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Northshore October 2025
When Phoebe Sherman first decided to sell her artwork and feminist apparel at craft shows in the Bay Area in California, she made an unwelcome discovery. Not only would she have to apply and be chosen as a vendor, but she’d also then have to pay a hefty fee to participate, sometimes as high as $800 for a weekend.  “That price point is not really accessible for a lot of beginning artists,” Sherman says. So, she came up with a solution: She’d throw her own fair. She enlisted the help of a friend who owned a café in Oakland, recruited other artists she knew, and on a summer day in 2017, Sherman held her first Girl Gang Craft
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