Keep your crafty cool this summer with tons of craft workshops and events hosted by the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. As a partner and host of Crafty Bastards Silver Spring, Pyramid Atlantic knows how to keep the crafty masses happy with events that will have you learning and crafting with like-minded folks. If you’ve never [...]

Hey Crafty folks! Do you sew baby bibs? Make kid-friendly plushies? Mix your own skin care line? Then you’d be a geat fit for the Celebrate Mama! festival. Celebrate Mama! will take place on Saturday, June 7th, from 11am to 4pm at Lafayette Elementary School (5701 Broad Brance Rd. NW). This free, yearly, family-friendly celebration [...]

The Takoma Park JazzFest is coming up on June 15th, and they’re searching for crafters and artists to participate. I haven’t been to a Takoma Park festival in a few years, but I remember the crowd being laid-back and pleasant, and there’s that quaint old town friendliness that flows throughout Takoma Park… JazzFest, now in [...]

Last night I went to Ikea. As always, I came home with 30% needed stuff and 70% fluff (which is a pretty successful Ikea trip for me). I never really think about buying fabric from Ikea, as I’m usually there on a mission to redecorate my home with weird plastic items that I don’t really [...]

This past Saturday night was the opening of Location in Baltimore, MD. Location is the travelling art gallery project behind Crafty Bastards Entertainment Alumn, AM Radio. Sponsored by Scion and composed of more than 40 members, AM Radio is a group of artists and DJ’s with impressive portfolios. Location is the first stab at this [...]

Towson University is hosting its annual Tigerfest on Saturday, April 26th, and they’re giving artists and crafters an opportunity to have booth space to sell… and it’s cheap! $50 will get you a 10×14 space where you can sell your wares to Towson University students and the local community. This is Towson University’s biggest spring [...]

Congrats to Crafty Bastard artist and Dirtfarm creator Ben Claassen III, and all of the artists who participated in the art toy show Vinylmore, this past Friday, at Atomic Pop in Baltimore, MD. Vinylmore had more than 50 (mostly) Baltimore comic artists, designers, fine artists, tattooists, photographers, collectors and more, design their own creations from [...]

I <heart> Denver, Colorado. I just returned from a week-long snowboarding trip in the Colorado Mountains and was lucky enough to have at least one full day to explore the city of Denver. With its too cute boutiques to the old skool record stores and vintage shops with their familiar mildewey smell, Denver was overflowing [...]

Ben and I just got back from the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn, NY (6/16-6/17). It was super duper ridiculous hot, but despite all the sweaty bodies crowding into the booths, the fair was another awesome weekend craft adventure. One of the reasons that I love Renegade is all the crazy, fun, weird people that [...]

Hello Crafty folks! The City Paper is now accepting vendor applications for this year’s Crafty Bastards Arts and Crafts Fair. Crafty Bastards will take place on Sunday, Sept. 30th, 10am-5pm, at the Marie Reed Learning Center plaza in Adams Morgan– its home for the last two years. We’re bringing back BIG AWESOME FUN with handmade [...]