CRAFTS & DESIGN

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING

• Arts Network for Children & Youth (ANCY)

  ANCY is a national non-profit community arts service organization based in Ontario that connects artists and organizations working with children and youth across Canada. Artists interested in teaching children may find this site useful.

• ArtsSmarts

  This program, funded by the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, pairs artists with teachers to infuse arts across school curricula.
  Artists in Ontario who are interested in working with schoolchildren may be interested in projects at the Durham School Board or MASC in Ottawa.

• Canadian Crafts Federation (CCF)

  The CCF site provides links to those provinces with craft programs.

• Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art Database

  This online resource on contemporary Canadian art that documents the work of selected professional artists, writers and designers, important art institutions and organizations. The database has over 38,000 images and media files, 1,200 full texts, and several sub-projects.

• Cultural Careers Council Ontario (CCCO)

  CCCO addresses human resources and career development needs and issues for Ontario's arts and culture community.  CCCO develops, facilitates and promotes human resources and career development programs, publications, services and partnerships. CCCO has a job board of work and volunteer opportunities in the cultural sector.

• Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC)

  CHRC is a sector council bringing together representatives of arts disciplines and cultural industries to address the training and career development needs of cultural workers – artists, creators, technical staff, managers and all others engaged professionally in the sector, including the self-employed. The site provides information and publications of interest to professional artists.On the CultureWorks part of its site, CHRC has information about jobs and provides advice about how artists can prepare resumes and other marketing material.

  On the CultureWorks part of its site, CHRC has information about jobs and provides advice about how artists can prepare resumes and other marketing material.

• Gardiner Museum

  The Gardiner Museum in Toronto is Ontario's foremost museum for ceramics. It offers clay classes and art camps for children, young adults and adults.

• George Brown College - Fashion Jewellery

  The George Brown School of Fashion and Creative Technologies offers a variety of classes at the community college level.

• Georgian College - Jewellery and Metals Co-Op

  Georgian College has a two-year Jewellery and Metals Co-Op program and/or one-year post-graduate program.

• Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD)

  Material Art and Design offers courses of study in ceramics, jewellery/metalsmithing and fibre.

• Ontario Handweavers and Spinners (OHS)

  OHS offers a Master Spinner Certificate to spinners who complete its study and research program.

• Ryerson University Fashion Arts

  Ryerson University Fashion Arts Program offers two areas of specialization, Fashion Design and Fashion Communication.

• Seneca College Fashion Arts

  The Seneca College program curriculum is a blend of applied pattern drafting and sewing skills, fashion design and CAD design applications and apparel production technology.

• Sheridan College - Crafts and Design

  Sheridan's Crafts and Design Program is the largest program in Canada devoted exclusively to craft education. It offers intensive, hands-on training offered in four studio areas: Ceramics, Furniture, Glass and Textiles.

• Sir Sandford Fleming College/Haliburton School of the Arts

  Offers courses in ceramics, glassblowing, jewellery, artist blacksmith, textiles, drawing and painting.

• Textile Museum of Canada

  Located in Toronto, the museum offers a program of workshops and classes in textile techniques and history. Instructors are professionals in their fields.

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