I don’t know how this one is going to play out, but it looks good in its beginning stages! See what you think at Folksy.

CHA is very excited to announce a unique opportunity for Indie Crafters to present their distinctive work and display it at the CHA 2009 Winter Convention & Trade Show. The Show will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA from January 25-28, 2009.
If you’re interested in sharing your crafts with the world this is your chance! Just send us a photo and description of your work and we will select the top 30 projects and display them.
Guidelines
 
Project must be innovative and creative or must demonstrate how to use ordinary materials in a new way
This contest is open …read more

What’s Up Wednesday
A visual art marketing tool that takes blogging to the next level? That’s vlogging, according to Barney Davey, the art marketing guru. Read all about it at Barney’s blog, Art Print Issues.

What’s Up Wednesday!
Jill Timm of Mystical Places Press has published another of her wonderful catalogs of artist books that are available for sale. You’ll want to see this collection if you’re a lover and collector of fine books, and you’ll also want to take a look if you’ve been looking for different ways to market your own artist books! Jill publishes each spring and fall.

If you’re looking for competitions, art jobs & internships, scholarships, grants & fellowships, art festivals, and other calls for entries, you’ll want to subscribe to the Art Deadlines List blog! Read carefully: many of the opportunities have entry fees, and some are restricted to natives of a certain state or area. But this is a treasure-trove of regularly undated opportunities for those who are serious about advancing in an art career

Since I have several websites of my own from which I sell my own work, I’m not overly familiar with the many online sites that gather artists together and sell their work for either a monthly fee or for a commission on the sale. Fortunately for me, Dan over at EmptyEasel has put together a report on the sites he considers to be the best potential sales venues. And he’s gathered together some analyses of their traffic too! Thank you so much, Dan!

There are so many more options than there used to be. To help you make sense of all the options available today (that weren’t around just a few years ago, Hamish MacDonald has written an article posted on No Media Kings. Not surprisingly, No Media Kings is a strong advocate for keeping control of your own creative works!

YabbleBabble has posted 15 articles on selling your work online. They may be biased, given that they themselves run a sales site and that several rather well-known sales sites are not reviewed. Nonetheless, I believe that there is a lot of good information contained in these articles.