Come explore and buy art at the Somerville Art Fair on Saturday, December 13th from 12-4pm. The day will celebrate art within reach for the holidays.

Discover art in Bow Market’s beautiful space where you can explore, ask questions, and connect with local artists. This December art fair is the final in this event series, featuring all 9 artists from our 2025 season. Learn more at sanidaddesign.com

The Holiday Art Fair will feature 9 artists:

John Lakov | John is an internationally exhibited, Boston-based multimedia artist known for figurative works. Born in New Jersey, John’s mother taught him how to draw and paint from a young age and helped guide the start of his artistic path. He publishes his work under the name Sanidad Design as a tribute to his mother and Filipino heritage. John’s work serves as a mirror, reflecting the evolving facets of how we define and express ourselves. Each piece seeks to contribute to this transformative narrative, inviting you to question old biases and give way to a more compassionate and equitable vision of who we are. Through his exaggerated figures that blend humor with unfiltered reality, the conventional boxes that once held the definitions of identity are being deconstructed, revealing an honest and more multifaceted tapestry of the self. John’s art can be found in private collections across the United States as well as internationally.

Michael Talbot | Michael is a Jamaican-born, Boston-based Freelance Artist and visual story-teller who has worked on a wide range of projects, murals, exhibitions, and showcases since 2012. His work, often narrative-driven, is most characterized by the keen use of motion, negative space, as well as a limited palette reminiscent of graphic novels and other forms of sequential art. Michael believes that all art is inter-connected in some facet; informing, complimenting and/or enhancing each other. And although his passion and interest for storytelling is forefront in his practice and craft, he tends to draw from his knowledge in multiple areas of study to help strengthen this process. Whenever possible, he uses his rich cultural background from his early life in Jamaica to infuse, improve, and “season” whatever project he tackles, often mixing both digital and traditional media.

Carlie Febo | Carlie is a photographer, museum educator, and creative collaborator based in Boston & Providence, RI. Since receiving her degree in Photography from Lesley College of Art & Design in 2010 and her Master's degree in Museum Education from Tufts University in 2016, she has worked in multiple art institutions and organizations around Boston such as deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Bow Market, Urbano Project, MassLEAP, and Boston Center for the Arts. In 2018, Carlie started her own photography small business that she currently runs. Carlie co-founded The Cauldron, a feminist social practice that ran from 2017-2020 and Make Art and Cry, an artist collective with her husband. She has served on the board of poetry nonprofits and managed artists like Adobo-Fish-Sauce. Currently, Carlie champions small businesses at Bow Market through her role in marketing and lead photographer.

Larisa Ovalles | As an architect and urban designer, I have always been drawn to the interplay between structure and landscape, form and transformation. My handmade pottery, Los Objetos, is a natural extension of this passion—an exploration of materiality, memory, and place. Each piece is informed by my fascination with maps, textures, geological layers and territorial transformations. I see clay as a vessel for storytelling, much like the land itself—marked by time, movement, and change. Through hand-built techniques and textured surfaces, Los Objetos is a reflection of both personal and collective geographies. Whether through the imprints of topographic lines and layers or the interplay between different clays, my work invites a deeper connection to the landscapes that shape us.

Jaina Cipriano | When I was small, the TV was my only real friend. I studied the screen for the secrets of life, love and motivation. The TV taught me to dream in narratives. Media is more than entertainment. The stories we consume shape us - our dreams, our fears and the limits of what we believe is possible for our lives. These narratives, with their ability to confine or empower, live within us. What happens when we decide to write our own story? In this project every frame is a deliberate act of self-reinvention. I step into carefully constructed scenes that are part memory, part future vision, and entirely a dialogue with myself. Each photograph is a way to nurture the parts of me that once found solace in the glow of a screen. I am writing my own TV show. I used to fall asleep to the repetition of my favorite shows, needing their background noise to feel safe in the dark. That solitary act of watching was my escape and my anchor. Now I am the storyteller. I am alone - but not isolated - with the power to channel my early longing into something fearless and transformative. By rewriting my narrative I am reshaping my identity, exploring the delicate interplay between the stories that surround us and the stories we tell ourselves. I am no longer an audience member. I am the director of my own unfolding story. Fearless, playful, and completely in charge of my narrative destiny.

Halle Cooper | My art practice is a celebration of vulnerability, gratitude, and love, deepened by the context of pain. Using vibrant colors and whimsy, I strive to create playful but heartfelt work exploring the overlap between joy and suffering. As I continue to establish myself as an artist, I'm influenced by a life shaped by chronic illness, as well as my background in environmental and marine science.

