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Our Mission:  To help  you sell your work and become more professional in every way . 

  ~ Knowledge is Power ~

We provide more detailed information in each show listing than any other regional publication to help you choose the right shows for your particular product.  Each issue of Art & Craft Show Yellow Pages  offers  tips and articles to help you with the business side of creativity.  

Ongoing education is the only way I know to be a successful craftsman or artist.  Creating multiple streams of income through careful selection of shows, wholesale, cooperative ventures, website marketing, and self-promotion are just some of the possibilities, - after you have mastered the basics of display, pricing, and paperwork.

Enjoy your creativity, but understand that creativity IS a business.  Follow a good business model to be a financial success.  Creativity alone does not pay the bills!

Betty Chypre

ElJay C. The learned  Web-Dancing Frog, B.S., M.S., Ph.d., and X.Y.Z.        Betty Chypre    Betty & Lou Chypre     Pat Smith of Tennessee, Calligrapher & Dried Flower Artist

ElJay C.    At last, a true-to-life portrait of  ElJay, the Web-Dancing Frog™.  Writer, author, baudy raconteur, wine-lover and office-gossip, he has always eluded our camera.  Finally, we recognized his lively portrait as drawn by Tom Regner of the California pompous twits.  ElJay's persistance won him his own Tech-Talk column in many issues of Art & Craft Show Yellow Pages™.  He has a way with words, wine, and dark chocolates.  Betty Chypre Our Mission : I wrote "our" mission at the top of the page, because truly, no man is an island.  We all need help to achieve our goals, -not employees, necessarily, but friends and co-workers in the truest sense of the word.  Twenty years as a production craftsman proved it was all but impossible to find detailed show information.  We designed Art & Craft Show Yellow Pages to fill that need .   My best friend and partner, Lou Chypre.  His behind-the-scenes support guided my business when I worked with clay and metals.  He built displays and helped at shows. Now he keeps accounts balanced and  manages the business side of our creative venture.  Friends like Pat are rare; the best issues of Art & Craft Show Yellow Pages had her eagle eye to catch glitches and typos before they were printed. Pat's now living in Tennessee - we sure miss her!     My Guild: an ongoing source of inspiration for their innovative business solutions, for the candor of their mistakes, -so I could learn without having to go through the pain of making the same old mistakes . The Hudson Valley Artisans' Guild: www.hvag.org

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The animated V.Pompous Toadus image was created for the Pompous Twits wine tasting groups and  is used by permission of Tom Regner, artist and webmaster. 

Who is Betty Chypre?

   The listings of art and craft shows, tips and techniques on effective display techniques, marketing, etc. on this site are the culmination of Betty Chypre's experience as a craftsman.

An enthusiastic member of the Hudson Valley Artisans' Guild, she has documented tips, techniques, art and craft marketing ideas, display techniques and information revealed at workshops by professional craftsmen and artists for almost 20 years. These have been published in more than 70 issues of the Hudson Valley Artisans' Guild Newsletter.  Her monthly articles appear in trade publications across the nation including the National Crafts Association's newsletter, Craftmaster News, Arts and Crafts Show Business, and Arts Councils and Guild Workshops from New Orleans, Ohio, Oswego, NY, and elsewhere across the nation.

  Like you, she spent time and money on long-distance phone calls to find out if an art and craft fair was indoors, - or outdoors, -if there was security, electricity, - the size of the spaces, and most important: what else was going on, on-site, that could influence sales!   (Think about donkey rides, a ferris wheel, a fireman's parade at noon.)  Each one has an impact on your sales, for better or worse.

Art & Craft Show Yellow Pages™  is published because detailed show information is hard to find unless you chase it down as she did when she was doing the show route.   Art & Craft Show Yellow Pages is designed to save you time and money!provides, - Your subscription to ART & CRAFT SHOW YELLOW PAGES™ comes with a " no-regrets" Guarantee of Satisfaction. "

Some time ago Betty came across this quote, and adopted it as a way of life and work: