Name: Arizona Crafty Burrito Collective
Team Shop: craftyburritos
Search for items from this team: Craftyburrito Team

Profile: Arizona is known for it's extreme heat, the colors of the sky, and monsoons. It takes a special breed of people to survive this heat, but come September and October the weather becomes humid, cooler, and bearable to outside life. That's when most of us come out of hibernation and show what we did during those 118-degree temperature days and nights. There are an amazing amount of talented artists all over Arizona. Come and meet up with us, the fairs and parades are just beginning...

Links:
Burrito Blog
Google Group
MySpace
Ning

Contact: staceyrebecca
How to Join: We welcome new members with warm burritos--I mean arms--throughout the year. Just start showing up to meetings!

Meetings and Events: Crafty Burritos have monthly in-person meetings. They're held on the 3rd Tuesday of every month. Bring something you're working on to a meeting and either show & tell or work on it or both! Sometimes members do First Fridays or local craft/art shows together. Sometimes Crafty Burritos get together and craft. Sometimes Crafty Burritos get together to laugh and drink and play board games and eat food.

Meetings are downtown Phoenix, however artists in the group hail from all over the valley (from Surprise to Gilbert to Laveen to Scottsdale)
You'll have a network of supportive artists to travel down the road of crafting with. That's pretty darn cool.

We meet at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater at 7pm

If you'd like to RSVP to staceyrebecca to let us know you're coming, that'd be neat, but not necessary. Our Ning is open to Artists local to Phoenix Metro area, please feel free to join at any time! (Although you may want to go to a meeting beforehand to figure out what we're all about.)

Our upcoming (2009) meetings will be held on:
April 21st
May 19th
June 16th
July 21st
August 18th
September 15th
October 20th
November 17th
December 15th (Holiday Party)

Members: AnAcidicDesire, apassionforfashion, becomeinspired, bondagetea, boxes4faith, cherise, crochetgal, daisyjellybean, diroglassstudio, dirtyfootprints, fusedjewels, gemartist, grabbinghands, happypaper, incognitodesigns, jannadu, jumpcrafties, karleeskreations, lisatakata, lizzified, morashajewelry, munkieshop, nenuphar, NestaHome, purdythings, quietmind, rafremiart, rockisrockinbeads, silverdapplejewelry, ssqcorner, staceyrebecca, starflowerjewelry, stonesthatrock1, sunshineofmine, trishsthreadsnneedle, underroos, vickileigh, wirefoxdesigns, wirequeen, youngonesclothing

Sonoran Artists

Name: Sonoran Artists
Search for items from this team: TeamSEAZ

Profile:

Links:

Contact: amysbabies
catdancingranch
Paganodesignworks
How to Join: Contact the Leaders above.

Members: amysbabies, annabronwyn, Beadsoutwest, BelloBranelli, catdancingranch, DesertDyeworks, elizfashions, Feralgirl, Paganodesignworks, starletslings, sweetdemeter, tnkerr, turntabletimepieces

Name: East Valley Artisans
Team Shop: EastValleyArtisans
Search for items from this team: EVA TEAM

Profile: Cities: Scottsdale, Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe, Queen Creek


The East Valley Artisans is a group of artisans who all live in the East Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Our goal is to support local artists, encourage the handmade movement, and develop a closer-knit community of talented people living in this particular region of the Valley of the Sun.

Links:
EVA Blog
MySpace Page

Contact: kandeslee
How to Join: How to Join: Send a conversation to kandeslee with your name, location and email address. You will be sent an application to fill out. Acceptance will be determined by the EVA review board. We encourage all interested artists and creatives with an active etsy shop living in the East Valley of the Phoenix metro area to apply. There is a fee of $25.00 that is due at the time of acceptance. This amount is due annually unless items donated to the team generate proceeds for EVA promotion and events. Attendance at a minimum of 4 meetings per year, which must be a at least one (1) meeting per quarter, is required to maintain membership.

Meetings and Events: Team meeting 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7pm. See team blog for location. Also see blog for a list of events.

Members: BirdWatching, JeansBeads, JewelsJewlery, kandeslee, lilsprouts, littlesilverstars, NancysDesigns, PaperMango

Name: Southeast Arizona Etsians - SEAZ
Team Shop: teamseaz

Profile: Our team was formed to develop arts and crafts in Southeast Arizona. We are here to make friends and assist each other in promoting our shops.

Our team endeavors to make Cochise county and surrounding areas a great place to be a crafter by promoting craft shows, classes, and craft related social functions!
Our team endeavors to make Cochise county and surrounding areas a great place to be a crafter by promoting craft shows, classes, and craft related social functions!

Links:
Yahoo Group
SEAZ Blog
Flickr
Team Shop

Contact: nightshadesart
How to Join: Please contact nightshadesart by convo

Meetings and Events: There will be chats and in person meetings.

Members: AdrielsCreations, BeautywiththeBeads, CraftyEquine, Dyingtoknit, greybadger, handmadebylauri, lisahammer, loves2docrafts, MyBabyDresses, nightshadesart, ScrapbookingKutz, SpringHaze332, TwistedThicket, vistahsoap

Name: Desert Indie Designers

Profile: Desert Indie Designers is a group of artisans in the Tucson Metro area. We include members of all trades, from woodworking to ceramics to jewelry to fiber arts, and beyond. Our goals are to pool our resources and knowledge in order to foster our growth as people, as artisans, and as businesses. We work to form relationships with other local businesses and organizations in the community and to develop awareness of the importance of the handmade movement. We are a tight-knit and friendly group with a loose organizational structure. Our organization is democratic in nature and volunteer-based, with various individuals stepping up to the plate to accomplish tasks for the team. We welcome new members, and encourage anyone in the Tucson Metro area to join us!

Links:
Forum
Blog

Contact: ledlightingandart
tnkerr
modmoxie
How to Join: Please visit our web forum to request membership at http://desertindiedesigners.forumotion.com.

Meetings and Events: The Desert Indie Designers get together about twice each quarter. We take turns hosting meetings in our homes, with potluck-style snacks. We discuss upcoming shows and events as well as taking time to chat and socialize. Often, we also bring along extra supplies to swap and destash.


Members: ashleyspatula, blingaling, ccforkids, chakrapennywhistle, corinneelaina, cornflowerbluestudio, desertphotography, designsbyzonakid, dragonsspark, feralgirl, foxgloves, giftideaworks, gildedcagedesign, goodkismet, handmadebydiana, ledlightingandart, lyrehc1, modmoxie, oldpuebloearringco, paganodesignworks, pashaplum, rainestorm, recycledbootybags, samariaproject, sewcrewel, spellmonster, springhaze332, stonesofhealing, stringbeadsjewelry, tnkerr, vistahsoap, woolies, xylocopa