Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design is seeking new volunteer members for its Board of Directors.

Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design (the Centre), has been serving the needs of the Unama’ki-Cape Breton craft sector for 50 years. The Centre’s mandate is to promote, develop and support excellence in craft and design, both professional and recreational, through education and training.

Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design’s Board of Directors is seeking new members with diverse perspectives and backgrounds to join our collaborative leadership team. We are seeking candidates for the Board of Directors who are strategic thinkers and community-minded individuals with an appreciation for the arts and expertise in one or more of the following areas: community leadership, human resources, donor cultivation and sponsorship, housing & development, and governance.

Candidates must support the vision and mandate of the organization.

Board term begins June 2022; members are asked to serve for a minimum of three (3) years; members are expected to attend five (5) Board meetings each year along with the Annual General Meeting; members of the Board will serve on committees.

Board Composition
Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design is committed to equity and inclusion with the community and encourages applications from all qualified candidates including persons with disabilities, persons of colour, Indigenous, IBPoC, 2SLGBTQIA+, and Official Language Minority individuals.

Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design is located in Unama’ki, the land of fog, the unceded and traditional territory of the Mi’kmaq. At the Centre we strive to honour and uphold the Treaties of Peace and Friendship made with the Mi’kmaq by celebrating the ongoing tradition of beautiful and creative craftsmanship of the First Peoples of this land.