Extra Medium Crafts On-Site T-Shirts at Local Events

Adam Steadman and Seth Gilbert were busy crafting T-shirts at the 2013 Winthrop Arts Festival, where attendees could purchase them fresh off the press, so to speak.

For Winthrop Town Artist Bryant Martinez, it was a win-win for both the business and the festival itself, which had a tight budget to work with and the aim to raise as much money as possible for Hillsborough Community College book scholarships for firefighter students.

"The beauty of this is they don't have to buy 200 shirts ahead of time and hope people buy them," Steadman said. "We make them as they buy them and it's good exposure, visibility for us."

The exposure is for Extreme Medium, the screenprinting and design business Steadman founded seven years ago as an outlet for his art.

"Some people won't pay two-hundred dollars for a painting but if you put it on a T-shirt, they'll buy it on a T-shirt," said Steadman, who liked to draw in high school and took a class in screenprinting at the University of South Florida.

One day, "I looked in my closet and saw I needed new shirts," he said.

And so he made some T-shirts for himself.

"Friends said, 'I want one of those,' and seven years later that's all I do," Steadman said, in recounting the start of his business. "Now, I run an actual shop."

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Contact Steadman at extramediumshirts@gmail.com. Or call: 727-365-7721.