Ken Boroski
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This is the Society’s own record of Ken Boroski. A biography: Leather 2013 · In Their Own Words →
The Society’s records
Everything the Society’s own records say of Ken Boroski: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.
Branch
Mississauga · member since 2005
Certification
- Associate of the CSCL 2012
The judges marked the four pieces 77.4, 81.4, 79.3 and 76.3 per cent, an average of 78.6, and said of the saddle that it was “a clear improvement over last year's entry”.
A Mississauga member who competed at the Annual. He was one of the nine members whose work was shown in Leather 2013: Creative Versatility at the Woodstock Art Gallery, 12 January to 2 March 2013, each writing about their own pieces in the exhibition’s own pages.
From 62nd Annual Meeting: Reports; and Leather 2013, Creative Versatility: the exhibition brochure, with the exhibitors’ statements.
Served the Society as
- 2nd Vice-President 2012–2013
- Director 2010–2012
- Mississauga Branch President 2010–2012
Awards
- CSCL Executive Award 2013
- Craftsman Ribbon 2010, 2011, 2012
- Salon Ribbon 2012
Where this comes from
Life and work
In Ken Boroski's own words, from the artist statement and biography he supplied for the brochure of the Society's Leather 2013 exhibition.
- Background
- He started leatherwork in 2001. After riding in the mountains of Arizona he ripped his chaps on the rough terrain; the trail boss repaired them with an initialed and stamped round patch, glued and hand sewn over the rip, and his leatherworking career began.
- Work
- He mostly did western leatherworking, such as holsters, saddles, breast collars, chaps and belts, but had also made sword scabbards, fly fishing rod and reel cases, purses, and “pretty much anything in leather”. His greatest joy in leatherworking was producing a specific piece for someone and having them fully appreciate the finished product and use it as it was meant to be used.
From the biography “Leather 2013 · In Their Own Words”.