Toronto Craft Alert

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 [...]
  

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Just a quick and timely reminder that apps for City of Craft are due really soon (they will stay open through Midnight EST on August 31, 2011, to be precise).   Read on below for details and instructions on how to apply.  And get on it guys!

Planning to apply to vend at City of Craft 2011?

First, Read the Application FAQ

Then, APPLY!

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If Sandi of Deadweight‘s supremely awesome flyer art is not enough to move you to apply to this year’s City of Craft, then I don’t know what to tell you.   If you do plan to apply, perhaps you might like to take a gander at these handy tips before doing so.  As someone who sits on this jury every year, I can attest that they are really bang-on.

Applications for the December 2011 event [...]

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Oh man, what a great line up for this year’s  Love & Rummage show!  Can’t wait to see the junk (that’s the rummage part – I am not insulting their work, promise!) & handmade action these guys have on offer.

City of Craft & the workroom present
The Love & Rummage Trunk Show 3
Sunday February 6, 2011
Noon-5pm
the workroom
1340 Queen Street West

Show your love with local, handmade wares.

Featuring handmade goodness from:

the Arthur
bookhou
Coriander Girl
Deadweight
Etoile
Fieldguided
Krystal Speck
Nightjar Books
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Did you know that the apps for City of Craft are already open!? It’s true, you can get a head start on your winter fair applying by heading over to the website, reading the vendor FAQs & applying for this city’s largest independent craft show & celebration of craft culture.

Not familiar with the City of Craft story?  Now in it’s 4th year, City of Craft is an independently run juried craft sale featuring over 45 vendors, as well as craft-based installations, free workshops, and craft-related programming in local [...]

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Thanks to all of you who stopped by the TCA booth and entered the Handmade Love Draw at City of Craft this weekend – our ballot box was totally full-up with your votes for favourite craft object at the show!

Without further ado…the winner is:

Laura Severinal

who chose a bunny painting with button details on salvaged plywood by KuKu CaJu.

Congrats to Laura and to KuKu CaJu as well for making the coveted piece!

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