Arts Alive offers an exciting array of vendors in 2023 on both Shore Street Extension and Peg Noonan Park. Be sure to visit all of them!
For more information on Arts Alive and the schedule of performers, visit Arts Alive 2023. For the Art Tent schedule, click here.
NOTE: Vendors will be either on Shore Street Extended (to the right as you face the Falmouth Public Library from Main Street) or in Peg Noonan Park (to the left as you face the library from Main Street). Assignments for 2023 have not been made yet, but, in the listings below, SSE will indicate Shore Street Extended, and PNP will indicate Peg Noonan park. In addition, several nonprofit organizations will be on the Falmouth Library Lawn.
Artists
ALR Designs (PNP): Alyssa Ruggieri creates watercolor art for greeting cards, prints, framed art, and stickers.
Annie’s Studio (PNP): Anne H. Hutchins creates centerpieces, jewelry, original art, original art cards, and fragrances.
Betsy’s Heart (SSE): Betsy Goren makes polymer clay jewelry, wall art, boxes, pens, bowls, and greeting cards.
Belonging Books (PNP): Erica Tso Haidas specializes in books about nonmajority populations, including people of color and other underrepresented communities on the Cape.
BFF Kitchen LLC (PNP): Katie Buehlmann makes dry rubs, seasonings, finishing salts, and flavored maple sugars.
Brown Bowl Company (PNP): Michael P. Adams creates wooden bowls, turned on a lathe.
Bzzyfingers (SSE): Melissa Oliveira makes a variety of fabric items, including keychains, notebooks, wristlets, reusable snack bags, and zippered pouches.
Candles & More by Heather (PNP): Heather Pelland makes soy candles, gel candles, pie candles, wax tarts, ornaments, and book marks/
Cape Cod Artistry (PNP): Anastasiya Yakovleva is a painter and digital artist who offers stickers, paintings, and custom shirts.
Cape Cod Henna (SSE): JoAnn Whittemore offers henna body art, as well as aftercare products such as aroma therapy and bath products.
Cape Cod Press (SSE): Jiyoung Park and Jeremy Wagner create prints, drawings, paintings, collages, cards, and apparel.
Cape Cod Octopus’s Garden (PNP): Judy Lacava creates sea glass and shell jewelry, sailboat earrings, and painted horseshoe crabs.
Cape Coop Farm Soap Shop (PNP): Liz Martin makes soap and spa products and alpaca wool items using wood from the alpacas on her farm.
Carole’s Jewelry Design (SSE): Carol Ellis makes jewelry from quahog shells (wampum), sea glass, and resin, including pendants, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings.
CChepeleff Photo Design (SSE): Christine Chepeleff offers original, award-winning, read-to-hang seascape photographs.
CHART Metalworks (SSE): Mike Nicholas creates handmade jewelry and accessories, as well as some wooden products, such as cribbage boards.
Scott Cooper Creations (SSE): Scott Cooper creates mixed-media art using polymer clay, glass, cloth, shells, jewelry, beads, pictures, and mementos.
Cottage Accents (SSE): Bernie Rivard makes boat-shaped window box planters and party food servers.
Craft-Tine (SSE): Martine Bindler-Desbiens creates papercrafts, including cards, gift boxes, and wreaths.
Creative Canvas by Donna (SSE): Donna Austin creates epoxy art on canvas.
Creativity by Lily (PNP): Lily Matthews makes jewelry and accessories.
Designs by Tara (SSE): Tara Ring makes canvas pillows, ornaments, tea towels, and wine bags.
Dice Goblin (SSE): Ellen Spence offers handmade dice, bags, and accessories for table top gaming.
Laura Edson Images/Cape Carder (SSE): Laura Puopolo sells photo cards and framed photographs.
EKL Designs Woodwork (SSE): Ellen Lewis and Lorna Moon make cutting boards, tea boxes, puzzle boxes, and other wood items.
Eldridge Ceramics (SSE): Amy Eldridge makes hand-decorated functional pottery inspired by the earth and sea.
Elias Studios (SSE): John and Jennie Elias make blown glass hummingbird feeders, tumblers, vases, ornaments, pins, and pendants.
Fashion for Empowerment: Sherry Divedi is a fiber artist who makes hand-loomed and plat-dyed textiles. She teaches women skills such as hand-looming, block printing, basket weaving, and jewelry making to enable them to make a living.
Featherworks Studio (PNP): Meg Krohn sells leather earrings, original art and art prints, resin collage coasters and serving trays, stained glass, home decor, magnets, and postcards.
Gratitude Juice (SSE): Darcie Enea makes macrame wall hangings and plant hangers and ceramic mugs, pitchers, coffee pour overs, and bowls.
Harley’s Handmade (SSE) Haileigh Nuttall makes tumbers, key chains, and accessories.
Justin Larocca Hansen (SSE): Justin Larocca Hansen paints in watercolor, specializing in landscapes, seascapes, and nautical creatures and offers paintings, giclee prints, and greeting cards.
Heavenly Light Crystal Creations (SSE): Sharon Keating offers crystal suncatchers for indoors and out and keychains.
