SHEPHERDSTOWN — The Art Market Redux was held in Evolve from last Thursday through Saturday.
According to organizer and Shepherd University professor of art Sonya Evanisko, the event featured the work of herself and five other local artists: Sadie Valzetta, Sikara Sokel, Charlotte Puttok, Kalin Gregg and Prema Baughman. This event diverged from the Art Market Evanisko has held annually in the space since 2020, which featured all of the students from her fall semester Art Market Class.
“Shepherd has this space reserved every year for the weekend before Thanksgiving to do the Art Market event. This year, I did not teach the Art Market Class, because I was working on the big gateway project on Alma Bea. We could have canceled the Art Market, but the community has come to expect it and love it and there were so many return community members who want to return and find the unique work that has been made that year,” Evanisko said. “I reached out to a bunch of artists who have done the Art Market before and said, ‘What if we keep that reservation, with a new body of work? And this time, I’ll do it with you!’…