Urban art, a glow-in-the-dark aesthetic and underground hip-hop fuel the Vibe Boost Market, taking over the Negative Space studios this weekend in Asiatown.

The Vibe Boost Market, on Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, at 1541 E. 38th Street, features 28 vendors selling urban artwork, clothing and other accessories plus 14 musical acts. Organizers said the first market in 2025 was such a success that they decided to go for another run. 

“This time around, it’s twice the size, and two days instead of one!” said Charlie Malta, otherwise known as “Guice Mann” (that’s Juice), hip-hop artist and founder of the market.

Fans of urban artwork, rap and dance music, trippy visuals and infectious energy are most likely to get into the vibe the market is trying to create, Guice said.

“My vibe was boosted,” laughed Malik X, a rapper who attended the first Vibe Boost Market and is the headlining act Saturday night. “It lives up to the name, you know. You’re gonna feel good from the atmosphere, the music, the people that’re gonna come through.” 

…With a little help from my friends 

Everybody involved in the market is “pretty mutually connected,” Guice said. Others “are not connected yet, [but] that’ll, you know, just grow more connections.”

Here’s just a few of the artists and vendors you can expect at the Vibe Boost Market: 

Amped Jon Tattoos

Cleveland tattoo artist Jon Sedor will be doing flash tattoos live at the market Saturday and Sunday. Sedor has a degree in fine arts and said he likes to “pull from my fine art background and kind of add my own little spin on designs.”

“These are gonna be simple line work,” he added. “These are meant to be…just fun designs. Some of them are kind of abstract.”

Irie on Erie 

Irie on Erie’s Andrea Puzzitiello said her company is about “creating an approachable space around cannabis culture rooted in education, inclusivity and putting something positive out into the world.” 

Puzzitiello said there will also be plant-based beverages “designed to lift the vibe in a more intentional, wellness-forward way.”

MoonMelon Sprite

Limeri Parsons is the Cleveland artist behind MoonMelon Sprite. She’ll have handmade “functional glass” items like flower vases and drinkware on sale at the market. 

“My current exploration is with color and what is known as glass fuming,” Parsons said. Glass fuming is using certain heating methods to “draw the various metals in the colored glass to the surface of the glass, creating a unique color effect.”

Last Pages of Humanity

Michael Majcher and Evan McGorray named their printmaking business Last Pages of Humanity because it “hearkens to the idea that we are preserving our thoughts and inspirations onto paper to survive beyond the end of the world.”  

Majcher and McGorray are printmakers who do all their work by hand, including patches, cards, stickers, buttons and T-Shirts. “We love the community building that printmaking offers,” said Majcher. 

Scary Harry

Harry Watson, also known as musician “Scary Harry,” said his set at the market will consist of experimental rap, dance music and indie and alternative rock-inspired instrumentals. That will include “flips,” which are “vocals from an existing song layered over an original musical composition.”

“It’s a lot of fun,” he said, “a great blend of familiar sounds twisted in a new and unexpected way.”

‘It’s a hidden gem in Cleveland’

Negative Space studios, which hosts the market, is a non-profit studio tucked away on the second floor of Asia Plaza.

To Guice, the plaza “really feels like a mall from the ‘90’s that hasn’t changed since”.

“It’s a hidden gem in Cleveland,” he added. “You could almost imagine yourself finding this beautiful realm deep within an ancient Asian forest.” 

Jimmy Committe, who runs the Negative Space location, said he trusts Guice to put his “heart, soul and whole a–” into making the Vibe Boost Market an entertaining and welcoming space for all.