Nancy Durham

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Nancy Durham

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This is the Society’s own record of Nancy Durham. A biography: Leather 2013 · In Their Own Words →

The Society’s records

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

Standing

Society Member 1988–1997

Branch

Woodstock · recorded holding office in 2005

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 1994
Fellow of the CSCL 2005

She made a square for the CSCL Leather Quilt. She showed two pieces in the Society's exhibition at the Etobicoke Art Gallery, 4-29 September 1992, and three 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 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 (Tapered 2-Tone Belt/Conchos; Mask - Brown; Round Box, Red, Black, Floriate; Round Box, Mahogany, Lizard; Playing Card Case, Red). She learned to shape, mould, carve and tool leather through her membership of the Society, which the last newsletter dates to 1987, and it places the Honourary Life Membership at the 72nd Annual Meeting, held by videoconference.

From Fall 1998, page 2; Minutes of the 72nd Annual General Meeting, page 4; 42nd Annual Meeting 1992: programme, Beacon Motor Inn, Jordan Station (Vineland), page 5; Etobicoke Art Gallery exhibition 1992: catalogue, page 12; Leather 2013, Creative Versatility: the exhibition brochure, with the exhibitors’ statements; Leather 2004: Juried Biennial Exhibition, Hamilton Public Library, page 2; Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art, Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 2; and Fall 2026, page 5.

Held the Society's professional stamp No. XXIV, issued in 1994.

From Register of professional stamps, May 2012.

Served the Society as

President 2000–2001
Past President 2002–2003
1st Vice-President 1997–1999
Woodstock Branch Librarian 1989–1992
Woodstock Branch President 1991–2005
Correspondence 1994–1996
Corresponding Secretary 1994–1997
Director 1996–2016

Honours

Honourary Life Membership 2022
Awarded an Honourary Life Membership at the 72nd Annual General Meeting. She was unaware of the nomination and completely surprised.
Ontario Volunteer Service Award
Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients.
Zalitis Pin 1994
Awarded with her Associate standing at the 1994 Annual at Prudhommes Place. The report of the meeting names it, “Two new associates Nancy Durham, winning the Zalitis Pin and David Windeyer” (1994-spring-summer p3), and David Windeyer’s New Associate profile that autumn (1994-fall p7) repeats it: “My Congratulations to Nancy Durham who also got her Associate at the same time, and also to have been awarded the Zalitis pin.” It is not on the Slate page, and her own profile is unillustrated and textless.

Awards

1992 Biennial Exhibition: Michigan Leather Artisans Award for Best in Soft Leather 1992
Allan Foss Workshop Award 2006
Anne Hook Memorial Award 1992
Best Belt 2010
CSCL Executive Award 1990
CSCL Judges Special Award 1998
Craftsman Ribbon 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014
Don MacLeod Belt Buckle Award 2007, 2014
Irva Ford Award 2001
Leather 2004 Honourable Mention 2004
Michigan Leather Award for Best Colour 2013
Moore-Pearsal Award for Best Belt 2004
Moore-Pearsall Award 1994, 2008
Moore-Pearsall Award for Best Belt 2008
Ontario Crafts Council Award 2000
Participation Ribbon 2009
Robert Muma Award 1994
Robert Muma Award for Best Colour Work 1997
Salon Ribbon 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
Zalitis Pin 1994

Demonstrations given

Dream Catchers workshop 1995
45th Annual
From Summer 1995, page 3.
Dyeing Techniques (demonstration) 2002
52nd Annual
From Summer 2002, page 3.
Lasted Box Making (demonstration) 2006
56th Annual
From Spring 2006, page 6.
Lasted Boxes (workshop, Tandy Leather Factory, Mississauga, 24 Feb 2007) 2007
Workshop, 2007
From Winter 2006–2007, page 4.
Lasted box workshop, repeated for the branch 2007
Woodstock Branch, 2006-07
From Annual General Meeting minutes, 5 May 2007, page 5.

Where this comes from

Life and work

From the biography Nancy Durham supplied for the brochure of Leather 2013: Creative Versatility, the Society's exhibition at the Woodstock Art Gallery. Other lines come from the sources named under each.

Background: Her interest in leathercrafting began when she first observed a saddlemaker's wife carving a saddle. She bought a Tandy Beginner's Kit and taught herself how to do leather craft.
From the biography “Leather 2013 · In Their Own Words”.
Work: Shortly thereafter she went to work at the saddle maker's, and through on-the-job training was soon carving and tooling saddles. A Princeton-area artist, she retails her work extensively and accepts commissions, which she works on in her own leather studio that she and her husband built in Princeton.
From the biography “Leather 2013 · In Their Own Words”.
Art: One of her pieces, Blue Box, was featured, and sold, at Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford. She has many commissioned pieces in international collections.
From the biography “Leather 2013 · In Their Own Words”.
Community: A grandmother of two, she volunteers with VON Oxford as an instructor in the SMART fitness program.
From the biography “Leather 2013 · In Their Own Words”.
In the press: The Hamilton Spectator of 19 October 1995 announced a meeting of the Hamilton Leathercraft Guild at St. Margaret's Anglican Church at which members could learn to make dream catchers with her.
From “Metro Planner”, The Hamilton Spectator, 19 October 1995.

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