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In this issue...
• Kentucky Crafted:
The
Market 2010
• Meet the Artist
• Meet the Retailer
•
Nominees for 2010
Top Retailer Awards
• Exhibitors New to
Kentucky
Crafted:
The
Market and
Market Program
Kentucky Arts Council
Promotes Artful Living at
2010 Market
Advance copy of the
official program for
Kentucky Crafted: The Market
2010
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The award-winning arts marketplace Kentucky Crafted: The
Market returns to Louisville, Ky., March 4-7, 2010, at the Kentucky
Exposition Center, South Wing B. This year the marketplace features the theme
ART FULL LIFE.
Kentucky Crafted: The Market offers buyers from
galleries, shops and online retail venues across the nation the opportunity to
select products from over 200 exhibitors of fine art and craft, books, CDs,
DVDs and specialty foods. The market is open exclusively to the trade on March
4 and 5.
On March 6 and 7, the marketplace opens to the public. In
addition to shopping for fine art and craft, visitors can enjoy musical
performances, meet Kentucky authors, explore Kentucky traditions, view films by
Kentucky filmmakers and take home Kentucky Proud specialty food
products.
Artists exhibiting at Kentucky Crafted: The Market were
selected by independent panels of arts professionals to participate in the
programs of the Kentucky Arts Council because of their artistic excellence and
market readiness. Specialty food producers exhibiting at The Market have been
accepted into the Kentucky Department of Agriculture's marketing program,
Kentucky Proud.
Kentucky Crafted: The Market, now in its 28th
year, is produced by the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency that
creates opportunities for Kentuckians to value, participate in and benefit from
the arts. Kentucky Arts Council funding is provided by the Kentucky General
Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts.
KENTUCKY
CRAFTED: THE MARKET
Kentucky Exposition Center, South Wing B
Louisville, Kentucky
Open to the Trade:
Thursday, March
4, 2010 1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. EST
Friday, March 5, 2010 9:00 a.m.
– 6:00 p.m.
Registration required. Buyers must show two forms of
business identification.
To register, go to
http://artscouncil.ky.gov/forms/Market10BuyerReg.htm
Open to the Public:
Saturday, March 6, 2010 9:00 a.m. –
6:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2010 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Admission: $8 Adults, Children 15 and under free.
$3 off
admission with coupon from www.kycraft.ky.gov
Parking at Kentucky
Exposition Center is $6.
As the son of a home builder and grandson of a mason and iron
worker, Mark Needham has built and designed things his entire life. Educated as
an architect, he also studied printmaking and has participated in the
Louisville arts scene for over thirty years, exhibiting photography, drawings,
sculpture, graphic design and jewelry.
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Owner of the multi-disciplinary design company, GOOD IDEA!, Mark
focuses on contemporary jewelry designs when exhibiting and selling Kentucky
Crafted merchandise. He has participated in the Kentucky Crafted booth at the
New York International Gift Fair and the Philadelphia Buyers Market of American
Craft. He has also exhibited in his own booth at the American Craft Council
show in Baltimore. In 2008 Mark was one of nine recipients of an Al Smith
Individual Artist Professional Assistance Award from the Kentucky Arts Council.
With his architectural training and a love of simplicity as exemplified
in Scandinavian, Japanese, Dutch and German industrial design, his own
sculptural and architectural forms appeal to women and men who appreciate
modern design and enjoy wearing art.
Prices range from relatively
inexpensive to moderately expensive, depending on materials and complexity.
Many necklace designs incorporate unique magnetic or friction closures of
Needham's own design and manufacture, which are easier to use than typical
lobster clasps. Needham's unique one-of-a-kind executions have been shown in
leading American and Canadian museums and a variety of retail stores.
Mark’s work is often featured at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in
Louisville and can always be found at
www.markneedhamjewelry.com.
