2025 Holiday Market

Watch the process of large-scale silk screening up close as AIR artists and CAPA students create silkscreened art designed by teens and AIR staff on enormous sheets of paper. Attendees can take a sheet home to use as handmade holiday wrapping paper.

You can also put your nose to the test in a Match the Scent game. How well do you know the fragrance oils in your favorite candle scents? Us your memory, scent recognition, and attention-to-detail to match each fragrance oil to a beautifully displayed candle.

Take a visit to Union Project’s Wheel Mobile, equipped with clay, tools, a potter’s wheel, and a Raku kiln. This mobile studio extends Union Project’s ceramics programming by bringing clay anywhere there’s a road. Their teaching artists can show up at a playground, neighborhood festival, library, etc., and provide wheel throwing, hand-building, and Raku firing demonstrations and activities.

You will have the opportunity to witness the magic of this beautiful art form up close. Watch as Union Project teaching artists demonstrate their throwing skills on a pottery wheel.

Join Protohaven for a captivating live demonstration of traditional blacksmithing and woodturning. Watch as a skilled blacksmith heats raw metal in a roaring forge, then shapes it with precision using hand tools, hammer and anvil, transforming simple stock into a striking work of craftsmanship.

Meanwhile, Protohaven’s expert woodturner will brings a block of wood to life on the lathe, carefully carving and refining it into a unique, handcrafted piece before your eyes.

Don’t miss this immersive look at the power, rhythm, and artistry of time-honored trades!

Let the artists from Pittsburgh Glass Center blow your mind! Hot Wheels, the center’s traveling glass studio, will roll into the market and bring furnace-fired fun and glass-blowing demonstrations to all attendees, creating fiery works of art from molten magma.