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Markham Guild
of Village Crafts was founded in the spring of 1971. The thirty original
members held regular meetings at Mount Joy School, now the Markham
Museum.
Over the years, the Guild has grown in size and has called numerous
locations in the Town of Markham home before finally settling in its
current location at 11 Church Street in the early 1980s.
Markham Guild of Village Crafts has served the community of Markham
and surrounding areas by offering classes in a variety of craft
disciplines. The Guild has participated by demonstrating crafts at
community events such as the Markham Village Festival, Markham Fair, and
the Farmer's Market, to name just a few.
Our teachers are highly skilled in their area of crafting and many
are award-winning in competitions across Ontario. Markham Guild is
unique in that it is one of the few multi-media guilds in Ontario that
is able to offer its members and the communities it serves a choice of
craft opportunities.
Our goal is to preserve the crafting traditions of the past through
teaching and also to explore and create new crafting styles for the
future.
In 2004, Markham Guild of Village Crafts was the proud
recipient of a grant from The Ontario Trillium Foundation. The grant
enabled the Guild to purchase new equipment that enhances our services
to the community through teaching. In the interest of serving the
community better we are always changing and revising the lists of crafts
that are taught at the Guild. |
