Calling All Street Peddlers

Artist Allison Smith seeks up to 50 people to collaborate with her and Southern Exposure to create a temporary public art project that takes as its inspiration the historic tradition of street peddling as an alternative or underground economy and a form of sculptural drag. Selected participants are invited to take on peddler personae for a public performance over the course of one day in early June 2011 along Market Street between the Embarcadero and Mint Plaza. Southern Exposure will also host a series of events and serve as a public house and market hall where participants will gather to perform and record their cries and to trade and peddle their wares to the public from May 20 through July 2, 2011. Peddlers will be selected based their diversity of approach, quality of wares, and level of craftastic drag. For more info, visit soex.org


INFORMATION SESSION: SoEx and the artist, Allison Smith, will host an information session for interested participants on February 16, 2011, 7-9 pm.

The application will request the following information:
- Name of your peddler persona (i.e. The Tincture Tinkerer, The Freelance Cobbler, The Fruitcake Fabricator, The Antiwar Monger, etc.)
- A one-paragraph proposal of your peddler persona, wares and street call.
- Drawings, collages, or other visual references and support material.

DEADLINE TO APPLY: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2011, AT 11:59 PM.
Applicants will be notified by Saturday, March 19, 2011.