll be at Renegade, in oh, 4 days!
*She then followed up with the inevitable question of “what do you parents think about all of this,” but, uh, we don’t need to discuss that, right?
Or will be tomorrow. And Sunday.
I kind of can’t believe it. Last week was a banner week here at Drywell headquarters, with three days of incredibly exciting and successful shows. Too much for words to describe, so I’ll show some pics of the Indie Mart at Academy of Sciences and Bazaar Bizarre SF holiday show.
It was so amazing to see people have a double take with my “Meat My City” posters, laugh at my weird art, and tell me that they were buying prints to give as gifts! And I met SO many people who said that they already owned some of my art! That was crazy. crazy awesome, right?
Anyways, I’m busy gearing up for Renegade tomorrow and Sunday, but took a little time off to make 2 dozen meat ornaments. Maybe not the most productive use of my time, but totally worth it.
If you’re in San Francisco, I really hope to see you this weekend at Renegade. The line up is awesome, and you can get your holiday shopping done in one fell swoop. And maybe you can snag a print of my newest little blocky piece!
Busy busy here, scurrying to get ready for the Indie Craft Fundraiser, TONIGHT at Hotel Rex in San Francisco. It should be tons of fun and I’m excited to reveal a lot of new items, including holiday cards! (woo!) I’ll post some pics later today if I get a second.
If you’re local, I’d love to see you there!
Insanity over here folks! October was an epic-ly awesome month of travel, fun and socializing (East Coast wedding, reunion with high school pals in TX, Oktoberfest, an amazing beach wedding weekend involving s’mores, masks, and beer drinking in the ocean, and yeah, some World Series celebrating). Which means there wasn’t quite as much work being done as I’d like. So November has been dubbed “Nofunvember” in out house. At least no non-arty fun!!
Why the lock down? Well, Drywell Art will be in FOUR, yes FOUR craft shows this December.* And holy crap, they are going to be awesome. So I’m a busy bee right now, developing new arty goodness, taking over every available space in our tiny one bedroom apartment, and avoiding being buried under a sea of supplies.
The goal is to have some festive holiday cards, a full line of “Meat My City” posters (like the “San Francisco is for Carnivores” one), some fab originals, and some new tshirts. Another goal is to be posting some little glimpses into the insanity that is a holiday season for art folks on the craft circuit. I’m getting pretty excited!
*Want to know the line up?? Well, they are all in San Francisco
Thursday, December 2nd :: Handcrafted Holidays at Hotel Rex (late afternoon to evening)
Thursday, December 8th :: IndieMart at the California Academy of Sciences (evening)
Saturday and Sunday, December 10th and 11th :: Bazaar Bizarre at Fort Mason. (all day)
Saturday and Sunday, December 18th and 19th :: Renegade Holiday at the Concourse in Golden Gate Park. (all day)
