Gwen Prestwich
← People of the Society · on record 1967–1988
Everything the Society’s own records say of Gwen Prestwich — the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won — gathered on one page. Where the records are silent, so is this one.
Also recorded as G. R. Prestwick, Gwen Prestwick, Mrs. G. Prestwick
Standing
Toronto Branch Member 1979 · Society Member 1988
Branch
Toronto · first recorded holding office in 1967
A member of the Toronto Branch, she was Vice-President of the Toronto branch in 1967 and served as Chairman of the Society's Exhibitions Committee in 1967. One piece of hers was chosen for “Ontario Crafts – Leather Today”, the Society’s Centennial travelling exhibition: bookends. The Canadian Guild of Crafts (Ontario) selected the articles; the exhibition opened at the Guild Shop on 2 October 1967 and was to travel across Canada during 1968. She won first place in the Canadian National Exhibition's category for plain leather gloves in 1969, and her work won a Canadian National Exhibition prize in the Women's Division in 1971. Her work also took third prize in the Canadian National Exhibition's plain leather gloves class in 1970.
From Fall 1969; 40th Annual Meeting 1990 — programme, Elmhurst Inn, Ingersoll, page 9; Toronto Branch membership list, 1979-80, page 2; Fall 1967, page 9; and Fall 1970, page 12.
Served the Society as
- Chairman Exhibitions Committee 1967
- Toronto Branch Vice-President 1967
Awards
- C.N.E. Leather gloves, plain — 1st 1969
- Canadian National Exhibition Leathercraft Prize (Women's Division) 1971
- Canadian National Exhibition Third Prize 1970