Downloads

Please help us spread the word about the St. Paul Craftstravaganza. You are welcome to download, print, and distribute these promotional materials.

SPC Poster
These full-sized posters, designed by our talented vendor Lonny Unitus, are going up all over the city. You can help us promote the show by printing out flyer and hanging them in co-ops, coffee shops, libraries, universities, craft stores, pawn shops, head shops, thrift stores, art supply stores, tattoo parlors, bars, venues, galleries, studios, bike shops, book stores, theatres, record stores, salons, boutiques, and specialty stores. Flyer the world!

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Download Color Flyer . . . Download Black & White Flyer

This is old stuff:
Black & White Fliers / Color Fliers
Full-size Flier
Press Release

The Buzz

The Craftstravaganza is listed as a Hot Ticket by the Pioneer Press and the Pulse. Here's what the Pulse had to say:
It's a month or so yet before the Minnesota State Fair, with its attendant crop of exhibitions, so it will be a little while before we can see portraits of Augie Garcia or Hubert Humphrey made out of seeds. Thank goodness for St. Paul's Craftstravaganza, which brings all sorts of oddball craft projects to the fairgrounds in July. Co-sponsored by Bust Magazine, which sometimes reads like a group of punk rockers had gotten hold of a Victorian quilting book, this festival of uncommon hobbies features altered clothing, felted wool dolls and lollipop-colored wooden box purses. Also on hand will be music by Chokecherry (chokecherry wine is delicious, by the way, and brewing it is a typical Northern Minnesota hobby), the Mill City Mongrels and the Roe Family Singers. And, in the best punk DIY tradition, the fair will offer workshops on the art of knitting, Ukrainian eggmaking, bookmaking, and spinning, so, by the end of the day, you're likely to be making your own rogue arts and crafts. MAX SPARBER

Crews from WCCO TV and the Indie Craft Documentary will be filming at the fair.

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Other Shows

There are so many other great craft shows around the country. Shop 'em all and show your support for the handmade revolution. The ones we know about are: (Austin) Stitch Austin | (Boston, LA & Cleveland) Bazaar Bizarre | (Brooklyn) Renegade NY | (Chicago) DIY Trunk Show, Renegade IL | (Columbus) Craftin' Outlaws | (Danville) Southeastern Swag Market | (Milwaukee) Art vs. Craft | (Minneapolis) Craft-o-Rama | (Pittsburgh) Handmade Arcade | (Portland, ME) Bilssful Revolution | (Portland, OR) Handmade Bazaar | (Providence) Craftland | (Richmond) Spring Bada-Bing | (Santa Cruz) Craftalicious | (Seattle) I Heart Rummage, Urban Craft Uprising | (Williamsburg) Artists & Fleas