Cork Craft & Design

Cork Craft & Design
St. Patricks Mills
Douglas
Douglas
Co Cork

Not-For-Profit Information

Established in 2005, Cork Craft & Design brings together the very best of Cork’s unique and excellent Irish craft and design tradition. It’s dedicated to promoting quality Irish craft and design to global and Irish audiences. A social enterprise and membership organisation, Cork Craft & Design supports and promotes professional and semi-professional craft and design makers living in Cork city and county. It brings together makers across Cork to build business opportunities — nationwide and worldwide — for the sector, to promote Irish craft, increase the range of supports available to members, and engage as many people as possible in the story of Irish craft locally. Cork Craft & Design provides networking, retail sales and exhibition opportunities for its makers.Its goal is to ensure that Cork is nationally and internationally recognised as a destination for making, seeing, collecting, buying and learning about excellence in contemporary and traditional craft. Cork Craft & Design holds the celebratory festival, Cork Craft Month every August, which attracts over 10,000 visitors every year. Cork Craft Month shines a spotlight on the creative craft heroes of Cork and features over 60 events from exhibitions, studio trails, demos and Meet the Maker sessions.Cork Craft and Design is a GANS member of the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.

Number of paid employees: 
1-5 employees
Current board size: 
7
Annual turnover: 
€250,000 - €500,000
Not-for-Profit focus: 
Arts, Culture, Heritage, Science

Location

Office Address

St. Patricks Mills
Douglas
Douglas
Co Cork