Prefer craft to crowds? Hustle to bustle?

Stroll the craft-bedecked halls of the Asheville Art Museum in style from 11am-1pm with a VIP Preview ticket for only $5!

(Psst — your VIP ticket is also an entry in our beloved Craffle!)

Get your ticket online in advance OR at the door on Sunday. Your ticket purchase helps support The Big Crafty and its mission of promoting indie and handmade creative microbusiness, and we thank you.

For the craft revelers out there, our handmade party is free and fun for all as usual from 1pm-6pm.

Wanna shop community-minded? Need a custom shopping experience? You’ve got it.

Join us for a holiday hooray on Sunday, December 1 at the Asheville Art Museum!

(Vendors: apply online!)

Thanks for voting us #1 … 5 years running! 

See you on Sunday, September 15 for a celebration of unchained & independent Asheville!

A few of the wonderful new artists, crafters & makers in store for you at The Big Crafty on July 7. See our full vendor list for even more great work.

ROW 1: Half Light Honey Studio, Jacob Tittle Chairmaker, Paper Sparrow,  ROW 2: Half Light Honey Studio, Lauren Shaw, Paper Sparrow, ROW 3: Really Pretty Cardinals, Dapper Paper Company, Mindful Supply Co., ROW 4: Heart Felt Designs, Smart & Becker, River Island Apothecary, ROW 5: Design Intervention, Erin E. Castellan, Cooke Ceramics, ROW 6: Claw and Bone, atticus and cole, wombat eye, ROW 7: andy herod, sadly harmless, Emiline Art, ROW 8: Mezza9, Andrew Massey Ceramics, Valeria Watson-Doost, ROW 9: ello lovey, Brio Trio, Rebecca Sipper, ROW 10: Julie Guyot, Meghan McCrary, thesilversmith

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