2025 200 Best Announced
100 Best Fine Art & Design Shows | 100 Best Classic & Contemporary Craft Shows
See the 2024 shows artists and craftspeople ranked as their most profitable.
This guide provides details about advertising, event listings, show reviews, the 200 Best, show poster contest, and the Promoter Guild.
Winning New Customers
October 2025, by Diane Sulg
Is there anything more satisfying than getting great orders from new customers? Or for that matter having your current wholesale customers place larger orders with more frequency? This is the way…
Show Review of the Month Marion Arts Festival
January 2026, by Sunshine Artist Editor
Marion Arts Festival Location: Marion, IA Date: May 18 Contact: Marion Arts Festival Website: marionartsfestival.com Email: mafdirector@marioncc.org Phone: 319-377-6316 Venue: 100 % outdoors…
Turning Craft Into a Career
January 2026, by Diane Sulg
This column is named “HeARTbeat” to reflect its purpose — telling the stories of artists who pour their hearts into their handmade work. Over the years, most of the artists featured have been unique…
Pick the Right Market
January 2026, by Scott Obernberger
Winter is here — at least in Wisconsin where I woke up to a freeze warning. It is time to assess our plans for the new year. This is when we start finalizing our show schedules and make tough…
Feeling Down After a Slow Show?
October 2025, by Scott Obernberger
The summer season has ended, and (as I am writing this column) the fall season is about to begin. This is a great time to take stock of how things went — our successes and our failures. What went…
The Art of Applying
November 2025, by Brenda Flynn
Artists who participate in outdoor art festivals try to do as many as possible during their seasons based on where they go or where they live. It is their livelihood and ways and means to pay bills…