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Friday, November 30, 2012

I Made It! For Holidays Features Local Artists

I Made It! Market will host 'I Made It! for the Holidays' this Friday and Saturday in Pittsburgh, featuring artists from local communities.

It's the holiday season in Pittsburgh's Bakery Square, and those headed that way can find a marketplace of locally-made goods and artwork—some from artists in Dormont and Brookline. I Made It! Market is hosting "I Made It! For the Holidays" today, Friday, from 5 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 1, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Last year, more than 7,000 shoppers visited the two-day event. This year, artists and makers will again provide a wide variety of locally-made and hand-made good, including ceramics, housewares, jewelry, clothing, bath and body products, giftware, prints, letterpress, sweet treats, plush, children’s items and more. Una Biologicals—owned by Brookline native Jessica Graves, who now lives in the North Hills—is an event sponsor …

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Brookline Crafter Behind ‘I Made It! Market’

Carrie Nardini started “I Made It! Market” to give local crafters more business opportunities. Now the market caters to hundreds of local artists.

Carrie Nardini and Nina Barbuto were at a craft fair at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 when they began talking about opportunity—or the lack thereof. Both young women are crafters, but at the time there weren’t many places for local people to sell handmade items. The women were on the verge of creating “I Made It! Market,” an organization that now includes hundreds of local crafters, artists and makers. “It was really the resurgence of people selling and wanting handmade things, but there sort of wasn’t anywhere for those makers to go,” Nardini said. “We thought, ‘let’s just make this happen, and make this happen all the time.’” Nardini, 35, of Brookline, is now the director of I Made It! Market, which strives to provide local artists …

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Erin Faulk

12:37 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Melissa, thanks so much for sharing your experience! I'll have to check out your work next time I can get to an I Made It! show.   more ›

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