Wang Zhi, the founder of the Scarecrow Market, was originally a university teacher who "played art" with a group of friends. At first, Wang Zhi felt that these crafts and cultures were the soul of this ancient city, and the craftsmen and friends around him needed a platform and opportunity to show them. As soon as several people joined forces, the first scarecrow market was born. They didn't expect so many people to like this market at first.
New business card of ancient city culture, stage of craftsman's artistic dream
Here, the skills or works of craftsmen have received great attention. As a public exhibition platform, we don't charge any booth fees, hoping to let them interpret Baoding's traditional culture and artistic dreams. The scarecrow market is becoming more and more popular, and it has received the attention and support of the municipal government. Wang Zhi and his friends have new ideas.
They hope to gather traditional craftsmen and creative products scattered in the ancient city, interpret and share them in a centralized way, and let these craftsmen and their culture be seen by more people through cultural salon activities. They opened the official account of WeChat in Scarecrow Market, hoping to let more people pay attention to Baoding and Baoding culture through the Internet.
They also plan to set up Baoding Handicraft Creative Industry Association, which will unite with related majors in colleges and universities, let craftsmen and designers unite to promote the development of cultural industries, and set up a maker space for handicraft practitioners to make these old crafts glow with new brilliance under the collision of new ideas.
After two exhibitions, "Scarecrow" has become famous. Tangshan 1889 Cultural Pioneer Park and a cultural park in Shijiazhuang have contacted Wang Zhi, hoping to introduce the cultural industry concentrated in Scarecrow City into the park. Wang Zhi said that as a Baoding person, I hope that the craftsman's feelings inherited from the scarecrow market can represent Baoding and go to the world.