Welcome to Hover Craft, Milwaukee’s favorite handmade holiday shopping extravaganza.
You’ll find all the details to make your trip to Hover Craft the best one yet. Keep reading to find information about why you might like to attend our event and then also the nitty gritty details that include tickets, navigating to the Historic Pritzlaff Building, parking when you get there, all of our lovely vendors, lunch options, our lovely sponsors, and more! Enjoy!
Hover Craft is located in the beautiful and historic Pritzlaff Building. It's centrally located near downtown Milwaukee and the beautiful 3rd Ward Neighborhood.
We showcase a wide variety of vendors. Everyone who is a vendor makes the things they are selling and so this event is a great way to connect to creatives of all sorts and experience their amazing creativity.
You'll find emerging and established vendors when you come shop. Many of our vendors have been making things for many years, which means the quality of their work is unmatched. Many of our vendors are new to this and that means you haven't seen their work before and might discover something amazing and unexpected.
Many of our vendors only sell at Hover Craft, which means you'll come across unique things you won't find at other craft fairs.
All of the vendors represent small businesses. We put on this event so these small businesses can grow. We want to give shoppers a chance to easily support small and local businesses every holiday season.
We have over 120 artists, crafters, makers, and creatives of all sorts selling unique items for you to browse.
We have a number of vendors who make things to order on the spot.
Hover Craft is a busy place, but to manage the crowd and make the shopping experience as pleasant as possible, we sell timed tickets for people to come to shop.
This year, Hover Craft is delighted to invite nearly 50 vendors who have never participated before, so every shopper will find new things to check out.
We are proud to offer a range of bites, snacks, and drinks at the event. Colectivo Coffee will be serving up the best coffee in town. The Pritzlaff bar will be open for sodas, beers, and bloody mary's. There will be a selection of food vendors throughout the event for shoppers to grab a bite.
We hope you join us for another fabulous year of shopping and creativity.
Where you can find perfectly unique and high quality handmade gifts for everyone on your list - while you support local creatives and strengthen our local economy.
Thanks for coming to take a look and consider joining us at our event!
Plan your Day at Hover Craft!
Details:
Sunday, December 1
12 pm–6 pm
143 W Saint Paul Avenue. Milwaukee, WI 53203
Timed tickets:
$5 for General Admission, kids are free
$15 for a Super Green Commemorative Shopping Bag
How to get there:
Drive! Parking is available in multiple lots within walking distance of the venue.
Take the Hop! The M-Line drops off directly in front of the venue.
Grab a bite:
Sample an assortment of certified-local lunch options.
Browse + shop:
Over 120 high-quality and creative handmade vendors
Have a drink:
Colectivo Coffee will have an assortment of coffee and teas. Prizlaff Events will have their full bar open for sodas, bloody marys, and more.
Shop small + support local!
Hover Craft is produced to support established and emerging artists, crafters, designers, and makers by providing an impermanent brick-and-mortar space to showcase the talent and creativity that exists within our own communities.
By shopping small and keeping money in the local community, attendees to this event make small gestures that amount to radical action in order for makers to continue diverse and eclectic artistic endeavors which then strengthen our communities.
Join us!
2024 VENDORS!
Ramona muse Lambert
Crete Collaborative
The Plate Collective / Dirty Dishes
Phantasm
Art and Design by Angela Faber
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Who is Hover Craft?
We fell in love with the power of Milwaukee’s Creative Community decades ago. Today our goal is to create a buzz about Milwaukee’s thriving creative community and produce a welcoming space for creatives and fans of creatives to enjoy. It’s really our favorite thing. What have you been making?
Vanessa Andrew
Vanessa Andrew is a Milwaukee-based fiber artist, illustrator, community arts educator, and clothing designer. She runs Madam Chino, a West Allis-based boutique that sells handmade and vintage clothing, and offers custom sewing and alterations. Her approach to clothing and textiles raises awareness about conservation and child labor issues in consumer society. Vanessa is a co-founder of Hover Craft.
Ashley Smith
Ashley Smith is a small business owner and community organizer. She is the co-founder of Hover Craft, Girls Rock MKE, and One Trick Pony. She is also the owner of Alive and Fine vintage store that doubles as a pop-up gallery space.
Cortney Heimerl
Cortney Heimerl is a co-founder of Hover Craft. Over the past two decades, she has produced many events to promote Milwaukee’s creative community including the Wearable Sculpture Fashion Show, the NEWaukee Night Market, Maker Sessions, Maker Market, and many more. When she is not producing craft fairs, she is directing marketing, communications, and design at the Milwaukee Art Museum, or making ceramics at Tooth and Nail in Bay View.
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