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CRAFT SHOW: 6th Annual Erotic Arts and Crafts Show at the Gladstone Hotel (February 11th, 2012; 12-8pm)

tara — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:02:52 +0000

I was lurking the upcoming Erotic Arts and Craft Show‘s website the other day and was pretty blown away by some of the work that will be featured this year. Big ups to Come As You Are for making this event happen annually for the past six years!

The 6th Annual Erotic Arts and Crafts Show
at the Gladstone Hotel
February 11th, 2012

Every year at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Come As You Are hosts Canada’s only Erotic Arts and Crafts Fair. Since their opening [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Love and Rummage Trunk Show 4 (February 5, 2012)

jen — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:30:20 +0000

City of Craft & the workroom‘s annual Valentines & junk sale is here again! Here’s where crafty folk with great taste purge their supplies, vintage clothing and goodies, and other delightful wares alongside their own handmade works. Details below and beautiful bunnies above by Selena Wong.

City of Craft & the workroom present
The Love & Rummage Trunk Show 4
Sunday February 5, 2012
Noon-5pm
the workroom
1340 Queen Street West
http://www.cityofcraft.com/2012/loveandrummage/index.html

Show your love with local, handmade wares.

Free Gift [...]

CRAFTY HAPPENING: 2nd Annual XPACE Zine Fair (Saturday, December 17, 2011, 12-6pm)

tara — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:58:49 +0000

Zine haul from the last XPACE zine fair. Photo by Fiona Smyth, courtesy of her blog, The Wilding.

Zines make great stocking stuffers! Spread the zine gospel this holiday season by buying a heap of them at XPACE’s zine fair this coming weekend, and gift them to your friends and family. The fair will have handmade items, prints and other great stuff, too.

2ND ANNUAL XPACE ZINE FAIR
Saturday December 17, 2011, 12pm-6pm
XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington [...]

GET SCHOOLED: Bohemian Wrapsody @ City of Craft 2011 (December 10, 2011)

jen — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:11:17 +0000

I mentioned this workshop briefly earlier this week, but thought I’d let you all know in more detail what myself & my pal Day will be going over in our DIY gift wrapping workshop at City of Craft tomorrow (!).

Bohemian Wrapsody
With Jen and Day
Saturday December 10th, 2011 – 4:00pm-6:00pm
At City of Craft 2011
The Theatre Centre , 1087 Queen Street West

Found some amazing, made-by-hand gifts for your special someones at City of Craft? Don’t dull your giftly treasures [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Holiday Show Round-up!

jen — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:14:07 +0000

Vendor Hooray at Handmade Holiday 2011

With new jobs, school finals & running a giant show among the things keeping us up at night this holiday season, TCA has not had the chance to put together a list of holiday shows for y’all to sink your teeth in to. Luckily several major local news sources have been doing the job for us, and with a doozy craft fair weekend coming up in a couple of days I wanted to share [...]

CRAFT SHOW: City of Craft 2011 (December 10 & 11, 2011)

jen — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:14:31 +0000

In my biased (though I like to think educated) opinion, City of Craft gets better and better each year. To wit, the 2011 show, coming up this weekend (!) features:

An awesome new space (thanks Thrush Holmes Empire!) to house an expanded rosters of 55 hand-picked vendors of art, housewares, apparel, jewellery accessories, wood work, ceramics, textiles, handmade supplies, paper goods, children’s wares and more hailing from from Montreal, Philadelphia, Rochester, Pittsburgh and (mostly) The GTA & Southern Ontario. Visit [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Crafternoon Tea (November 26, 2011)

jen — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:27:09 +0000

Soy candles by Amy’s Place

Crafternoon Tea was the very first craft show I sold at in Toronto, and as someone who loves tea, tea-related treats, and customers with a geniune appreciation for handmade works, it was a great experience for me. Now in its 7th year, CT is still bringing sweet treats and handmade holiday goodness to the east end. Read on for details, and check out the poster at the bottom for a primer on independent holiday shows happening all over [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Handmade Holiday and Nook Collective Sale (December 3 (&10), 2011)

jen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:58:20 +0000

Kensington Market is the place to be December 3rd if you are in the market (har har) for handmade awesomeness. Veteran craft & design purveyors Kid Icarus will be hosting a craft fair with a stellar looking line up at College and Bellevue, and just down the street, the newish and adorable Nook Collective will be throwing their own craft & design party at their Holiday Sale (also on December 10th). Check out their cute posters and see you there!

