Our Mission

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 November 2009 22:31 Written by Administrator Friday, 13 November 2009 22:02

To understand our mission first you must understand what a handmade artists is. So one of our members wrote this up a while back and it sums it up pretty good.
Handmade Artists are weekend sculptors of stone and clay. Garage rat woodworkers. Grandmas and college students addicted to chainmaille and beads. Steampunk creators and jewelry makers. Hobbyist knitters and crocheters. Empty nest parents that do watercolors in the now, spare room. We are reusers and recyclers. Some sell their work, while others are just “learn-a-holics”.
Handmade Artists’ like these and others have joined together on the Handmade Artists’ Forum and became a small community of people who have banded together in an effort to support each other.
What do you do on the Handmade Artist Forum?
Share creations. That first necklace or a practice painting. Seek advice from others who’ve ‘been there, done that’. Learn how to make your creations better, and take better pictures of them. Offer help to those starting a business from a happy pastime and support each other when you just can’t make it how it looks in your head. Have fun and remember, the crafts may be different, but we all have passionate love for art and respect each other’s dreams.
Offer compliments, critiques and kind words. The competition is friendly and lighthearted.
Promote each other’s works, with free advertising of online shops on the forum and through online programs like Twitter and Blogging. While there are no fees or dues to be a Forum Member, we ask that in exchange for advertising your work, you participate in the discussions in a positive and friendly manner. Friends are made fast and easily here.
Who can join the Forum?
Basically anyone! Handmade Artists’ Forum is a family friendly group. We encourage all creative people that work with their hands to make decorative, functional, and FUN items to join our Forum. Who knows, you may teach US something.
This forum quickly grew and a need was apparent that there was a whole bunch of handmade stuff being made that needed to be sold somewhere. Our artists sell all over the place some sell at craft shows, street fairs, or other online venues and some even have brick and mortar store fronts. The next obvious move was to take this small community of artists and give them another outlet to sell their creations and The Handmade Artists Shop was born!
Our primary mission for the Handmade Artists’ Shop is to support handmade. There are so many mass produced items out there that we feel the world has lost the respect for the small time merchant. It is so easy to go out to one of those mega stores and get everything you want in one stop. We’ll some of us think it’s better to take some time and create something with our hands and our imaginations. So therefore The Handmade Artists’ Shop will hopefully be one of those places that when you leave you say, “They truly love and support the handmade”