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Does your organization feature, promote, and support the work of contemporary craft artists in Canada? Do you value the cultural and economic contributions craft makes as part of our national economy? Do you value the opportunity to network with craft organizations working towards similar goals? Join today!

Craft Council Members

Craft Council Members make up the bulk of our membership. This includes the recognized provincial or territorial organizations that represent specific regions of the craft community across Canada. Geographically, they form the main ties that shape our national network, but more importantly, they represent the craft community of their region on the national stage. Historically and currently, this collaboration of allies has worked together to form a strong, national voice for craft.

Alberta Craft Council

The Alberta Craft Council is the Provincial Arts Service Organization that develops, promotes, and advocates for Craft in Alberta.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Craft Council of British Columbia

The Craft Council of British Columbia is a charitable arts service organization which supports all stages of artistic practice in the craft sector; creates opportunities for artists to exhibit, sell and produce art; provides a voice for artists and craft organizations, and aids in the development of active communities around craft.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Manitoba Craft Council

The Manitoba Craft Council is for people who love contemporary craft: professional artists and artisans, collectors and connoisseurs, DIYers and armchair enthusiasts.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Craft New Brunswick

Craft NB is the oldest provincial crafts council in the country. Regular Craft NB activities include sales and festivals, tradeshows, exhibitions and publications, awards, lectures, residency programs, jurying and standards and workshops. 

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


The Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador

The Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador is a member-based organization that works to maximize the artistic and economic potential of the craft community of the province.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Craft Nova Scotia

Craft Nova Scotia is a non-profit, charitable service organization that works to encourage and promote both the craft movement in Nova Scotia and the public awareness and appreciation of craft products and activities.

Website | Shop


Craft Ontario

Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. 

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


PEI Crafts Council

Arts Underground is the central hub for artists and art lovers in Whitehorse and Yukon, operated by the Yukon Art Society.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Saskatchewan Craft Council

The Saskatchewan Craft Council is a non-profit organization that represents and supports over 300 craft artisans in Saskatchewan through community, programming, and promotion.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


The Quebec Crafts Council

The Quebec Crafts Council (CMAQ)’s mission is to represent, support and develop the field of crafts in Quebec.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Yukon Art Society

Arts Underground is the central hub for artists and art lovers in Whitehorse and Yukon, operated by the Yukon Art Society.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


The CCF/FCMA works closely with our Affiliate Members, including organizations, institutions, and associations related to Canadian contemporary fine craft. Any organization with the goal of growing and advancing excellence in the field is welcome to apply, including educational institutions, guilds, museums, galleries, collectives, foundations, etc. These organizations have incredible perspectives and experience to share, expanding the CCF/FCMA’s capacity to represent the many aspects of the national craft field.

Click here to learn more about Affiliate Membership

Affiliate Membership is $250/year. Benefits includes:

  • membership in a national community of craft professionals, with the opportunity to network, share information and learn together
  • the ability to influence national directions and collaborative projects
  • our bi-weekly e-newsletter, sharing news from the craft and cultural community, including information about craft events, exhibitions, research, resources and opportunities
  • access to advocacy information and the opportunity to support national craft advocacy actions
  • a profile for your organization on the citizensofcraft.ca website
  • participation in issue-specific meetings to share perspectives on common strategies (e.g. craft retail, communications, etc.)
  • access to CCF/FCMA consultation services to support project and strategic planning, organizational development, and professional development
  • reduced conference fees and the CCF/FCMA Annual National Conference
  • the right to nominate candidates for the CCF/FCMA’s Robert Jekyll Award for Leadership in Craft
  • your voice included in national craft discussion and debate

The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery is committed to the collection, conservation, lending, and public exhibition of clay, glass, and enamel works of art and craft.

Website | CoC Profile


Lunenburg School of the Arts

Lunenburg School of the Arts offers workshops led by professional art educators and working artists. 

Website


Northwest Territories Arts

​The NWT Arts Program is a marketing initiative that promotes all artists of the Northwest Territories (NWT), including traditional arts and fine crafts, contemporary arts and fine crafts, performing arts, literary arts, and film and media arts.

Website | CoC Profile


Craft Alliance

Craft Alliance /Alliance Métiers d’art is a Pan-Atlantic Trade Association Representing the Craft Sector in Atlantic Canada. The Alliance is made up of craft councils and guilds, craft media organizations and other craft related industry, educational or government organizations, who express interest in supporting the objectives of the Alliance.

