MAM — the Métiers d'Art Métissés ("mixed fine crafts") — is a collective of young fine crafts artists: our mission is the promotion of fine crafts, the organization of related exhibits, and the creation of multi-media collective works in ceramics, textile design, textile printing, woodwork, jewellery-making, guitar-making, leatherwork and glass.

Fine crafts are artistic disciplines that use materials (wood, clay, glass, fibre, leather, etc.) to create functional or sculptural work. The craftsperson is both creator and maker: the mastery of material and of the techniques related to that material are essential to the craftsperson's training; creative research allows for the personalization of a piece, lending a unique cachet to fine craftwork.

Active since 2002, MAM started out as a group of fine crafts students and recent graduates from the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal; MAM became an independent artists' collective in 2006. MAM's objectives are to promote work by new fine craft artists, and to create contacts and resources that encourage close associations and a potential combination of techniques. For more information, please send us an email or leave us a voice mail at 514-333-CMAM (514-333-2626). To see our CV, please click here.

left... Movement (2005), collective mural made by MAM unveiled at the exhibition Demain en main. Global design of the mural by Isabelle Ouimet; individual tiles (made from ceramics, wood, glass, fiibre, metals, etc.) by MAM artists. Images of details of these tiles are shown on the other pages of this website.