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Sep 30

Crafty Supermarket Holiday Show Returns November 29!

We’re back for our 16th annual holiday show—and it’s going to be a great one! Join us on Saturday, November 29, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the beautiful Music Hall Ballroom in downtown Cincinnati.

This year’s show will feature over 100 incredible makers, designers, and artists from across the region and beyond. Whether you’re shopping for holiday gifts or treating yourself, you’ll find one-of-a-kind goods, local food, and festive vibes all day long.

Here’s what you can look forward to:

  • Handmade goods from 100+ curated vendors
  • A live DJ keeping the energy going
  • Local food and drink
  • Free swag bags for the first 100 shoppers
  • Free and open to the public

Save the date and bring your friends—it’s the perfect way to kick off the holiday season!

Check back soon for the full vendor list and more event updates.

Apr 27

Spring Vendor Announcement!

Vendor Image: Susu Fille

Join us on Saturday, May 10, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Music Hall Ballroom in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. The event is free and open to all, with over 100 talented makers bringing you handmade goods, art, home décor, jewelry, apparel, self-care products, and more—just in time for Mother’s Day weekend. The first 100 shoppers get a custom tote!

We are excited to share our full list of vendors! Plus, plan your visit with our FAQ and parking tips!

We can’t wait to celebrate creativity and community with you!

Nov 4

Hannah Hoffman

Crafty Supermarket Holiday Vendor list announcement!

We are STOKED to share the vendor list for our upcoming 15th Anniversary show on Saturday, November 30, 2024 at Cincinnati Music Hall. We are constantly blown away by the talent we see immerge from our long-time favorites and new makers. When you shop local, your money stays in the community which helps the local economy grow. For every $100 spent at a local business, $68 stays in the community. Make your money count this holiday season! Shop with us! Find us on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peek.

Featured artist: Hannah Hoffman

Nov 4

2023 Crafty Supermarket Holiday Maker Announcement!

We are so excited to share our vendor list for the 2023 holiday edition of Crafty Supermarket, coming to you on Saturday, November 25, 2023 at the historic Music Hall Ballroom. Doors are open 11 am to 5 pm. This show is packed with talent and we can’t wait to share them with you!

In addition to awesome makers, we’ll have Black Coffee Lounge on site for all of your caffeine needs plus Fire Up Pizza and San Jeanetta’s Table to fill your grumbling bellies!

Jan 7

Spring Crafty Supermarket Applications Open 1/15-3/1

Our next show is Saturday, May 13, 2023 in the Music Hall Ballroom. We are excited to start taking applications via the How to Apply section of our website on January 15 though March 1. Tell your talented friends and mark your calendars for a fun day of shopping. We’ll have 100+ vendors and fingers crossed for magical weather.

Sep 6

Help out at our big holiday craft show!

Crafty Supermarket’s holiday show is huge: More than 100 handmade vendors will come from all around the Midwest to show their best work to thousands of shoppers. To help us make the craft show the best it can be, we enlist volunteers and work with sponsors — and here’s how you can get involved:

Volunteering

At our big holiday show on Nov. 19 at the UC Rec Center, we have a couple of opportunities for people to help out. (And when you assist us for a couple hours, you’ll get one of our famous swag bags!) Volunteers help us out in one of four areas: helping shoppers know where everything is, assisting vendors who need a break, helping load in at the beginning of the day and cleaning up at the end of the day. You can learn more and submit your info here. We’ll get back to you a few weeks before the show with the schedule. (Note that we sometimes get more volunteer applications than we can take, but we’ll get back to you either way!)

Partnerships

We work with all kinds of local organizations who love handmade and want to help spread the word. From arts nonprofits and landmark institutions to DIY shops and enterprises, if you support the maker movement, we’d love to work with you! Learn more about partnership opportunities here and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have an idea of how we can work together!

Sep 2

holiday show applications are now closed!

Applications for the Crafty Supermarket holiday craft show are now closed! We will let everyone who applied know about their acceptance status by Sept. 15.

Accepted crafters will have until Oct. 1 to pay their table fee. If you don’t pay your table fee by Oct. 1, we’ll offer the space to another crafter who applied before the deadline.

I missed the deadline! Can I still apply?

We get more applications for the show than we can accept, so we can’t allow any late applications out of fairness to crafters who applied before the deadline. If a spot opens up from a vendor being unable to attend the show, we select alternates from the people who applied before the deadline.

If you want to apply to be in our next show, be sure to follow us here on the website, on Facebook or via our e-newsletter. We broadcast our upcoming opportunities in all those places! Information about our 2017 spring show will be posted in January.

Apr 26

thanks for making our craft show awesome!

It was a rainy day, but our spring show was a big success! Big thanks go out to our sponsors, our trusty volunteers, our resident DJ Ben Davis, the incredible staff of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center and the 50 vendors who traveled from near and far to be with us. But especially to the 2,000+ shoppers who braved the rain to come hang out at the show!

Cheers to Dojo Gelato, C’est Cheese, Fireside Pizza, La Terza Coffee, Macaron Bar, and Red Sesame Korean BBQ for keeping us well-fed throughout the day!

A hip hip hooray to Half Hazard Press for designing and printing the beautiful totes for our swag bags:

And a crafty salute to this lady who was first in line for one of those swag bags shortly after 9 a.m.!

Thanks are due to the fine folks of the Contemporary Arts Center and the Cincinnati Main Library’s MakerSpace for running the hands-on maker table all day.

Here are a few more of our favorite shots from the show on Instagram!

Our next show is Nov. 28 at the Music Hall Ballroom, and application info for vendors will be posted in July. Stay crafty!

Chris + Grace

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