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sax photo: Val Proudkii
Turtle's Webb Raising Hell at
Eastern Market
http://www.turtleswebbraisinghellateasternmarket.blogspot.com
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Demented Decoupage: BoxBoy Paul
Bierman at Eastern Market
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Dehors de la
Catagorie
Exhibitor Lejla P. Ebner can
answer the much asked question, "Did you make this yourself?" with
a resounding NO! She loves art so much-how much do you ask- that
she sells her brother-in-law's oil, and acrylic paintings, prints
and etching at Eastern Market. Lejla P. Ebner hails from Savrajevo, Bosnia
she has been at Eastern Market since 2006. Her brother-in-law,
Barry Ebner, is a professor of art at the Academy of Art in San
Francisco and the Art Institute of California at San Francisco.
Barry Ebner has had numerous solo exhibitions and has been
collected internationally. As for Lejla, she was introduced to the
market by a friend who lives close by. In her other life she is a
full time mom. Of the market she says, "I love it. It is a small
international community. I feel really comfortable. I meet so many
people. I love this neighborhood."
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by :Barry
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The
Vibe on the Outside...is Autumn
It is getting cold out side. The "hawk" is
coming and folks you need a "fly" piece of head gear. The dudes at
The Flea Market at Eastern Market could give many a man style
points on how to wear a hat and not have the hat wear you. So, when
you are around the market check them out, but don't "hate" or
"bite" on there styles, just take the lesson. For classic Eastern
Market style check out the pill box hats of Suzanne Milavitz
ofLemon
Drops.
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A Lemon Drops: Pill Box
Hat
Ms. Milavitz is from Wisconsin. She came to
D.C. like so many others to work on Capital Hill. But some where in
there a change of career was in order. Suzanne is not a new comer
to Eastern Market. While she may have one of the smallest stands at
Eastern Market, she can be seen every weekend morning arriving on a
racing bike, stand and all. she has been at the market since 1990.
Her hats are made from organic cotton, silk and velvet. Her
signature piece is this quilted hat. She also has a excellent
reputation for making easy to wear and care for children
hats.
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Lemon Drops: Children and Adult
Hats
As for being at the Market, Suzanne said
what she likes is, "the face to face with people." The fact
that,"you get to actually see the person that is wearing your piece
of art."
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Eastern
Market Classic: Mike Burzynski-Golden Oak
Antiques
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Mike
and his wife Jean Burzynski (Golden Oak Antiques) have
been exhibitors at The Flea Market at Eastern Market for 14
years. They were in the vanguard of "new exhibitors"
who established in the mid 1990's the Hines School grounds as a
vital part of the Eastern Market success story.
As
the success of the outside operations grew at the Market, thanks
to, the hard work of John Harrod(founder: Market 5 Gallery and The
Arts and Crafts Festival at Eastern Market) and Tom Rall (Founder
and manager: The Flea Market at Eastern Market) the merchants
inside the building decided to open operations on Sunday. It must
be noted that there are those who have never appreciated the great
contributions of the outside exhibitors to the success of Eastern
Market. In 1991, the inside merchants decided to open their doors
on Sunday's. The inside merchant's management, "Eastern Market
Corporation" claimed that The Flea Market at Eastern Market had
violated its leasehold alongside the building and evicted Flea
Market Merchants (who had built up businesses and clients to come
to Eastern Market on Sunday in the first place) from those
spaces.
In conversation with Tom Rall, he told a bit of the history of how
he and John Harrod fought to keep exhibitors at Eastern Market,
despite the actions of "Eastern Market Corporation" and others who
have never wanted arts and crafts nor flea market folks as part of
the market and still do not.
Mr. Rall wrote , "To accommodate the displaced
exhibitors, we began, for the first time, Sunday sales inside the
North Hall, where I moved for the rest of that season.
The next year, I approached Princess
Whitfield, then the principal of Hine, about using
the space outside the playground, and the parking lot, on Sundays.
We started there in 1992, paying rent directly to the school. Two
or three years later, the school system approached me to sign a
contract directly with DC Public Schools for use of the Hine
spaces.
I'm not sure when John moved Saturday exhibitors
there, but I think it was possibly 1993. He too had a contract with
DC Public Schools.
The flea market did not actually move into
the school yard until 1995 or 1996."
Mr.and Mrs. Burzynski were one of the first businesses to anchor
"the school yard" to Eastern Market.
Mike Burzynski was born in a small village in Poland-Rudnia
Nalibocka. It was destroyed early in World War II. In 1943 at seven
years old Mr. Burzynski and his family were placed in a German
prisoner of war camp until the end of the war. After the war as
there village had been destroyed they were placed in a Displaced
Persons Camps in Germany until 1950. Mr. Burzynski tells a
wonderful story of being able to go to school and learn how to
read for the first time when he was ten years old, outside on the
grass at this camp. In 1950 his family emigrated to United States,
to Newark, New Jersey via Ellis Island. He was 12 years old.
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For the last 40 years Mr. Burzynski has been in the antique
business. He had his own auction house for 20 years and has owned
5 antique shops in Baltimore City. He also restores furniture. He
says, "if it is wood I can fix it!" As for being at the market he
says, " I was suppose to be retired for the last 15 years so it
helps make ends meet." His feelings on his life at the market, he
stated, " I think it is a terrific market. Very friendly customers
and the other vendors are great. Tom and Vernon are
wonderful."
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| Jean and Mike
Burzynski |
In
1956 Mike met Jean. They have been married for 53 years.
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Note: Exhibitor: Teodora
Villagra
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Villagra |
Ms. Villagra hails
from Managua, Nicaragua. She came to the U.S. in 1980. Theo as she
is known around the market; came to Market 5 Gallery's Arts and
Crafts festival at Eastern Market in 1990 initially to assist
another exhibitor, Marta Vindiola. Marta was
known, for almost twenty years, for her wonderful sand cast Mexican
pewter bowls, spoons and platters. Theo caught the Eastern Market
bug and set up her own stand in 1995. Many of the sand cast pewter
pieces can still be found on Teadora's stand at the market.
However, Theo is not
just an importer of interesting "l'object d' art" from around the
world. She is also an artist in her own right. Her stand is know
for its glass jewelry("bug" pins) and hand painted glass mobiles
all of which she makes herself.
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Spider
pin
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In 2003 Ms. Villagra started taking pottery
class at Eastern Market Pottery. She studied with well know Eastern
Market pottery teacher's Susan Jacobs and
Andrea Jones. Theo will be bringing her own
pottery to her stand at the market very soon.
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Studio
visit: BoxBoy: Paul
Bierman-a demented decoupage
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La Hell Raiser
says...Get
your Holiday Shop on
It's almost time for the holiday
season so come to Eastern Market and also check
out...
The 6th
Annual DownTown Holiday Marketreturns for 21 days, December 3
through 23, 2010 on the F street sidewalk in front of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery between 7th
& 9th Street NW.
http://www.downtownholidaymarket.com
The
DownTown Holiday Market is on Facebook and
Twitter
twitter
http://twitter.com/dtwnholidaymkt
Some of your favorite
Eastern Market Artists and Exhibitors will be there so...Get your
shop on.
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