This one via The Crafts Report is worth a quick read if you do any sort of retail sales, personal or through shops.
* and point taken, just because I think my kid is cute and I have no babysitter doesn’t mean that it looks professional to have your family around your booth.
Urban Forest Design Studio
25% Commissioned Sales at the Berkshire Arts Festival
No Booth Fee
$10 Application Fee
Application Deadline: April 10, 2011
Now in its 10th year, the Berkshires Arts Festival has become a Berkshire tradition attracting thousands of art lovers who come to the Berkshires for theater, dance, music, and art. Founded by Richard and Joanna Rothbard, owners of An American Craftsman Galleries, the Berkshires Arts Festival attracts top artists from all across the USA and Canada.
For more info about the fair visit http://www.berkshiresartsfestival.com/apply.php
For more info about this specific opportunity email [email protected]
Dallas Pottery Invitational Refined form. Defined function. Please join us for the Fourth Annual Dallas Pottery Invitational on April 8th-10th, 2011 at the Janette Kennedy Gallery at Southside on Lamar. Come celebrate the functional ceramics of eleven nationally recognized artists. Explore the diversity of contemporary styles crafted using earthenware, stoneware and porcelain clays. Share, learn, and buy from the artists, themselves. This coming year we will host five new artists: Andy Brayman, Autumn Cipala, Kari Radasch, Monica Ripley and Deb Schwartzkopf. Also featured is our current core group of artists: Amy Halko, Daphne Roehr Hatcher, Gary Hatcher, Brenda Lichman, Lisa Orr and Louise Rosenfield.
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The work of this diverse group will provide you with a unique overview of the field of functional ceramists today. Whether you are a novice or seasoned collector, you will appreciate the exceptional opportunity to talk to the artists while viewing their wares. 
Andy Brayman Using hand made pottery every day offers the potential for a moment of reverie, giving you the opportunity to examine an often-overlooked aspect of daily life which can bring special meaning to the ordinary.
For all the details please visit their website.
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Here’s the list of great Canadian ceramic artists participating:
Adelle & Sid Samphire
Samphire Pottery Dave Clark & Marlyn Turner
Quasimodo Pottery Darrell Perfumo
Westcoast Gnomes
Porcelain and stoneware sculpture Elan McPherson
Flavour Design Studio Gordon Hutchens
Gordon Hutchens Pottery George Pearlman
St.George Pottery Joan Kagan
Joan Kagan Pottery Leslie Mackenzie
Hands on Design
Raku Margit Nellemann
Margit Nellemann
Handbuilt ceramics Paige Kearns-Coull & Mariko McCrae
Blackbird Studios Rachelle Chinnery
Rachelle Chinnery Porcelain
Carved Porcelain Cathi Jefferson
Cathi Jefferson
Functional and sculptural salt-fired stoneware
