Curator & Collector

Corrine Hunt, co-designer of the 2010 Winter Olympics medals

Today my wife and I went back to the Aboriginal Artisans’ Village, an event held during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Today, we met the 2010 Winter Olympic medals co-designer Corrine Hunt, who was selling her jewelry at the event. This brief meeting near the closing hour was very interesting for me; previously, I had read on the Royal Canadian Mint’s webpage that each medal forms a part of a design; nevertheless, having seen the medals in person, I felt that there would be too many of them to make up the design in question. Ms. Hunt confirmed for me that the medals, if taken together, would overlap with each other (and thus, each one still bears a part of the overall design). The actual design may be seen in the background of the above photograph.

Last weekend, I waited eight and a half hours to see and touch the Olympic medals; some might think that I and the other several thousand people that day were crazy, but the experience was definitely worth it. The next post will present the gold, silver, and bronze medals that I was able to see at that time.