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Lauren Malec

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This is the Society’s own record of Lauren Malec. A biography: In Their Own Words →

The Society’s records

Everything the Society’s own records say of Lauren Malec: 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 Lauren MacPherson, Lauren Malac, Lauren McPherson

Branch

Member-at-Large · member since 2007

A Member-at-Large of the Society, and its Member-at-Large Appointee from 2012 to 2023, as the Members-at-Large final report of May 2026 gives the span; she also wrote five summers of the Larmour Library review. Under the name Lauren McPherson she served as a Director in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016, and 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. The Society's papers print her under both surnames, and the Members-at-Large reports printed with the 66th and 69th Annual Meeting reports (2016 and 2019) each carry both in one report: headed “Lauren McPherson, MAL Representative” and signed “Lauren Malec, MAL Representative”.

From September–December 2021; Members-at-Large: Final Newsletter Report, page 1; 69th Annual Meeting: Reports; 66th Annual Meeting: Reports; Leather 2013, Creative Versatility: the exhibition brochure, with the exhibitors’ statements; September–December 2022; and January–April 2023.

Served the Society as

  • Director 2010–2016
  • Members-at-Large Representative 2012
  • Member-at-Large Appointee 2019–2022
  • Secretary 2021–2023
  • Secretary/Treasurer, Woodstock Leather Guild 2007–2010

Awards

  • Allan Foss Workshop Award 2007
  • Craftsman Ribbon 2009
  • Participation Ribbon 2009
  • Salon Ribbon 2009

Work shown in competition

Demonstrations given

  • Single, double, triple and quadruple Cordovan lacing, with instructional displays and finished examples (demonstration) 2016
    Thorndale Fall Fair, 24 September 2016

    From 69th Annual Meeting: Reports, page 7.

Where this comes from

Life and work

In her own words, from the biography she wrote for the Society's sixtieth-anniversary exhibition and supplied again, lightly shortened, for Leather 2013.

Work
In 2010, and again in 2013, she was employed at a London, ON, home renovation company. She has also worked for her brother's family-owned and operated home health care business, manufacturing custom seat cushions made from neoprene, stretch nylon, upholstery fabric, vinyl or leather.
Other crafts
Her own artwork has included sewing, quilting and embroidery. Her 12" Scarecrow and Vintage Apron received two ribbons in the Western Fair Home Arts Competition (2006).
Community
From 2004 to 2007 she donated seven furniture pieces to the Community Living London fundraiser, 'A Chair Affair'. Several woodworkers assisted in their construction; she customized an antique wooden chair into an artist easel, furnished two plank benches with custom leather cushions and leather machéd all surfaces of a wooden spindle-leg chair.
Interests
In the 1970s she loved playing center field on Port Colborne's city softball team, taking music lessons and participating in arts and crafts.

From the biography “In Their Own Words”.

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