CRAFT SHOW: Craftstock 3 in Kensington Market (Friday, October 14, 8:00pm – 2:00am)

becky — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:25:18 +0000

Craftstock 3 Poster design by Selena Wong

This just in from the music-event-producing folks at Goldsoundz – Craftstock 3 is coming up in a couple weeks. Craft fair, indie pop concert, raucous good time – I, personally, am hoping to be transported back to the rock and roll roots of my own craft-making. The full music and craft line up can be found here.

Friday, October 14, 2011
8:00pm-2:00am
Philippine Centre for Arts & Culture
167 Augusta (Kensington Market)
Toronto, ON

QUESTIONS FOR CRAFTERS BLOORCOURT: Jack Dylan (Market: August 13, 2011)

jen — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:40:42 +0000

Behold our final vendor spotlight for the Bloorcourt Arts and Crafts Street Fair Market with illustrator Jack Dylan. Find Jack and dozens of other super talented makers’ stuff at the Market on Saturday – it’s gonna be a goooood one.

1. What processes and materials are involved in creating your work? Normally I’ll start a sketch with pen, not a good pen, but a cheap little Bic pen (I like black best). Then I’ll scan that and start making some magic in the photoshop [...]

QUESTIONS FOR CRAFTERS BLOORCOURT: Ting Ding of Acid Zip (Market: August 13, 2011)

jen — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:14:51 +0000

I’m happy to introduce you to Ting Ding of Acid Zip who makes super fun and stylish jewellery. This is the third profile in our spotlight on Bloorcourt Arts and Crafts Street Fair Market vendors (see the first and second here).

1. What processes and materials are involved in creating your work?
I like to work with vintage brass findings that are interesting to me as well as organic material such as porcupine quills. As for my creative process…it usually involves [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Bloorcourt Arts and Crafts Streetfair Market (August 13, 2011)

jen — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:13:15 +0000

Yes, yes, I’ve been blogging about little else lately in the form of vendor profiles, but sometimes it’s easy to miss the forest through the trees! So just a quick ‘mark your calendars’ type note that this very Saturday, the Bloorcourt Arts and Crafts Street Fair is coming up, and the market action is NOT TO BE MISSED.

We’ve got several dozen artists and makers offering up prints, ceramics, paper goods, textiles for the home and bod, accessories and jewellery galore, and even [...]

CRAFTY HAPPENING: Zine Dream 4 at the Tranzac (Sunday, August 21, 2011; 12-5pm)

tara — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:03:16 +0000

This will be the first year since it’s inception that I won’t be tabling at Zine Dream– an awesome annual zine fair in the arty and truly underground spirit of Cut ‘N’ Paste– the much-missed and utterly classic zine fair that used to happen at Sneaky Dee’s once upon a time ago. A fun mish mash of art, printed matter, music and performance, Zine Dream never fails to be a great late-summer gathering for print geeks like me. [...]

QUESTIONS FOR CRAFTERS BLOORCOURT: Krystal Speck Ceramics (Market: August 13, 2011)

jen — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:11:34 +0000

We continue our spotlight on Bloorcourt Arts and Crafts Street Fair Market vendors with ceramicist Krystal Speck.

1. What processes and materials are involved in creating your work?
I make functional pottery using porcelain clay & slip (liquid clay). I am mainly into small scale casting & mouldmaking, but will sometimes hand-build or throw on the potters wheel if the piece I am making demands it. The surface of each pot is decorated by completely by hand using graphic lines and colourful [...]

QUESTIONS FOR CRAFTERS BLOORCOURT: Alison Gledhill of Grace (Market: August 13, 2011)

jen — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:22:04 +0000

As I’ve mentioned I am currently organizing the market for the upcoming Bloorcourt Arts and Crafts Streetfair and it is shaping up to be one stellar little show! Amongst the live music, games, extended patios, and amateur wresting that will stud Bloor Street between Shaw and Dovercourt you will find some incredible art and craft works by dozens of indie makers . Over the next week or so I’ll be featuring some interviews with these guys and give you a sneak peak at some [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Summer Craft Fair Presented by the Beehive Craft Collective (August 12-13, 2011)

jen — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:47:59 +0000

Mark your calendars folks, Hamilton’s crafty event of the summer will be taking place August 12 & 13! The show will feature handmade jewelry, ceramics, textiles and more by over 20 talented makers from Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia in one of the many beautifully restored buildings in downtown Hamilton. The space will also be adorned with installations by textile artists Courtney Lakin and Amanda McCavour.

I know you keep hearing about how fun the monthly Art Crawl is ( I for one keep [...]

CRAFTY HAPPENING: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 50th Anniversary Show (July 8-10, 2011)

jen — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:49:23 +0000

A heads up that your favourite (or at least my favourite!) outdoor art show is coming up next weekend! Due to ongoing construction on Nathan Phillips Square, TOAE will be a bit smaller this year, but while it is so hard to turn away many worthy artists, this makes for an extremely tight (as in outta site) show that is most pleasurable to navigate in the summer sun!

This is the 50th anniversary of the show, so not only will there be original art, craft & craft-art by several [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: pieceWORK 2011 at the Gladstone Hotel (Deadline: July 15, 2011)

tara — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:45:54 +0000

On the topic of vendor calls from a few posts back, here is the call for pieceWORK at the Gladstone Hotel, which runs annually in conjunction with the Hard Twist annual juried fibre art exhibition. All the details are below!

ATTENTION ARTISTS WORKING IN TEXTILE AND FIBRE
MEDIUMS

Gladstone Hotel Presents pieceWORK: A Pop-Up Sale Of Textile
And Fibre Arts
One Night ONLY! Nov 25th, 2011

The Gladstone Hotel is renting exhibition spaces to artists
interested in setting up one night [...]

SHOP CRAFTY: We Heart Handmade Art at West Elm, hosted by Anabela of Fieldguided (June 4, 2011)

jen — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:39:52 +0000

Anabela of blog & accessories line Fieldguided has been tapped by Etsy & West Elm to curate a show at the Liberty Village store involving local Etsy sellers. She has selected a great group of makers of jewellery, stationary, accessories, and housewares, including this year’s City of Craft designer Deadweight (love this lady’s work!). Check out this post here and here for some visuals. Also heads up that the pre-party involves champagne & [...]

CRAFT SHOWS: Spring Flight (April 30/May 1, 2011 – Halifax, NS) & Got Craft? (May 8, 2011 – Vancouver, BC)

becky — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:53:14 +0000

Spring is springing from coast to coast and what better way celebrate than with two craft fairs 6000km apart? Both Halifax Crafters and Got Craft? have made it their missions to bring the indie craft movement into the light in their respective coastal cities. If you find yourself on either end of this country in the next couple weeks, you might want to drop in on them. As a side note, I am really enjoying how [...]

CRAFT SHOW: the Bazaar of the Bizarre (Sunday, March 20, 2011)

becky — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:36:52 +0000

Hear, ye, hear, ye! It’s time for the spring craft fair season to kick off with Plastik Wrap‘s bi-annual craft event, Bazaar of the Bizarre.

Motivated by both a love for handmade/indie production and for the strange, the folks at Plastik Wrap founded the Bazaar as a way to showcase local work that might be underplayed in the current, muted aesthetic climate. A stroll through the vendor list will reveal work that ranges from gothic, esoteric, [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Of Love and Rummage by Celine Kim

Toronto Craft Alert — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:29:40 +0000

Celine took some lovely snaps of the 3rd annual Love and Rummage Trunk Show at the workroom this past Sunday, peeking in to makers’ trunks and catching some sweet moments. Stay tuned for more beautiful images from Celine on TCA. So happy to have this talented lady sharing her vision with us!

CRAFT SHOW: Erotic Arts and Crafts Fair (February 12, 2011)

becky — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:50:57 +0000

Implant Paper weights by Emma Gerard at Erotic Arts & Crafts 2009.
Photo by Becky Johnson

Living in a raging metropolis like Toronto gives us citizens the great opportunity to experience a wide variety of, well, just about everything. In the craft world, the city’s diversity provides a rich breeding ground for multiple niche craft events. The annual Erotic Arts and Crafts Fair is a prime example of this. Hosted by local [...]

