Awards and Scholarships
The OCC has an awards and scholarships program through which it distributes approximately thirty awards annually. Awards are given out to both emerging and established makers.
The present-day awards the OCC offers have their origin in the awards established by the women’s committee of The Canadian Handicrafts Guild. The women’s committee recognized a need for scholarships that would enable makers to further their studies in the field. Lacking funds to initiate such an endeavour, the women’s committee arranged an exhibition of a portion of the Salvadore Dali collection of “Art in Jewels,” owned by the Cheatham Foundation of New York. The exhibition was on display at the Royal Ontario Museum and successfully raised $4,760 for the scholarship fund. In fact, the exhibition drew in the largest number of visitors for a single exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum to date.
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