Bright BC artists and designers honoured with Carter Wosk Award
Among the 2020 recipients is costume designer Nancy Bryant, for lifetime achievement
Carter Wosk Award recipient Nancy Bryant designed the costumes for Crytal Pite’s Betroffenheit. Photo by Michael Slobodian
SIX LOCAL CREATIVE talents have been recognized with the Carter Wosk Award for Applied Art and Design, the British Columbia Achievement Foundation has announced.
Costume designer Nancy Bryant was honoured with the Award of Distinction Laureate for her lifetime achievement in costume design. She has worked in dance, theatre, opera, and film across Canada and abroad, with the Paris Opera, the Royal Ballet (London), the Netherlands Dance Theatre, the Zurich Opera Ballet, the Monte-Carlo Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet BC, and the National Ballet of Canada, among many other organizations, as well as with acclaimed choreographer Crystal Pite and director-playwright Morris Panych.
“She has been known to stand backstage during a dress rehearsal, sewing costume pieces onto actors as they walk onstage,” Panych said in a statement.
Other 2020 recipients include Karen Konzuk, who makes architecturally inspired concrete jewellery and objects through her KONZUK line and who has always shied away from mainstream expectations; and Benjamin Kikkert, an artist and designer working in hot glass and mixed-media sculpture. Kikkert is the president of the Glass Art Association of Canada and works out of Vancouver Studio Glass on Granville Island.
Contemporary furniture designer Jeff Martin, of Jeff Martin Joinery, has run his studio—an exploratory research/design lab and manufacturing facility—since 2012.
Outstanding Achievement for Product Design went to multidisciplinary designers Michael Barton and Mari Fujita, who share backgrounds in art, architecture, and film making. Their face mask was hand-dyed, hand-printed, and hand-sewn in Vancouver.
Making up the 2020 jury were past recipients Pam Goddard of Propellor Design as well as jewellery designer Anita Sikma; craft advocate Ron Kong; and Bill Pechet, 2018 Award of Distinction Laureate.
Now in its 16th year, the award program takes its name from B.C. philanthropist, academic and visionary Yosef Wosk and Sam Carter, B.C. educator, designer, and curator.
“This year’s awardees of the Carter Wosk Award demonstrate creative flair and attention to detail, blending art and function to make our world a better place,” BC Achievement Foundation chair Anne Giardini said in a release. “It is always an honour to showcase ways in which British Columbians make purpose beautiful and beauty functional.”
Established in 2003, BC Achievement is an independent foundation that celebrates community service, arts, humanities, and enterprise. For mor information, visit bcachievement.
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