Christine Brown | Christine E. Brown (United States b. 1981) is a Worcester MA-based visual artist who tells her story through textiles, illustration, and poetry. Christine credits her sewing skills to the local 4H club, where older community members opened their homes to her and where she was able to learn a skill she has enjoyed over her lifetime. That experience led to her commitment to teaching sewing to the next generation of artists through private lessons and public workshops. Her work expresses resilience despite hardship, Black Joy, and reverence for reusing materials, finding value in what was once discarded. Raised in multiple cultures, and by a multigenerational household, her work is able to extend to include influences from time and cultures overlooked. With fabric, she connects the little pieces in all of us that are better together. Quilts hold our intimate secrets and silent expectations. They keep us warm and comfort us. Utilitarian and functional, they are often overlooked as objects with little value. Yet, throughout time, they are ever present, ever faithful. She is inspired by the connection, and importance of textiles commonly referred to as ‘woman’s work’. Often considered the hobbies of idle hands, these pieces are historical documents as important and valid as treaties, statues, and maps. They hold our collective values as silent observers, and they are representational of the time period they were constructed in. By refocusing quilts as art, Christine hopes to illuminate, and elevate them to the visual technically intricate and important masterpieces that they are. Christine is a recipient of the 2022 Apprenticeship Grant from Mass Cultural Council to become versed in natural dyes and horticulture science. She is also a 2021 graduate of the Assets For Artists Capacity-Building Grant Program, and 2023 alum of the Studios at MASS MoCA artist residency. She now works for the program as an Artist Leader, Educator, and Mentor. Christine most recently became a 2024 - 2025 Fellow for Mass Creative, which aligns with her values to advance the advocacy learning, cross-sector alliances and organizing efforts necessary for a more equitable and inclusive arts, cultural and creative sector for all in Massachusetts. Christine studied art education at Fitchburg State University, and most recently her first solo show titled “Motherhood is Perennial” is currently on view at the Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library. Her work has been exhibited at the Boston Public Library, the Lawrence Library Art Gallery, the Arts Worcester Gallery, Hunchback Gallery in Worcester Massachusetts, and the Speedwell Gallery in Portland Maine. Her textiles have been shipped all over the globe through an extension of her practice, her small business, Fawn, which began in 2012. Christine has been writing and performing spoken word poetry for over 20 years, and can be found at many colleges, Black History Month programs, poetry slams, weddings, clubs, and special events in New England and beyond. Community building and cultivating sincere and lasting connections are among Christine’s core values, so as a remedy to the devastating isolation the pandemic caused in 2020, for artists in particular, the small working group Night Class was founded. Now in its fifth year, Night Class is a strong cohort of women makers and artists who gather regularly to support one another in building a creative life.

Julia Emiliani | The natural world is a source of inspiration for my artistic work – landscapes, plants, fruits, and the sky catch my eye the most. I am intrigued by the vibrant life in elements we otherwise pass by, overlook, or consume. I use my work as a means of exploring and documenting these elements. With rich color and a keen sense of natural light and shadow, I aim to convey the chromatic aliveness of this subject matter.

Maggie Cedarstrom | I received my BFA in 2007 from the University of New Hampshire. After moving to Boston in 2008, I took a job at a donut shop and began bartending at a much beloved Cambridge pub. After working in bakeries for about 6 years, I decided not to go to pastry school and returned to UNH in 2013, at age 29, to complete my MFA. At 40, I have now been practicing at Washington Street Arts Collective in Somerville for nearly a decade. I enjoy showing my work at local food and beverage businesses, and love working within the industry realm, as I have spent so much of my working life there. Art making for me has always been about bearing witness. I work from life and from photos, and the heart of what I do is to see as truthfully and deeply as possible. I consider myself to be a figurative painter at my very core, meaning people are my primary images. Throughout my early thirties, I painted myself in various states of coping (following the death of my sister in 2014) as a form of catharsis. My large-scale figurative work has always been about myself, my shifting state, and how my body has held and betrayed me throughout my grief and aging. In my later thirties, I began to look outward, and I began painting portraits. My portrait subjects are primarily friends I have made through the service industry. I harvest source material through snapshots at social events and just hanging out casually. I delight in seeing them relaxed and enjoying themselves in my work, since they work to hard to perform in their labor.