About
For the past fifteen years, Indie Craft Parade has showcased the work of talented artists and makers in Greenville, South Carolina — a hub for creativity and entrepreneurship.
Our event is now one of the premier craft events in the South, thanks in large part to the many supporters who join us each fall as we celebrate handmade and the makers behind the goods.
Indie Craft Parade is a juried festival, ensuring it features the highest quality handmade goods year after year.
Since 2010
Meet the 2024 Jury
Danielle Coke Balfour
Danielle Coke is a graphic designer turned artist, advocate, speaker, and entrepreneur. She’s the founder of Oh Happy Dani, an illustration-based educational platform that uses artwork and resources to make complex ideas surrounding racial justice more accessible for the everyday advocate.
Danielle works to inspire her community of over half a million people across social media to do good daily, right where they are. She’s also the author of “A Heart on Fire: 100 Meditations on Loving Your Neighbors Well.” Whether working with brands like Target and Adobe, speaking in front of audiences, or running her business, Danielle hopes to inspire others to embody their values and live a life of sustainable activism by using what they have to impact the world around them.
Katie Coston
Katie Coston is a potter, sculptor, and educator from Greenville now living and working from her cottage studio in the English countryside.
With an MA in 3-Dimensional Studio Art, she creates both functional and sculptural ceramics. For 8 years, Katie ran her own studio and shop in Oxford. Now she displays her work online, in galleries throughout the UK, and is represented in Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, The Peninsula Hotel in London, The Oxford Collection, and The Grand Bohemian Lodge in Greenville amongst others.
With a vision to share her knowledge and expertise, Katie is launching an online pottery membership this year with an aim to help aspiring potters throw with greater confidence and overcome technical challenges like glazing, setting up a studio, and pricing and selling their work.
Jean Wilson Freeman & Cathleen Seay
Jean Wilson Freeman and Cathleen Wilson Seay are partners and collaborators for a popup shop in West Greenville called Wilson Girls.
Wilson Girls opens sporadically throughout the year and features local vendors and artists along with vintage and curated home decor. Born and raised in Greenville, Cathleen and Jean have always had a love of maximalism in home interiors.
Cathleen graduated from Clemson University with a degree in Graphic Design. Jean graduated from Furman University and has been painting walls and objects most of her life. Painting a mural on Stone Avenue eight years ago reignited her love for painting botanicals and she has been at it ever since. Every Wilson Girls “opening” features a wide variety of Jean’s botanicals.
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