Simon
has been an Alberta Craft Council board member since 1997. He
recently retired from his 6-year position as Past-chair. Prior
to that, he was Chair of the board for 5 years. In both roles
he has been a major contributor to month-by-month and year-to-year
vision and operation of the ACC, leading the board and executive,
chairing member teams, working closely with staff, coordinating
events (particularly in Calgary) and representing the Craft
Council to other arts agencies and to members.
In
addition, Simon was a founding board member in 1998 of the Canadian
Crafts Federation. He has been Secretary and then President
of CFF for the past 5 years, seeing the CCF through major projects
as well as new bylaws, policies and membership structure. He
will continue as CCF Past-president. Simon was a co-founder
of the nation-wide Craft Year 2007. He worked on several committees
for Alberta (2007) and Canada (2009) at the Cheongju International
Craft Biennale.
Throughout
this time, Simon has also been a dedicated and participatory
individual member of the Alberta Craft Council, including his
work in important exhibitions, selling this work through the
ACC Shop and other marketing ventures, promoting and teaching
the ACC's Business Training Program, participating in ACC events
as far away as South Korea, coordinating or hosting local ACC
events and generally contributing to all aspects of the ACC's
growth.
Throughout
his extensive involvement in the Alberta Craft Council, Simon
has been enthusiastic, insightful, popular, professional and
sophisticated in all his endeavors. Simon has certainly made
a greater and longer contribution to the Alberta Craft Council
than any other single member.
Simon
is a metal artist who has developed his skills in his predominately
production oriented studio since 1990. Simon's most recent work
features extremely detailed miniature landscapes created from
up to 15 layers of bronze, copper and silver. These are hand-cut
and riveted together and are created as both brooches and framed
works. His exhibition "Remnants of Community" a miniature metal
jewellery series depicting 15 historic Alberta rural churches
has been touring Alberta for the past 2 years.
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Alberta Craft Council Borad
