There where ninety four total exhibitors at the arts market of ARTS ON FOOT, thirty four of which where from Eastern Market. Under the leadership of Tom Rall by 2008 the average number of exhibitors at Eastern Market on Sunday was one hundred and seventy-five. He founded the Flea Market at Eastern Market in 1984 with one.
Before and in the Morning is a photo essay and meditation on mostly Eastern Market folks in the of process... on the morning of September 12, 2009 at ARTS ON FOOT in the downtown Penn Quarter in front of the National Portrait Gallery. However, it is also typical of what one could see any morning at Eastern Market and at any other art exhibition, festival or market anywhere in the world.
William McDougle (on site staff)
came to Eastern Market at twelve years old,
is now twenty-two years old, and comes back
and lends a hand when he's not
attending college in Virginia.
William "Rudy" Coates (on site manager)
has been part of the Eastern Market
"family" since 1974.
"The Eastern Market guys" getting it all together
for the big day.
Behind his back, we call him "Tom Junior."
or "Little Tom."
He grew up at Eastern Market:
On site staff
Brady Rall.
(Tom Rall's son)
Micheal Berman
(artist at Eastern Market since 1993)
director of the
Artist Market
He was moving so fast his hair came out of
the ponytail.
"The guys around the market"--on site staff.
Charles Ellis and David Wright
"It girl" and all around "on it sister"
Emily Todd (downtown BID)
with Donna Fletcher,
entertainment programmer
for the Art Market.
Community "Diva"
Jo-Ann Neuhaus
(Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association.)
"The guys," on site staff members
Charles Ellis and Andre S. Mack.
The display stands of Jenae Michelle (fiber art)
and Cherie Lester (collage).
Donna & Keith Ellingsworth
Blue Ridge Cutting Boards
(woodworking.)
Display of Sola Ope (Scarvelous.)
Display of Lori Flanders, Isabelle's Rose (glass.)
Nancy Wasserman
(glass.)
Jean-Louis Monfraix (photography.)
Paul Bierman, Box Boy (collage.)
Val Proudkii (photography.)
Tsolmon Damba (painting.)
Leah Sturgis (jewelry.)
Zakhar Sasim (painting.)
Paul BiermanBox-Boy
(collage.)
Leah Sturgis (jewelry.)
Sola Ope,
Scarvelous
(fiber art.)
Jenae Michelle
Range of Emotion
(fiber art.)
Cherie Lester
(collage.)
Joseph Snyder (painting.)
Matthew ParkerReinventing Reality
(collage.)
Chul Beom Park
(printmaking.)
DeDe Faller
(photograpy.)
Courtey Gillen
( jewelry--not an Eastern Market artist,
but I have known her for twenty years,
a wonderful metalsmith I am
always glad to see at shows.)
Thomas Bucci
(printmaking.)
Joel Traylor,Jet Gallery
(painting.)
Steve Miller
(photography.)
Caitlin PhillipsRebound Designs
(wearable art.)
Pablo Martone,Reloje Arte
(collage.)
Carol Savage
Traveling Savage
(jewelry)
and
Mary Belcher
(painting.)
Us before coffee!
Tom Greaves
(collage.)
(Before and in the Morning)
Before and in The Morning
Before and in the morning, we come to set up our stands, plan our layout, rethink the placement of the objects we have labored hard to make in the hopes that you will...
Before and in the morning, we eat breakfast, drink coffee or tea, arrange and re-arrange, stop, reflect, we remember we forgot, the clips, the pins, the ribbons, the boxes, the credit card slips, change for a twenty, we...
Before and in the morning we ask out vendor neighbors, can I borrow an extra pin, can you loan me a dollar, do you have an extra sales slip, do you have an asperin, what did you hear about...
Before and in the morning, we listen to the weather report, we pack extra..., we look up at the sky, we call home, we make sure we have...
our dreams, our prayers, expectations, our hopes, our lives, our work ready.
Witnessing,
Sonda T. Allen
Turtle's Webb
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