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Last weekend, a vacant lot in downtown ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ was transformed into a celebration of local art and small businesses.

#ThisIsÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ hosted our third annual ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Together market, held at  on Feb. 22, where thousands gathered to shop from 100-plus local vendors. There were five food trucks, flash tattoos, a book scavenger hunt courtesy ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Tome Gnome and a donation drive supporting Youth On Their Own.

The party continued steps away at Hotel Congress, where the vintage Desert Haze Market took place alongside two live sets from The McCharmlys. 

ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, thank you endlessly for showing up to support local creatives in our community. Here's a little look at the day, plus a list of vendors who were in attendance. 

Support the vendors 💘

*descriptions were written mostly by the vendors themselves and in some cases edited for style and/or length.

ðŸ�ªÌý — After years of people asking Roselena Trevizo for her baked goods, 1989 Bakehouse was born. Find NYC-style cookies and very fudgey brownies.

🕯Ìý — This artisan floral and gift shop features hand-poured candles in scents named after spots across ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, plus a "Be a good ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥an" shirt and hat that we love.

🎨Ìý — Mackenzie Robb creates vibrant, colorful pieces inspired by the Southwest. She hand-paints purses and tote bags to spark happiness and an appreciation for ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, cacti and wildlife.

🎨Ìý — Nathalie Aall is a scientific and wildlife artist who brings the Sonoran Desert indoors through fun and accurate watercolor illustrations of our fauna and flora. Find notecards, stickers, prints, magnets and more desert-inspired gifts.

🎨Ìý — Alex Jimenez creates beautiful and functional products with original illustrations and artwork inspired by the Sonoran Desert and her Mexican heritage, celebrating the land and its people.

🎨Ìý — Kelsey Carlson has been an artist her entire life. She draws cute anime-inspired creations to show her passion for art and all the geeky fandoms she loves.

ðŸ�ªÌý — Kei Ann Mandanas makes desserts and baked goods with Filipino flavors, including cookies inspired by ube, chile mango, pandan and more.

📿Ìý — Josie Rios is a member of the Akimel O'odham and Gila River Indian Community, and the beading artist of Beads over Diamonds who is inspired by the many colors of the desert and memories of growing up in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥.

🔔Ìý — This local nonprofit teaches communities about the positive impacts of intentional kindness. Shop items like handmade bell ornaments and learn about the Ben's Bells mission.

ðŸ«�Ìý — Better Than Provisions shaves next-level granola to fuel your wellness needs. It's grain-free with no added sugar, built on a five-nut formulation. 

🚲Ìý — This local nonprofit provides a range of programs where you can learn how to fix your bike or create unique art from recycled materials. They'll have recycled bike art for sale at the market.

âœ�ï¸�Ìý — Bronwyn Dierssen is a self-taught artist who focuses on charcoal and oil portraits exploring health, identity and emotion from a variety of cultural backgrounds.

🎨Ìý — Stephanie Daniels creates watercolor artwork inspired by the Sonoran Desert. Find cards, stickers, prints, mugs, totes and posters.

💪Ìý — Hector Valenzuela was born in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ and grew up fascinated by low riders, graffiti art and murals of Aztec warriors. As a high school senior, he was tasked with deciding between art school or a football scholarship. Though he chose the latter, art now surrounds his everyday as a tattoo artist. 

🥤Ìý — Selena Tootsie loves Halloween so much that she decided to make a business that flaunts spooky vibes year-round. Find custom spooky cups, keychains, bookmarks and embroidered tees.

🎨Ìý — Catherine Eyde's art graces tea towels, greeting cards, journals, tote bags and more. Her art has a ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ vibe, embracing life and culture in our community.

🕯Ìý — This brand handcrafts clean fragrances based on memories of the Sonoran Desert, including candles and perfumes with scents reminiscent of monsoons.

👚Ìý — Find modern hand-crafted designs incorporating classic crochet styles mixed with today's fashion, specializing in ethical and sustainable accessories in fun styles and playful color combinations.

ðŸ�”Ìý — This family-owned business is a food truck favorite, serving up incredible burgers and chicken. 

ðŸ’�Ìý — Megan Coy believes earrings are good for your confidence and mental health. Coy Creative's goal is to help you feel bolder, brighter and more confident when you put your earrings on.

📿Ìý — This queer- and Indigenous-owned business specializes in beaded jewelry and fabric crafts with nerd and pop culture themes.

💗Ìý — Ashley Cole is the krispy queen! Find homemade rice krispy treats in loads of flavors, including some that are vegan and gluten-free.

