there is a woman npc on the second floor of the crafters association (may have name of building wrong)... at any rate, in West Freeport there is a building on the lower right part of the map... The icon looks like a blue wand/bar/pencil thingy... go there.
Once you declare your Artisan Class (scholar, craftsman, oufitter). Then you need to join the approriate society...
there is a nice little chart/list
here. they will give you a quest and shazam!
actually - just about anything you need to kow about crafting/artisanry can be found here
here Edited, Mon Nov 22 09:56:10 2004 by unclehulka