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31/03/2025
European Days of Arts and Crafts in Switzerland

The 2025 European Days of Arts and Crafts in Switzerland: a resounding success!

From March 28 to 30, 2025, the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Ticino, and the city of Bern celebrated artisanal skills through demonstrations, meetings, and workshop visits. More than 130 artisans, representing 108 crafts, opened their doors to a curious and passionate public. With more than 15,000 visitors and 2,000 young people reached, this edition once again highlighted the excellence and diversity of crafts in Switzerland.

See you from March 27 to 29, 2026 for a new edition!

27/03/2025
Crafts: sculpting the artisanal future, between tradition and modernity

From March 28th to 30th, the JEMA (International Women's Exhibition) will highlight the arts and crafts. From heritage to contemporary creation, meet a Geneva sculptor who perpetuates the art of stone.

From March 28th to 30th, the JEMA (International Women's Exhibition) will highlight the arts and crafts. From heritage to contemporary creation, meet a Geneva sculptor who perpetuates the art of stone.

Crafts: a future shaped by passion and transmission

In its article, La Tribune de Genève looks back at the momentum currently being experienced by the artistic professions, between preserving heritage and looking towards the future.

While the world of craftsmanship might seem on the fringes of modernity, it instead attracts a youth eager for precise gestures, manual creation, and a connection to materials. Driven by passion, traditional skills are being reinvented in workshops and schools, with the support of unifying events like the European Days of Arts and Crafts.

A beautiful spotlight on a sector in full vitality, where the hand shapes the future.

Read the article in detail by clicking on the link below:

27/03/2025
Sculpting the future of crafts

A springtime event, the European Days of Crafts (JEMA) invite the public to discover the exceptional skills of craftspeople. Among them, Vincent Du Bois is a sculptor with a passion for marble.

In the digital age, crafts continue to fascinate and reinvent themselves. Far from being relegated to the past, these skills today embody a genuine lifestyle choice for many young artisans in search of meaning, authenticity, and creativity.

The article published by 24 heures highlights this positive dynamic driven by motivated young talent, committed training centers, and dedicated events like the European Days of Crafts. Transmission, innovation, passion: crafts are asserting themselves more than ever as a treasure to be preserved and nurtured.

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26/03/2025
Podcast "Plan Large" on Radio Chablais

Florian Barbey interviews Raphaël Crittin, president of ASMA, to discuss the Arts and Crafts sector and the European Arts and Crafts Days, which will take place in the cantons of Vaud, Ticino, Geneva, and the city of Bern from March 28 to 30, 2025. How can we ensure that these arts and crafts continue to thrive and attract interest among young people?

At the Stained Glass School, the interview continued with Mr. Guy Cristina, the school's director, to discuss the school's future and the promotion of the stained glass profession. A profession that is important for the preservation of our heritage. This year, during the JEMA (World Heritage in Contemporary Art), the stained glass school will be in Geneva at the Ariana Museum for a demonstration of stained glass techniques.

You can listen to these interviews by clicking on the link below:

26/03/2025
Artisanal know-how in the spotlight

Weaver, mosaicist, blacksmith, cutler, bow maker, costume maker, luthier, ceramist… These are professions that we often imagine to be linked to the past, perpetuated by a few enthusiasts in the secrecy of their workshops, and doomed to disappear sooner or later. Yet these sectors have "high potential for economic development," according to Raphaël Crittin, president of the Swiss Association of Crafts, who recognizes the paradox. "They involve very specific skills, passed down over the centuries, but their products are modern, with very high added value, whether in the fields of luxury, ancient heritage, 21st-century architecture, or even theater and cinema."

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21/02/2025
JEMA - European Day of Arts and Crafts: Stained Glass in celebration!

On Saturday, March 29th and Sunday, March 30th, it's party time at the museum!

BiblioWeekend and JEMA take place on the same day. A day that promises to be rich in activities and discoveries.

In just one hour, accompanied by experts, you'll have the opportunity to create your own stained-glass window. What better way to learn about this art?

With the Swiss School of Stained Glass & Creation (from 14 years old)

Registration (maximum 10 people per workshop).

Information on the geneva.com website in English.

16/03/2024
Canalalpha: Art crafts present themselves in the Jura

Certain skills have been passed down from generation to generation for centuries. This is the case for crafts. But some are now tending to disappear. To highlight the work of these artisans, the canton of Jura is participating, on March 23 and 24, in the European Crafts Days. 12 workshops will be open to the public free of charge, but upon registration, which may create vocations among the youngest visitors.

Watch via the link below:

14/03/2024
RFJ: artistic crafts are exhibited in the hope of lasting

Thirteen Jura craftsmen will open their workshops to the public on the occasion of the European Crafts Days on March 23 and 24. The Training Department hopes to attract young people to pass on these gestures and techniques from our heritage.

Read the article via the link below as well as the interview with Christel Lovis at the end of the article:

14/03/2024
The transmission of know-how in an artistic profession sometimes gives rise to extraordinary encounters.

“I told my mother that my passion was knives.” Lighting on two sharpened characters.

At 13, Ugo Mighali is an uncontrollable teenager. He trains at the skate park on the sidelines of his days with “some punk guys” and in the evening observes the blades that they clumsily try to forge. In his turn, he tries his hand at the work and burns with passion for the gesture. Looking for who could introduce him to this art, Ugo types “Geneva cutlery” on the internet and discovers, fascinated, the work of Charles Roulin. It doesn't take much to whet your curiosity.

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10/03/2024
Geneva artisans in the spotlight from March 22 to 24

In Geneva, the 2024 European Crafts Days will take place from March 22 to 24. The Sicli pavilion will host various artisans and professional training centers, while 23 workshops and several cultural institutions will open their doors. Registration strongly recommended.

Read the full article via the link below:

05/03/2024
The Ariana Museum offers the opportunity to discover two professions: that of curator-restorer and that of porcelain painter.

Sunday March 24 is a party at the museum! The BiblioWeekend and the JEMA take place on the same day. This promises a day full of activities and discoveries!

More information via the link below:

27/02/2024
European Crafts Day Ariana Museum Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass Geneva, Sunday March 24, 2024.

European Day of Artistic Professions The Ariana Museum offers the opportunity to discover two professions: curator-restorer and porcelain painter. Sunday March 24, 10:30 a.m. Ariana Museum Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass Free.

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