🎨Ìý — This business has a collection of 100-plus sticker designs, canvas paintings, 3D prints, keychains and more. The art is whimsical and cutesy with some added humor and desert inspiration. (She's also designing a T-shirt for us this year 👀)

ðŸ�±Ìý — This queer woman-owned business specializes in crocheted items for cats, including catnip doughnuts and hats for our feline friends.

ðŸ’�Ìý — Find bold desert-inspired jewelry from this husband-and-wife team who share a love for gems and minerals. Their passion is sourcing high-quality stones and embellishing them with meticulous attention to detail.

ðŸ’�Ìý — Here's where you'll find clay jewelry inspired by Rebecca Diaz's Mexican culture. 

ðŸ�¬Ìý — Alana Solis creates authentic chamoy-coated candies with a cherished recipe that has been lovingly passed down through her family.

ðŸ�žÌý — Ducky's makes air-fried pineapple banana bread with fresh bananas and juicy pineapple chunks. The bread is crispy on the outside and moist and fluffy on the inside. 

💄Ìý — Monique Delatorre creates cruelty-free cosmetics, including lip stains, eye shadow palettes and shimmery highlighters.

☕ï¸�Ìý — This Persian-American woman-owned mobile cafe specializes in creative and flavorful beverages including vegan and dairy-free options. The goal is to bring love, kindness, creativity and community to every cup.

🥧Ìý — This ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥-based bakery specializes in tarts, quiche and fluffy gourmet marshmallows.

ðŸ¿ÙÌý — Find photography prints inspired by a shared love for the natural world. From landscape to wildlife to astro photography, people can bring the beauty of the desert into their homes.

ðŸ’�Ìý — Arlene Garms creates jewelry with gold fill, sterling silver and polymer clay.

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🎨Ìý — Hyejin Lee sells prints, stickers, cards and ceramic desk buddies under the character name Girthy Gochu, which is a playful nod to her Korean heritage, in addition to linguistic humor. In Korean, "gochu" means chili pepper, but is also used as slang for "wiener." She playfully blends humor and creativity with innuendos, puns and an adorable art style. 

ðŸ�ºÌý — Lisa Falk creates functional art in the form of pottery. She also makes hand-printed images. The images in her prints often inspired the images carved and painted on her pottery, and vice versa.

🧼Ìý — Brandon Cordova creates aesthetician-approved vegan skincare, from candles to soap.

👒Ìý — What started as a personal collection of nearly 30 fedora hats has since blossomed into a full-blown custom hat bar.

ðŸ�¶Ìý — Learn more about our local Humane Society, including their mission, resources and membership. 

ðŸ�¿Ìý — Find smoked gourmet-flavored nuts, popcorn, sauces, rubs and spices. Popcorn and nuts come in flavors like blueberry jalapeño and orange creamsicle. 

ðŸ¿ÙÌý — This local landscape photographer specializes in night sky photography and has spent years venturing into the Southern ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ desert to capture the natural beauty that surrounds us. Find his photos as prints in various forms.

🎨Ìý — This colorful lifestyle brand creates functional gifts celebrating life's ups, downs and all-arounds. Expect everything from cards to earrings to tea towels to stickers inspired by pop culture and the desert.

ðŸ’�Ìý — This jewelry is made with materials like brass, bronze, sterling silver, gold fill and some gold karats using techniques like hand fabrication and forging, casting, stone-setting and wire-wrapping. The inspiration comes from the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ community and the annual gem show.

🧼Ìý — Find hand-poured cold-process soaps and cute candles using molds handmade by artisans in Korea and soap-making techniques learned from Korean artists. 

ðŸ�¬Ìý — Find freeze-dried treats for people and pets, including a selection with vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free and dairy-free options because everyone deserves something sweet.

ðŸ¿ÙÌý — This brand celebrates the desert, drawing inspiration from our surroundings to create modern, soft and elegant prints and other products to celebrate heritage and the essence of home.

🎨Ìý — Here's where you'll find ink-transferred images on pine wood. The images are inspired by the magic of the Sonoran Desert and the universe at large.

🧼Ìý — Julianna Asis creates small-batch skincare and moisturizing soaps with natural ingredients to illuminate your body and spirit through the power of plants. 

👚Ìý — Eli Valenzuela created Latine-inspired Las Changuis Tianguis as a love letter to her culture. Find attire, jewelry and accessories.

🪴Ìý — Lili Donovan has been an artist all her life, inspired by the beauty of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ from the sunsets to the starry skies. She uses bright, exaggerated colors in her planters and pots. 

ðŸ’�Ìý — This jewelry brand got its start in 2020, offering jewelry and accessories featuring precious stones and metals to match all moods.

ðŸ’�Ìý — Brianda Felix has been doing permanent jewelry for nearly two years. Get a necklace, anklet or bracelet perfectly fit to you.

