Christy Petterson is an Atlanta native. She creates a line of jewelry and hair accessories called a bardis and works, by day, as a PR Specialist. Since 2005, she has organized the Indie Craft Experience, Atlanta’s bi-annual indie craft market. In 2008, ICE teamed up with Young Blood Gallery & Boutique to produce Kraftwork, a monthly mini-craft market.

Christy is also a writer. She has contributed to ReadyMade magazine, GetCrafty.com, the Crafty Bastards blog, VenusZine.com, CRAFT magazine, CroqZine, CraftZine.com, two craft books by Susan Beal—“Bead Simple” and “Button It Up”—and to Garth Johnson’s book “1,000 Ideas for Creative Reuse”. She will soon be blogging weekly at HomeAnatomy.com and she posts often about crafts, debt and good times on her blog abardis.com. You can also find Christy in “Handmade Nation”, both the book and the documentary, and she’s been quoted in the New York Times, which means, in her mind at least, she’s a craft expert.

Over the course of the past four years Christy has participated in many, many craft markets, including Crafty Bastards in Washington, D.C., Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago and Brooklyn, Bazaar Bizarre in Boston, Craftland in Providence and local events in Atlanta.

When not crafting, organizing shows or writing, Christy spends a lot of time laughing with her husband.

We are very happy to have Christy come and speak at the Summit of Awesome on Organizing a Craft Fair and giving a workshop on screen printing. And don’t forget to see her wares at the Show of Awesome Saturday night.