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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Full schedule, workshops and day passes!

January 9, 2017January 11, 2017 Megan GreenLeave a comment

Just one month until Midwest Craft Con! We just posted the detailed 2017 schedule of our creative business conference‘s keynotes, sessions and panel discussions. You’ll meet experts in marketing, branding, entrepreneurship and creative business from all over the country — meet them here!

Day passes for Friday, Saturday or Sunday are now available if you aren’t free for the whole weekend! You’ll still be able to take part in all of the conference activities for that day, and you’ll still be a part of the private conner Facebook group.

Friday workshops!

If that’s not enough Midwest Craft Con for you, we’ve got a few add-on experiences on Friday, Feb. 10, before the con officially kicks off.

Columbus crafty bus tour
$25 • 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
This five-hour guided bus tour will introduce you to crafty shops throughout Columbus where you can explore the maker scene and do a little shopping.

Watercolor Painting Workshop
$60 • 10 a.m. to noon
Discover the joy of watercolor painting in a whole new way with Yao Cheng! Yao will go over the fundamentals of mixing colors, share some techniques on how to create fun blends and textures, and how to make expressive strokes with your brushes.

Photography Workshop
$25 • noon to 2 p.m.
This class is for anyone that wants to learn better product photography! The Wonder Jam will teach you the best ways to shoot products on white backgrounds, colored backgrounds and in a lifestyle setting using natural light.