Mary Lynn Podiluk

Mary Lynn Podiluk studied both fine art and linguistics at the University of Saskatchewan. Drawing on this background, she earned a BFA in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing at NSCADU in 2012.                                              Mary Lynn has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She won the Canadian National Jewellery Student Competition (Ottawa, ON) in 2012 and was the Saskatchewan representative in the exhibition The Canadian Mosaic of Metal (Toronto, ON) in 2013. That same year, she won a student NICHE Award (Washington, DC) for her teapot ‘Metalanguage’, which was acquired during SOFA Chicago 2015 by the Kamm Teapot Foundation. She received a professional 2015 NICHE Award in the wedding jewellery category with her engagement ring ‘Infinite’, and was selected as a finalist in 2016. In 2023, her teapot ‘Metalanguage’ was chosen for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Paral(elles): A History of Women in Design’ at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In addition to many private collections, her work can be found in the Saskatchewan Arts Board’s Permanent Collection and the estate of Carrie Fisher.