Hazel Quinn
← People of the Society · on record 1971–1973
Everything the Society’s own records say of Hazel Quinn — the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won — gathered on one page. Where the records are silent, so is this one.
This is the Society’s own record of Hazel Quinn. A biography: Who’s Who in Leathercraft · Winter 1973 →
Of Edmonton — in 1973 the Society’s “most westerly member”. She came to leather “away back when” in night-school classes at Victoria Composite High School, and took a basic leadership course under the Alberta Provincial Government (Cultural Activities) to qualify for advanced leather courses. When Robert Muma of Mumart Studio, Toronto, taught at Red Deer, Alberta, for three summers, 1960 to 1962, she studied his techniques of working and dyeing leather for four weeks each year. For several years she instructed in leather for Edmonton Parks and Recreation; she also taught classes at Tandys and did volunteer work for the Boys Club of Canada and the Community League. She tried to establish a group of leather workers that might develop into a Western branch of the Society, but by 1973 it had disbanded. Her work won First Prize and the Canadian Handicraft Guild award for the most outstanding piece in the show in 1971. Her entries at the Edmonton Exhibition’s “Klondike Days” were portraits of Indian people in leather, one of them of Chief Dan George in 1972, and in the summer of 1973 she was working with visitor participation at the Provincial Museum and Archives. Her work won further unnamed awards at 'Klondike Days' in 1973.
From Winter 1973–74, page 1.
Awards
- 1st Prize and the Canadian Handicraft Guild award, for the most outstanding piece of work in the show 1971
- award(s), unnamed, at "Klondike Days" 1973