OPA Holiday Sale at Portland Nursery Registration

OPA Holiday Sale 2024

Friday-Sunday

Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1, 2024

10:00 am- 4:00 pm

This is our 2rd Holiday Sale at

Portland Nursery

5050 SE Stark St, Portland, OR

For people wanting to help put the event together please specify that in your registration!

Click here for a description of positions:

https://www.oregonpotters.org/sys/website/?pageId=18339

Registration is open to all OPA members

in good standing.

We will have a waitlist when registration is full.

Portland Nursery was so happy to host us last year during the Holiday Sale that we planned a Summer Sale in 2024.

Portland Nursery, open since 1907 is a large full service nursery, easy to get to on the eastside of PDX with plenty of customer parking.

They will help us promote our event via their website, email list,

social media sites and regular customers.

Registration is first come, first served on the OPA website.

You may sell any original work created by you from ceramic clay.

Any mixed media work must be predominantly made of clay.

No seconds or discounted artwork allowed.

All art must be priced appropriately.

Artists must setup and be ready to sell by the beginning of the event. There is no packing up or leaving early.

Cost of this event per space:

$50 to OPA + 10% of sales to the nursery.

10% of each artist's sale will be paid at the end of the day on Sunday. An OPA member will get information from each artist to calculate total sales, collect the 10% fee, and provide a receipt for the payment.

We will be inside a large greenhouse.

There are 40 spaces available 10' wide x 6' deep.

You are welcome to share your space with another member,

but include their name & email contact when you register

so all participants are being promoted.

Participants need their own indoor display set up, point of sale system & wrap materials.

The greenhouse is high ceilinged, has a concrete floor, and will protect us from rain. There's good ventilation!

Set up will start Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 27) at 3 pm and continue Friday morning (Oct. 4th) at 8 am

When you register you will pay a $50 non-refundable fee and submit 3 high quality images of your current work and 2 images of you making your work for use in promotion. These are required, please be prepared.

Please do not submit more than 3 photos of your work.

These photos will be used for social media and can be easily taken with your phone. This can be you in any phase of making your work - throwing, carving, glazing, firing, unloading your kiln, etc. 

All participants need to help promote the event through their

personal social media accounts, distributing postcards

and emailing their customer email list.

Load in and load out will occur from the front of the store. You may use one of the nursery carts to move your displays and artwork to the greenhouse. When you have taken all of your display and artwork out of your vehicle, please move it so that others can be close to unload. 

If you have any questions

or need assistance,

DO NOT CONTACT THE NURSERY. 

Contact event organizers 

Dennis Portz dennisportz@oregonpotters.org OR

Connie Cheifetz membershipoutreach@oregonpotters.org