Marketing Your Craft is a program that provides OCC members with an avenue for critical feeback on theirwork in order to help assess essential factors such as target audience and marketability.
Marketing Your Craft Application 170 KB PDF
Marketing Your Craft Image List Form 59 KB PDF
For more information about the Marketing Your Craft program, contact The Guild Shop at 416-921-1721 or theguildshop@craft.on.ca
Interested in selling your work at The Guild Shop?
The intent of OCC's The Guild Shop is to provide a marketplace for traditional and contemporary craft that demonstrates excellence in design and craftsmanship.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Any interested crafts professional who meets the general criteria for selections may apply to sell their work at The Guild Shop.
Each application must include the following information:
• Six digital images that best represent the type of work intended to be sold at The Guild Shop
• An accompanying image list that includes: image file name, title of work, size, material, technique used
and retail price. (Commission structure: 55% craftsperson and 45% store). Click here to download Selections Image List Form
• CV and headshot image
• Artist statement
• Full contact information, including current mailing address and email
• Non refundable $25 (+3.25 HST) administrative fee for non-members (no critiques given).
Please make cheque payable to The Guild Shop
Applications by email to: selections@craft.on.ca subject line: Applying to Sell at The Guild Shop
Applications by mail to: Attn: Selections, The Guild Shop 118 Cumberland Street, Toronto, ON M5R 1A6
Applications will be reviewed every two months starting March 1, 2012. All applicants will be informed by email of results within two weeks of the application deadline.
GENERAL CRITERIA
1. Work to reflect the quality image that is associated with The Guild Shop
2. Work is finished to a high standard
3. Work must be the original idea of the craftsperson or a skillful rendering of a traditional or classic design.
4. Articles that require simple assembly of commercially available parts as opposed to skillful manipulation of materials will not be accepted.
5. Ready-made parts or components are permitted only if they are subordinate to the total design and craftsmanship of the object.
6. The object must be capable of serving the purpose for which it was designed.
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