Calling all Unama`ki Cape Breton makers – get your product assessment application in by March 13th! 🪡🧶💫

This process is designed to help craftspeople improve the quality of their craft and marketability should they wish to sell their work in different settings. The assessment is performed by a carefully selected committee of qualified craft makers and craft sector professionals. ❤

If you`d like to sell in our Gallery Shop one day, you must apply to product assessment! For more information visit: https://capebretoncraft.com/membership/product-assessment/

Happy March! 🐥🌼 These lovely fused glass designs are bringing all the fresh spring energy into the Gallery Shop – a little reminder that brighter days are just around the corner 🌞

▫handmade by Mira Artisan Glass Studio

Discover the magic of the night 🌙✨

We’re thrilled to feature Nocturnal Animals by @_ashleyanneclark_ a beautifully illustrated children`s book that celebrates the quiet wonder of creatures who come alive after dark, now in the Gallery Shop.

Alongside the book, explore Ashley’s original mixed media artworks that are rich in texture, layered detail, and storytelling. Each piece captures the same sense of mystery for the natural world, making them stunning additions for collectors and nature lovers alike 🌌

Ashley Anne Clark is a multi-disciplinary artist from PEI, now residing here in Cape Breton. The core of her practice is driven from the environment and our interconnectivity to the wild world around us 🌎

Our arts and culture matter! 🎨✊

This week the Nova Scotia government released its 2026–27 budget with devastating cuts to our arts and culture sector, including the elimination of core supports that help organizations like ours thrive and keep creative opportunities alive across Nova Scotia.

Cuts to provincial arts funding make it harder for organizations to sustain essential programming, from exhibitions to courses and workshops, community programming and more, at a time when creative engagement is more important than ever. When arts and culture suffer, our local economies, sense of place, and mental wellbeing suffer too.

Take Action 📣
✔ Share this post and tag your MLA. Let them know how important arts funding is to Unama’ki Cape Breton
✔Contact your MLA directly and let them know why arts funding matters to you (see www.nsarts.ca for templates and tools)
✔ Support the Centre’s programs and makers

Arts and culture are not luxuries – they are essential to our identity, our community wellbeing, and our economy. Nova Scotia is stronger with a vibrant cultural sector, not one that’s diminished. 💛

Ready to strengthen your drawing fundamentals? ✏️

Join us on Saturday, March 14 from 1–3 PM for our Essential Skills Art Workshop (ages 16+) with local artist and educator, Jeff Wilson. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to refine your technique, this two-hour session will cover the foundations of drawing, including human anatomy, composition, value scale, and perspective.

▫️$40 +hst for members | $45.60 +hst for non-members

Sign up today by emailing tammy@capebretoncraft.com 💌

Update: we’re opening at 12PM noon – see you then 🥰

Say it isn`t snow! 😅❄️ The Centre and Gallery Shop will be closed for the morning today, Tuesday, February 24th, and we will reassess for the afternoon at 11AM.

The perfect treat for makers – the sock yarn gift set in art bag by @karifellart 🧶

Beautiful sock yarn paired with a reusable art bag = thoughtful, practical, and ready to gift. For the knitter who’s always dreaming up their next pair 🩵

The Gallery Shop will have a delayed opening this morning at 11AM – we look forward to seeing you then! 🥰🛍️