widgetized footer

I’m setting up a blog site using your blogsixteen theme. I’m surprised that it don’t seem to have a widgetized footer area where I can add text and custom small menu to the bottom of each page/post. Is this available and I’m not finding it, or is this something you can add to the theme to make it more useful to me and my client? I really love the clean and open look of this blog site theme, so I hope this is an issue that can be addressed. I also couldn’t get the site preview to load in the theme Customizer so something funky is going on. Thanks.