Artsfest '13 Fine Arts Festival
Dowell, Maryland

Art In The Park
Kalispell, Montana

Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artists Grant

Art Jewelry Forum supports contemporary artists by offering a grant, the Emerging Artists Award.

As well as receiving the grant their handcrafted jewelry will be shown at SOFA NY or COLLECT in London. The jewelry artist will participate in a lecture series and be featured in an Art Jewelry Forums advertisement.

Tigard Festival of Balloons
Tigard, Oregon

Craft Show Booth Displays
Retail Success Secrets Revealed

Your art festival and craft show booth display is your brick and mortar retail store. Don't guess at art show booth displays hoping to increase sales. Don't hire professional retail designers to create show booths that sell crafts.

Now learn from professionals trained in displaying crafts for sale. Every vendor can have professional art and craft festival booths that sell handmade crafts and increase profits since retail layout secrets are available online and in books.

The Big One Art & Craft Fair -Fargo ND

Visit The Big One Art and Craft Fair in Fargo, North Dakota happening Oct. 19 & 20, 2013.

Arts and crafts festival vendors contact Stacy and Lisa Frank at 701-837-6059 to reserve your booth now. Please thank them for listing this show with The Extravaganza Craft News.

Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in North Dakota each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at 

The Minot Big One Art & Craft Fair
Minot, North Dakota

Visit The Minot Big One Art & Craft Fair in Minot, ND happening Nov. 1 & 2, 2013.

Arts and crafts festival vendors contact Stacy & Lisa Frank at 701-837-6059 to reserve your booth now.  Please thank them for listing their art and craft fair with The Extravaganza Craft News.

Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in North Dakota each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at 

Christmas Moment Gift Fair -Kennewick WA

Visit Christmas Moments in Kennewick, Washington happening Nov. 16 to 18, 2012.

Contact LaVette Mehess at 971-600-3281 to reserve your booth for this Un-Juried Art and Craft Show now. Please thank her for listing this show with The Extravaganza Craft News.

Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in Washington each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at 

Ever had a craft show that seemed like a total failure, like you had totally wasted your time and money attending it?

Ensure every art festival will be a roaring success.

8 easy things you can do are listed below.

1. Send out information about the festival you will be attending by mail, email, blog, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn to your friends, family, and acquaintances. Send an occasional reminder.
   
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Visit Fair Market in Broadus, Montana happening Aug. 10 & 11, 2012.

Contact Sarah McGill at 406-436-2778 to reserve your booth for this Un-Juried Art & Craft Show now.  Please thank her for listing this show with The Extravaganza Craft News.

Want more information on this and other art and craft fairs in Montana each month subscribe to The Extravaganza Craft News at www.extravaganzacrafts.com.

Places to Sell Handmade Arts and Crafts Online and Off

Where do you sell your hand-crafted arts and crafts?

Do you sell crafts online at places like Etsy, Artfire, Ebay or have your own website?

Do you sell your crafts at art and crafts shows, fairs, festivals, bazaars, boutiques? Do you license your art to companies or sell it in specialty shops like gift stores?

Places to sell your works of art include:

• art fairs, festivals, craft shows, bazaars and boutiques, flea markets (not a good choice for higher priced crafts), antique markets
• local restaurant and hotel lobbies
• local gas stations
• small hometown grocery stores
• libraries
• gift shops, visitors centers, and other tourism sites
• specialty stores including Bridal shops, flower shops, salons
• Online places like Etsy, Artfire and more.

Simple Inexpensive Ways to Collect Art Festival Customers Contact Information

Are you collecting contact information of people who buy your one of a kind works of art, why not?

Collecting customers contact information is simple and makes it easier to make sales increasing profits.

Here's how:

1. Use duplicate receipts.

Why Add Art and Craft Buyers
to Mailing Lists

Are you collecting the contact information of the people who enter your Art Festival booth and buy your one of a kind works of art? If no, why not?

Collecting a customers contact information is simple and makes it so much easier to make sales increasing profits greatly.

How to Know What Crafts
Sell at Craft Shows

Determining which handcrafted items will sell at craft shows is a hard process requiring research and testing.

Every craft show buyer will have their own experiences, styles, tastes, and needs. Other factors play roles in sales such as local economy, demographics of residents, other events happening in the area, etc…

How can you know if your art or craft will be a profitable business?

Determine if there is a market for the craft you’re making.

What is a Jewelry Shopping Service?

copyright by Rena Klingenberg

I first stumbled onto the “jewelry shopping service” approach to marketing my handcrafted jewelry a few years ago.

I couldn’t believe I’d never heard anyone talk about this before – because it’s a wide-open field with TONS of opportunities to sell your jewelry. It’s the main way I sell my jewelry now. Personal shopping services are a growing trend in all kinds of market niches.

Reasons Art Festival Customer Won’t Buy

Customers won’t buy art from you if:

• They don’t know where to find your handmade craft.
• They aren’t prepared to buy now. For instance they weren’t expecting to see a handcrafted product they wanted so they don’t have money right now.
• They don’t know what you are selling.
• You aren’t selling what they want.
• Your handcrafted art is hard to get, the wrong price or poor quality.

Sell Handcrafted Jewelry
by Making Your Booth
Stand Out at Shows

How can you make your booth stand out at jewelry shows?

1. Specialize in something!

Artisans can specialize in:

* gold or silver jewelry
* vintage pieces
* bridal jewelry
* jewelry from natural gemstone, precious or semi-precious stones
* Western, outdoor, rugged, or nature jewelry
* Silverware jewelry
* Pieces inspired by any race or nationality
* Beaded jewelry
* remake antique jewelry

Your pieces can be inspired by a place such as all your pieces having the colors of the Grand Canyon or your favorite mountain scene.

I was reading a post by Carla of Cobweb Corner and it got me thinking how she got her prospects (people in her craft show booth) into the buying mood making them buying customers.

Read her post here:
Jewelry Shows – There’s Something about a Sale

The internet marketing gurus I’ve been studying suggest creating a loss leader (a product you lose money on in the beginning to get people buying).

This is the twelfth year that Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) will be providing the Emerging Artist Award of $5,000 to a contemporary jewelry artist.

The purpose of the award is to acknowledge promise, innovation, and individuality in the work of an emerging jewelry artist, and to help advance the artist’s career. The competition is open to makers of wearable art jewelry who: • have completed their academic/professional training,
• have been out of school for one year or more,
• and whose submitted work must have been unsupervised;
  work from BFA or MFA shows may not be submitted.