Sugarloaf Craft Festivals - Juried Art & Craft Festivals Since 1976

Spring 2013 Application

Join Sugarloaf in Spring 2013 – here’s why!

Sugarloaf helps artists build sales year after year.

  • Each Sugarloaf Crafts Festival offers a friendly marketplace where hundreds of artists display and sell their work to appreciative patrons.
  • We use a creative mix of advertising and public relations to attract thousands of affluent, educated and buying patrons to each show.
  • A steady flow of new customers brought in by Sugarloaf gives you an opportunity to make lots of first time sales.
  • We provide ready made marketing materials and simple instructions on how to promote your participation to your past customers.
  • This combination of both new and repeat customers is an effective way to grow your sales year after year.
  • Many artists have had successful careers spanning decades by using this technique at Sugarloaf Craft Festivals.

Thousands of buying patrons are attracted to each Sugarloaf Crafts Festival.

  • With a paid admission, Sugarloaf patrons come for one reason - to buy fine arts and crafts for their home, themselves and for gifts.
  • Our patrons are eager to visit with and buy from artists they know and enjoy “discovering” new artists and new work.
  • Many patrons have shopped the Sugarloaf shows for years guaranteeing you a knowledgeable and welcoming audience.
  • You will find that selling your work in person to these enthusiastic patrons is a wonderful experience.

Sugarloaf Helps You Build Your Sales Easily

  • The Sugarloaf Crafts Festival is a community of artists, creators, collectors, thinkers, designers and doers. It’s a marketplace where artists can sell their work with dignity. You are the stars of the show!
  • These are all retail festivals. No sales commissions are charged.
  • All of our spring shows offer indoor spaces where you can set up your booth once and forget about the weather.
  • Drive in set up is available in Chantilly, Somerset, Oaks and Timonium.
  • Sugarloaf provides you special discount rates at nearby hotels.
  • Emerging artists and established artists new to each show are welcomed by Sugarloaf and eagerly sought out by our loyal patrons.
  • Make Sugarloaf Craft Festivals the core of your Spring 2013 Season.

Sugarloaf’s Spring 2013 Show Season

3 Flexible Payment Plans

Sugarloaf offers flexible ways you can pay your show fees. Pay early and save, pay later or pay in installments. Choose the payment plan that suits your budget and schedule.

Pay early and SAVE $25/show – making current payment in full with application entitles you to a $25 discount for each accepted and paid show. This payment option expires for Spring 2013 shows on October 1, 2012.

Pay later and make it simple – send post-dated checks or credit card payments to cover all fees for each show according to the following schedule:

Show P.D. Check/Credit Date
Winter Chantilly Oct. 15, 2012
Winter Somerset Nov. 1, 2012
Spring Oaks Nov. 15, 2012
Spring Gaithersburg Dec. 15, 2012
Spring Timonium Jan. 1, 2013

 

Pay over time with three payments as shown below:

  • $100 per space due upon acceptance
  • $250 more per space is due Oct. 15, 2012
  • $ Remaining balance due for Spring 2013 season spaces due December 1, 2012

SAVE an Additional $250! Artists who apply to all five Spring 2013 shows
are entitled to a $50 discount per show – a total savings of $250!

Apply Online or by Mail

APPLY ONLINE

  • Apply online at Zapplication.org – search word “Sugarloaf”
  • Four images of your work and one of your full booth are required for jurying.
  • $20 non-refundable jurying fee
  • Choose payment option best for you (see above)
  • Billing for space fees after jurying

APPLY BY MAIL

  • Print our Spring 2013 application.
  • Complete the paper application and mail with a CD containing four high-resolution images of your work and one image of your booth.
  • Insure that your images are in JPEG (.jpg) format and at least 1920 pixels on the longest side. (View Complete Requirements…)
  • Include a current check for $20, the non-refundable jurying fee.
  • If you are paying fees with current or post-dated checks/charges, include them with your application.
  • If you have selected to pay in installments, you will be billed after jurying and payments will be due as described above.
  • Mail application and image CD to:
    Sugarloaf Mountain Works, Inc.
    19807 Executive Park Circle
    Germantown, MD 20874

Notices

  • Jurying for all Spring 2013 shows began August 24, 2012. A limited number of spaces remain for all categories except jewelry. Sorry, the jewelry category is closed at all Spring 2013 shows.
  • All jury notifications will be made by
    US Mail.
  • In Gaithersburg, applicants may be moved to other locations when accepted.
  • Checks will be returned to applicants not accepted.
  • Corner spaces are not guaranteed. Those not getting their request will get a refund of the corner fee with their space assignment.
  • We charge a $35 fee each time a check is returned by your bank.
  • Artists may cancel a show for any reason. A full refund will be given when cancellation is received within 14 days of acceptance. Other refunds depend on how many days before the first day of the show that the cancellation is received:
    120+ days 80%
    90 – 119 days 60%
    60 – 89 days 40%
    30 – 59 days 20%
    0 – 29 days none
  • $20 seasonal jurying fee is non-refundable.
Click to download application and contract for Spring 2013.
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Photo Credit: Detail of fine art by Jill Flinn. Visit Flinn Designs.