The Fine Print


Terms and Conditions


Membership and Availability

Membership to Ohio Designer Craftsmen will be required upon acceptance. An individual membership is $35 annually; senior membership is $25; student membership is $20.  Click here to renew your membership or to become a new member.

Work must be available early April through November 2025. Please reserve the work you enter to ensure availability.

Artist is responsible for shipping or dropping off work Monday, March 31–Saturday, April 5, 2025. Artist is responsible for picking up work at the Ohio Craft Museum in November 2025 or arranging for work to be shipped. Return shipping charges will be the artist's responsibility.

 

Submission Guidelines

  • Open to all fine craft media, including clay, fiber, glass, wood, metal and 3D mixed media. 2D work must contain a fine craft element.
  • Artists may enter up to three works. (A set, such as a pair of earrings, constitutes one work.)
  • Museum access limits the size of art in boxes or crates to 82" in height, 31" in width. Works may not exceed 9 feet or 100 lbs. in weight.
  • ODC will bar from exhibition works that have been altered from the entry.
     

Commission

ODC’s commission for any work sold is 40%. Price your work to reflect our commission. Any piece sold within 30 days of the close of “The Best of 2025” (and its traveling segment) shall be considered as having been sold as a result of its exposure during the show, and the 40% commission must be remitted.
 

Insurance

Work is insured by ODC during exhibition and in transit to other venues. Insurance values should not exceed 60% of the retail price. Work not for sale (NFS) must list a value for insurance. The museum cannot insure any work for an amount in excess of its fair market value, and reserves the right to limit the amount of insurance coverage on a particular piece. In the event of loss or damage, it will be the artist’s responsibility to provide documentation concerning the value of the work and extent of the claim.

ODC reserves the right to photograph accepted work or to use submitted digital images of accepted work for the purposes of publicity, education, documentation, promotion and future grant proposals.