micki mackenzie educational craft bursary
bursary
status
opens February 29, 2024
deadline for applications
June 30, 2024
The Micki MacKenzie Educational Craft Bursary was founded in 2019 by Micki’s husband Murray and their children, Nicole and Ross, as a living memorial to a wonderful woman who possessed an incredible eye for design, craft and the arts of all kinds. Micki gave her time and energy to many community causes and the Crafts Association of British Columbia (now known as the Craft Council of BC) was particularly near and dear to her heart.
Working with Gail Rogers, Executive Director of the CABC from 1974 to 1991 and the CABC Board of Directors, Micki, along with an extraordinary group of individuals, worked countless hours to secure the funds for the construction of the building that is the current home of the Craft Council of BC and CCBC Shop & Gallery. It was a major project with a lasting benefit for craftspeople.
The family is honoured to be able to provide this award in Micki’s name in order to assist individuals in their pursuit of a career in the field of craft and to help promote the development of excellence in crafts in British Columbia.
The award recipient will be asked to submit 3 blogs over the year; make a presentation at the next CCBC AGM on how the award has affected their practice and to donate a piece of their craft to the Micki Mackenzie Collection held by the Mackenzie family.
Overview of Criteria
- this will be a bursary to support an emerging* artist to attend a recognized institution** that offers ***material-based courses. the tuition will be paid directly to the institution and the remainder of the funds will be issued to the artist to be used for supplies.
- the awarded student will be asked to sign a letter of agreement that will indicate their responsibilities after completing the education outlined in their submission, which will include: other choice to deliver a presentation during CCBC’s Art of Craft Lecture series or to mount an exhibition of the resulting art work within a year of completion the provision of a piece of their original artwork to the Micki and Murray MacKenzie Family Foundation (MMMFF)
- the Micki and Murray MacKenzie Family Foundation is managed by the Aqueduct Foundation (RN#86608 7034 RR0001) who will liaise with CCBC each year around the disbursement of the funds
submission requirements
- students will be asked to submit 5 images of their work to date
- a budget outlining how the $4,000 award will be allocated
- a statement detailing which recognized institution** program that they want to attend and how this program will help their artistic career
- a statement outlining their financial need for the bursary
- a current CV
submission process
- submissions will be done through the Slideroom online program, opening on February and closing in June of the current year.
awardees
Micki MacKenzie 2023 Awardee Coral Patola aims to instil mundane objects with mindfulness and attention, creating utilitarian art that inspires people to slow down and appreciate the complexities and interconnectedness of ourselves and the outer world, spanning generations through materiality and form.
Coral hopes to create modern heirlooms capturing the ephemeral presence of nostalgia. She is currently exploring patterns and motifs found in women’s work. Examining the matriarch’s role in passing down familial knowledge and tradition as an exploration into understanding her personal relationship to gender and place within the Chinese diaspora as a 1st generation mixed-race Canadian.
Coral has been offered an artist residency at Medalta, where she intends to develop a personal collection of heirlooms documenting her maternal family history, with the support of this Bursary.
Micki MacKenzie 2022 Awardee Ilana Fonariov is a self-taught potter living and working in Galiano Island. Ilana is a lover of clay and its malleability; she is drawn to black clay most of all, for its drama and starkness and for the challenge of finding ways to soften it. With this bursary, Ilana seeks to develop her art through a ceramics program at Selkirk College in the fall of 2022.
Micki MacKenzie 2021 Awardee Aimee Taylor is a craft artist living and working in Vancouver, BC. She incorporates her skills in ceramics and jewellery in her practice. Aimee had her first exhibition in jewellery upon completing the first year of the VCC Jewellery Program.
Her work is inspired by the geometric regularity of rock formations, specifically hexagonal volcanic rock arrangement; she designs pieces to convey their repeating, yet asymmetrical patterns, and their striking nature. Found in unique regions of the world such as Giants Causeway, Ireland, Aberdeen Columns, BC and Devil’s Postpile in the US these basaltic columns are formed from cooling to create towering hexagonal shapes and can be so perfectly geometric that they seem out of place in nature.
Micki MacKenzie 2020 Awardee Sorrel Van Allen is a jeweler and silversmith with a background in welding and artistic blacksmithing who will be pursuing a one year residential silversmithing course at Bishopsland Educational Trust, Reading, UK. She graduated with a B.F.A., Major in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2020.
Inspired by botany, she has found silversmithing techniques such as chasing and repoussé, anticlastic forming, and raising to be challenging and rewarding processes to express her designs. Bishopsland’s uniquely structured program is the ideal place to further develop these traditional skills. The emphasis on hands on learning, professional practice, and an immersive group environment will bring her silversmithing to a higher level.