Sadie Bliss's guest appearances

Sadie Bliss

Artisans Who Wholesale hosted by Stefa Normantas

Makers of the USA

Bridget Kearney

Matt Beaudoin

Becky McKinnell

Lula Wiles

Emily Shaffer

Deanna Bogart

Dan Janssen

Michael Gaffney

Sarah Kelly

Alonzo Harris

Thomas Madden

Nancy Marshall

Pete Ross

Andy Cook

Scott Roberts

OwlTail

Maine Craft Weekend falls on the first weekend Saturday and Sunday in October and offers an opportunity for the public to explore the life and work of craft artists and businesses in Maine, and for artists to connect with craft enthusiasts, collectors, and visitors behind-the-scenes. This is an educational, community-oriented, and family-friendly event for all!Typically the event is in partnership with Maine Made, and scheduled in conjunction with American Craft Week, a nationwide event promoting craft events each October. In 2019, Maine Craft Weekend received a Star Award from American Craft Week for Outstanding Legacy of Craft Education &amp; Demonstrations. The organization launches a database filled with makers who will partake in the event that is hosted on their website and share what they will be doing for the event.This year the event will be treated as a DIY event and the organization will be promoting what others will be doing through their social media. They have also partnered with this podcast to interview a handful of those who will be doing social distance, COVID-friendly gatherings.Please visit Maine Craft Weekend to learn more about the event and please follow Maine Crafts Association to see how you can support makers from across the state or if you're a maker, how you can be a part of this association and to benefit from the services they offer. 

<a href="https://mainecraftweekend.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maine Craft Weekend </a>falls on the first weekend Saturday and Sunday in October and offers an opportunity for the public to explore the life and work of craft artists and businesses in Maine, and for artists to connect with craft enthusiasts, collectors, and visitors behind-the-scenes. This is an educational, community-oriented, and family-friendly event for all!Typically the event is in partnership with <a href="https://www.mainemade.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maine Made</a>, and scheduled in conjunction with American Craft Week, a nationwide event promoting craft events each October. In 2019, Maine Craft Weekend received a Star Award from American Craft Week for Outstanding Legacy of Craft Education &amp; Demonstrations. The organization launches a database filled with makers who will partake in the event that is hosted on their website and share what they will be doing for the event.This year the event will be treated as a DIY event and the organization will be promoting what others will be doing through their social media. They have also partnered with this podcast to interview a handful of those who will be doing social distance, COVID-friendly gatherings.Please visit <a href="https://mainecraftweekend.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maine Craft Weekend</a> to learn more about the event and please follow <a href="https://mainecrafts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maine Crafts Association</a> to see how you can support makers from across the state or if you're a maker, how you can be a part of this association and to benefit from the services they offer.

Sadie Bliss & Emily Shaffer Coordinate An Annual Event That Brings People To Makers To Learn Their Craft

From Craft to Artists and More – A Conversation with the Maine Crafts Association Episode 018  The Maine Crafts Association works to support craft artists with marketing and educational opportunities. While craft doesn’t always successfully crossover into wholesale, Sadie Bliss, Director, knows the best practices of the most successful craft artists and shares them with us in this episode! A little about Sadie Sadie grew up in New Hampshire where her mother was a professional craft artist making a living from her ceramic work. While in graduate school receiving a degree in Arts Administration Sadie worked for the Society of Arts and Crafts, managing Craft Boston. She moved to Maine in 2008 and began working for the Maine Crafts Association at the Center for Maine Craft and in 2012 moved into the director role. The Maine Crafts Association offers educational, marketing and retail opportunities to members, including professional development focused on wholesale. To learn more about Sadie and the Maine Crafts Association,  you can visit https://mainecrafts.org/ or email her at sadie@mainecrafts.org. Thoughts from Sadie  I think what people really need is to have some income from craft shows, some income from open studios, some income from wholesale, some income from maybe a consignment arrangement so that as each one of those different sources ebbs and flows, the other ones can carry you. The mistake is when people make decisions a little bit too quickly about what’s working and not working and limit their income. If you start imagining things and how you would want them to be and how growth could look, sometimes things will start falling in place.  Recommended Resources Indie Retail Academy Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts Maine Crafts Association Quotable  “I love it when people quit their jobs and then move over and just do this craft business they’ve been building. It’s a really wonderful and scary and a brave step.” “The most successful craft artists have honed in on their best income streams and they also continue to take risks and to grow.” “Successful artists are finding the balance of sticking to their vision and their style and spending their time making the things that they want to make while making small adjustments that meet the demands of the market.” 

From Craft to Artists and More – A Conversation with the Maine Crafts Association Episode 018  The Maine Crafts Association works to support craft artists with marketing and educational opportunities. While craft doesn’t always successfully crossover into wholesale, Sadie Bliss, Director, knows the best practices of the most successful craft artists and shares them with us in this episode! A little about Sadie Sadie grew up in New Hampshire where her mother was a professional craft artist making a living from her ceramic work. While in graduate school receiving a degree in Arts Administration Sadie worked for the Society of Arts and Crafts, managing Craft Boston. She moved to Maine in 2008 and began working for the Maine Crafts Association at the Center for Maine Craft and in 2012 moved into the director role. The Maine Crafts Association offers educational, marketing and retail opportunities to members, including professional development focused on wholesale. To learn more about Sadie and the Maine Crafts Association,  you can visit <a href="https://mainecrafts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mainecrafts.org/</a> or email her at <a href="mailto:sadie@mainecrafts.org">sadie@mainecrafts.org</a>. Thoughts from Sadie <ul> <li>I think what people really need is to have some income from craft shows, some income from open studios, some income from wholesale, some income from maybe a consignment arrangement so that as each one of those different sources ebbs and flows, the other ones can carry you.</li> <li>The mistake is when people make decisions a little bit too quickly about what’s working and not working and limit their income.</li> <li>If you start imagining things and how you would want them to be and how growth could look, sometimes things will start falling in place.</li> </ul> Recommended Resources <a href="https://www.indieretailacademy.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Indie Retail Academy</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Perennial-Seller-Making-Marketing-Lasts/dp/0143109014" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts</a> <a href="https://mainecrafts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maine Crafts Association</a> Quotable <ul> <li>“I love it when people quit their jobs and then move over and just do this craft business they’ve been building. It’s a really wonderful and scary and a brave step.”</li> <li>“The most successful craft artists have honed in on their best income streams and they also continue to take risks and to grow.”</li> <li>“Successful artists are finding the balance of sticking to their vision and their style and spending their time making the things that they want to make while making small adjustments that meet the demands of the market.”</li> </ul>

The Art of Wholesale Craft with Sadie Bliss, Maine Crafts Association