House of Stone and Metal (SSE): Andrew Tuse works with silver and beach stones, creating Viking rune inspired pieces and leather accessories.
Just Tickled (PNP): Jeannie MacMasters makes girls’ hair bows, tutus, headbands, and kids’ accessories.
Jen Kano Photography (PNP): Jen Kano sells matted prints, notecards, and finished pieces.
KatCo Creations: (SSE) Kathi Taylor sells apparel for women, men, babies, and toddlers, using her original designs. She also makes wine bags, totes, hand pouches, flour sack towels, art prints, and cards.
Little Cat Metals (SSE): Carol Joannid and Dana Hunt create ethical, hand-fabricated jewelry.
LjBjewelry (SSE): Laura Jane Bouton hand fabricates sterling silver and mixed metal jewelry, statement rings, stacking bangles, bracelets, necklaces, pendants, dangle earrings, stud earrings, personalized jewelry.
Mision de Caridad (SSE): Mision de Caridad empowers displaced women and children on the Mexican side of the US Border by providing the opportunity for women in poverty to earn an income by hand crafting bags and totes made out of recycled materials which are responsibly and sustainably sourced.
Misty’s Closet (SSE): Debra Nuttall makes bows, ties, and bandanas for pets and wreaths.
Denise Montoyo Pottery (SSE): Denise Montoyo makes pottery, including plates, platters, bowls, spoon rests, ornaments, coasters, and kokopellis.
My Creations (SSE): Lee McNeaney makes watches and necklaces adorned with sterling silver and semi-precious stones.
Nautical Creations (SSE): Erika Hamer specializes in rope and cord items, including rope wreaths, pet toys, plant hangers, key fobs, and sailors’ bracelets.
Nelson Jewelry (SSE): Mark Nelson makes sterling silver earrings, rings, and pendants, as well as items with both gold and silver.
Ondine (PNP): Donna Sutton specializes in fiber arts, creating children’s sweaters, purses, and nautical creatures.
Oscar Boxer Doggie Duds and Wellness (PNP): Kathleen Bamber sells pet products, including bow ties, ties, harnesses, dog collars, bandanas, and carry bags. She also creates small-batch essential oil blends and goat milk soaps.
Outer Cape Trading Company
Petals and Seashells (SSE): Sally Langlais works with dried flowers and shells preserved in resin, creating jars, plates, candelsticks, wine glasses, ornaments, and more.
Pine Island Studio (SSE): William Brown creates cement planters in a variety of shapes for small succulents, as well as macrame hangers.
Pleasantwood Cottage Creations (PNP): Elaine Davis makes coiled fabric baskets, tote bags, and cell phone bags.
Carlos Ponce (SSE): Carlos paints in acrylics, using sand and ocean water from Bristol Beach. He incorporates sand, pebbles, shells, coral, rocks, and other materials into his creations.
Puzzled Jay Productions PNP): Cassandra Annati offers apparel, stickers, pins, banners, framed art prints, cards, accessories, and masquerade masks.
Anju Rajani Ceramics (SSE): Anju Rajani makes functional pottery.
RYetra Studio (PNP): Rick Yetra creates oil paintings.
Sandler Crafts (PNP): Leonard Sandler makes multimedia signs and wall hangings.
Scarabocchio Silversmiths (SSE): Lynn Abravanel and Patty LeGrand create sterling silver and gold-filled hand-wrought jewelry, including bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings.
Seapoint Trade (SSE): Kaley Ledwidge makes body products, leather items, and rugs.
Carla Shaw Sustainable Fashion (PNP): Carla Shaw makes bio-jewelry made by hand using real plants layered in 18k gold.
Shining Sea Farm Falmouth (SSE): Hans and Rachel Anderson hand carve nautical designs: sharks, mermaids, whales, rainbows, and more, for home and outdoors.
Shoreline Designs (SSE): Naomi Keeling creates framed seascapes, resin wall hangings, and ornaments, all made with local shells, sea glass, and sand.
The Silkworm Florist (SSE): Andy Greenhalgh recycles found objects to make garden and nautical decor.
The Snap Scarf (PNP): Nicole Kodak sells scarves and shawls with snap closures.
Isabel Souza Studio (SSE): Isabel Souza creates wheel-thrown mugs, bowls, platters, vases, and ceramic jewelry.
Speks of Glass (PNP: Julie Williams-Tinkman offers sea glass jewelry and home decor.
Strong Roots Woodworking (PNP): Michael Phipps makes wooden cutting boards, serving trays, tissue boxes, cribbage boards, and more.
Swing Lane Studio (SSE): Donna Andrews creates handcrafted lampwork glass jewelry.
Karen Teeley Creations (PNP): Karen Teeley makes wooden toys, including dinosaurs, trucks, helicopters, rainbows, and much more.
Treeline Terrains (SSE): Alex Gemme makes wooden topographic maps of the Cape, as well as wall art and home décor.
Unique Jewelry and Gifts (PNP): Helen Mancini offers unusual plates with beaded serving pieces, resin ornaments, Venetian glass jewelry, starfish and shell ornaments, book thongs (beaded book marks), and beach glass jewelry.