Located in Berea, the city recognized as Kentucky’s folk
arts and craft capital, Top Drawer Gallery offers some of the state’s
finest examples of contemporary crafts and handmade functional items for the
home. As a business Top Drawer Gallery is relatively young but is already
enjoying a well-earned reputation for being synonymous with top
quality.
Eastern Kentucky native Terry Fields opened Top Drawer Gallery
in 2004. Fields has been a respected leader in the regional crafts industry for
more than thirty years and is a well-known and highly regarded woodworker.
Before opening Top Drawer Gallery, Terry served as program director and
production manager with the Berea College Crafts Program for 18 years. He is
also the owner of Berea Wood Products, which produces and sells a wide variety
of unique wood items for the home. Berea Wood Products is a Kentucky
Crafted © juried craft business.
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With a focus on wood products, Top Drawer Gallery also features
ceramics, glassware, jewelry, decorative folk art, photography and other unique
visual art pieces in over 2,500 square feet of retail space that is as
beautiful as the one-of-a-kind items displayed in the space.
Top Drawer
is one of the few galleries in the region to offer a full range of top-quality,
solid-hardwood, traditional Appalachian, Shaker, and early American furniture.
Product lines include dining tables and chair sets; rocking chairs; settees,
desk and other office furnishings; stand-alone cabinetry and shelving; and
hickory and sea grass bottomed chairs and benches. Custom-designed commission
work is also offered for the customer that desires something truly
unique.
You can visit Top Drawer Gallery at 202 N. Broadway in the Old
Town section of Berea or on the web at:
www.topdrawergallery.com.
Each Market exhibitors are asked to nominate those retailers
they feel have represented their work in an exemplary manner over the course of
the past year. Nominations are not based solely on sales figures but may also
be influenced by merchandising and/or marketing approaches. Of course it never
hurts if the retailer has also established a reputation for paying all invoices
in a timely manner. Award winners are almost always the retailers that have
worked diligently to establish a good, working relationship with the artist.
Award recipients receive a framed award for display in their store, $250 in
marketing support and are recognized in a brief ceremony at 5:00 p.m. on
Friday, March 5, 2010, on the Blue Moon Stage at The Market. Here is
this year’s list of nominees:
Kentucky Crafted: The Market
2010
Top Retailer Award Nominees
Top Kentucky
Retailer
21 C Museum Hotel, Louisville
Appalachian
Fireside Gallery, Berea
ARTIQUE, Lexington
Chestnut Tree Gallery,
Richmond
Damselfly Gallery, Midway
Gallery Janjobe, Louisville
Kaviar Forge and Gallery, Louisville
Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea,
Berea
Kentucky Haus Craft Gallery, Newport
Kentucky Museum of Art and
Craft, Louisville
Kentucky Proud Market, Lexington
Kentucky Soaps and
Such, Stanford
Promenade Gallery, Berea
Red Bird Mission, Beverly
Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Harrodsburg
The 1887 Corner Store,
LaGrange
True Kentucky, Glendale
Truly Bluegrass, Versailles
Woodford Reserve, Versailles
Top
Out-of-state Retailer
Allanstand Craft Shop, Asheville, N.C.
Bluestem Missouri Crafts, Columbia, Mo.
Boulder Arts and Crafts
Cooperative, Boulder, Colo.
Craft Co. #6, Rochester, N.Y.
Gallery M,
Half Moon Bay, Calif.
Grovewood Gallery, Asheville, N.C.
Lot 34,
Milford, OH
Hanson Galleries, Houston, TX
Hidden Hill Nursery and
Sculpture Garden, Utica, Ind.
Jenss Department Store, Amherst, N.Y.
Shaker Workshops, Ashburnham, Mass.
The Gallery on Pearl, New Albany,
Ind.
Time and time again, retailers list new work and unique products
as what they are most interested in finding for their stores. New Kentucky
Crafted exhibitor booths may be the best place to begin the search. Follow this
link, http://kycraft.ky.gov/10MarketProgram.pdf,
to The Market program, which is sure to lead you straight to new work
and well-crafted products. Happy hunting!
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