Website | CoC Profile


Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design

Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design (the Centre), a for impact charitable organization, is an integral and leading force in the educational, promotional and economic development of the craft sector on Cape Breton Island with a membership of over 300 individuals and organizations throughout Cape Breton Island, the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw people of Unama’ki.

Website | CoC Profile


New Brunswick College of Craft and Design

The New Brunswick College of Craft &Design empower learners to forge sustainable, creative careers.

Website


Rozynski Art Centre

The Rozynski Art Center’s mission is to promote the development of contemporary professional ceramics in all forms.

Website


My CEO

myCEO’s team has spent decades heading up businesses and non-profits, and our expertise can be yours. Partner with us to build the strategies, systems, and culture your business needs—and make breakthroughs a habit. 

Website


Alberta University of the Arts

For almost 100 years, AUArts has played an important role in our country’s visual culture. We are a university dedicated to art, craft and design – the only one in Alberta and in the Prairies, and one of four in Canada.

Website


Saint John Arts Centre

Saint John Arts Centre

The Saint John Arts Centre is a Regional Facility serving the communities of Greater Saint John. It is home to five public galleries for contemporary art. 

Website


Maison des métiers d’art de Québec

The Maison des métiers d’art de Québec is a cultural organization dedicated to contemporary practices in artistic crafts.

Website


Musée des métiers d’art du Québec

The MUMAQ, the Musée des métiers d’art du Québec, attests to the expression of a unique and creative people.

Reflecting the cultural diversity of Québec, from Nouvelle-France to today, it highlights what can be achieved by working with one’s heart and hands, for the benefit of the community.

Website


Yukon

Government of Yukon.

Website


North-West Ceramics Foundation

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that works to provide a community for ceramic artists and to deliver public programming supporting ceramics in its many forms. The NWCF acts as the charitable voice of ceramists in British Columbia with the mandate of fostering public education in the ceramic arts in Western Canada. 

Website

Honourary Members are a revered group appointed by the board to recognize their significant contributions to contemporary Canadian craft, including the recipients of the Robert Jekyll Award. The list of honourary members also acknowledges members from the previous incarnation of the Canadian Crafts Federation, the Canadian Crafts Council.

Honourary Members

Robert Jekyll, Ontario

Stained glass artist Robert Jekyll is the founding president of the CCF/FCMA and has been closely associated with the development of stained glass in Canada. Jekyll helped guide the Canadian Crafts Federation through change and is a significant force in the craft, visual art and design movements. In 2010 Jekyll was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Named after his leadership, the Robert Jekyll Award is a prestigious honour to recognize an invaluable citizen of craft.

Stained Glass, The Canadian Encyclopedia, by Robert Jekyll

Charles Lewton-Brain, Alberta

Master goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain (Calgary, AB) is the former President of the CCF/FCMA. He has trained, studied and worked in Germany, Canada and the United States. Since 1986 he has lived in Calgary and served 19 years as the head of the Jewellery and Metals Program at the Alberta College of Art + Design.

2005 Alberta Craft Award of Honour

2012 Canada Council laureate

Jean Johnson, Ontario

Jean Johnson’s professional and volunteer career spanned 65 years. She was a passionate supporter of Craft Ontario, serving on numerous committees and as a board member. 

“My participation is based on the potential to make something exciting, new and important happen.”
– Jean Johnson, 2008

OCAD University Remembers Honorary Fellow Jean Johnson, CM

Marilyn Stothers, Manitoba

Marilyn was one of the first quilters to perfect a method of machine-piecing and appliqueing thin strands of curved patchwork. Eventually, she wrote a book, Curved Strip-Piecing, to share this skill with others. She is internationally renowned, exhibiting her quilts in the Ottawa Parliament building and worldwide. 

Curved Strip-Piecing – A New Technique by Marilyn Stothers

Information gathered from Quilt Inspiration: http://quiltinspiration.blogspot.com/2010/03/curves-colors-contrasts-artistry-of.html 

Simon Wroot, Alberta

Simon Wroot is a metal artist who became the CCF/FCMA President of the Board of Directors with over a decade of history with the organization. Trained as a jewellery artist, he is known for creating small detailed landscape sculptures. 

Artists of Bluerock Gallery | Meet Simon Wroot

Jane Kenyon, British Columbia

Jane Kenyon began working as a medical doctor, eventually studying and working as an artist full-time in 1993. 

