Explore Manitoba Craft History

Craft enhances everyday life in many simple and wonderful ways, bringing joy both to the makers and users of craft objects everywhere. It only makes sense that when different cultures...

The Crafts Guild of Manitoba created many exhibitions, but their most popular exhibition was “In Praise of Craft,” a juried exhibition held in 1978 to celebrate the Guild’s 50th anniversary....

Beginning from its establishment the Canadian Handicrafts Guild was a promoter of Indigenous art. The Manitoba Crafts Guild began selling and exhibiting Inuit carvings, brought south by James Houston, in...

For the first 23 years of its existence the Crafts Guild of Manitoba did not have a permanent home. Members of the Guild often met in community centres, churches, or...

Shortly after the outbreak of World War II the Crafts Guild of Manitoba began work to help the war effort. They assisted in many ways including sewing and knitting items...

Throughout the Crafts Guild of Manitoba’s history it has designed and created textiles and large works to be sold in its shop, exhibited, or to represent Manitoba. The Guild’s signature...

Education became a crucial element to be fulfilled by the Crafts Guild of Manitoba since its main priorities were to encourage, retain, and develop Canadian Handicrafts. By the 1930s the...

The Crafts Guild of Manitoba was committed to the preservation of crafts brought to Manitoba from other countries. The Guild was established in 1928 in response to the CPR’s New...

Since Manitoba joined confederation 150 years ago, a variety of symbols have been selected to officially represent the province, ranging from the White Spruce to the Walleye to the Big...