Jim Lorriman

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• 2009 NICHE Award finalist - Woodturning
• Working with Arnold DeGraaff to produce the highly successful Dufferin & Area Arts & Culture Guide for 2008 & 2009.
• Chair of the 7th Annual Made of Wood Show at the Burdette Gallery, April 19 to May 11, 2008.
• Juried into the “Craft Convergence” show at the Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, December 7, 2007 to January 27, 2008. Received a design award for my lilac stick bowl titled “The Ayes Have It!”.
• Juried into the “Ontario Craft ‘07” show at the Ontario Crafts Council Gallery, Toronto, November 15 to December 31, 2007
• Working with the Dufferin County Museum & Archives to mount a major Made of Wood Show for September, 2009
• Juried into the Headwaters Arts Festival Art Show – My Passion, My Art, September 22 – 30, 2007
• In June, 2007, Past U.S. President Bill Clinton purchased one of my pieces at the Guild Shop in Toronto
• Invited to participate in Trunk: Natural Selection show at the Guild Shop, for the month of June, 2007
• Two pieces juried into the Dufferin Arts Council show; Fresh Art, Fresh Air and Free Parking, March 4 to April 22, 2007

Past recognition and participation includes:

• Participation in the Annual Invitational Wood Show at the Guild Shop,    2001 - 2005.
• Participation in the Annual Made of Wood Show, 2002 - 2008
• Participation in the Ojibway Club Art Show, August 8 through 10, 1999 -    2008.
• Participation in the Headwaters Studio Tour, 1991 - 2007
• My work was accepted for the 2000 - 2007 Festival Art Show and Sale    which is the marquis event of the Headwaters Arts Festival in the Hills.
• Two pieces were juried into the Disappearing Landscapes – environmental    art exhibition & sale, SGI Canada’s Caledon Centre for Cultural and

Education in Alton, October 4 – 7, 2002

• Participation in the Turning on Furnishings 2000 exhibition in Toronto,    spring, 2000.
• Participation in the Inns and Arts Show at the Millcroft Inn, Alton, spring,    2000 - 2002
• A request to use my pieces in a show called “Anything I Can Do” on WTN    shown in the fall of 2001
• My work was accepted for the Spring Rush Show at the Etobicoke Civic    Centre Art Gallery, March 3 to April 4, 2002, by the Dufferin Arts Council.

Relevant life history

• Founder of the Headwaters Arts Festival
• Helped found the “North of 89” studio group
• Member of the Headwaters Studios
• Helped produce the 2008 Dufferin & Area Arts & Culture Guide which was    released March 27, 2008
• Co-founder of the Made of Wood Show
• Self-published an eBook on making stick bowls in 2002
• The previous 6 years working full-time as a turner but not making any    money, founded the Headwaters Arts Festival in the Hills in 1995, sat on    the Headwaters Country Tourism Association board.
• I spent 3 years as a part-time turner while running a die-cut puzzle    operation.
• From the mid 80’s to the early 90’s I had a hiatus from woodworking while    I got my allergies sorted out, worked on developing Tapestry Maps with    artist John Haines, sat on the board of the Georgian Triangle Economic    Development Corporation for 8 years and was chair for two years.
• From the early 70’s to the mid 80’s I had a cabinet making shop with    several employees, owned a restaurant for a time, got married and had    two lovely daughters and developed serious allergies to wood dust.
• I am a lifetime member of the Ontario Crafts Council.
• I received a degree in history and a minor in mathematics from Laurentian    University in 1973.

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