Greetings to OCF crafters and craft-lovers alike from the Craft Inventory Crew! We want to start by bringing to your attention a very important update to the application process for OCF 2026. Each year, our Craft, Esoteric, and Logo Applications become active at the beginning of January. This year, the deadline to submit applications will be March 1st, 2026. This is earlier than the deadline in previous years. Craft Inventory, in collaboration with Booth Registration and the Craft Committee, has decided a March 1st deadline will allow some much-needed additional time for crews to accurately vet and process applications in preparation for the annual jury processes. This additional time has become necessary as our applicant pool has grown to nearly 500 applications annually. If you, or someone you know, plans to apply, consider beginning preparations now to allow ample time to complete your submission once applications open.
We also want to take a moment to revel with you in the knowledge that our event is one of a vanishing few where visitors can still expect to purchase a high-quality handmade craft directly from the person who made it. Each year, newly approved crafters join with experienced OCF artisans to provide fairgoers with a vast offering of some of the highest quality and most unique handmade work available anywhere. This special quality of our event is no accident. It takes the combined efforts of our crafters, policy makers, and the entire OCF community to maintain this ethos of support for handmade crafts and those who make them. It is in this spirit that we want to offer a reminder that only handmade crafts, sold in the presence of the person who made them, are permitted to be sold on site during the three days of the Oregon Country Fair event. This expectation and the related guidelines extend to both public and non-public hours. In simple terms, manufactured, imported, or other resale items are never allowed to be sold at the Fair, day or night. We hope you will join us in our work to keep handmade crafts essential to the OCF experience.
Craft Inventory is happy to help answer any of your craft-related questions. You can reach us by email at craftinventory@oregoncountryfair.org. We look forward to seeing you soon!
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Thanks!
Adam – Craft Inventory – Oregon Country Fair