Waquoit Bay Fish Company PNP: Michael Palmer draws realistic fish and creates stickers, greeting cards, prints, hats, and t-shirts decorated with his art. He is inspired by the coastal waterways, marshes, and woodlands of the Waquoit Bay region on Cape Cod.
Organizations
Calliope Poetry for Community (Falmouth Library Lawn): Alice Kociemba will be on hand with her “Wish You Were Here” Postcards from the Past” project. She will have reprints of historic Falmouth postcards from the Falmouth Public Library collection. She will be asking people to respond to the postcards in poetry, prose, or visual art. Responses will be collected for an exhibit at the Falmouth Museums on the Green in the fall.
Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum & Cultural Center (Falmouth Library Lawn): The CCCVM&CC is dedicated to sharing and celebrating Cape Verdean history and culture, and offers public celebrations of history, culture, art and music; seminars on social and racial inequality, and workshops on farming practices, quilting, music, language appreciation and lessons in Kriolu and Portuguese. It has a collection of some 1,000 artifacts related to Cabo Verde, Cape Verdean and other Lusophone migration.
Cape Cod Pride (Falmouth Library Lawn): The purpose of Cape Cod Pride, Inc. is to build bridges of understanding, connection and support among the LGBTQIA community, its allies, and the community at large. Toward that end, Cape Cod Pride, Inc. plans and produces an annual event, as well as related activities through the year. The Cape Cod Pride Festival will be held this year on July 22, from 11 AM to 3 PM on the Hyannis Village Green.
College Light Opera Company (CLOC): CLOC is non-profit theatre organization providing college-age students from around the country with a unique educational opportunity to learn from leading professionals and practice their craft in a challenging but supportive environment. CLOC produces nine musicals and operettas each summer at Highfield Theatre.
Falmouth Chorale (Falmouth Library Lawn): Led by Artistic Director Dr. Andrew Welch, the Falmouth Chorale is composed of about 80 active singers, 15 of whom are members of the Falmouth Chorale Chamber Singers, performing at community and private events.
Falmouth Cultural Council (Falmouth Library Lawn): The FCC supports community-based projects in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences with funds appropriated by the state legislature and administered by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. The Town of Falmouth supplements those funds with an annual allocation. Decisions on which community projects to fund are guided by the results of a community survey, which people are encouraged to complete while they are at Arts Alive.
Falmouth Gun Safety Coalition (Falmouth Library Lawn): The Coalition works to reduce gun violence through education and legislation. They will provide free information on gun safety and gun locks.
Falmouth Public Schools: The Falmouth Public Schools’ Juneteenth Committee, chaired by Henry St. Julien, brought together teachers, staff, and community organizations to present a reenactment of Juneteenth and share student Juneteenth activities, including posters, poetry, and song.
Falun Dafa Association of New England (Falmouth Library Lawn). FDANE is a nonprofit organization of people from all walks of life who are improving their moral character (called raising one’s Xinxing in Chinese) through mental and physical wellness practices. FDANE will make origami lotus flowers for people, as well as teach the how to make them and the meaning behind the lotus flower in Chinese culture.
No Place for Hate Falmouth (Falmouth Library Lawn): The mission of NPFH is to build bridges, combat bias based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and religion, and to promote respect for all people through advocacy and education. NPFH offers community events including lectures, film screenings, workshops, dialogues, and other educational offerings that provide opportunities for learning, conversation, and reflection.
People for Cats (SSE): People for Cats is dedicated to finding good homes for adoptable stray and surrendered cats and kittens, reducing the stray and feral population through spaying and neutering and educating the public about responsible cat care and ownership. They will be selling T-shirts, tank tops, hats, mugs, bags, and socks.
Woods Hole Cantata Consort (Falmouth Library Lawn): The Woods Hole Cantata Consort is a summer community chorale and chamber orchestra that performs a program of classical music in the village of Woods Hole, in the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Woods Hole Film Festival (PNP): Learn more about the Woods Hole Film Festival’s 31st festival, to be held Saturday, July 29 through Saturday, August 5, 2023. The Festival will take place in-person in venues in Woods Hole, Falmouth, and virtually. The Woods Hole Film Festival is an eight-day showcase of independent film featuring daily screenings, workshops, panel discussions, special events, master classes, parties, awards ceremony and more.
Food Vendors
Mad Good Cookie (SSE): Hand-crafted cookies are made with the finest ingredients, and without additives or preservatives. The result, after baking, is a cookie that is crispy on the bottom, firm to the touch on the top and soft and moist in the middle.
Sea Scoops (SSE): Sea Scoops is a environmentally friendly mobile marine ice cream boat located in West Falmouth Harbor and serving local Whistle Stop Ice Cream. They will be bringing their ice cream truck to Arts Alive.
Wild Game Sausage Man (SSE): Food truck serving wild game sausages, cooked on the grill and topped with peppers, onions, and special sauces. The menu features wild boar, duck, elk, alligator, and more, including hamburgers and hot dogs.
Many Thanks to all our vendors and entertainers and to our sponsors who make Arts Alive possible and to And many local businesses, organizations and individuals. We couldn’t do it without you!