2012 Cheongju International Craft Biennale

Tête-à-Tête: Jane Kenyon, Seasoned Women

Instagram: @mpjkenyon

Deborah Dumka, British Columbia

Ann Roberts, Ontario

Michael Hosaluk, Saskatchewan

Charllotte Kwon, British Columbia

Anne Manuel, Newfoundland

Tom McFall, Alberta

Maegan Black, New Brunswick

Maegen Black held the position of Executive Director for the Canadian Crafts Federation for more than 16 years. Throughout her tenure, she played a pivotal role in advocating for the national craft voice of its members.

Gilles Latour

Barabara Heller,

2023 Laureate for the Robert Jekyll Award

Susan Hanrahan,

2021 Laureate for the Robert Jekyll Award

Dr. Sandra Afoldy (Post Humous)

Her outstanding accomplishments as a teacher, researcher, curator, author, and historian have earned her the CCF/FCMA’s first posthumous recognition for the Robert Jekyll Award after her unexpected passing in 2019.

Louise Lemieux Bérubé,

2020 Laureate for the Robert Jekyll Award

Canadian Craft Council Honourary Members

Josephine Aresnault

Joan Auld

Micheline Beauchamin

Gaetan Beaudin

Andrea Bronfman

Charles R. Bronfman

Mary Eileen Burnett

Dorothy K. Burnham

Joan M Chalmers

Lea Collins

Leta Cormier

Allan Crimmins

Mr. and Mrs. Davies

Erica Deichman Gregg

Marian DeWitt

Jean Fahrni

Douglas Farndale

Charley Farrero

George Fry

Jacques Garnier

Leo Gervais

Peter Gzowski

Folmer Hansen

Mary Eileen Hogg

Kinya Ishikawa

Jean Johnson

Elizabeth Keeling

Orland Larson

Luke Lindoe

Les Manning

Patricia McClelland

Peggy McLernon

Francis Merrit

Margo Meyer

Ann Mortimer

John Porter

Margery Powell

Margaret Quinn

Garmel Rich

Simone Roy

Dr. J.J.E. Salden

Maurice M. Savoie

Peggy Schofield

Deirdre Spencer

Harold G. Stacey

Marilyn Stothers

Walter Sunahara

Dr. Peter Swann

Judith Tinkl

Jan Waldorf

Jenny Webb

Ron Willoughby

Margorie Wilson

Craft Council Members make up the bulk of our membership. This includes the recognized provincial or territorial organizations that represent specific regions of the craft community across Canada. Geographically, they form the main ties that shape our national network, but more importantly, they represent the craft community of their region on the national stage. Historically and currently, this collaboration of allies has worked together to form a strong, national voice for craft.

Alberta Craft Council

The Alberta Craft Council is the Provincial Arts Service Organization that develops, promotes, and advocates for Craft in Alberta.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Craft Council of British Columbia

The Craft Council of British Columbia is a charitable arts service organization which supports all stages of artistic practice in the craft sector; creates opportunities for artists to exhibit, sell and produce art; provides a voice for artists and craft organizations, and aids in the development of active communities around craft.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Manitoba Craft Council

The Manitoba Craft Council is for people who love contemporary craft: professional artists and artisans, collectors and connoisseurs, DIYers and armchair enthusiasts.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Craft New Brunswick

Craft NB is the oldest provincial crafts council in the country. Regular Craft NB activities include sales and festivals, tradeshows, exhibitions and publications, awards, lectures, residency programs, jurying and standards and workshops. 

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


The Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador

The Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador is a member-based organization that works to maximize the artistic and economic potential of the craft community of the province.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Craft Nova Scotia

Craft Nova Scotia is a non-profit, charitable service organization that works to encourage and promote both the craft movement in Nova Scotia and the public awareness and appreciation of craft products and activities.

Website | Shop


Craft Ontario

Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. 

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


PEI Crafts Council

Arts Underground is the central hub for artists and art lovers in Whitehorse and Yukon, operated by the Yukon Art Society.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Saskatchewan Craft Council

The Saskatchewan Craft Council is a non-profit organization that represents and supports over 300 craft artisans in Saskatchewan through community, programming, and promotion.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


The Quebec Crafts Council

The Quebec Crafts Council (CMAQ)’s mission is to represent, support and develop the field of crafts in Quebec.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


Yukon Art Society

Arts Underground is the central hub for artists and art lovers in Whitehorse and Yukon, operated by the Yukon Art Society.

