visit us on FacebookLatest News
04.05.2012 - The complete list of vendors who will be at the June 9th INDIEana Handicraft Exchange can be found here. Check them out and start your own list of folks you just HAVE to make it a point to stop and visit with that day.
Applications are currently closed for the Saturday, June 9th INDIEana Handicraft Exchange. However, in 2012 we will have two smaller events in the fall and winter. The fall show will be held on Saturday, October 27 in conjunction with the 66th Annual Historic Irvington Halloween Festival on the east side of Indianapolis in the Irvington neighborhood. The winter holiday show will be held in conjunction with iDada's monthly First Friday gallery openings at the Harrison Center for the Arts, on Friday, December 7. Applications for those shows will be available late summer, after the June event. Keep an eye on the IHE website or Facebook page for more details.
03.11.2012 - Applications are now closed for the June 9th summer show. The jury process is well under way and vendors selected for the summer show will be notified by March 27th. The general public should be able to find a full vendor list here on the website by April 3rd. Thanks to everyone who applied. We had a great number of wonderful applicants this year.
SUMMER 2012
INDIEana Handicraft Exchange
Date:
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Time:
12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Admission:
Free!
Location:
The Harrison Center for the Arts
1505 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Parking:
on neighborhood streets around the venue
Click here for vendors
Click here for bands
Meet Our Presenting Sponsor
If there’s anyone in Indianapolis who appreciates handcrafted goods, it’s Dave Colt and Clay Robinson. That’s why their company, Sun King Brewing, is proud to be one of the two presenting sponsors of the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange for the 2012 summer show.
Like the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange, Sun King is part of a national movement to replace mass produced goods of questionable quality with handcrafted alternatives. And like the Handicraft Exchange, Sun King has enjoyed an overwhelmingly positive response from the public and the explosive growth that comes with it.
That growth has made Sun King one of the largest breweries in the state (its products are now carried by more than 500 bars, restaurants, liquor stores and entertainment venues in and around central Indiana) without sacrificing the quality that fueled it (as demonstrated by the record-setting eight medals Sun King brought home from the 2011 Great American Beer Festival).
Its Sunlight Cream Ale, Osiris Pale Ale, and Wee Mac Scottish Ale are always on tap but Sun King rotates up to three new seasonal beers in and out of its lineup each month and is currently expanding its souring and barrel-aging program. The brewery’s focus on seasonal recipes allows Colt, Robinson, and their assistant brewers to flex their creative muscles with different varietals and ingredients.
“We put our heart and soul into what we make and the vendors at the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange put the same love into what they do, too,” says Robinson. Try a Sun King on June 9, from noon to 8 p.m., at the Harrison Center for the Arts, where it will be the only beer on sale during the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange and Independent Music + Art Festival.
JUST POP IN!
Mandy. Carly.
Carly. Mandy.
The bubbly twins who own and operate Just Pop In! are so used to people getting them mixed up that if you confuse one for the other, she'll likely correct you with a smile and a laugh or simply respond to her sister's name without blinking.
The Swift girls grew up in northwest Indiana, AKA 'The Region,' but have made their names in Indianapolis. The gourmet popcorn fanatics opened the flagship Just Pop In! location just off the main drag in Broad Ripple on November 12, 2003. The popcorn - sprinkled, coated and/or slathered with special flavors and ingredients - was so popular that the little company grew and grew, expanding to a second location in the Indianapolis International Airport on November 12, 2008. "Really, exactly five years apart," says Mandy.
The Swifts opened a production facility a few blocks north of their Broad Ripple shop a year later and Just Pop In! has been rockin' and rollin' ever since, slinging sacks of gourmet flavored puffs at IndyCar races, the Super Bowl, downtown hotels, the Indy Film Fest, the Heartland FIlm Fest, the Indiana History Center, the Indiana State Museum and a little shop called Homespun.
Just Pop In! is a Hoosier success story and we are proud to have them as a presenting sponsor of the 2012 INDIEana Handicraft Exchange summer show. "We're a local company creating what we love. Supporting others who are connected to their passion the same way we are means everything," says Mandy. Or is that Carly?
