Bea Austin

The Society’s records

Everything the Society’s own records say of Bea Austin: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.

In memoriam · mid-summer 1999

A former long-time member of the Executive and one of the original members of the Hamilton Guild; a long-time Fellow of the Society. She judged by running her fingers over the edges of a piece and deciding at once.

From Fall 1999, page 3.

Also recorded as B. Austin

Standing

Life Member 1989 · Honourary Life Member 1997

Branch

Hamilton

Certification

• Associate of the CSCL 1965
• Fellow of the CSCL 1980

She served on the Hamilton Branch executive and exhibited in the Society’s biennial shows. Moulding and laminating leather were her specialty. She showed three pieces 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; her article in Canadian Leathercraft of June 1977 described a moulded purse made without any stitching or lacing; she received the Best Craftsman award in 1978 and showed three pieces at Leather '78, the Society's exhibition at the Etobicoke Civic Centre, 550 Burnhamthorpe Road, November 1978; she received her Fellow’s certificate at the 1980 Annual Meeting in Belleville; and she showed five pieces at Leather '82, the Society's exhibition at the City of Brampton Library and Art Gallery, Bramalea, 3 July to 1 August 1982. She made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt. In 1992 she was one of the Hamilton Guild’s three Fellows.

From Summer 1980, page 1; Spring 1992, page 2; 38th Annual Meeting 1988: programme, The Royal Resort, Rosedale, page 10; Summer 1963, page 8; Fall 1998, page 2; Exhibition catalogue 1976: Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, page 5; Leather ’78: exhibition catalogue, Etobicoke Civic Centre, page 5; and Leather ’82: exhibition catalogue, Brampton Public Library and Art Gallery, page 4.

Served the Society as

• Council 1961–1988
• Executive Council 1963–1980
• Membership Chairman 1972–1983
• Member-at-Large Fees Contact 1973
• Director 1982–1994
• Membership 1983

Honours

• Life Membership 1983
  Presented by Jean Newton at the 33rd Annual Meeting, Fenelon Falls, 29 April–1 May 1983. The Society’s own contemporary account (p4) says she "joined in 1952"; her own "New Life Members" profile in the same issue (p10) says she "joined CSCL in 1956" and gives her Associate standing as 1965 (matching her Certification entry above) and her Fellowship as 1980. Both are contemporary and from the same issue; both are kept.

Awards

• Bramalea Ribbon, Leather '82 1982
• CSCL Award 1980
• Craftsman Award, 11th International Assembly 1965
• Craftsman Ribbon 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990
• International Assembly Craftsmanship Ribbon 1964
• International Assembly Salon Exhibit 1961
• Irva Ford Award 1982, 1987
• Leather '76 Craftsman Award 1976
• Leather '78 Award 1978
• Leather '78 Honourable Mention 1978
• Leather '82 Honourable Mention 1982
• Leather '84 Honourable Mention 1984
• Salon Award 1979
• Salon Ribbon 1978, 1987, 1989

Demonstrations given

• Moulded Trays 1961
  11th Annual

  From Spring 1961, page 3.

• Spatter Dyeing 1979
  29th Annual

  From 29th Annual Meeting 1979: programme, The Continental Inn, Barrie.

• Filigree 1982
  32nd Annual

  From 32nd Annual Meeting 1982: programme, Holiday Inn West, Toronto.

• Filigree 1983
  33rd Annual

  From 33rd Annual Meeting 1983: programme, The Royal Resort, Fenelon Falls.

Where this comes from

• Spring 1961
• Summer 1961
• Spring 1962
• Summer 1963
• Summer 1964
• Spring 1965
• Summer 1965
• Spring 1970
• Summer 1971
• Summer 1972
• Spring 1973
• Summer 1973
• Spring 1974
• Summer 1975
• Summer 1976
• June 1977
• Spring 1978
• Summer 1978
• January 1979
• Summer 1979
• Spring 1980
• Summer 1980
• Autumn 1980
• Winter 1980–81
• Summer 1981
• Fall 1981
• January 1982
• Spring 1982
• Summer 1982
• Fall 1982
• Winter 1982–83
• Spring 1983
• Summer 1983
• Summer 1986
• Fall 1986
• Winter 1986–87
• Summer/Fall 1987
• Winter 1987–88
• Spring 1989
• Winter 1989–90
• Spring 1990
• Summer 1991
• Fall 1991
• Spring 1992
• Summer 1992
• Fall 1994
• Fall 1998
• Fall 1999
• 27th Annual Meeting 1977: programme, The Victorian Inn, Stratford
• 32nd Annual Meeting 1982: programme, Holiday Inn West, Toronto
• 33rd Annual Meeting 1983: programme, The Royal Resort, Fenelon Falls
• 35th Annual Meeting 1985: programme, The Continental Inn, Barrie
• 36th Annual Meeting 1986: programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland)
• 38th Annual Meeting 1988: programme, The Royal Resort, Rosedale
• 40th Annual Meeting 1990: programme, Elmhurst Inn, Ingersoll
• Executive Council 1978–79: the officers as the Society listed them
• Exhibition catalogue 1976: Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto
• Leather ’78: exhibition catalogue, Etobicoke Civic Centre
• Leather ’82: exhibition catalogue, Brampton Public Library and Art Gallery
• Society membership list, 1989
• Society membership list, 1997