For our events your vendor fee covers a 10x10' vendor booth. You bring your own tent, tables, and anything else you need for your set up.

We use vendor fees to fund the cost of shutting down the road (around $2k for regular markets and upwards of $6k for bigger events), payroll costs to approve vendors and get vendor agreements in place, marketing expenses for paid ad campaigns and partnerships with other businesses to promote the event, payroll costs for posting organic social media advertising and Facebook event posts, printed marketing materials, entertainment (live bands are around $1k-3k depending on the event and time), face painters and other activities ($300-$500 per activity), payroll for our day of event staff, and other random costs that come up like permits, safety cones for traffic control, security, etc.

We do everything we can to keep our vendor fees affordable for the community while balancing covering all of these fees and having enough in the budget to properly market the event.

Our vendor fees vary based on the event's size, venue, budgeting costs, etc. Most of them fall around $100 for a 5 hour event. Some of our bigger holiday events are around $175-$200. These details will always be listed on the application.

Nope! You can apply to the month(s) that you'd prefer. You don't have to apply to all 6 dates.

You'll see us posting on our social media platforms (16k on IG), adding Facebook events (8k FB followers), and creating flyers for each maker to share on their pages.

But, a lot of our marketing efforts are done behind the scenes so they're not as easy to spot. Here's a brief list of some of the marketing efforts we do for each event:

• Paid ads: We start running ads at the beginning of the year around February when we start locking in event dates and then continue more paid ad campaigns as the event dates get closer. These are run across Facebook and Instagram.
• Email campaigns: Sent to our growing list. (currently sitting at 7k subscribers in August of 2026 and growing each year)
• Text reminders: Sent to our list of customers who sign up for event reminders (currently sitting at 2k subscribers in August of 2026 and growing each year)
• Venues: Our venue partners post to their social media accounts and email their lists about the event. We also have them post signage around their venue leading up to the event.
• Influencer & media partnerships: Each event is different based on which organizations are the most relevant for that audience/event. For example, in Annapolis we have Annapolis Mom, What's Up Mag and more share about our event in their roundups. For White Marsh we have local realtors, mom groups, neighborhood bulletins, etc. share to their groups.
• Live interviews: This one varies based on when we can manage to get a TV crew out but we've been featured each year on some form of local news channel for a live interview during our events and/or store openings.
• Event entertainment: Our bands, face painters, etc. that we hire for the events help to share on their platforms where they'll be and when.

These are the main marketing efforts made for our events. We also add random extras like posting signs in our store advertising the event, spreading the word to local businesses, etc.

We have an online community on the Circle app where you can get to know other local makers in the community. It's a great place to ask questions, network, collaborate, etc.

We are also launching a membership based coaching experience for our makers to support you in growing your business and generating more sales. If you join the waitlist above and check the "maker resources" box, you'll be notified when these resources are ready (expected launch September 2026)

Our events are reserved for local makers and artists. We don't approve MLM, resellers, mass manufactured goods, or vintage (even though we love you so much vintage peeps - maybe we'll add a specific vintage market one day)

Each venue may have its own limits for product categories depending on surrounding businesses in the shopping center. For example, here at White Marsh we can't approve vendors selling cupcakes because of a Small Cakes business in the shopping center. But we can approve cupcake vendors at our Annapolis location.

These details will always be listed on the application.

Yes, our core values have always been around supporting makers and artists. We do not allow products made using AI into our stores or events because this directly contradicts our mission of lifting up artists. AI cannot create its own images from nothing. It uses art found on the internet without the approval from that artist to create "AI Art". Because this is stealing images from other artists, it isn't allowed within our vendor events or stores. We are additionally adding a clause to all vendor agreements ensuring AI is not used to create any signage or imagery within the vendor's booth when selling at our markets.

We HEAVILY limit 3D printed products. When approving a vendor who uses a 3D printer we have a conversation about what the "maker magic" is that makes their product align with our community. Know when you see a 3D printer at our events they either make their own templates for printing, add hand painted art elements or somehow put their own touch on the product. We also cannot approve 3D printed products that directly compete with our other artists who are hand making their products from scratch. For example, we cannot approve 3D printed jewelry because that directly competes with many vendors who are making their jewelry from beginning to end without the use of a machine. Even so, we never approve more than 1-2 vendors with 3D printed products per 60 vendors at our events.