ðŸ’�Ìý — This local clay artist is a mom, social worker, psychologist and potter inspired by the people, desert and culture of the Southwest. Find polymer clay jewelry.

🎨Ìý — Christina Thorness creates art inspired by her love of the desert. She offers canvas paintings, earrings and more because we all deserve color in our lives.

🕯Ìý — This Black- and female-owned business creates hand-poured artisanal, luxury candles sourced from sustainable and organic coconut wax. 

ðŸ�•Ìý — Leo Garcia makes delicious wood-fired pizza with Sonoran flavors like elote and carne asada.

ðŸ’�Ìý — Marina Cordova creates handmade, whimsical jewelry from polymer clay and laser-cut wood and acrylic. She creates pieces that are an extension of your creative expression.

ðŸ›�Ìý — Find CBD products for pets and people. Items include shampoo, healing balm and treats for pets, and bath bombs, lotion and facial cleanser for humans. 

👚Ìý — This fiber artist uses mostly crochet to create vibrant one-of-a-kind wearables, accessories and trinkets.

🎨Ìý — Find stationery with themes of both plants and positivity, plus cute gift items. Expect to see stickers, art prints, notepads, magnets, keychains and more inspired by growth, following your own journey and living eco-consciously. 

🧼Ìý — This middle school teacher creates desert-inspired candles and soaps, including candles molded to look like a saguaro wearing a cowboy hat and bars of soap with desert scenery peeking through.

ðŸ�ºÌý — Mehgan Birkey creates ceramic and embroidered goods inspired by ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ and her native Oregon. You'll find mushrooms, cacti and lots of colors on her pieces.

ðŸ�ºÌý — Melissa Henshaw focuses primarily on wheel-thrown pottery, exploring unique surface designs and interesting ways to add color, pattern and texture. She finds inspiration in nature and enjoys creating pieces with a modern and whimsical flair.

🪢Ìý — Even though Jessica Melrose is an art teacher and high school principal, she can't stay away from making things. She creates macrame plant hangers, wall hangings and decor from recycled cotton and elements from the Sonoran Desert and the Pacific Ocean.

👚Ìý — Mi Casita Press uses print to share cute and powerful messages with the public. Products include stickers, prints, totes and screen-printed apparel.

👚Ìý — This Latina-owned family business is a curated shop providing handmade products from artisans in Mexico. Owner Rocky Bello believes in building a relationship of respect and love, and personally travels to small pueblos to source directly from the artisans themselves. 

🎨Ìý — Kristina Bejar creates kawaii stickers, prints and trinkets with an Asian aesthetic and inspired by pop culture.

🎨Ìý — Find bold graphic art that blends vintage aesthetics with modern influences, drawing inspiration from street art, comics and gig posters. The artwork bridges traditional techniques like screen printing and hand-painted signs with contemporary design, resulting in visually striking, tactile pieces.

🪢Ìý — This macrame artist uses bright colors and rainbows to create pieces that are both fun and affordable. Her favorite items to make are her macrame disco balls and rainbow wall hangings. 

ðŸ’�Ìý — This maker specializes in handmade aluminum and stainless steel chainmaille jewelry and accessories.

🌮Ìý — This family-owned business serves Oaxacan food out of a cherry-red food truck. Get tamales, molotes, flautas and more.

ðŸ�ªÌý — This home bakery is known for traditional Mexican sweet breads and custom cakes, from soft and pillowy conchas to buttery empanadas.

👚Ìý — This woman-owned and -operated clothing brand includes an eclectic line of graphic tees alongside a collection of upcycled one-of-a-kind garments "where callous indifference meets crying over somebody else's spilled milk." 

ðŸ›�Ìý — Cecy Huerta's business reflects how she sees the world: in vivid, glittering technicolor. You'll find bath time treats, body care, nail polish and home fragrances inspired by pop culture and her own candy-colored daydreams. 

💜Ìý — In her husband's loving words, Davia Moore is a samba, capoeira and açai queen. This food truck serves organic açai bowls and smoothies.

🎨Ìý — Celene Arvizu is a multidisciplinary artist inspired by pop culture and the spirit of the Southwest, creating eclectic pieces that include paintings, stickers, clothing and accessories.

🎨Ìý — This local artist loves rabbits and dropping facts about life. Find cute and quirky art, including stickers and prints.

🎨Ìý — Every piece of art here is crafted with love and a sprinkle of kawaii magic. Hallie Cooke draws inspiration from Japanese kawaii culture to blend cuteness with functionality to create whimsical pieces including trinket boxes, earrings, apparel and more.

