The application process for the 70th National Folk Festival Marketplace is now closed and a jury has selected 25 traditional artists to sell their work in Butte this July 11-13. These vendors will be able to sell their products to thousands of attendees at the event. If you are a Montana-based artist/craftsperson interested in participating in the Montana Arts Marketplace at the next two National Folk Festivals in Butte, Montana in July 2009 and 2010, call us at (406) 497-6464 if you wish to have us send an application for these future festivals to you.

The Montana Arts Marketplace will host 25 Montana-based artists/craftspeople who have been selected through a juried process.

The jury has made its selections based on criteria including traditionality, regional culture, and the artists' relationship with his or her community, quality, and uniqueness. Both deeply traditional crafts (as defined below) and more contemporary handcrafted artistic expressions will be on display and available for sale at the National in Butte July 11-13.

 

Definition of “traditional arts”

Source: The National Endowment for the Arts

Traditional arts are those art forms that are learned as part of the cultural life of a group of people whose members share a common ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation, or culturally united geographic region. Folk and traditional arts are shaped by the aesthetics and values of a shared culture and are passed from generation to generation, most often within family and community through observation, conversation and practice.

For more details about being an arts/crafts vendor at future National Folk Festivals in Butte, contact us at the link below.

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