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Janis Zalitis

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Everything the Society’s own records say of Janis Zalitis — 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 Janis Zalitis. A biography: Who’s Who in Leather · Spring 1974 →

Also recorded as J. Zalitis, Janis Zaletis, Mr. J. Zalitis

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 1959
Toronto. He gave the Society the pin that carries his name; the Society's modern awards documents spell it Zelaitis. Corroborated by the contemporary 1959-spring newsletter p4 report of the Annual Meeting: "Mr. Janis Zalitis, Toronto" was one of three new Associates that year.
Fellow of the CSCL 1962
Toronto. His own Who’s Who in Leathercraft instalment, Spring 1974 page 7, gives the same year.

An Associate of the Society from 1959 and a Fellow from 1962, of Toronto, he gave the Society the pin that carries his name and served on its Executive Council. His work won Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition prizes in the early 1960s and placed at the Canadian National Exhibition and the Great Mississippi Valley Fair through the 1970s. He showed two pieces at Leather '74, the Society's exhibition at the Toronto Public Libraries' Learning Resources Centre, 666 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, 3-28 June 1974. He wrote “Electric Clock In Leather” for The Leather Craftsman in 1962 (see Members in print on the Links page).

From Spring 1959, page 4; Winter 2016–2017, page 4; and Leather ’74 — exhibition catalogue, Toronto Public Libraries, page 6.

Served the Society as

C.N.E. Demonstrator 1962
Executive Council 1963

Awards

C.N.E. Any carved leather article, original design — 1st 1969
C.N.E. Any tooled leather article, original design — 2nd 1969
C.N.E. Arts and Crafts, Women's Division 1975
Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition First Prize 1960–1964
Canadian Handicrafts Guild Competition Second Prize 1962–1963
Canadian National Exhibition Credit Note 1967
Canadian National Exhibition First Prize 1966–1970
Canadian National Exhibition Leathercraft Prize (Women's Division) 1971
Canadian National Exhibition Special Chatelaine Award 1966
Canadian National Exhibition Third Prize 1970
Canadian National Exhibition Women's Division 1972
Canadian National Exhibition Women's Division 1st Place 1973
International Assembly Salon Ribbon 1964
Pacific National Exhibition Prize 1962
The Great Mississippi Valley Fair, First Place 1972

Demonstrations given

Spray dyeing technique 1960
10th Annual
From Spring 1960, page 4.
Spray Dyeing 1963
13th Annual
From Autumn 1963, page 2.
Spray Painting 1969
19th Annual
From Spring 1969, page 2.

Where this comes from

This name in the index of people →