Art Morris
← People of the Society · on record 1976–1988
Everything the Society’s own records say of Art Morris — the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won — gathered on one page. Where the records are silent, so is this one.
In memoriam · 1994
A Hamilton Guild member and Weston Trophy and Craftsman Ribbon contributor through the 1970s-80s. "The guild learned of the passing of Lorna Robson and Art Morris" in 1994; no further detail given by that source.
Also recorded as A. Morris, Arthur Morris
Standing
Society Member 1988
A Hamilton Guild member, his work won the Leather '76 Craftsman Award and Craftsman Ribbons and Awards through the late 1970s and 1980s. He showed one piece in the Society's exhibition at the Craft Gallery and Resource Centre of the Ontario Crafts Council, 346 Dundas Street West, Toronto, 2-28 March 1976, whose catalogue prints him as A. Morris, and won first place in Category 462 at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1978, printed there as Arthur Morris. He died in 1994, remembered by the branch's own history as a longtime contributor to its Weston Trophy entries.
From Fall 1978, page 4; History of the Hamilton Leathercraft Guild, 1956–2002 — the Guild’s own typescript, set out in full on the Hamilton branch history page, page 7; and Exhibition catalogue 1976 — Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, page 6.
Awards
- Canadian National Exhibition Category 462 — 1st 1978
- Canadian National Exhibition Leathercraft, 1981 — 1st 1981
- Canadian National Exhibition Leathercraft, 1981 — 3rd 1981
- Craftsman Ribbon 1977–1980
- Leather '76 Craftsman Award 1976