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a display of cards, stickers, pins, and votive candles for sale. the items carry slogans like \"support local artists,\" \"feminist,\" \"body positive\" and \"resist.\"
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Crafty Wonderland

Portland’s biannual art and craft fair boasts unique handmade wares from 225+ local vendors.

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This is a recurring event and we’re showing the details from its most recent past occurrence. We’ll update this page with future event info as soon as we get it. Please check back!
When
Dec. 9–11, 2022
Daily, Times vary
Cost: Cost Varies
Where
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Portland, OR 97232

Barbara Streisand once sang “don’t rain on my parade.” For Torie Nguyen and Cathy Zwicker, Crafty Wonderland co-founders, more appropriate lyrics might have been “don’t rain on my craft fair.”

Tired of getting rained out and traveling to other cities to sell their work, the two Portland jewelry artists set to work creating an indoor marketplace for their work and the work of fellow local makers. “We decided to start it before someone else did,” says Nguyen.

Crafty Wonderland Art & Craft Markets

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If you attend a Crafty Wonderland you might be the lucky winner of a goodie bag, handed out randomly throughout the day and filled with locally-made swag.

Founded in 2006, Crafty Wonderland is now the city’s biggest arts and crafts market, drawing hundreds of vendors and tens of thousands of visitors to the (nice and dry) Oregon Convention Center in Northeast Portland. The twice-yearly market returns in early December and May (just in time for holiday shopping and Mother’s Day, respectively!).

What began as a “pure DIY” production with 40 vendors and a couple hundred shoppers, Crafty Wonderland has grown into extravaganza of creativity. “It totally blows our minds that the little show we started 13 years ago has transformed into what it is today,” says Zwicker.

Co-founder Cathy Zwicker holds up a print of a Portland bridge, surrounded by tote bags that say "Portland" and other Portland-related merch.
Co-founder Cathy Zwicker shows off some of the Portland-themed products sold at Crafty Wonderland.
Credit: Ashley Anderson

At Crafty Wonderland’s markets, you can find products like illustrated portraits of punk rock cats and hipster triceratopses by Ryan Berkley; pins, patches and prints of Adrienne Vita’s magical desertscapes; and elemental brass and copper metalwork combined with geodes and gemstones by Ttereve. (That’s not to mention a slew of clever t-shirts, unique stationary, funky pet accessories, small-batch mustards and nut butters, craft spirits, natural soaps, terrariums and more.)

Nguyen and Zwicker rotate the artists at each market — so even if you’ve attended a previous Crafty Wonderland, you’ll always find something new.

“We like to think there’s something there for everyone,” says Nguyen. “Sometimes having a face to put with a piece of art or knowing you’ve met the person who made your new favorite earrings makes them that much more special.”

In today’s online shopping milieu, Crafty Wonderland is a unique chance to support and connect with local makers. And across the table, the market offers accessible booth fees so that emerging artists are equally represented. “Markets like Crafty Wonderland provide a venue where artists can make a living selling their work,” says Zwicker, who notes that many of the makers who got their start at the market have grown to full-time businesses.

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Portland Saturday Market

Open every Saturday from March–December, Portland Saturday Market is the largest arts-and-crafts fair in the U.S.

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Holiday Shopping Events

Do your holiday shopping for locally made gifts at hip parties, makers' fairs, sprawling sales and garden grounds filled with handcrafted items.

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Shopping Events in Portland

The shopping scene in Portland, Oregon offers colorful bazaars where visitors can score locally made goods at unbeatable prices, especially during these shopping events.

While you’re there, stop by the kids’ area where little entrepreneurs sell their creations, inspired by the market’s early days when Zwicker’s (now grown-up) son would sell his art. “We never know what they will come with — magnets, cards, jewelry, paintings and slime,” Zwicker says.

“It’s definitely a feast for the eyes and a big inspiration to see so much creativity in one place,” Nguyen says. “Portland is fertile ground for all creative pursuits.” She and Zwicker even joke that the rain — which provided the motivation for Crafty Wonderland in the first place— “gives everyone lots of time to practice their crafty hobbies indoors.”

Visit a Crafty Wonderland Brick and Mortar

In recent years, Nguyen and Zwicker have turned Crafty Wonderland into a year-round business, opening brick-and-mortar stores in downtown Portland and Northeast Portland’s Alberta Arts District.

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Shoppers browse locally-made wares at Crafty Wonderland’s downtown brick-and-mortar.
Credit: Ashley Anderson

At the shops, an Oregon flag is displayed across from a tattoo-inspired mural by Jennifer Parks of Spectral Gardens. Shoppers listen to Beyoncé spinning on vinyl while perusing wares like Michele Maule’s Pacific Northwest-themed watercolors and Aubrey Aiese’s plant holders painted with faces — plus all the locally-made treasures one could need to show their hometown pride or commemorate a trip to Portland.

“We love being able to say that our shop is completely locally made goods,” says Zwicker. So even if you can’t make it to a market event, Crafty Wonderland is “the best place for the perfect Portland souvenir.”

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Oregon Convention Center See Website for Details

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