More than 180 artists and all your friends and neighbors will be on Cherokee Street this Saturday, December 7, for the annual Print Bazaar. The event, a holiday classic, runs from 11 a.m.–6 p.m. It highlights the incredible variety among the region’s printmaking artists working in woodcuts, etching, letterpress, screen printing, lithography, and printed fabrics.
“This year’s Print Bazaar is the 17th, and it’s the classic experience that folks have come to expect,” says Emily Thenhaus, executive director of the Cherokee Street Foundation, which produces the bazaar. Shop for unique holiday gifts, and make a day of it at the street’s shops and restaurants.
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Artists will be set up at locations along the street, with hubs housing dozens of vendors at The Golden Record (2720 Cherokee) and Bomb Door (at the corner of Texas and Cherokee). There will be artists at other venues all along the street, with plenty of new spaces taking part this year, including more on the Antique Row end of the street, east of Jefferson. It’s a lot to take in during a single day, but you can plot your visit and preview the artists online before you go or buy prints online.
“A lot of the muralists that have been really making their mark on St. Louis will be here in the bazaar,” Thenhaus says. Many have been participants in the St. Louis Mural Project, the ARPA -funded and Regional Arts Commission-managed grants that engage with the neighborhoods where they’re painted. Look for prints from muralists 18andCounting, Brian Lathan (based on the mural at Cherokee and Texas) Simiya Sudduth, Edo Rosenblith, and Killer Napkins.
And it wouldn’t be Cherokee Street, of course, without a little DIY festivity. “There’s so much holiday cheer about it that is actually remarkably unplanned,” says Thenhaus. Past bazaars have been crashed by pop-up petting zoos and carolers in festive skivvies and not much else—so keep your eyes peeled for creative additions to the day.
