Connie Mettler's Blog – March 2012 Archive (26)

September 15 & 16

Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota

Historic rivertown on the St. Croix River

10am-5pm

175 artists and craftspeople

Deadline: April 15 or till full



Award winning, well established show with quality art and craft.

• Beautiful setting outdoors
• easy set-up, no…

August 31-September 3 …

From Kristina Jones, Manager of Events for the Suburban Collection:

Hi Connie,

I have about 10 booths left and we are accepting any category EXCEPT jewelry.  We are super excited this year, as we are trying out a Living Social deal for customers, plus we have…

June 22 & 23

Auburn Hills, Michigan

Summerfest Arts & Craft Fair

Downtown Auburn Hills

Sponsored by the City of…

September 15 & 16

Omaha, Nebraska

80 Artists

Deadline: April 1



The Aksarben Village Art Fair will showcase the work of 80 artists from throughout the U.S..  The goal of the show is to feature offbeat, creative and novel artwork that is affordable and can be purchased as a gift or enjoyed every day, such as vintage jewelry; hand-sewn purses; one-of-a-kind, whimsical items for the garden…

June 1-3

Mount Clemens, Michigan 

Anton Art Center

Fri.: 12noon-9pm, Sat.: 11am-8pm,

Sun.: 12noon-6pm

80 artists and craftspersons

Deadline: April 1



The fair takes place in picturesque downtown Mount Clemens, a small-scale…

August 18 & 19

I attended the OOAK show in December and took some video, actually my friend Jacki Bilsborrow, took the video with my new iPhone. It has taken me forever to get it posted here, but I know lots of artists have questions about this show so here it is.

The technical challenges for me have been not nearly as…

Congratulations to John Costin**, winner of the $10,000 Best of Show Prize at the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival. Best of show is awarded for the artist's whole body of work. Here is a representative Big Bird Drawing by John Costin.

Also to John and Shirl Parmentier…

June 30

Elk Rapids, Michigan

Veteran's Memorial Park

10am-5pm

75 Artists

Deadline: April 1  …

Got to love Gasparilla for the terrific prize money. As a result they get many applications from people who do very few shows but who think they have a crack at winning part of $74,500 in awards.

Congratulations to the lucky ones:

Trent Manning of Winter Haven won…

June 1 & 2  - new event!

Sylvania, Ohio

Historic Downtown Sylvania

Presented by the Sylvania Community

Art Commission & the

Sylvania Chamber of Commerce

75 Artists

Deadline: March 31…

On March 15 at 6 pm ET I'll be talking with three artists who had solid success jurying into the top art fairs in 2011. We'll talk about:

• their backgrounds
• jury images
• favorite shows
• the big (or not so big) payoff
• how is 2012 shaping…

American Style Magazine's listing of top events is always interesting to me because there are shows on it I've rarely heard of such as Kentucky Crafted and Francisco's Farm, plus three of them are in Kentucky.  What's that about?

Here's the list:

1. Kentucky Crafted: The Market

Louisville, Ky.

This year’s event, on March 19-20, will feature the best of fine…

If you live in the Midwest the last weekend of January will lure you to Columbus, OH, where you will find the Art Studio Clearance Sale, sponsored the the well-regarded Ohio Designer Craftsmen. I've always wanted to go shop there and see this show especially since during the 80's and…

September 1 & 2

Oakbrook Center…

June 16 & 17

San Rafael, California

By the Lagoon

At the Marin Center Fairgrounds

10am-6pm

250 exhibitors

Deadline: April 1



The Marin Art Festival is our county's lawn party for the arts and "one of the most beautiful out door art…

Opening his studio in 1982, Jay McDougall's early years were spent designing and building original pieces of furniture. His sculpted wall pieces and vessels are the distillation of a career spent pursuing economy of line and form. Carved exclusively from Minnesota hardwoods the sensuous shapes call forth the rolling curves that flow as easily as the undulating hills around Fergus Falls, MN, where he lives and works, collecting logs and transforming them into cherished…

June 2 & 3

Deerfield, Illinois

Deerfield Festival of Fine Arts

Deerfield Road and Park Avenue

Presented by: Deerfield Fine Arts Commission & Village of Deerfield