The Ethel Raicus Award


This cash award will be given each year to a student at Central Technical School in Toronto. The work will be presented at the OSA's annual Open Juried Exhibition, and the prize will be presented at the School's commencement. The School will also purchase the winning work each year for its own gallery.

This year's winner is grade 12 student.Chang-Hoon Baek. His winning watercolour is shown here.



Ethel Raicus

Ethel Raicus was a graduate in commercial arts from Central Technical School, where she was awarded a scholarship, and went on to graduate from the Ontario College of Art in Industrial Design. She had a career as a commercial artist, industrial designer and art instructor.

She was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, and exhibited with both groups, as well as with a number of commercial galleries in Toronto.

Later in life she also became a noted writer and translator.