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

Yvonne van den Herik May 21

flashback… drawinglog | 2026wk17

TEKENKABINET XIV / KunstRAI 26
Curated by… Francis Boeske Projects
stand 106

www.tekenkabinet.nl
www.kunstrai.nl

big thanks to
Manja van der Storm, initiator, curator and organiser of Tekenkabinet

1. in good company / part of Tekenkabinet stand (thanks to Herman Fontein for photo!)
2. my work : Untitled 2026 (into characters / after after 35) , very fine brush and indian ink on Arches 300g/m2 paper
3. stand 106 with all drawings (photo: Manja van der Storm)
4. all participants of this 14th edition of Tekenkabinet

#artfair
#amsterdam
#contemporaryart
#contemporarydrawing

Coreyartus Imagery May 17

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

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

Jacquie Maria Studio May 14

‘In The Sky’ , new work to see at Photo London booth Bo8 Galerie Baudelaire. Olympia London.
Analog photo printed on silk 80cm x 120cm.
#analogphotography #nature #birds #exhibition #photography #london #artfair #sky #art #artcollector #photo

Jacquie Maria Studio May 13

Solo show by Jacquie Maria Wessels at Photo Londen presented by Galerie Baudelaire BE
13-17 may The National Hall, Olympia, London

Photo London Fair: https://photolondon.org/exhibitors/2026-2/galerie-baudelaire/

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#photolondon #soloexhibioton #artfair #artcollection #art #analogphotography #nature #poeëtic #london #film #contemporaryphotography

Coreyartus Imagery May 11

I did my first event where I did not make back the fee I paid to be a vendor.

Neither did a lot of the other vendors, and those who did only just covered it.

I’ve never seen so many frustrated vendors. I made eight sales. The last 2.5 hours of the first night there were more sellers than attendees.

Many of the vendors started packing up early. None of the ones I talked to will be doing events put on by that manager in the future.

Lesson learned. There were signs. But I trusted. And now I think I need to be a bit more selective.

But there were still several good things that came from it:

1) I got several people to subscribe to my mailing list.

2) I got a list of new suggested things to draw.

3) I met a bunch of fellow vendors I probably wouldn’t have met otherwise if we had less time to sit around and chat.

4) I now have a bunch of stock I don’t need to prep for the next show I do.

Next up is the beginning of Friday NIght Market on Friday, May 22! Woohoo! I *know* this will be a much better experience. Last year was awesome, and I’m looking forward to meeting more new friends!

https://www.fridaynight.market/

#Artfair ##festival #ArtistLife #Artist #ArtForSale

Eureka Friday Night Markets

Eureka Friday Night Markets in Humboldt County is the regions premier festival featuring hundreds of local artisans every Friday during the summer

EUREKA FRIDAY NIGHT MARKETS

Coreyartus Imagery May 8

I’m going to be here later this afternoon and tomorrow: Mother’s Day @the Acres.

Come see me for your bird art and greeting cards! I have new stuff this year!

https://coreyartusimagery.com/

#Birds #BirdArt #RedwoodCoast #MothersDay #GreetingCards #Art #ArtFair #Festival

Jan Gaska May 5

Yesterday's painting of Bradenham Manor farmhouse, an impromptu demo on the last day of the Art Exhibitionists Art fair. Oil on gesso panel, 28 x 36 cm.
#bradenham #paintingdemo #artfair #oilpainting #landscapeoilpainting #landscapepainting #pleinairpainting