CRAFTY HAPPENING: Events at C1 Art Space (July – September)

rosalyn — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:49:20 +0000

GET SCHOOLED: Summer 2010 Art Classes

::ADULTS::
3 HOUR INTRO WORKSHOPS

These general interest workshops are suited for artists , teachers, or beginners. These one day summer sessions allow you to explore a variety of mediums while remaining flexible to fit any busy summer schedule. Choose between one, three or all eight workshops offered in encaustic, acrylic painting, collage screen printing, brown printing, papier mache and clay ceramics.

Courses are $65 each or $60 each for 3 or more sessions (plus taxes, materials included)
Choose from a 3 hour [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Weekend Craft Show at The Purple Thumb (every weekend in June-August)

rosalyn — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:58:18 +0000

Due to the popular Christmas craft show The Purple Thumb is proud to host a weekend craft show every Saturday & Sunday during June, July and August plus a very special craft show during the Beaches Jazz StreetFest in July.

Spaces are $25/day!

For more information and to fill out an application please visit our website at www.thepurplethumb.net and click on the click “Weekend Craft Show“.

We are all looking forward to a great summer [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Rosetta Stone Trunk Show & Sale (June 27)

rosalyn — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:09:27 +0000

Date: Sunday, June 27, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: The Tampered Press
256 Crawford St. Unit B (entrance facing Dundas St. West)

Join us for a summer Trunk Show & Sale for Rosetta Stone at
The Tampered Press, a new espresso bar and community lounge on
Dundas West. One-of-a-kind artisan jewellery at 40% off retail prices. It’s fun to support Local.

ABOUT ROSETTA STONE
Yesterday is today is tomorrow
Inspired by the sentimental feel of [...]

CRAFT SHOW: Yard Sale Trunk Show (June 13)

rosalyn — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:07:11 +0000

It’s almost summertime, and the workroom is hosting another fantastic trunk show! The Yard Sale Trunk Show is taking place on Sunday June 13 from 12-5 pm.

More than 15 local crafty vendors will be taking part in this indoor/outdoor yard sale/craft show. Buy local handmade goods and some incredible rummage. Enjoy the workroom’s amazing backyard and have some delicious free snacks. Have your photo taken in our outdoor photo booth by

CRAFT SHOW: Make It Show (June 5)

rosalyn — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:41:36 +0000

The first-ever Make It Show is being held on Saturday June 5, 2010 at Beaver Hall Gallery. Make It is open to the public between 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Beaver Hall Gallery is located at 29 McCaul St., Toronto.

Make It is a one-day showcase that will highlight works for sale by local artists, designers and craftspeople. Proceeds from entrance donations and a raffle of the participants’ work will benefit the Furniture [...]

VENDOR CALL: Appliquez a PUCES POP PRINTEMPS – Apply to SPRING PUCES POP (June 5-6, deadline May 10)

rosalyn — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:54:02 +0000

English message below!

Le soleil est de la partie et le printemps est ici… C’est le temps pour une nouvelle édition de

Puces Pop Printemps!

Marquez vos calendriers et sauvez la date, cette année, la foire se déroule le 5-6 Juin à la Fédération Ukrainienne.
Nous voulons voir ce sur quoi vous avez travaillé cet hiver !

• Envoyez nous 3-5 photos qui représentent clairement votre travail.
• Si vous avez un site Etsy, un groupe facebook, un site internet ou un magasin [...]

VENDOR CALL: The Purple Thumb’s Weekend Craft Show (June-August)

rosalyn — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:12:57 +0000

Due to the popular Christmas craft show The Purple Thumb is proud to host a weekend craft show every Saturday & Sunday during June, July and August plus a very special craft show during the Beaches Jazz StreetFest in July.

Spaces are $25/day!

For more information and to fill out an application please visit our website at www.thepurplethumb.net and click on the click “Weekend Craft Show“.

We are all looking forward to a great summer in the Beach and having you part of it.

~*The Purple Thumb*~
1887 Queen Street East, Toronto [...]