Meet Lois Etherington Betteridge Thursday, September 12, 6-8pm.

AWARDS and HONOURS The Helen Scripps Booth Scholarship to the Cranbrook Academy of Art ,1955;and election as Distinguished Member, Society of North American Goldsmiths, 1974; Citation for Distinguished Professional Achievement, University of Kansas,1975; election to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts,1978; the Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Crafts, 1978; Fellow of the New Brunswick Craft School, 1988; the M. Joan Chalmers 15th Anniversary Award, 1991; Honorary Fellowship from the Ontario College of Art, 1992. In 1997 she was made a member of the Order of Canada. In the year 2002 she was honoured with the YM/YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Lifetime Achievement, Guelph. Also in 2002, students of her classes at the summer school, Haliburton School of Fine Arts, mounted an exhibition of the works of her students for the past 20 years (catalogue). Later in 2002, she received the Queen's Golden Jubilee medal.

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh; International Business Machines, Canada; National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Canada; Canadian Crafts Council, Ottawa; Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto; Cranbrook Art Gallery, Michigan, U.S.A.; National Museum of Civilization, Ottawa; Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario International Symposium of Equine Reproduction, McLuhan Teleglobe Canada Award, President Constantine Karamanlis of Greece, International Embryo Transfer Society, Temple Israel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canadian Pacific Railway, Massey Foundation of Contemporary Crafts, Holland College, P.E.I., Or Shalom Synagogue.London, Ontario, Right Honourable Joseph Clark, Canadian Nuclear Assocxiation, Joan A.Chalmers National Craft Collection, Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, B.C. Right Honourable Pierre Elliot Trudeau, E.A. Kelsey, England. Marymount College, Sudbury, Ontario, St. Christopher's Anglican Church, Burlington, Ontario, Toronto Dominion Bank, Sudbury Ontario.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS There have been 24 to date. In 1981-83 an exhibition of 65 of her works "Reflections in Silver and Gold" toured 8 major Canadian art centres (catalogue). In 1988, the Art Gallery of Hamilton mounted an exhibition of 50 "Recent Works" which was seen in 9 major public galleries across Canada, ending its tour in November 1990 at the Musée des arts décoratifs, Montréal (catalogue). In 1996, Betteridge had an exhibition of 50 new works at Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario. In 1998-99 works by "Lois Etherington Betteridge" were shown at the Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Point Claire, Quebec. Betteridge showed her works along with 7 of her students and friends in a Tribute Exhibition at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph in 2000 and at the Nova Scotia Art Gallery (catalogue). In 2002 she had a mini-exhibition at Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario. In 2003 she exhibited her work in the Ontario Parliamentary Building, Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario.

TEACHING She has taught summer courses regularly at Fleming College, Haliburton School of Fine Arts, from 1984 until 2002. Her first teaching position was at Ryerson Institute of Technology, 1952-54; later she became lecturer of design at Macdonald Institute, 1957-60. Betteridge is visiting artist at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Ontario college of Art and Design and the New Brunswick School of Art and has given workshops to colleges and guilds across Canada, Great Britain and the United States since 1971. She trains individual students and apprentices in her studio and has served as academic advisor to two M.F.A. candidates, L'universite de Québec à Montréal, 1984.

INVITATIONAL These have numbered 120 + in Canada, the United States of America, the GROUP United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Japan. Among these are