Join us for the next Big Crafty on

Sunday, July 7, 2013!

Join us on Sunday, May 5 from 1-8pm at Pack Square Park for another good-time celebration of Asheville at its best — indie & unchained!
We’ll have:

• live and DJ’d music from Warm the Bell, Hawks & Arrows, Krektones, Pleasure Chest with Shake It Like A Caveman, Emily Easterly with J Seger, Andy Woodward from Kovacs and the Polar Bear and Kim Roney, The Hermit Kings, Johanna Owen, Oil Derek, Red Honey, Albert Adams, Asheville FM DJs, Sugarfoot Serenaders, & Doomster
• an acrobatic performance from Toy Boat
• an exceptional array of juried indie artists, crafters, makers & small businesses
• Beer from Highland Brewing (including their custom brew, Big Love!), French Broad Brewery, Asheville  Brewing Company, Wicked Weed & Pisgah Brewing.
• Food from Buchi Kombucha, Gypsy Queen Cuisine, Ursa Minor Coffee, the lowdown, macdaddy’s organic lemonade, El Kimchi Food Truck, Smash Box Mobile Kitchen, Melt Your Heart, Take the Cake, The Hop Ice Cream Café, Short Street Cakes, Ceci’s Culinary Tour, Biltmore Coffee Traders, Green River Picklers, Nourish & Flourish, Flying Falafel Brothers, Kernal Mike’s Famous Kettle Corn, & Farm to Home Milk.
• An installation of The Megaphone Project (special thanks to LEAF for bringing this great group to town!)
• A free & fun for all ages good time!

We’ll be accepting applications (via our online application form) for our July event though May 18! Find out more on our vendor information page.

Thanks to the vendors and visitors who joined us from near and far to celebrate indie craft and creativity!

And the very biggest thanks to our amazing volunteers and the wonderful sponsors who make our event possible: the Asheville Art Museum, Highland Brewing Company and French Broad Brewing Company!

Check out our event photos & look for The Big Crafty, Big Love Fest & The Big Day in 2013!

The good folks at the Asheville Grown Business Alliance will be on hand at the Holiday Big Crafty with the brand new 2013 Go Local Card!

Get deals from 360 local, independent businesses AND get a free 2012 card with your purchase to get you through the rest of the year!

Big Crafty t-shirts will be 20% off for Go Local Card holders, and you can find deals throughout the event from these awesome artists and crafters:

Alena Hennessy rusticware Urban Revisions The Drygoods Shop krekprints Sweet Mess Art Kung Fu Clay Nate Barton Works Smoking Turtle Studio Robin Plemmons lesliegoods Blue Fire Studio Fray Knot etchville margaret couch cogswell cozyblue arts alive Buda botanicals Good Girls Studio luckycreature.com Heroes & Criminals Press Cara Mae Skin Care Rhetorical Factory canoo Figs & Ginger Marisol Spoon found*ling Audrey Laine Collection Julie Armbruster Fine Art Gigi’s Pottery & Cards

An Open Sketchbook

Big Crafty Holiday preview on Pinterest!

Go Local Card holders, find these Big Crafty day deals throughout the event!

Get your Go Local Card (benefitting the Asheville Grown Business Alliance & the Asheville City Schools Foundation) at the Asheville Grown booth downstairs inside Pack Place.

Mudstuffing 15% off purchase GritGoods 15% off purchase Tipsy star quilts free day quarter with any 3 or 5 fat quarter bundle ZaPow! One Free Kung Fu Weenie print by Lauren Johnson with any purchase of $25 or more from ZaPow! perlaflora $5 off purchase of $20 or more. 10% off purchase at: JFJones Mobiles Fray Knot Marisol Spoon cozy blue arts alive Little Voice Thimble Kiss deSoria deSign ARTeries by Stina Cara Mae Skin Care The Uncommon Kid Fancy Dirt Forge Axis Pottery Pickled Poppy Joe Redford Heroes & Criminals Press luckycreature outside everywhere early girl Seven Feathers Overlap Sewing Studio Annie Singletary Ceramics BrennaDee Blue Fire Studio canoo $2 off purchases of $25 or more, $5 off purchases over $50 oh! hello…handmade $2 off purchases of $20 or more and $5 off purchases of $50 or more etchville 10% off any non-custom order Alice Scott 10% off purchases over $50

Check out our Svpply list!