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It's Friday July 22, 2011
American Craft Week
Contests  

ACW is sponsoring two types of contests this year, an essay contest and a photo contest.

The contest prizes are gift certificates to an ACW participant. ACW will purchase a gift certificate in the prize about from the winners favorite participant.

Encourage your customers to enter! If they win, it's a prize for both you and them.

Essay Contest Information

Photo Contest Information  

 

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CALL FOR BOOTH NUMBERS
  

 

If you are exhibiting at New York International Gift Fair, please send your booth number to rani@randomactsart.com. NYIGF booth numbers must be in by August 8th. We will be putting out a list of CRAFT members exhibiting at these shows and if you don't send us your booth information, you will not be included.

 

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Three Special Offers for CRAFT Members at NYIGF

The New York International Gift Fair� (NYIGF�) welcomes all CRAFT retail members with three very special offers for the summer 2011 market:

 

 

Free NYIGF badge

Register for free ($50 value), with promotion code "FGI." Register online at http://www.nyigf.com/Buyers/ShowRegistration.aspx. 

 

 

Complimentary Club GLM Lounge admission

Free use of NYIGF's VIP Lounge for CRAFT retail members. Club GLM offers complimentary beverages, phone, internet accessibility and seating, during all regular fair hours. Present this letter at Javits Room 1E03 for admission for yourself and one guest.

 

 

Free seminar admission

Get one free ticket ($20 value), to one NYIGF's myriad educational sessions addressing color and product trends, sustainability and retail strategies. Dates, times and details are available at www.nyigf.com/programs. Register online with promotion code "NYSEM."

 

 

The New Yor k Inter national Gift Fair �, running August 13-18, 2011, is the nation's premier marketplace for design-driven craft, home, lifestyle and gift products with 2,800 exhibitors and 35,000 attendees from around the world. (Handmade Designer Maker and Handmade Global Design - open Saturday, August 13.) Visit www.nyigf.com for details

and registration.

 

 

Looking for something specific? Search.nyigf.com allows for a multitude of new search and filter options - such as handmade crafts, "Made in the USA" and Fair Trade - to find products relevant to your specific needs. To make it even easier, you also can create customized "walking lists" to shop onsite.

 

To Our Artist Members

 

The American Craft Week team has been working hard to promote ACW. They are starting to make a push for more national media coverage. It would help to have at least one participant in every state. We've sent out emails to CRAFT retail members in missing states, but there are 11 states that we do not currently have any retail members in. We're hoping you can help!

 

Do you have any retail accounts in the following states?

 

Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming 

 

Your help making sure people in these states know about American Craft Week (www.americancraftweek.com) would be greatly appreciated. It could be as simple as mentioning it in your next call or email. We will have a great printed bookmark about ACW available in about a week. We are happy to send you some of these bookmarks for FREE to include with shipments and invoices. If you would like ACW bookmarks to send out, contact Diane Sulg at dianesulg@aol.com. Don't just limit it to retailers in the states listed above. Anyone who is not on the Participants List should be reminded about ACW. 

 

 
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