🎨Ìý — This graphic designer specializes in both fabric and surface design, creating art and accessories like headbands, stickers, earrings and prints.

🔑Ìý — This small business invests in safety with handmade wristlets that include self-defense items.

ðŸ’�Ìý — Lauren Valenzuela is known for her funky earrings and art, and more recently her charm bar. Customize your own necklace or bracelet with the help of her dozens upon dozens of charms.

🕯Ìý — Find candles that not only look like desserts but smell like them too. Room sprays and carpet deodorizers are also on the lineup of items.

🧸Ìý — This queer-owned business has a goal of spreading joy and support in our community. You'll find crocheted plushies including mushrooms to frogs to cats. 

🪴Ìý — Here's where you'll find desert-themed metal art, from quail to cacti to javelinas.

🧴Ìý — Rosie Crocker creates all-natural skincare, hair-care and self-care with hand-foraged desert plants. Crocker is also the owner of downtown shop ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Poppy.

👚Ìý — This art brand has an emphasis on Chicano, Southwestern and pop culture mash-ups in its tees, prints, stickers and more.

🎨Ìý — This Tohono O'odham and Yoeme artist aims to increase or create knowledge about the Indigenous people of the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ area. You'll find clothes, coasters, prints and more.

🧸Ìý — This stay-at-home mom turned her cutesy hobby into a small business, crocheting one-of-a-kind plushies from animals to characters from old cartoons. 

ðŸ’�Ìý — Find hand-stamped (aka hand-hammered) metal jewelry and gifts. The most popular items are bar necklaces, cuff bracelets, bookmarks and funny "emotional support" spoons.

🎨Ìý — This artist brings color to the desert with hanging tiles of saguaros, desert animals and sea animals. Platters are also in the lineup of items, which can be used as art to hang or for food, perfume and other trinkets.

🪴Ìý — Alex Berger Clamons creates modern stained glass home decor inspired by the desert. The pieces are great for plant lovers with green or black thumbs.

ðŸ§�Ìý — Sophie Hungrywolf is a self-taught baker who primarily bakes for fun, but also loves to share desserts with others and hopes to show the community that there are spaces in the world for Indigenous bakers.

ðŸ�¯Ìý — Here's where you'll find high-quality jams, organic tea mixtures, cream spreads and more to enjoy.

👚Ìý — It's us! Pick up a free sticker, spin our prize wheel and complete our scavenger hunt for the chance to win a prize. We'll also be selling limited-edition tees of a desert-themed design by Darby Hunter Art.

🎨Ìý — These handcrafted prism suncatchers are inspired by the desert and ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s constant sunshine. The hope is that the suncatchers will fill ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s homes with happiness and rainbows.

🎨Ìý — Linnie Damm is a multimedia artist who creates handmade ceramics and other goodies right here in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥.

👚Ìý — This Tohono O’odham artist sells T-shirts, hats, prints and stickers with an emphasis on cultural history, humor and stories.

ðŸ�«Ìý — From bean to bar, find unique chocolate creations using local ingredients. You may even find their take on the viral Dubai chocolate bar.

🎨Ìý — Sit down to color a coloring sheet with ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Museum of Art and get a temporary tattoo while you're there. Learn more about the museum's mission and membership.

📚Ìý — After you hunt for one of the free books that ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Tome Gnome will hide around the market area, chat with the gnomes themselves. ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Tome Gnome is a local nonprofit of three book-loving friends who hide free books around town each month.

ðŸ’�Ìý — Kathryn Peña-Hilander creates jewelry with intricate details that celebrate her love for ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. Most of her jewelry features scenes from our desert, as well as soft and delicate handcrafted florals.

🔮Ìý — This ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ native offers products that promote well-being and relaxation, from essential oils and crystal diffuser jewelry to eye pillows, gemstone suncatchers, soap, self-care tools and skincare.

🎨Ìý — Find beautiful flowered suncatchers with crystals, as well as headdresses, fairy crowns and witchy tees.

🎨Ìý — Desiree Gonzales mixes metaphysical beliefs with a love for pop culture to create crystal terrariums, mini altars and more, with the goal of creating an easy way for everyone to access their magic and express their "geeky self."

🪴Ìý — YellowBird is a three-generation woman-owned family garden where native cactus and succulents grow. Find plants grown by YellowBird with vessels sourced and handmade. Handmade home decor and hydroponic house plants are also among the items to find here.

â�¤ï¸�Ìý — This local nonprofit is a "dropout prevention program that supports the high school graduation and continued success of youth experiencing homelessness in Pima County." We're asking attendees to bring a donation to support YOTO!

👚Ìý — Find clothing and art for the young at heart who are eccentric, edgy and fun.