PROSPECTIVE MAKERS

INTERESTED IN SELLING YOUR WORK AT GOOD DAY SHOP?

Summer 2025 Update:

Good Day Shop has finally found its next home! We will be soft-opening from noon to 4pm on Sunday, August 17th at 1034 H Street!

We are thrilled to get to spend time in this gorgeously well-maintained, light-filled space. We chose this rental largely because it comes with a month-to-month lease, leaving us free to continue searching for the perfect 3,000+ square-foot space we need in order to bring Good Day Studios to life — the whole big vision, the multidisciplinary arts collective with private art studios, private soundproofed practice spaces for musicians, an art classroom . . . it’s out there; we just haven’t found it yet, so until we do, find us partying on H Street!!!

What this means for prospective makers, though, is a prolonged waiting period. We are so sorry about how alienating that might feel to you as community members who are wanting to participate in this creative project.

We’re consolidating from ~1,500 square feet to <300 square feet. Yes, really. In short: no other appropriate commercial spaces were forthcoming! We were about two weeks away from having no shop at all. Then this space became available, the landlord presented no red flags, the lease is month to month, the space is beautiful, & the location is great! How could we say no?! How could we choose no shop over a tiny shop, rented from a good human, surrounded by other good humans? Quite simply, we could not. It was a no-brainer.

During this time, we will not be able to accept new applications* from prospective makers. We are inviting 54 of our 73 current makers to join us at the new space based on their sales success during the first year of business. The era on H Street will, out of necessity, prioritize strategic, business-minded decision making (see: inviting people based on how well their work typically sells), in stark contrast to the easy-going approach we enjoyed being able to take during our first year of business. During year one, we were able to prioritize being welcoming & inclusive — we had plenty of space, so why say no when we could say yes? Limited square footage on H Street poses a “no” we can’t override.

It is our sincerest hope that you will not feel too discouraged by this temporary suspension of the intake of new makers. The long-term plan is still to find our permanent home where we’ll open Good Day Studios & be able to welcome most who wish to participate. There’s no saying when that perfect space will present itself, though. We could be on H Street for four months; we could be on H Street for two years. If we do end up staying a while, you know things are bound to shift somewhere down the line, but as of summer 2025, in the midst of this relocation, there’s no predicting what the future will bring; we can’t tell you what to expect, because we ourselves can’t possibly know what to expect. All we know right now is how excited we are about this new space — that Good Day Shop does not have to go into hibernation just because our time at 725 8th Street has come to an end, & that we’ve been lucky enough to land somewhere that feels so truly well-suited to our needs at this moment in time.