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2026 Holiday Fair: November 28 & 29, 10am - 5pm
Henry J Kaiser Center for the Arts, Oakland, CA
FREE ADMISSION

10/15/2026

There are lots of things we aren’t, but we’re most proud of what we are. Not a club you have to get into, but a place you want to be.

We bring together 200+ independent artists, makers, and craftspeople, and we want everyone to feel welcome. Come as you are, bring a friend, wander around and talk to the makers. See what new treasures you find.

We’d love to see you there.

November 28 & 29 · Oakland
Free admission · Food · Music

10/13/2026

NOVEMBER 28 + 29
10AM–5PM
Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts
Oakland

200+ independent artists & makers

FREE ADMISSION

Food • Music • Handmade Everything

The Fellowship of Craft is BARTable 🚇 the Lake Merritt BART station is a 6 minute walk away.

10/06/2026

Great question! I’m so glad you asked. Let’s take a little adventure to find out. 👉

Where you spend your money affects where that money goes next. And next. And next.

Here’s why buying from independent makers and businesses can have a much bigger impact than you might think.

Independent businesses don’t exist in isolation. They tend to spend more of their money locally: on employees, services, supplies, rent, accountants, designers, printers, and other local businesses.

So your $100 doesn’t stop with the person you bought something from. It keeps moving. 💸

That’s how your purchase can keep circulating through a community instead of making one very long trip to corporate headquarters (and those nasty dudes who are hoarding literally all the wealth on the planet).

Sources: American Independent Business Alliance; Virtasant.

A study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance looked specifically at San Francisco and found that every $1 million spent at independent retailers generated an additional $321,000 in local economic activity, including $119,000 in wages and salaries.

That’s the local multiplier effect: money gets spent, then spent again, then spent again.

Buying locally doesn’t magically make a product carbon-neutral. But shorter supply chains can mean fewer transportation miles and less of the global logistics required to get mass-produced goods from factories to our front doors.

When you’re buying directly from a local maker, there’s no transcontinental journey required just to get the thing from the person who made it to the person who bought it.

You don’t have to be dogmatic about it, no one needs that kind of pressure. 🙃 But when you’re going to spend money anyway, it’s worth knowing that where you spend it can have an impact beyond the item you bring home.

This holiday season, consider putting some of your shopping dollars toward the people, businesses, and creative communities that make the Bay Area what it is.
💪🪩🌈💐

10/01/2026

Today’s work time made possible by the Gruffalo and Magna-tiles.

The Fellowship of Craft
November 28 + 29
200 artists, makers & craftspeople
Oakland
Free Admission!

09/29/2026

The waitlist is open and it’s free to apply!
We are putting the final touches on our 2026 craft fair lineup, and you might be the missing puzzle piece! Link in bio to free waitlist application.

November 28 + 29, 10am-5pm
Free Admission!
In Oakland on beautiful Lake Merritt at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts

Photos by Clara Rice

Artists by order of appearance:
Pacific Stone Pottery
soul full studio
Oakland Puzzle Company
Suzy Kopf | Artist

09/23/2026

Fellowship of Craft
200 artists, makers & craftspeople
November 28 + 29 • Oakland • Free Admission

All photos by Clara Rice
Artists tagged in order of appearance
Margaret Dorfman
Scott Wynn
Charlotte Le Liboux
Judy Mui
Mirabai
Melan Allen
The Weekend Store
Designs by Regina Schachter
Shaheen
Miso Handmade

09/21/2026

Shopping but make it super local, and handmade.

Join us November 28 & 29 at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland for two days of seriously good shopping from 200 artists, makers, and craftspeople. Find one-of-a-kind gifts, beautiful things for yourself, and plenty of stuff you definitely didn’t know you needed.

✨ November 28 & 29
✨ 10am–5pm both days
✨ Free admission
✨ Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, Oakland

Make your way to Oakland by BART! We’re just a short walk from Lake Merritt Station, BARTable

Save the date, bring your buds, and come shop directly from the people who make the things you love.

09/17/2026

Application season is wrapping up (for us) so let’s talk about what makes an application stand out. It’s simpler than most folks think, but it does require being thorough and thoughtful.

You can make fantastic work (and you do, you talented human!), but if your application doesn’t clearly communicate what you make and how you make it, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

We deep dive into this in our mini-course The Craft Fair Playbook, but these 3 tips are a great place to start. If you want more, check out the course (link in bio).

Make sure your website or social media clearly shows:
→ your finished work → your process → your booth/display setup

Most fairs ask for some combination of these, and organizers will view your social media to get a broader sense of what you do.

You don’t need to have 10k followers, and your feed doesn’t need to look like it was art directed by a team of 12. We just need to be able to figure out what you make and what your work looks like in the real world.

Create a go-to version of your application copy. Write a clear, thorough description of what you make and how you make it. That way, every time an application asks “Tell us about your work,” you don’t have to summon the creative writing department from the depths of your soul.

It should explain how you make your work and what you actually make. You can adapt it when an application asks a more specific question, but having a solid foundation means you’re not starting from scratch every time.

Most importantly, be detailed in telling us what you make. One of the most common reasons we reach out to applicants for more information is simply that we don’t know what specific products they make.

You know your work inside and out, but we might be meeting it for the first time, so give us a little tour.

Hi, it’s me, I’m basically a 40 year old grammatical error. But seriously, before you hit submit, take a quick peek at your website and social media links, and make sure your email address is correct.

A typo won’t ruin your application, but it does make the job of the person reviewing it a little easier. You know where to find yourself online. We do not. 😅

You already make great

09/15/2026

Apps are open on our website until next Friday, the 25th. So what’s up now? Well I have a very exciting date with our floorplan and Airtable this evening to start booth assignments. I know full and well there are sophisticated programs for this, but I am a visual creature and a child of the 80s, so I’m team paper all the way. 📜 🖋️ And yes, those are magna-tiles I’m using as paperweights.

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10 10th Street
Oakland, CA
94804

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https://www.fellowshipofcraft.com/

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