{"id":103547,"date":"2024-01-12T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T20:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=103547"},"modified":"2024-01-12T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T20:53:57","slug":"watch-from-studios-to-sales-black-friday-night-market-features-unique-art-finds-to-back-local-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/watch-from-studios-to-sales-black-friday-night-market-features-unique-art-finds-to-back-local-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: From studios to sales: Black Friday Night Market features unique art finds to back local artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Yiqing Wang<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Murphy &amp; Sons Irish Bistro organized its annual Black Friday Night Market on Nov. 24. Featuring fine handmade goods by Chicago-area artists, the market stood out this year with the participation of four teenage artists and a diverse selection of crafts from jewelry to unusual textiles and paintings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Black Friday night market\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/902360894?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSCRIPT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yiqing Wang: If you are looking for a Chicago market during Thanksgiving, the Black Friday Night Market is a must-go. Located on the second floor of Mrs. Murphy &amp; Sons Irish Bistro in North Center, this market brought refreshing handmade goods by local artists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Solomon: I&#8217;m a jeweler. I make silver jewelry, and I&#8217;ve been in a lot of markets. And when the woman who was running this market didn&#8217;t want to do it anymore, the Irish Bistro, she asked me if I would like to run it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wang: With hundreds of markets in Chicago each year, the Black Friday Night Market stood out by its special selection of goods and support for local young artists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Solomon: This is a curated show that means that everybody&#8217;s here because they&#8217;ve been chosen to go here. They all have to apply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wang: Not only do vendors have to send photos of their work, but also they need to have diverse samples for the application. In this market, everything has to be handmade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Solomon: We have four children selling things. We are encouraging young artists, young entrepreneurs. So not only are we running a show here for adults, but we&#8217;re encouraging young artists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wang: The Black Friday Night Market also aims to promote innovative techniques that may be unfamiliar to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Retzik: If you put a sweater in hot water, it felts. It just becomes smaller. So, when I get the sheep wooling, I put hot, soapy water on it, and I manipulate it with my hands into the shape I want. You can do a lot of felting by knitting. You can get great big things, and then you reduce them in size.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wang: For other people like Leslie Roycroft, working with alcohol ink for 20 years made her realize the charm of wiping things off and starting over again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Roycroft: I think one of the coolest things about it, the paper allows you to, I mean, you can sit there with soap and water and wash it, and nothing will happen. But you take the alcohol and let&#8217;s say you don&#8217;t like your painting at all. You can put it right on there and wipe the whole thing off. I spent about two weeks on it and just started racing parts of it, and then suddenly the whole thing was gone. And I think in one night I finished it. So, like this completely new painting. So that&#8217;s something I like about. It&#8217;s very forgiving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wang: The Black Friday Night Market is not just a place for selling, but also an adventure for customers to know different types of art and support local artists. I\u2019m Yiqing Wang from Medill Reports<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Yiqing Wang is an investigative graduate student at Medill. 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