The Mad Market offered art for everyone: cool and crazy. We shared ideas, inspirations and images. Artists used every media – paint, plant, paper, peanut butter. Mad art covered every topic – cartoons to psychosis to cupcakes. The photos below give a very rough idea of the incredible range of mad artists:
Bronwen Sims gathered nifty healing plants and made inspiring pots.
Iris Jacobs – beautiful images by wet on wet
Nerissa Hutchinson takes steam punk into an exciting future – steamgummi.weebly.com
Genova tells stories and creates magic
Louise Martin – Author – lessons of her life
Moshe Sakal makes abstraction attractive
Jewels and art and a plant!
Kyla Bell makes intriguing, inspiring artistic emotions
Gail Watson creates art with jewelry or jewelry art.
Brighter views through Stain Glass by Carol Anne Monet
Mad signs of the times
Sharing butterflies for kind notes (unicorns)
Mad Baking by Tina Vourinaris
Mad info from Ryerson – Sleep more, try gardening, get a button.
Christine Shaheen makes multi-textured mad art http://www.christineshaheen.me/
Judith Phelan’s mad stories and mad art
Cassandra Arthur brings detail and beauty to the smallest of creations
Erin Kotva makes beautiful chain mail
Samm-kablam-o – upcycled alternative art – https://arisetotrash.wordpress.com/
Art making continued at the market!
For next year, look forward to much more publicity and many more vendors!
Mad Pride is more than meeting fabulous beautiful people, it is also about talent. Comedy, music, poetry, painting, jewelry, and comedy.
The music night brought us together in an intimate affair to discover remarkable talents. Performers covered everything from classic folk tunes to Adele to heartfelt original poetry to Alanis Morissette (who attended in spirit):
Jokes and madness go together like dogs and poker.
If you can’t laugh at mental illness, then you needed to attend the Mad Pride Comedy night. Our veteran, scintillating and dirty performers covered everything from relationships to hospitalizations; families to medications; and nut allergies to psychiatrists. There was a lot to learn and next year we might prepare a report (haha) to send to psychiatrists to diagnose their problems and advise them on how to improve.
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Mad yoga started off each days’ activities beautifully. New, fit, stiff and experienced movers stretched and relaxed their way to clearer states of mind.