Background
She was born in Prague in Czechosolvakia, the daughter of Fred and Lily Lorenz.
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Helen Gregor
Edit Profileartist governor of Rotary International
Education
She studied art at Newark Technical College, Birmingham College of Art, and at the Royal College of Art"s School of Design in London. She also studied at the American School of Craftsmen in Rochester, New New York
Career
She was considering a career in theatrical design, but moved with her family to England in 1940 to escape the Second World War. She exhibited at the Czechoslovak Club, and at Liberty in London. He served in a Czechoslovakian battalion with British Army in the Second World War.
They had two children.
Her husband became an executive director of the Canadian Soft Drinks Association, and was a district governor of Rotary International, and its treasurer in 1981-1982 and director in 1980-1982, and a trustee of the Rotary Foundation from 1986 to 1989. She worked in textile art, creating tapestries, and challenged the distinction between fine art and applied art
She exhibited at the Triennial of Tapestry in Łódź twice. The Ontario Crafts Council established the Helen Frances Gregor scholarship in her honour.
Her book The fabric of my life: reflections of Helen Frances Gregor was published in 1987.
Gregor died of a heart attack in Seoul, South of Korea. Her husband died in 2008.
Achievements
Membership
She was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, the Ontario Society of Artists, and the Ontario Crafts Council.
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Nationality
Czechoslovakia
Education
Awards
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Order of Canada; Mather Award
The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.