OPA Summer Fair 2025

OPA Summer Fair 2025

July 11 - 13

9:00 am- 5:00 pm

Portland Nursery

5050 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR

Registration will open

Monday, May 12 at 10 am

** We have 8 spaces designated for new OPA members and any other members that have not participated in popups in the past

We will have a waitlist when registration is full

All artists that register are required to help with the operation of the event. You will be assigned jobs by the event organizer. Some of these jobs gain points for showcase.

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.

This sales event is open to all members in good standing. 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.

Cost of this event per space:

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

10% of each artist's sale will be paid directly to OPA at the end of the day on Sunday. An OPA member will collect 10% of sales from each artist and can provide a receipt for the payment if needed.

(New in 2025 - there will be a cap of $200 paid as a commission to OPA for your sales during the event. Anyone selling over $2k will pay only $200)

We will be inside one large greenhouse. There are 38 - 10' wide x 6' deep spaces available. 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 happen:

Thursday afternoon (July 10) from 4 - 6 pm

and Friday morning, July 12 at 7 - 9 am

At the time of registration members need to pay their $50 fee and submit:

3 high quality images of their current work

2 images of them making their pottery

to dennisportz@oregonpotters.org

** $50 fee is non-refundable if you are accepted into the show and later withdraw

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 be with carts from the main parking area in front of the business. 

Event organizers:

Dennis Portz & Bryan Quintanilla

Please contact Dennis with any questions:

dennisportz@oregonpotters.org