Meyer Family Vineyard - Paying Tribute
The Tribute Series is a dedication to a Canadian for an outstanding achievement in their field. Each year, the Meyer Family will donate $5,000 toward a non-for profit foundation, endowment or scholarship as a way of encouraging or honoring the legacies of these Canadians.
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Steve Yzerman
This year we pay tribute to Steve Yzerman, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, three time Stanley Cup winner, Olympic Gold medalist, the longest serving Captain in major league sports history and the Executive Director of Canada’s National Men’s Hockey Team for the 2010 Olympic Winter games.
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Steve has directed the donation of $5000 from Meyer Family vineyards to the Cranbrook Minor Hockey league where he got his start to support “Cranbrook Minor Hockey Association Let a Kid Play Fund”. Like our Tribute Series Chardonnay, Steve exemplifies the very spirit of excellence.
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Bill Reid
The 2007 Tribute honours Bill Reid for his extraordinary contribution in restoring much of the dynamic power, magic and possibility to Haida art. In his honour, the Meyer Family will donate $5,000 to the Bill Reid Foundation established in 1999 after his death to preserve his art and perpetuate his legacies.
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Biography
"Art can never be understood but can only be seen as a kind of magic, the most profound and mysterious of all human activities. Within that magic, one of the deepest mysteries is the art of the Northwest Coast."
Bill Reid 1981 Goldsmith, sculptor, and author, Bill Reid (1920-1998) was born of a Haida mother of the Wolf clan of the Raven moiety of Tanu and a Scottish-German North American father. Regarded as one of Canada's most influential artists of the 20th century, he embraced many art forms over his fifty-year-long career (1948-1998). Two powerful artistic traditions flourished in Bill Reid's work: that of the Haida and that of his Euro-Canadian heritage.
It is this harmonious fusion of the two worlds, traditional Haida artistic conventions with those of Western modernism that created his own unique style and the expansion of boundries that, in the process, restored much of the dynamic power, magic, and possibility to Haida art.
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Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
The 2006 vintage paid tribute to Emily Carr, one of the greatest western Canadian artists and as such, commemorated the launch of our first vintage in February of 2008 at a reception at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. The reception showcased 15 finalists of the Meyer Family Vineyard painting competition.
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Over 80 submissions were received and $5000 cash awards were dispersed to five deserving, emerging artists who were selected by a distinguished jury.
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The works submitted for the competition were shown during a special exhibition at Emily Carr Gallery from February 12-16, 2008. The top three entries shared in a prize of $5000 which was announced in mid February 2008.
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The Finalists are:
1st Prize $2500 Nayeob Kim
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2nd Prize $1000 Jay Gazley
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Honourable Mentions:
Chun Hua Catherine Dong $500
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Chad Durnford $500
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