Instead of a tale of two cities, it’s a tale of two shows. As successful as the retail show has been for exhibiting artists, the wholesale show, on the other hand, has been the opposite. For most of the exhibitors that make the trek (for some much longer than others) the sales they make at the retail show justifies the chance they take doing the wholesale show.

Wholesale (2/23 – 2/24): The staff at the American Craft Council realizes the challenge they have trying to keep the wholesale show viable, and have been trying to take steps to take the show off of life support. They shortened the length of the wholesale show from 3 to 2 days, and reduced ...