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• Community: Mountain State Fair - Volunteer/Submit Entry

  • Start
    11 Sep 2026
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • End
    20 Sep 2026
  •  
    9:00 PM
  • Location
    WNC Ag Center

  The Mountain State Fair is an excellent place for us to

  strut our stuff!
  

  There are two opportunities for involvement:

  Submit your work!

  (Deadline to Submit form 11:55 pm 8/28/26)

  Categories and Guidelines here (pgs. 41-58 covering all fiber crafts)

  Entry form here

  If you are not able to take your entry to the Fairgrounds, contact your local ag extension agent to see if they offer "Pony Express."

  Volunteer

  For the Drop in & Weave: Choose the date, then choose time and task.

  Wednesday, Sept.9 is to help with setting up the display.

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• Community: SAFF (Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair) - Volunteer Opportunity

  • Start
    23 Oct 2026
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • End
    25 Oct 2026
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    WNC Ag Center

  SAFF

  If you are going just to shop, no registration is necessary.

  Volunteer to Drop in and Weave below.

   Workshops/classes start Thursday, October 22

  Open to the public:

  Friday, October 23- (9 am – 5 pm)
  Saturday, October 24 – (9 am – 5 pm)
  Sunday, October 25- (9 am – 4 pm)

  The event is located at the WNC Agricultural Center, in Fletcher, NC, across Hwy 280 from the Asheville Regional Airport. (Exit 40 off I-26).

  Admission will be $5/person per day. $10 pass for 3 days. Youth under 13 yrs. old will be free. Bring cash! Only at gate..no early ticket sales.

  
  

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• Community: Guild Show at the Folk Art Center - Submit Entry

  • Start
    1 Dec 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • End
    28 Dec 2026
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Folk Art Center Blue Ridge Parkway Asheville

  The 2027 WNCFHG Show at the Folk Art Center

  You must be a member of the Guild to enter

  Up to 50 items will be chosen for the show by a jury of your peers from the Guild using submitted photos of your work.

  • Deadline for submitting work to the jury is December 1, 2026.
  • Deadline for completion of forms and delivery of your work to the Folk Arts Center is December28, 2026.
  • Only Guild members may submit work for consideration.
  • The work should be original in design and less than 4 years old.
  •  Preference will be given to works available for sale. 
  • Work submitted to the Mountain State Fair, SAFF, etc. are eligible for entry into the show. 

  The Folk Arts Center is responsible for hanging the show and will take 50% of any sales and 10% of any commissions received as a result of the show. 

  Links to a document with all details as well as the contract needed for the FAC if your work is juried into the show are embedded.

  If you are interested in serving on the show jury, please contact Andrea Croskery.

  We feel very privileged to be granted another show and are grateful to the Folk Arts Center for inviting us back. Please support the show by submitting your work for consideration.

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