SAIDYE BRONFMAN AWARD

The Canadian Crafts Council has announced that Ms. Micheline
Beauchemin, 0.C., R.C.A., of Les Grondines, Quebec has been
awarded the sixth annual Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence

in the Crafts. Ms. Beauchemin was nominated for this prestigious
award by the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners Association.

Ms. Beauchemin, a well-known tapestry artist, studied weaving and
stained glass in Montreal, France and Japan. She has received
numerous awards, including a Medal of the Royal Institute of
Architecture for al] her work in Canada and abroad in 1976, and
an Honorary Membership in the Canadian Crafts Council in 1980.

In announcing its decision the jury recognized that they had
chosen one of Canada's outstanding craftsmen. They were most
impressed by the depth of her research into her medium and
maturity of her presentation.

The quality of work submitted to the jury was generally remarkably
high. AS a Special recognition of craftsmanship and research

the jury made an HONOURABLE MENTION of the submission of goldsmith
and silversmith, Donald Stuart from Barrie, Ont. (nominated by
the Ontario Crafts Council) and an HONOURABLE MENTION of the
submission of harpsichord maker Edward Turner from North Pender
Island, B.C. nominated by the Craftsmen's Association of British
Columbia. Zonda Nellis. well known Vancouver designer was the
other nominee of CABC.

This year’s Bronfman jury included the first Bronfman Award
winner, Robin Hopper, potter; Allan Crimmins, potter and C.C.C
President; Lucien Desmarais, President of the Biennale de la
nouvelle tapisserie quebecoise; Jane Mahut, Director of the
Koffler Gallery, Toronto and Dr. Moncrieff Williamson, Director
Emeritus of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum,
Charlottetown, P.E.I.

CONGRATULATIONS

CONGRATULATIONS TO FRANCES FRASER who had an unglazed porcelain box
with pierced lid accepted in the Concorso Internazionale della
ceramica d’arte, Faenza, Italy. This is a very prestigious exhibition
better known in plebeian tongue as ‘Faenza'. A very admirable
achievement Frances.

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