Sponsor Spotlight: SNAG - Society of North American Goldsmiths

Established in 1968, SNAG's mission is to advances jewelry and metalsmithing by inspiring creativity, encouraging education, and fostering community. SNAG envisions a diverse jewelry and metals community engaging in thoughtful conversation and critical discourse while preserving tradition and embracing innovation.

SNAG holds a yearly conference and publishes Metalsmith magazine. Metalsmith gives you a front row seat on the world of studio art and design in contemporary jewelry and metalsmithing. It’s smart, beautiful and provocative, and guaranteed to inspire and invigorate. Coverage spans contemporary makers, artists in their studios, edgy work, production jewelry, fashion, hollowware, furniture, collectors’ collections, and much more.

For more information about SNAG visit http://www.snagmetalsmith.org/

Sponsor Spotlight: Southern Highland Craft Guild

A participant since the beginning of American Craft Week and now a 2^nd year sponsor – the Southern Highland Craft Guild represents 6 galleries and close to 1000 artists who reside in mountain counties in the 9 state region of the Appalachian Mountains.  The Guild dates back to 1930 and is headquartered at The Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, NC.

  

For over 80 years the Guild has been “bringing together the crafts and craftspeople of the Southern Highlands for the shared benefit of education, conservation and marketing”. This mission is fulfilled through integrated educational craft demonstrations at retail outlets and expos, free educational community events, and an extensive public library located at The Folk Art Center.

The next community events are Clay Day on June 7, Wood Day on August 9, and Heritage Weekend on September 20-21.

The Guild’s newest gallery, The Southern Highland Craft Gallery, hosted American Craft Week’s filming of our Kickstarter video! 

We are thrilled to have the Southern Highland Craft Guild back this year as a Sponsor of American Craft Week!

Sponsor Spotlight: Wholesalecrafts.com

Since the inception of American Craft Week, Wholesalecrafts.com has been a major sponsor and supporter of our event, and 2014 continues that trend.  Wholesalecrafts.com is again joining as a Major Sponsor for the 5^th consecutive year, and we are very excited to have its continued partnership in promoting and celebrating American Craft.

Wholesalecrafts.com is the premier online marketplace for retailers of American Craft and is the producer of American Craft Retailers Expo (ACRE) shows in the United States.  Its online marketplace serves the market by connecting American Craft retailers with over 1200 American and Canadian wholesaling artists in a juried, high-quality online environment.  To further support the market and add value to the relationship building between retailers and artists, ACRE produces three shows annually in Philadelphia, Las Vegas and New Jersey.  It also publishes quarterly Buyers’ Guides to round off their solid offering to the wholesale craft market.

American Craft Week thanks Wholesalecrafts.com for their long-term involvement in our movement to support, promote and celebrate the industry.  If you are interested in learning more about its trade shows and online marketplace, please visit www.wholesalecrafts.com, www.ACRELasVegas.com, www.ACREPhiladelphia.com and www.ACRENortheast.com.