WCC North America
The World Crafts Council North America consists of craft organization leaders
representing more than 60,000 artists and craft enthusiasts throughout North America.
WCC International
Our affiliate organization The 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.
Mission
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.
Representation
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.
Individual membership is also available.
History
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.
