Craft Ontario promotes the Award program with images of Judith Martin's work

Prayer Cloth: Hope   by Judy Martin  2024

golden rod on cotton, stitched with red thread

40 x 40 inches

Two of Judy Martin's new works have been chosen by Craft Ontario to promote the award applications on social media.  Martin won one of the awards in 2024 (the Gladstone House award).  

Martin's work is featured on Craft Ontario's Instagram account (here)  and on the council's facebook promotional page.  (here).

Applying for the Craft Council awards helps an artist to gather their work together, take stock of what has been accomplished, and what direction one might want to go in future work.   Judy Martin

You Are A Single Star by Judy Martin
Fifteen Dresden Plate appliques made in the 70's, new wool, natural dyes
90 x 90 inches, 2024, hand stitched with wool and cotton thread.  

Ontario Craft Council highlights the 2025 awards on their website, as well as listing all 2024 recipients. 

Gladstone House Award

 Tomorrow is Another Day by Judy Martin is now hanging in one of the 3rd floor guest rooms at the Gladstone House Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This textile will be on display until November 2025.   Martin won the 2024 Gladstone House award through the Ontario Craft Council.  There was an award ceremony on October 30.  The award is$1000 plus an exhibition for one year in one of the guestrooms.  All of the Gladstone House guestrooms have original art in them.

Thank you to the Gladstone House hotel for this award.

If you are interested to see this piece close up, you can request to stay in room 309 through the front desk.  I think it is a king bed.   

Our daughter April has art hanging in room 307!  See her work on my modernist aesthetic blog.

Craft Ontario Award Reception October 30

Save the Date for the Awards Reception in Toronto this fall.

Pictured is Judy Martin's Lamentation quilt.  Judy won the Gladstone House Award and will be in attendance to receive it on October 30.

The Exhibition will be on view from October 7 until November 3 2024.

The Craft Awards recognize excellence and celebrate accomplished and dedicated practitioners in the field of craft and design. This year we are thrilled to announce the 2024 recipients, and hope you will join us in celebrating their achievements at the reception of the Craft Award Recipient Exhibition. Special thanks to this year's jurors: Ana Galindo, Annie Tung, Habiba El-Sayed, Heidi Earnshaw, Jean Marshall, and Rob Raeside!

Exhibition Reception:  Wednesday, October 30, 6:30-8:30 PM

Craft Ontario Gallery, 1106 Queen St. W., Toronto
We appreciate RSVPs via email to awards@craftontario.com