Muskoka Arts & Crafts owes much of its history to Jon and Suzann Partridge. Their minds, hearts and hands have helped to shape the growth and direction of our organization. Jon and Suzann moved to Muskoka at the start of the 1970s and, over the years, have...
Whenever you look through the scrapbook documenting Muskoka Arts & Crafts' history or listen to people recounting their memories, Betty and Walter Reynolds are mentioned time and time again. The Reynolds joined Muskoka Arts & Crafts in 1967. From 1968 until...
Kay Beers was known in Bracebridge for her many interests and enthusiasm which included years of public service as the first woman on council, the first female member of the Board of Education, organizing night school classes and spending many years on the Recreation...
Born in Copper Cliff and raised in Sudbury, Helvi Moore was trained to be a public school teacher. After teaching for eight years in Muskoka and while raising her family, she studied oil painting with Hug Olms during weekly night classes in Bracebridge. Subsequently,...
Jean Bishop came from Woodbridge where she grew up in a family of doctors. "I'm always grateful to my mother for recognizing my inclination towards drawing," Jean said. "I was not a good student in the academic sense, so Mother saw to it that I attended an art...
Mae Kennedy was born on July 2, 1922 in Shawville, Quebec. Mae's love of art was evident very early on, after drawing on her desk at school and daydreaming about what was yet to come. Mae married Thomas Alva Kennedy and together they moved to Muskoka and started a...