Handcrafts & Art Show

The Women's Institute Handcrafts & Arts Show is an annual display of arts and crafts submitted from across the Province. The display is located on the upper level of the Charlottetown Civic Center during Old Home Week - August 13-21. To learn more about the Women's Institute Handcrafts & Arts Show, as well as view sample pictures from this event, make sure to visit our Old Home Week, we look forward to seeing you!

Handcraft and Arts Division of the Provincial Exhibition Handbook

2010 Premiers Craft Education Award

L-R: Deputy Premier, Hon. George Webster congratulates Joyce Rhead, Stratford, recipient of the 2010 Premiers Craft Education Award.

PEI Women’s Institute, with assistance from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Innovation and Advance Learning, was pleased to be able to present the following Special Prizes:

• Best Hand-Quilted Quilt: Diane Williams
• Best Afghan: Carol Jenkins
• Best Needlework: D. Kent Pond
• Most Points in Classes C, D, E, G and H, Handcrafts: Sylvia Andrew
• Best Hooked Rug: Nancy Taylor
• Best Golden Years: Judy Kenny
• Best Photograph:: Norma Clow
• Best Painting or Drawing: Noella Richard
• Most Points in Class N, Foods: Marilyn Sentner
• Most Points in Class R, Flowers and/or Class T, Vegetables: Nancy Gill
• Special Prizes
  • Judge’s Choice Rug (sections 1-6 and 11), donated by the Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia: Sue-Anne Jay
• Most Points in Roses, donated by the P.E.I. W.I. Alumni: Marjorie Laird

To learn more about W.I. and Quilting, click here.