How to Sell at the First Peoples' Marketplace

The First Peoples' Marketplace, a market of Native American traditional artists that will be a unique feature of the National Folk Festival, is made possible through a generous sponsorship by Seacast, Inc., a Marysville, WA corporation with deep roots in Butte, Montana.

Thanks to their support, here is where you can get an application and guidelines to be considered to participate in the First People's Marketplace, a unique feature of the National Folk Festival in Montana.

Send us an application if you are interested in selling your Native American craft works at the First People's Marketplace at the National Folk Festival in Butte, Montana on July 11-13, 2008.

The deadline to be considered to participate as a Native American craft vendor is March 15, 2008.

Click here to download an application (.PDF).

Click here to download guidelines (.PDF).

A jury will select Native American artists based on tradition, regional culture, and the artists' relationship with his or her community, quality, and uniqueness. The committee will review all applications and select vendors who best meet these criteria.

All work must be traditional as defined below:

Traditional arts are those art forms that are learned as part of the cultural life of a group of people whose members share a common ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation, or culturally united geographic region. Folk and traditional arts are shaped by the aesthetics and values of a shared culture and are passed from generation to generation, most often within family and community through observation, conversation and practice.

Source: The National Endowment for the Arts

The First Peoples' Marketplace will host 20 to 25 Native American artists who will be selected and invited through a juried process.