2024 NBCCD Fellow
Bernard is the founding Executive Director of Craft Alliance Atlantic Association. He was instrumental in the strategic development of the organization in 2009, after two years of research and consultation. Craft Alliance Atlantic is a non-profit trade association operating under a private-public partnership structure. Bernard has been working in craft, in a pan-Atlantic capacity since 2000.
Bernard has been involved in the Canadian craft industry now for the past 38 years and has been involved in many aspects of the sector including: craft producer, retailer, administrator, collector and volunteer. He has done extensive research in the areas of art licensing and craft experiential tourism, and has organized dozens of educational missions to many industry events like Surtex Licensing, SOFA Chicago, Collect UK, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Wanted Design and others.
NBCCD Fellow Recipients
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2023 - 2014 2023 Andrew Kierstead 2023 Joe Arbeau 2022
Honourable Brenda Murphy
2021
Marilyn Luscombe & Ellen Woolaver
2020
Linda Kelly
2019
Brigitte Clavette
2018
Harriet Taylor
2017
Peter Gross
2017
Karen Burk
2017
Jane Geurts
2016
Kathryn McCarroll
2015
Linda Mayhew
2015
Paul Simmonds
2014
Peter Larocque
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2013 - 2004 2012
Anne Reynolds
2011
Trudy Gallagher
2009
Dave Seabrook
2009
Ralph Kirkbride
2008
Gwen Bear
2008
Steve Goudey
2007
Gallery Connexion
2007
Inge Pataki
2007
Ingrid Mueller
2006
Sue Lawrence
2006
Honourable Margaret McCain
2005
Brian Atkinson
2005
Rick Burns
2005
Marie Maltais
2004
Bernard Riordon
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2003 - 1994 2003
Luc Paulin
2003
Senator Marilyn Trenholme-Counsell
2003
Mathius Oustermann
2002
Peter Thomas
2001
Dale Brooks
2000
Amin Kalaf
2000
Monte Lewis
1999
Peter Salmon
1998
Peter Powning
1998
Christina Sabat
1997
Freeman Patterson
1997
Brigid Toole-Grant
1996
John Thompson and John Little
1996
Susan Vida Judah
1995
Charlotte Glencross
1995
Sheila Mckay Dick
1994
Colleen Gilmore
1994
Rolande and Fernande Gervais
1994
Roderick Stears
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1993 - 1988 1993
George Fry
1992
Robert Doyle
1992
Shirley Bear Clair
1992
Anne Fawcett
1991
Nel Oudemans
1991
Barbara Smith
1991
Gertrude Duffie
1990
Molly Lamb Bobak
1990
Alan Kowalski
1990
Jeannine Dugas
1989
Marilyn Brooks
1989
Helen Frances Gregor
1989
Erica Deichman Gregg
1988
Allan Crimmins
1988
Dr Ivan Crowell
1988
Lois Etherington Betteridge