Silva Fox

Branch

Mississauga · recorded in the papers in 2000

Certification

• Associate of the CSCL 2000
  Granted Associate standing at the 50th Annual and awarded the Zalitis pin; exceeded requirements and was granted Fellow the following year (see the 2001 Fellow row).
• Fellow of the CSCL 2001
  Received Associate standing in 2000 and exceeded requirements to earn Fellow the following year.

Artwork was a lifelong interest from childhood; in 1976 she met the manager of a Tandy Leather store who influenced her future art pursuits, then had a 17-year graphic arts/advertising career. She developed her own leather-sculpture style, producing an almost holographic, three-dimensional appearance in her carved pieces, and shared her sculpted work with the blind so they could "see" it by touch. She won numerous U.S. awards including the Al Stohlman Award for 1997 and Best of Show at the 1998 IFLG convention. She was welcomed as a brand-new member from Illinois in the Winter 1998-99 newsletter, joining the Mississauga branch -- described by Bill Whittingham as the first new member he recruited through his Internet activity. She donated six Doodle Pages she designed to the Society's archives for use as teaching tools, and is remembered among the leathercrafters whose work filled the Annual displays. She showed four 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 (Free Form Vase Sculpture; Teddy Bear Photo Album; Exotic Leather Purse; Carved Contour Belt & Agate). She designed six Tandy Doodle Pages (Series 6E) and wrote articles and patterns for The Leather Crafters Journal and The Leather Crafters & Saddlers Journal from 1992 to 2005; the Doodle Pages and the pieces up to 1998 came before she joined the Society (see Members in print on the Links page).

From Spring 2010, page 2; Winter 1998–99, page 2; Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art — Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 3; and Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art — Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum, page 4.

Awards

• Craftsman Ribbon 1999–2002
• Robert Muma Award 1999
• Robert Muma Award for Best Colour Work 2000
• Robert Muma Award for Best Tooling or Colouring 2002
• Salon Ribbon 1999–2002
• Zalitis Pin 2000

Demonstrations given

• Back to basics tooling class (local guild, August meeting) 1999
  Workshop, 1999

  From Fall 1999, page 4.

Where this comes from

• Winter 1998–99
• Summer 1999
• Spring & Summer 2000
• Spring 2001
• Summer 2002
• Spring 2010
• Leather 2000: Fifty Years of Leather Art — Exhibition Programme, Woodstock Museum