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Huldy Gutekunst

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The Society’s records

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

Also recorded as H. Gutekunst, Hulda Gutekunst

Her work won Salon Awards in 1967, for sandals moulded to individual fit and for leather decoration on a hand-made pewter box and on an antique wood box, in 1968, for a green oasis box with a 3-D design in red and white and a red and black cowhide sandal, and in 1969, for brown and tan sandals.

From Fall 1967, page 8; Summer 1963, page 3; Summer 1964, page 2; Summer 1965; Summer 1968, page 15; Summer 1968, page 16; Summer 1969, page 6; Spring 1970, page 15; and Spring 1970, page 6.

Served the Society as

  • 11th Assembly Demonstrator 1965
  • 15th Assembly Demonstrator 1969
  • Executive Council 1970

Awards

  • Craftsman Award, 11th International Assembly 1965
  • Craftsman Ribbon 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970
  • International Assembly Craftsmanship Ribbon 1963, 1964
  • International Assembly Salon Exhibit 1961
  • International Assembly Salon Ribbon 1963, 1964
  • Salon Award 1967, 1968, 1969

Demonstrations given

  • Speaker of the evening, "Creativity and You" (delivered 1 May 1976); of Buffalo, formerly of the Frontier Leathercraft Guild. Also helped select the Salon awards that year. She had earlier served the Society directly as a 1970-71 Executive Council member and a demonstrator at its own Assemblies in the 1960s. 1976
    26th Annual Meeting (Burlington, Ontario)

    From Summer 1976, page 8.

Where this comes from

Life and work

Work
She demonstrated leather at the eighth annual York State Craft Fair, Harpur College, Binghamton, NY (15–19 August 1961); in 1967 Craft Horizons praised her ‘beautifully designed and meticulously crafted’ leather sandals, belts and bags in the ‘Capsule’ exhibition of the Creative Craft Center.

From Craft Horizons vol. 21 no. 6 (Nov/Dec 1961), p. 39; vol. 27 no. 3 (May/Jun 1967), p. 70, https://archives.centerforcraft.org/digital/collection/p15785coll2/id/2827.

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