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Madeleine Mitchell

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Everything the Society’s own records say of Madeleine Mitchell — 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 Madeleine Mitchell. A biography: In Their Own Words →

Also recorded as M. Mitchell, Madelaine Mitchell, Madeliene Mitchell, Madeline Mitchell

Standing

Society Member 1988–1997

Branch

Woodstock · recorded holding office in 2010

A Woodstock Branch member who served three terms as the Society's President, 1985–87, and later edited the newsletter for over a decade, 2003–2016; named an Honourary Life Member in 2016. A multi-term Editor of the Society's newsletter, she is also credited by the Society's own Members-at-Large final report (May 2026) with steering the 2005 origin of the CSCL website. She showed one piece in the Society's exhibition at the Craft Gallery and Resource Centre of the Ontario Crafts Council, 346 Dundas Street West, Toronto, 2-28 March 1976, and one piece at Leather '78, the Society's exhibition at the Etobicoke Civic Centre, 550 Burnhamthorpe Road, November 1978, whose catalogue prints her as M. Mitchell. Two pieces were chosen for the Society’s 1985 Travelling Exhibition, from about sixty entries, by the judges Robert Muma, Paul Williams and Alison Parsons: a miniature furniture set in cowhide dyed brown, and an executive portfolio in cowhide with a morocco interior. She showed two pieces in the Society's exhibition at the Etobicoke Art Gallery, 4-29 September 1992, and four pieces at Leather 2004, the Society's biennial juried exhibition at the Hamilton Public Library, 55 York Boulevard, 2-30 November 2004, with the Woodstock guild. She 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. She made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt. She showed five pieces at Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art, the Society’s exhibition in the Grand Hall Gallery of the Woodstock Museum, 466 Dundas St., 20 May to 17 June 2000 (Smiling Leather Mask; Oval Box - Padded Top; Paperback Book Cover; Double Picture Frame; Double Card Case - Quilt Motif). She wrote the report of the Society’s 2014 Annual Weekend for The Leather Crafters & Saddlers Journal (see Members in print on the Links page). The Society's final Members-at-Large report credits her with beginning the commemorative CSCL Leather Quilt in 1990.

From Summer 1985; Members-at-Large — Final Newsletter Report, page 2; Exhibition catalogue 1976 — Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, page 6; Leather ’78 — exhibition catalogue, Etobicoke Civic Centre, page 6; Fall 1985, page 4; Etobicoke Art Gallery exhibition 1992 — catalogue, page 13; Leather 2004 — Juried Biennial Exhibition, Hamilton Public Library, page 3; Leather 2013 — Creative Versatility: the exhibition brochure, with the exhibitors’ statements; Fall 1998, page 2; Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art — Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 3; Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art — Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 4; and Fall 2026, page 5.

Served the Society as

President 1985–87; 1985–1986
Past President 1987–1989
1st Vice-President 1984
2nd Vice-President 1983–1984
Woodstock Branch Vice-President 1976
Council 1977
Woodstock Branch President 1978–2010
Recording Secretary 1979–2002
Woodstock Branch Membership Chairman 1979
Director 1982–2014
Vice-President 1984
Ontario Crafts Council Representative 1988
Membership 1991–1999
Membership Chairman 1992–1999
Woodstock Branch Past President 1992–1993
Chairman Membership Committee 1995
Director (Woodstock) 1997
Director, Editor 2003
Editor 2003–2016
Woodstock Branch Secretary 2007
Website 2008
Editor, Canadian Leathercraft 2010–2012
Workshops Committee 2010

Honours

Honourary Life Membership 2016
Welcomed as an Honourary Life Member at the 66th Annual Convention, hosted by the Norland Branch. A former Woodstock Branch member and long-serving newsletter Editor.
Ontario Volunteer Service Award
Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients.
Past President's Pin 1987
Presented by Ruth Haig at the 37th Annual General Meeting, Novotel Hotel, Mississauga, 25 April 1987, on handing the Presidency to Ruth Haig after three years in the chair.
Ontario Volunteer Service Award 2003
One of six named at the 53rd Annual General Meeting, Woodstock Branch; biographies read by members called on by Dorothy McPherson. The date of the official presentation had not yet been announced on this page. Presented at the London Convention Centre, 30 September 2003, as a 25-year award, with Dorothy and David McPherson attending (newsletter 2003-fall p6, "CSCL Members in the News").

Awards

Best General Member's Piece 1997
Best in Show 2005
CSCL Executive Award 1998
CSCL Executive Award for Most Functional Piece 2000
Craftsman Ribbon 1979–2010
Irva Ford Award 1996
Irva Ford Award (best moulded piece) 2010
Leather '84 Honourable Mention 1984
Participation Ribbon 2009
Robert Muma Award 2005
Salon Ribbon 1996–2010
Special Table 1985
Weston Trophy Entry (runner-up) 2003
Weston Trophy Winning Piece 2002

Demonstrations given

Miniature articles 1978
28th Annual
From Summer 1978, page 2.
Mexican Braid on Belts 1986
36th Annual
From 36th Annual Meeting 1986 — programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland).
Mask making 1996
Workshop, 1996
From Fall 1996, page 5.
Mask making workshop (Saturday and Sunday sessions) 1997
47th Annual
From Spring 1997, page 5.
Slip-on book cover workshop 1999
49th Annual
From Summer 1999, page 6.
Wallet Techniques (workshop demonstration, with Heather Atkinson) 2001
51st Annual
From Spring 2001, page 6.

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