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Apr 27

Spring Vendor Announcement!

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

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.

Oct 14

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Check out our sweet holiday show vendors!

Time to start making your shopping list: Our holiday show vendor list is live! Thanks to the extra space in the UC Rec Center’s gymnasium, we have 30 more vendors and still more elbow room for shoppers than last year! Our 130 vendors represent a dozen states, from as far away as Georgia and New York, and a third of them are totally new to Crafty Supermarket!

You can RSVP for the show here — it’s totally free for shoppers! — and invite all your friends! Here are some of the cool kids who will be selling at Crafty Supermarket for the first time on Nov. 19:

Aromaholic of Detroit, MI

Champaign Paper of Beach City, OH

CK TC Ceramics of Cincinnati, OH

Cold Gold of Knoxville, TN

Fresh Camp of Cleveland, OH

Fieldwork Ceramics of Philadelphia, PA

Happy Grey Skies of Traverse City, MI

Heartell Press of Brooklyn, NY

Rheino Ceramics of Cincinnati, OH

Questionable Press of Lancaster, OH

Sara Sartarelli | Tessuti of Cincinnati, OH

Two of Wands of New York, NY

Are you still accepting vendors?

Applications for the Crafty Supermarket holiday craft show closed Sept. 1. 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.

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.

Jul 7

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fall + holiday 2016 midwest craft shows

For makers seeking indie craft shows to do for the rest of the year, we have created this master list of the best fall and holiday craft shows around the Midwest for September to December 2016!