Farmers' Festival Poster by Clinton Reno August 2005

It must’ve been fate that Clinton Reno had been hanging his rock-n-roll posters at the North Market way back in 2005. I had just come aboard as the new Director of Marketing. It was a copy of his poster for “The Killionaires Must Destroy You” promoting a gig at Little Brother’s that caught the eye of my husband, Eric, who was visiting for lunch. As we purloined the poster from the market bulletin board he commented, “You should see if this guy would do posters for the North Market.” So I dropped him an email and as it turns out, he would and indeed has been creating graphics for North Market events since the Farmers’ Festival in August 2005. We liked the poster so much that we decided to “keep him” and the first series that Clinton created for events through the next year became familiarly known to us as the “Veggie Head” posters. It started with “Turnip Head” for the Farmers’ Festival and progressed through Apple Head” (the Apple Festival which has since 2006 been replaced by the Columbus Microbrew Festival), “Pumpkin Head” (Harvest Festival), “Chestnut Head” ( Holiday Open House & Craft Extravaganza), “Chili Head” (Fiery Foods Festival), “Tomato Head” (Grillmasters Festival), and “Grape Head” (Food & Ohio Wine Festival). Snippets of all of these posters seen below (OK, except “Tomato Head” because Wordpress isn’t cooperating).

Incidentally, the original posters from the first series through the current iteration are available for purchase (those that we have not sold out) in the business office. Clinton carefully hand silk-screens each image on high quality craft paper. Most are stamped for promotional use but he signs and numbers about 40 which we split and sell at the North Market and on Clinton’s website.