From the website: “American Craft Guide is the complete resource for America’s professional handcrafters and artisans, independent artists, craft hobbyists, and those who love to buy American handcrafted goods. We bring all of these groups together to create a community that fosters learning, sharing, and promoting America’s handcrafters and artisans.”

I stumbled on this fairly new (started in July 2008) website today and was really impressed by the site’s clean layout and its goal of creating a comprehensive arts and craft resource. The site includes a collection of DIY tutorials, a community section where you can chat with other crafters, an arts and craft events calendar, a magazine (I think that is their word for blog), and soon there will be a directory of handcrafters and indie artists. It is still a new site and the community only has about 350 members, but it has the potential to be a great resource!