Chron TV Host Ali Brenneman and Producer Adriah Hedrick report on Columbia’s fifth annual Dark Market, hosted by Shop Columbia. 

The market showcases student work with a spooky theme, including a featured piece by recent Columbia graduate, Ziccy Delamarter. The market hosts many mediums of art, including zines, prints, books, stickers, jewelry, sculpture and more. 

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Scary good student work is on display here at Shop Columbia for their fifth annual dark market.

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The market features the work of over 70 students from throughout the school.

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With zines, prints, books, stickers, jewelry, sculpture and more, students focusing on all different mediums are able to get involved.

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Ashantiana Jones: I always wanted to do something like this.

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I wanted to actually make my art go out there or something.

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Ali Brenneman: Shop Columbia, and by extension, the Dark Market, gives students the unique opportunity to get practice selling and pricing their artwork in a less high-stakes setting.

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Everyone, including student workers at Shop Columbia, is encouraged to submit work.

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Angela Kalish: Being an employee at Shop Columbia makes the process of submitting work to the shop and to the exhibitions super, super easy.

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It’s really fun to just be casually involved with my work, as well as being able to dictate and help highlight everybody else’s work.

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I really focus on putting my friend’s work and putting everybody’s work in places where, you know, I think it looks good and it highlights everything.

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Ali Brenneman: The shop is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students can stop by any time during operating hours to check out the work featured in the Dark Market, which typically draws in more customers than their year round displays.

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Tiana Bass: Hm, a lot more come in, a lot more come in.

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We post posters in all of the academic buildings.

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So it does bring a lot of traffic and that we’re having a neon theme when the neon things for the Halloween season, it brings in a lot of people, a lot of people like the skeletons.

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This year, the market goes on until October 31st with a reception for the artists happening October 24th, a week prior.

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In case you missed submissions for the Dark Market, the Holiday Market is still taking submissions until November 15th.

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Ali Brenneman, Chronicle TV News. 

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