Website | Shop | CoC Profile


The CCF/FCMA works closely with our Affiliate Members, including organizations, institutions, and associations related to Canadian contemporary fine craft. Any organization with the goal of growing and advancing excellence in the field is welcome to apply, including educational institutions, guilds, museums, galleries, collectives, foundations, etc. These organizations have incredible perspectives and experience to share, expanding the CCF/FCMA’s capacity to represent the many aspects of the national craft field.

Click here to learn more about Affiliate Membership

Affiliate Membership is $250/year. Benefits includes:

  • membership in a national community of craft professionals, with the opportunity to network, share information and learn together
  • the ability to influence national directions and collaborative projects
  • our bi-weekly e-newsletter, sharing news from the craft and cultural community, including information about craft events, exhibitions, research, resources and opportunities
  • access to advocacy information and the opportunity to support national craft advocacy actions
  • a profile for your organization on the citizensofcraft.ca website
  • participation in issue-specific meetings to share perspectives on common strategies (e.g. craft retail, communications, etc.)
  • access to CCF/FCMA consultation services to support project and strategic planning, organizational development, and professional development
  • reduced conference fees and the CCF/FCMA Annual National Conference
  • the right to nominate candidates for the CCF/FCMA’s Robert Jekyll Award for Leadership in Craft
  • your voice included in national craft discussion and debate

The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery is committed to the collection, conservation, lending, and public exhibition of clay, glass, and enamel works of art and craft.

Website | CoC Profile


Lunenburg School of the Arts

Lunenburg School of the Arts offers workshops led by professional art educators and working artists. 

Website


Northwest Territories Arts

​The NWT Arts Program is a marketing initiative that promotes all artists of the Northwest Territories (NWT), including traditional arts and fine crafts, contemporary arts and fine crafts, performing arts, literary arts, and film and media arts.

Website | CoC Profile


Craft Alliance

Craft Alliance /Alliance Métiers d’art is a Pan-Atlantic Trade Association Representing the Craft Sector in Atlantic Canada. The Alliance is made up of craft councils and guilds, craft media organizations and other craft related industry, educational or government organizations, who express interest in supporting the objectives of the Alliance.

Website | CoC Profile


Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design

Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design (the Centre), a for impact charitable organization, is an integral and leading force in the educational, promotional and economic development of the craft sector on Cape Breton Island with a membership of over 300 individuals and organizations throughout Cape Breton Island, the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw people of Unama’ki.

Website | CoC Profile


New Brunswick College of Craft and Design

The New Brunswick College of Craft &Design empower learners to forge sustainable, creative careers.

Website


Rozynski Art Centre

The Rozynski Art Center’s mission is to promote the development of contemporary professional ceramics in all forms.

Website


My CEO

myCEO’s team has spent decades heading up businesses and non-profits, and our expertise can be yours. Partner with us to build the strategies, systems, and culture your business needs—and make breakthroughs a habit. 

Website


Alberta University of the Arts

For almost 100 years, AUArts has played an important role in our country’s visual culture. We are a university dedicated to art, craft and design – the only one in Alberta and in the Prairies, and one of four in Canada.

Website


Saint John Arts Centre

Saint John Arts Centre

The Saint John Arts Centre is a Regional Facility serving the communities of Greater Saint John. It is home to five public galleries for contemporary art. 

Website


Maison des métiers d’art de Québec

The Maison des métiers d’art de Québec is a cultural organization dedicated to contemporary practices in artistic crafts.

Website


Musée des métiers d’art du Québec

The MUMAQ, the Musée des métiers d’art du Québec, attests to the expression of a unique and creative people.

Reflecting the cultural diversity of Québec, from Nouvelle-France to today, it highlights what can be achieved by working with one’s heart and hands, for the benefit of the community.

Website


Yukon

Government of Yukon.

Website


North-West Ceramics Foundation

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that works to provide a community for ceramic artists and to deliver public programming supporting ceramics in its many forms. The NWCF acts as the charitable voice of ceramists in British Columbia with the mandate of fostering public education in the ceramic arts in Western Canada. 

Website

Honourary Members are a revered group appointed by the board to recognize their significant contributions to contemporary Canadian craft, including the recipients of the Robert Jekyll Award. The list of honourary members also acknowledges members from the previous incarnation of the Canadian Crafts Federation, the Canadian Crafts Council.

