Mastodawn

Tonight is the first Friday Night Market of the summer. I’ll be doing twelve consecutive Friday nights vending at a local street fair here in Eureka, CA, selling my greeting cards and prints.

Last year was my first experience doing so at all. I’d never put art out there like I did that first time. And it was life-changing.

Tonight, I go to have fun and enjoy the music, food, crafts, and people I meet. Tonight is about joy, not sales.

Because in today’s world, artists have to link themselves to their art in a way that can’t be so easily obliterated into irrelevance like generative slop does. Slop depends on the commoditization of creativity, separating the artist out of the process entirely in favor of a finished product.

And Art can’t be that way anymore. We cannot be anonymous introverts working hard to share things simply to to be posted to an endless scroll of imagery for the entertainment of bored people looking for distraction in the moment.

Artists can’t hide anymore. To sell their art, they must make human connections. They must engage in their communities and find ways to say, “Yes, I actually made this. This is how and why.”

So tonight is going to be about positivity, home, creativity, and fun. And meeting people to enjoy them as much as I relish making art.

https://www.fridaynight.market/

#art #MastoArt #vendor #Artfair #Streetfair #HowI Humboldt #ILoveEureka #RedwoodCoast #artist # artlife

Coreyartus Imagery 5d ago

They did an article on me as the featured artist for Friday Night Market in my local newspaper. Here’s a gift link:

https://www.times-standard.com/2026/05/17/choose-humboldt-eureka-friday-night-market-starts-may-22/?share=7wago5os0hnmkarwgmsp

It’s a nicely written piece, and it introduces me to the community in a way that is really authentic, and fits into the aesthetic of local-first.

Between this and the poster I made for the event, I’m pretty stoked today! I guess they’ll be selling it as a limited edition print at their info booth, which is honestly a great way for them to raise money—the Humboldt Made organization has been awesome to me, personally, so I’m happy to give back somehow.

https://www.humboldtmade.com/

https://coreyartusimagery.com/

https://www.fridaynight.market/

#art #MastoArt #Fair #Festival #ArtFair #Streetfair #HowIHumboldt #ILikeEureka #Artistlife #posterart #print #RedwoodCoast

getmisch 6d ago

Street Fair! The Ninth Avenue International Food Festival, to be exact. NYC’s oldest *longest running* annual #StreetFair except for Covid.
#Today and tomorrow, no matter the weather. 42nd to 57th.
#NYC #NewYorkCity #midtown #Manhattan #sausage #watermelon #cup #jewelry #cheap #belts #dumplings #mozzarepa #TurkeyLeg #paella

Coreyartus Imagery May 16

So the Humboldt Made folks posted this on their own social media accounts on platforms I don’t use anymore, so I thought I’d share it to the ones I do.

I made the poster for this year’s Friday Night Market in Eureka, California, USA, which is a weekly streetfair and farmer’s market that happens all summer. It features local music, artisans, food, and produce from all over Humboldt County in northern California.

It has been happening for many years, and is (at this point) a community institution. Humboldt Made is a big proponent of local makers, and are striving to find ways to push the fantastic goods made here onto a larger stage and wider markets. They’ve attended trade shows, invited grocery chains up to wine-n-dine them, and sponsored this event for the last couple years.

It has over 100 vendors, and I’m proud to say that I’m a gold member of the organization. Through it, I’ve made friends here in Humboldt County along the Redwood Coast, and been able to share my work in ways that wouldn’t have been possible if I’d remained in a larger urban area. My art practice has become a reciprocal expression of the community, where I take suggestions and then make art that expresses the personality and character of the region. It is a deep community experience that I never knew I needed in my life before moving here to the area a little more than a year ago.

So this poster means a lot. It has a lot embedded into it, as an artistic expression. It has a lot of meaning to me.

https://www.fridaynight.market/

#art #illustration #RedwooCoast #ilikeEureka #howIhumboldt #ArtistonPixelfed #Artfair #streetfair #festival #artistlife #artlife

Nick DeWolf Photo Archive May 13

boston, massachusetts
may 1970

charles street fair, beacon hill

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/267132194
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/558757162/

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

#photography #film #bw #blackandwhite #35mm #streetphotography #boston #massachusetts #beaconhill #charlesstreet #people #streetfair #flags #1970s

Kevin Neely

May 9

St John's Bizarre #PDX #streetfair

getmisch Apr 18

I found it! Had to look around a bit; it’s actually north of the Circle.
A very small street fair on Broadway #today, one block I believe. But there’s also the salesmen and food carts nearby, at the entrance to the Park.
EDIT: I bought a spider plant on the way home for $7 from that nice Hispanic lady on 9th. She said I should water it maybe once a week. I have a better pot for it.
#ColumbusCircle #FoodCarts #NYC #StreetFair #NewYorkCity #Broadway #earrings #crepes #cheap #readers #Manhattan

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getmisch Apr 4

The backup pair I mention here is now gone, days/ weeks later. They were brown with black arms. I went back to the store, the restaurant, but couldn't find them. Now I'm on to the round backup pairs, which I decided I didn't like. Time to find a street fair, replenish my annual supply!
#cheap #readers #spring #temple #glasses #NYC #StreetFair #bargain #NewYorkCity #shopper #picked #over #stores #crazy #high #prices #DuaneReade #Walgreens #highway #robbery on #NinthAvenue

getmisch Mar 22

My favorite glasses broke. I have two back up pair left, plus a pair at work.
These did very well, as they’re readers (2s, up from 1.5s* for years) I bought at last Spring’s midtown Manhattan street fairs, about $8 each. I used to be able to find them w spring temples and nose bridge, now only spring temples.
*Note no apostrophe. Apostrophes are for possessive, not plurals.
Almost time for street fairs, so I’ll replenish for ‘26 ~
#midtown #Manhattan #NYC #StreetFair #cheap #readers #glasses