World Crafts Council North America

World Crafts Council provides information on the crafts and their makers and assists international cultural exchanges through conferences, international visits by crafts people for study, lectures and workshops, a web site, publications, and travelling exhibitions of crafts.

The main objective of the World Crafts Council is to strengthen the status of crafts as a vital part of cultural and economic life. The Council aims to promote fellowship among the craftspeople of the world and to encourage them with help and advice.

The World Crafts Council is organized into five regions... Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. Each region has a President and a Vice President.  Countries within these regions are members of World Crafts Council as National Entities and represent the craft and crafts persons of their country.  There are also individual members.

The World Crafts Council was founded in New York on 12th June, 1964 by Mrs. Aileen Osborn Vanderbilt Webb, as an International non-profit, non-governmental organization with UNESCO. Delegates from 50 countries met for the first World Crafts Council Congress at Columbia University in New York. Mrs. Webb with co-founders Margaret Patch and Srimati Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, from Asia, established a craft movement to provide a better future to the craftsmen and craftswomen of the world.

This website contains information pertaining to the World Crafts Council North American region.