MAKERS MARKET AT LOCAL NOMAD
A vibrant art market showing local and regional artists & makers
Start your morning with good vibes and great finds at Local Nomad. Founded around a love of travel and handcrafted goods, the Phoenix shop is known for its thoughtfully curated mix of pieces from independent makers, artists, and designers, with a focus on ethical, small-batch, and story-driven products. It’s a place built on discovery, where every item feels intentional and personal.
We’re bringing together an amazing lineup of makers, including handcrafted work by Perro Y Arena, original art by Lauryn Alvarez, prints by local favorite Carlisle Burch, and pop-ups from other talented creatives. If you know, you know. Local Nomad is the best spot for unique treasures, and this market is packed with them. Come hang, shop, and support some incredible artists.
ARTISTS & MAKERS
Perro Y Arena
Lauryn Alvarez
HWH Ceramics
Bettina Chow
Zach Collins
Mount Sunny
Carlisle Burch
Dineh Jewlery
EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, April 18th, 2026
10am - 1pm
LOCAL NOMAD (Uptown Shopping Plaza)
100 E Camelback Rd, #168
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Cost: Free (RSVP is kindly requested)
LAURYN ALVAREZ
Lauryn Alvarez is a California artist rooted in the visual languages of folk art and guided by spiritual ideologies. She creates work that explores balance through color and composition. Through playful figures and symbolic forms, Alvarez builds dreamlike worlds that feel both ancient and familiar. Texture plays a central role in her process. She combines rough edges, patchy brush strokes and layered surfaces to evoke a feeling of something worn by time. The figures inhabiting her paintings are archetypal rather than individual. They appear as guardians, travelers or spirits. Through them, Alvarez explores themes of unity, duality and the quiet spiritual geometry that shapes the human experience.
LaurynAlvarez.com | @laurynalvarez
PERRO Y ARENA
Perro y Arena is the ceramics project of Tijuana-born artist Socrates Marko Medina. What started in 2019 as a personal project while living in Los Angeles has since grown into a full-time studio practice back in his hometown of Tijuana. With a background in architecture, art history, and years spent working in galleries and design firms, Socrates brings a thoughtful eye to clay, balancing design, storytelling, and craft.
Through Perro y Arena, he creates pieces that feel connected to place: clay works that carry the textures and tones of desert landscapes, and animal figures that tap into a mystical world of coyotes, hares, and moonlight. His work has been shown in galleries across the US and Mexico, including the Premio Nacional de la Cerámica in Jalisco, and even during San Diego Design Week as an artist-in-residence at the Mingei International Museum Shop.
Each piece is a reflection of his vision: earthy, symbolic - both cultural memory and contemporary design.
DINEH JEWLERY
DINEH Jewelry’s creator and designer, Samantha Platero was born into a family with a long tradition of silversmithing that goes back to her great-great grandfather Pablo Platero, who was a well- known silversmith. This craft was then passed down to her late grandfather Ramon Platero (son of Pablo) who continued making handcrafted jewelry with his wife Louise Platero.
Both of Samantha’s grandparents were both well respected silversmiths and known for their unique trademark; the holly leaf. The leaf later influenced other silversmith’s to incorporate the leaf design in Native American jewelry. Both of her grandparents made jewelry and tended to their farm as a way of life.
Samantha found it inevitable to continue the family tradition and carry on the values and craft that her grandparents embodied and lived by. Inspired by the highest quality and hand made techniques of her grandparents, Samantha collaborates with Navajo Silversmiths to create well crafted pieces that blend Native American traditional jewelry with a modern vision.