Honourary Members

Robert Jekyll, Ontario

Stained glass artist Robert Jekyll is the founding president of the CCF/FCMA and has been closely associated with the development of stained glass in Canada. Jekyll helped guide the Canadian Crafts Federation through change and is a significant force in the craft, visual art and design movements. In 2010 Jekyll was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Named after his leadership, the Robert Jekyll Award is a prestigious honour to recognize an invaluable citizen of craft.

Stained Glass, The Canadian Encyclopedia, by Robert Jekyll

Charles Lewton-Brain, Alberta

Master goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain (Calgary, AB) is the former President of the CCF/FCMA. He has trained, studied and worked in Germany, Canada and the United States. Since 1986 he has lived in Calgary and served 19 years as the head of the Jewellery and Metals Program at the Alberta College of Art + Design.

2005 Alberta Craft Award of Honour

2012 Canada Council laureate

Jean Johnson, Ontario

Jean Johnson’s professional and volunteer career spanned 65 years. She was a passionate supporter of Craft Ontario, serving on numerous committees and as a board member. 

“My participation is based on the potential to make something exciting, new and important happen.”
– Jean Johnson, 2008

OCAD University Remembers Honorary Fellow Jean Johnson, CM

Marilyn Stothers, Manitoba

Marilyn was one of the first quilters to perfect a method of machine-piecing and appliqueing thin strands of curved patchwork. Eventually, she wrote a book, Curved Strip-Piecing, to share this skill with others. She is internationally renowned, exhibiting her quilts in the Ottawa Parliament building and worldwide. 

Curved Strip-Piecing – A New Technique by Marilyn Stothers

Information gathered from Quilt Inspiration: http://quiltinspiration.blogspot.com/2010/03/curves-colors-contrasts-artistry-of.html 

Simon Wroot, Alberta

Simon Wroot is a metal artist who became the CCF/FCMA President of the Board of Directors with over a decade of history with the organization. Trained as a jewellery artist, he is known for creating small detailed landscape sculptures. 

Artists of Bluerock Gallery | Meet Simon Wroot

Jane Kenyon, British Columbia

Jane Kenyon began working as a medical doctor, eventually studying and working as an artist full-time in 1993. 

2012 Cheongju International Craft Biennale

Tête-à-Tête: Jane Kenyon, Seasoned Women

Instagram: @mpjkenyon

Deborah Dumka, British Columbia

Ann Roberts, Ontario

Michael Hosaluk, Saskatchewan

Charllotte Kwon, British Columbia

Anne Manuel, Newfoundland

Tom McFall, Alberta

Maegan Black, New Brunswick

Maegen Black held the position of Executive Director for the Canadian Crafts Federation for more than 16 years. Throughout her tenure, she played a pivotal role in advocating for the national craft voice of its members.

Gilles Latour

Barabara Heller,

2023 Laureate for the Robert Jekyll Award

Susan Hanrahan,

2021 Laureate for the Robert Jekyll Award

Dr. Sandra Afoldy (Post Humous)

Her outstanding accomplishments as a teacher, researcher, curator, author, and historian have earned her the CCF/FCMA’s first posthumous recognition for the Robert Jekyll Award after her unexpected passing in 2019.

Louise Lemieux Bérubé,

2020 Laureate for the Robert Jekyll Award

Canadian Craft Council Honourary Members

Josephine Aresnault

Joan Auld

Micheline Beauchamin

Gaetan Beaudin

Andrea Bronfman

Charles R. Bronfman

Mary Eileen Burnett

Dorothy K. Burnham

Joan M Chalmers

Lea Collins

Leta Cormier

Allan Crimmins

Mr. and Mrs. Davies

Erica Deichman Gregg

Marian DeWitt

Jean Fahrni

Douglas Farndale

Charley Farrero

George Fry

Jacques Garnier

Leo Gervais

Peter Gzowski

Folmer Hansen

Mary Eileen Hogg

Kinya Ishikawa

Jean Johnson

Elizabeth Keeling

Orland Larson

Luke Lindoe

Les Manning

Patricia McClelland

Peggy McLernon

Francis Merrit

Margo Meyer

Ann Mortimer

John Porter

Margery Powell

Margaret Quinn

Garmel Rich

Simone Roy

Dr. J.J.E. Salden

Maurice M. Savoie

Peggy Schofield

Deirdre Spencer

Harold G. Stacey

Marilyn Stothers

Walter Sunahara

Dr. Peter Swann

Judith Tinkl

Jan Waldorf

Jenny Webb

Ron Willoughby

Margorie Wilson