Full 2020 schedule + a special opening ceremonies!

January 4, 2020April 6, 2020 Megan GreenLeave a comment

Welcome to 2020, the year of Midwest Craft Con! We’ve just put up the full schedule of our creative business conference for your perusal. It is three days of business workshops with incredible speakers, hands-on crafting sessions and inspiring keynotes. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, those are available right here — and day passes are now available if you can only join us for part of the weekend.

To help kick things off we are hosting a creative art show with our friends at Blockfort Galleries.

Statements crocheted in yarn. Manifestos in embroidery. Quilted declarations.

In a season of heated political discussion, Midwest Craft Con has partnered with the Blocfort to host an exhibition of craft as activism. Selected from a call-for-entries, these works cross traditional craft with topics political and social justice, showing just how loudly modern craft can speak as an art form.

Artists featured in the exhibition include Bonnie Peterson, Alyson Toone, Jessica Wohl, Al Hoff, Rachel Baker, Zak Foster, Jen Edwards, and Letitia Kenemer.

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Full 2018 schedule, day passes and an important change!

January 6, 2018February 7, 2018 Megan GreenLeave a comment

Welcome to 2018, the year of Midwest Craft Con! We’ve just put up the full schedule of our creative business conference for your perusal. It is three days of business workshops with incredible speakers, hands-on crafting sessions and inspiring keynotes. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, those are available right here — and day passes are now available if you can only join us for part of the weekend.

And speaking of keynotes: We’ve got an important lineup change! The Breeders’ tour schedule is sadly taking Kelley Deal away from Ohio next month, and we will miss her. But we have found a fabulous replacement: Vickie Howell!

Vickie Howell is a broadcast personality, producer, author, designer, and instructor in the DIY world with a penchant for motivational speaking, and social media marketing. Vickie is well-known as the Host of TV shows such as DIY Network’s Knitty Gritty and Stylelicious, her best selling knitting, crochet, and craft books. Vickie strives to motivate and inspire people to both live creatively and make a living being creative — most recently reaching out to people via her Facebook Live series, Ask Me Monday, her online courses for CreativeLive and Brit+Co., her podcast, Craft*ish, and her latest project, the first studio-quality, community funded, internationally accessible knitting and crochet episodic series: The Knit Show with Vickie Howell. You’ll see her keynote talk Friday evening at the Con, and she’ll be giving a talk about running a successful Kickstarter campaign. Get your ticket here!

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Check out our speakers!

October 16, 2015October 15, 2015 Megan GreenLeave a comment

We are so excited about the speakers who will be joining us in February in Columbus, Ohio! The sessions will include:

Mei Pak on Social Media the Right Way
Tara Swiger on Crafting a Customer Path
Sandria Marie giving Acting Lessons for Shy Crafters
Abby Glassenberg on Awesome Email Newsletters
Allison Chapman on How to Stay in Love With Your Handmade Business

And so many more. We’ll be revealing even more speakers as we lead up to the event! You can peep the whole list here.

Just so you know, there are only about 40 early bird tickets left for Midwest Craft Con! After those sell out, tickets will be available at the regular price of $249.