Link Love: Finding Local Art Fairs

Dolan Geiman booth at Madision Art Fair 2009 - part of the Flickr Group Art & Craft Fairs and Shows

Thursday's Etsy Success newsletter (a great resource for all Etsy sellers) included a few links for finding local indie crafts shows. We thought it was such a great idea that we've expanded on the topic for this week's Link Love post. Here are our ten suggestions for finding art & craft fairs, DIY/indie and traditional:

1. Art Fair Calendar - website
2. Chicago Crafty (Chicago only) - website
3. Illinois Arts Council (Illinois only) - website - Annual print directory of Illinois art fairs
4. Indie Craft Shows - website
5. Indie Craft Fair Guide - website
6. Craftzine.com Craft Events - website
7. Craftster Community Calendar - website
   
8. Sunshine Artist Magazine Show Listings - website
9. Zapplication (for artist research) - website - Application system used by many fine art fairs.
10. Juried Art Services (also for artist research)- website - Second major application system. Preferred system for craft fairs

As a sidenote, when researching this post we came across this article on DIY in NYC via L Magazine. The DIY Guide is part of a full issue devoted to DIY.