Village Squire, 1979-12, Page 18Ars
Polly Bohdanetzky's brass jewellery such as the pieces in the background has been bringing her more
and more attention across the province.
The art
of jewel/ery
Polly Bohdanetzky
uses her artistic skills
to turn brass
into beautiful jewellery
14 Village Squire, December 1979
Polly Bohdanetzky is another example of the kind of people
that theatre brought to Stratford and who has stayed to make her
own contribution.
She came to Stratford for a summer job while studying at
Toronto's Ontario College of Art and she's been there off and on
ever since. Today her connection with the Stratford Festival is
still intact but more and more she's becoming known for her own
artistry: the making of distinct jewellery from brass.
Her work is getting more attention than ever before because of
its connection with the highly -publicized King Tutankhamen
exhibition currently drawing hundreds of thousands to the Art
Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Ms. Bohdanetzky's brass
reproductions of Egyptian jewellery are on sale in the art
gallery's jewellery shop and are proving popular in the King Tut
craze that has hit Ontario.
Much of the road she has taken has come not by planning but
by taking advantage of circumstances as they develop. As a
young art student from Hamilton she was influenced by a friend
who was taking a summer job at the Festival. She decided to give
it a try too and so arrived at the Festival in 1958. She had the
good fortune to get to work as an assistant to Tanya Moiseiwitsch
and Desmond Heeley, two of the top designers at Stratford.