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Alice Sharpe

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Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (Diploma 1930)


Alice Sharpe graduated with a Diploma in Design and Decorative Arts from the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts in 1930, the school's second graduating class. She was living at 1975 West 16th Avenue with her family. Her father Adam M. Sharpe was Manager for the BC Box company, Doris Sharpe was listed as a student at that address.

The 1930 issue of The Paint Box, the student annual of the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, noted on page 33: "ALICE SHARPE: - The business world for Al, too. She's making lampshades in the Parakontas Studios."

She exhibited artwork in the First Annual exhibition of the Vancouver School of Art Graduates Association at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1933.

BC Vital Statistics did not provide any information on Sharpe as of January 11 2024.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1933 May 3 - 18 VAG   VSAGA 1st Annual Exhibition Logging (Lino Cut)

References

VSDAA / VSA - List of Students and Graduates 1925 - 1950

Pass List - Session 1929-30
   Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts PROSPECTUS for 1930-31.

Clippings

"Winners of scholarships were: ... First year students: Vancouver Exhibition Association, $50, Miss Madge Farmer, Miss Ruby Cook, $25; B.C. Society of Fine Arts, $25, Miss Alice Sharpe."

"First year students - Trades and Labor Council, for design, $10, Miss Betty Weston; Clarke & Stuart, general proficiency, Miss Rowena Gross; Palette and Chisel Club, for modelling, $10, Miss Alice Sharpe."
      From "Prizes Presented to Art Students"
      unknown newspaper, June 1927

"The office of general convener was vested in the President, and, under the direction of Alice Sharpe, banners, tapestries, armor and heraldic devices were fashioned by the students and transformed the room into a baronial hall. ... "
      From "Students’ Club Report - the Beaux-Arts Ball" by Margaret A. Williams
      The Paintbox Volume 4, June 1929


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