CraftArt Festival Artist

If entering in more than one craft medium, applicant must submit separate application, fees and images. Only work in the defined fine craft medium(s) will be considered – clay, fiber, glass, metal, jewelry, mixed media and wood. All work MUST be original and of the exhibitor’s own creation. NO buy/sell. No commercial or imported items, items made from kits, greenware or mass-produced items. Any person exhibiting arts/crafts that have any resemblance to such items will be subject to dismissal from the show and forfeit fees and booth fees.

The two-day 23rd Annual CraftArt Festival kicks off the holiday shopping season and features artists’ handmade works in ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, metal, paper, and mixed media. More than 110 of the nation’s best contemporary fine craft artists show and sell their creations. There are artist demonstrations, food trucks, wine, and craft beer. Located just outside the doors of the Florida CraftArt Gallery along Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg, it is a destination for tourists and local visitors to enjoy an artful Florida weekend.

IMAGES: 4 (3 of work, 1 of booth) Four (4) images are to be submitted for each individual media category entered by the artist. Three (3) images must be of individual pieces of work. Image #4 must be a booth image showing overall continuity and presentation of your current body of work. The purpose of the booth image is to ensure the artist has a complete body of work which is represented both in the first three images, also within image #4. It also helps identify the scale of the artist's work. If possible, please avoid submitting booth images with any identifiable sign, or photo of the artist themselves. Images must accurately represent the body of the artist's work to be exhibited at the Festival. Media Categories: Ceramics: This category includes all original clay and porcelain work, other than jewelry. No machine-made or mass produced work is permitted. Fiber: This category includes all work crafted from fibers including basketry, weaving, leatherwork, and paper making. No machine tooling, machine-screened patterns, or other forms of mass productions are permitted. No factory-produced wearable items, regardless of additional modifications or enhancements by the artist may be exhibited. Glass: This category includes original work created in glass by the artist. Pressed glass and mass production are not permitted. Jewelry: This category includes all jewelry, whether the work is produced from metal, glass, clay, fiber, paper, plastic or other materials. No buy sell, commercial casts or mass produced by another manufacturer, molds. Metal: This category includes all non-sculptural, non-jewelry works crafted from metal. Mixed Media: This category includes 3D works that incorporate more than one type of physical material to produce. Printmaking: This category includes print works for which the artist’s hand manipulated the plates, stones, blocks or screens, which have been signed and numbered as a limited edition. Offset reproductions are not allowed. Sculpture: This category includes three-dimensional original work done in any medium. Wood: This category includes original works that are hand-tooled, machine-worked, turned or carved.