OPA Emerging Artist Fair at SymbiOp Garden Shop

OPA Emerging Artist Fair 2026

Saturday & Sunday

Jan. 24 and 25, 2026

10:00 am- 5:00 pm

SymbiOp Garden Shop

3454 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR

Registration will be open from Dec. 1 - Dec. 12

Application does not insure you are in the event

A lottery system will be used to select artist participating with emerging artists selected first

Registration is open to all emerging potters in the OPA membership FIRST and it will be a lottery system. 

If we do not fill all of the spots with emerging artists, we will then allow others into the show using a lottery system.

Emerging artists criteria:

- This is your first show/not done many shows

(Not done juried shows)

- You must have enough work to fill your 10'x5' booth

- You will need your own furniture

- You will also need your own wrap material,

bags and payment system for sales

- Registration button is at the bottom of this email. It is not timed, please read all of this before applying

- Complete registration first

- Registration will be open for 2 weeks

- We will randomly pick emerging artists Dec. 13 from the application list

- You will receive an email of acceptance into the event, pay $50 registration, and send photos to provided link.

- Your registration will be complete after the fee is paid and your photos are submitted

- We will send an informational email closer to the show to provide all the info you need

SymbiOp opened in the fall of 2021 and is a worker-owned, ecological garden shop. They cultivate biodiverse and climate-chaos resilient food systems. 

They garden shop will help us promote our event via their website, email list,social media sites and regular customers.

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

- 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 10'x5' 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.

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.

 

Set up will start Friday afternoon (Jan. 23) at 3 pm and continue Saturday morning (Jan. 24) at 9 am

All artists are required to provide photos!

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.

If you have any questions

or need assistance,

DO NOT CONTACT THE GARDEN SHOP. 

Contact event organizers 

Bryan Quintanilla bquinta@alumni.stanford.edu