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Craft Victoria is offering opportunities for emerging artists called Hatched and some mini festivals like White Box

Situated on Smith St, Fitzroy, in.cube8 is a shopfront/gallery that runs like a long term market. Open 6 days per week, and consisting of 90 different display spaces and open to "anyone who makes things by hand" artists, designers, crafts people can hire a shelf, display cabinet, wall space or clothes rack, from $20 - $90 per week, depending in size and visibility.

This organisation's website shows all of the craft shows and expos that they are running right accross Australia. These events are useful for people to see what new wares suppliers are offering. They are also good for picking up info on any classes etc that are being offered.

This is an interesting and imaginative approach to and use of craft.

Beginning as a personal project in 2006, the Indie art and design directory is a weblog that features products and listings of a range of independent Australian artists, designers and crafts people. They welcome submissions of websites to include in their listing, as well as applications for exhibition sponsorship, and paid advertising on their site.

Devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture) in 2003, Pecha-kucha is a worldwide event which takes place in over 119 cities across the globe. It provides a forum for people to share and showcase their work and is aimed at people interested or involved in design, architure, art and craft. Each presenter is allowed to show 20 images for 20 seconds each which adds up to a six minute PowerPoint showcase of your work. Once you get to the main page, click on Melbourne in the tag cloud to see details about Pecha Kucha in Melbourne and how you can get involved.

Rate my drawings is an online drawing community. It provides a place for artists to show and develop their craft and features drawing tutorials, collaborative drawing on-line, chat, forums, competitions and feedback through ratings. It also has a link to rate my animations.

This resource is primarily aimed at visual artists, but has a wide range of categories including film, animation, artisan crafts, cartoons and comics and photography. It houses a shop, collections and also a forum. It advertises itself as "a hub for onliine graphic artists to display their creations for feedback and exposure". This site is very interactive. You have options to do the following: start your own free art collection, share it or blog it, download, buy, and see the artist gallery profile. Artworks cna also be rated and the front page is constantly changing to feature new artworks. CH

Eckersley's has monthly art classes and many more services to cater for the crafty persons needs. They also offer the latest promotional, product safety or company information online.

Whitehat aims to to be a comprehensive listing of every thing to see and do in Melbourne. No one site is going to be able to cover everything, but Whitehat does a give a very good overview. Its particular strength is its market listings, but it also covers festivals, music, exhibitions, theatre and more.

The Abbostsford convent is an artistic community hub in Abbostsford Melbourne. It provides space for "artists, arts practitioners, and arts and creative organisations". In addition to these tenancies, they host three regular markets for independent artists: Sunday Arts @ The Convent, The Makers Market and the Shirts and Skirts Market.

One of the best know artists markets in Melbourne, Rose St Artists Market is held every Saturday in Rose St, Fitzroy and consists of up to 70 stalls each week. Stalls are available from $50-60, and are decided on an application basis. Musicians are also encouraged to apply to perform on market days.

Although this site is created overseas it is an interesting one.

This site could be of great interest to the crafty ones among us.