OPA Holiday Fair at Portland Nursery

Registration opens 10 am on

Monday Sept. 29

OPA Holiday Fair 2024

Friday-Sunday

Nov. 28, 29 and 30, 2025

10:00 am- 4:00 pm

This is our 3rd Holiday Fair at

Portland Nursery

5050 SE Stark St, Portland, OR

Registration is open to all OPA members

in good standing.

We will have a waitlist when registration is full.

Please complete your registration on Wild Apricot first. You will receive a follow up email to send photos with the link below. After you have completed the registration on Wild Apricot, then work with the google form to send in photos. 

NEW!!! Your registration is not complete until you send:

- 3 photos of your

completed work

- 2 photos of yourself making your work (show your face)

Google Submission Form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9AwOIeEelOxm56-kEsF_FVCN8bprngvdj5D9KoSBaC6lTuw/viewform?usp=header

Submission form will also be provided in a follow up email. Don't worry about submitting until after you have registered.

Anyone that has not sent photos by Oct. 6 will be bumped to the end of the waitlist (no refunds)

Waitlisted artists should also send me these photos so that you are ready to be in the fair! 

Portland Nursery, open since 1907 is a large full service nursery, easy to get to on the eastside of PDX with plenty of customer parking.

They will help us promote our event via their website, email list,

social media sites and regular customers.

Registration is first come, first served on the OPA website.

You may sell any original work created by you from ceramic clay.

Any mixed media work must be predominantly made of clay.

No seconds or discounted artwork allowed.

All art must be priced appropriately.

Artists must setup and be ready to sell by the beginning of the event. There is no packing up or leaving early.

Cost of this event per space:

$50 to OPA + 10% of sales to the nursery.

10% of each artist's sale will be paid at the end of the day on Sunday. An OPA member will get information from each artist to calculate total sales, collect the 10% fee, and provide a receipt for the payment.

We will be inside a large greenhouse.

There are 42 spaces available 10' wide x 6' deep.

You are welcome to share your space with another member,

but include their name & email contact when you register

so all participants are being promoted.

Participants need their own indoor display set up, point of sale system & wrap materials.

The greenhouse is high ceilinged, has a concrete floor, and will protect us from rain. There's good ventilation!

 

Set up will start Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 26) at 3 pm and continue Friday morning (Nov. 28) at 9 am

When you register you will pay a $50 non-refundable fee and submit 3 high quality images of your current work and 2 images of you making your work for use in promotion. These are required, please be prepared to send them to:

dennisportz@oregonpotters.org

Please do not submit more than 3 photos of your work.

These photos will be used for social media and can be easily taken with your phone. This can be you in any phase of making your work - throwing, carving, glazing, firing, unloading your kiln, etc. Please include your face, people want to know you!

All participants need to help promote the event through their

personal social media accounts, distributing postcards

and emailing their customer email list.

Load in and load out will occur from the front of the store. You may use one of the nursery carts to move your displays and artwork to the greenhouse. When you have taken all of your display and artwork out of your vehicle, please move it so that others can be close to unload. 

If you have any questions

or need assistance,

DO NOT CONTACT THE NURSERY. 

Contact event organizers 

Bryan Quintanilla bquinta@alumni.stanford.edu 

Dennis Portz dennisportz@oregonpotters.org