About Elmira Handmade Market
The Handmade Markets are a series of one-day seasonal shopping venues to connect the community with local makers and artists.
The first pop-up holiday market was held in December of 2015 in the Chamberlain Acres gift shop with 3 local artists. At the time, opportunities for fine artisans to showcase and sell their work in Elmira were extremely rare. The tremendous support for that first pop-up encouraged us to launch semi-annual handmade markets in late winter and fall which support about 20 local makers via a juried application.
Emphasis is placed on the handmade element and quality of work for this special juried market. We do not allow kits, imports, reproductions, or resale items. EHM has a different guest juror making the final artist selections for every market.
