Green Options » craft congress http://greenoptions.com/tag/craft-congress Posts tagged 'craft congress' Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:48:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Craft Con 2008: Help me. Help you. http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/03/12/craft-con-2008-help-me-help-you/ http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/03/12/craft-con-2008-help-me-help-you/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:48:08 +0000 Autumn Wiggins http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/03/12/craft-con-2008-help-me-help-you/ Craft ConLast March in Pittsburgh, the first annual Craft Congress was held. Fifty organizers and icons of the indie craft movement gathered over a weekend to share knowledge and eat cupcakes. I was lucky enough to be one of them. The cupcakes were delicious.

As my plane took off from St. Louis that Friday morning, I anticipated someone there would explain how to promote a craft show into the stratosphere and run it like clockwork. The feeling crept in that my event was a speck of dust in comparison to what others had accomplished, regardless that we had nearly 100 vendors for Strange Folk’s maiden voyage. Certainly, I questioned the validity of my involvement in what seemed a definitive moment of this growing subculture.

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