About The Organization

 

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

The Alberta Craft Council has a dual role:

  • to support contemporary and heritage crafts as significant art forms that contribute to Alberta’s culture

  • to develop a craft sector of creative, skilled, viable, and sustainable craftspeople, studios, businesses, and networks

In operation since 1980, the Alberta Craft Council promotes craft in Alberta by:

  • operating two gallery and shop locations in Alberta, Edmonton & Calgary

  • operating the largest public gallery in the province dedicated to exhibiting craft arts

  • organizing 15-20 exhibitions each year

  • running two gallery shops that market work from 150+ established and emerging craft artists

  • educating and informing the public

  • creating publications, marketing ventures, and awareness products to members and the public

  • organizing the Advisory Committee that accepts Professional Members and decides what artists to feature in our Gallery Shop

Membership with the Alberta Craft Council is open to all those working in the craft sector and to anyone interested in supporting the development of Alberta Craft.

 
 

The Alberta Craft Council's Mission:

To promote, develop, and advocate for Craft in Alberta.

The Alberta Craft Council's Organization Aims:

To support contemporary and heritage crafts as significant art forms that contribute to Alberta's culture.

To develop an Alberta craft sector of creative, skilled, viable, and sustainable craftspeople, studios, businesses, and networks.

The Alberta Craft Council's Vision: 

Craft is an integral and unique part of our cultural heritage and needs to be encouraged, developed, and preserved for the cultural, social, educational, and economic wellbeing of the people of Alberta. 

The Alberta Craft Council works on Treaty 6, 7 and 8 Territories, home to many First Nations, Métis and Inuit whose footsteps have marked these lands for generations. In the spirit of reconciliation, we are dedicated to ensuring that the spirit of these treaties are honoured and respected while working together to champion for craft and for creative prosperity.