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Sobey Art Award: Sobey Art Foundation: For young Canadian artists Strathbutler Award: Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation: For a New Brunswick visual artist. The Marketer Art Competition: The Marketer Magazine: For a Canadian visual artist Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award: Canada Council: Canadian artists judged to be outstanding in their mid ...
Established in 2012, the Art Canada Institute is a non-governmental initiative spearheaded by Founder and Executive Director Sara Angel, C.M.. [2] A Trudeau Scholar and arts journalist with a background in publishing, Angel intended to address what she viewed as an absence of accessible and inclusive material on Canadian visual culture through the creation of the ACI, which has been described ...
Jean Paul Lemieux received several awards for his works, including the Louis-Philippe Hébert prize in 1971 and the Molson Prize for the Canada Council for the Arts in 1974. In 1968, he became a Companion of the Order of Canada. He was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy.
Houle's considerable influence as an artist, curator, teacher and writer have led to his being awarded the Janet Braide Memorial Award for Excellence in Canadian art History in 2003; the 2001 Toronto Arts award for the Visual Arts; the Eiteljorg Fellowship in 2003 and in 2006. In 2015 he was awarded the Governor General's Award for Visual Arts. [8]
Lists of art awards cover some of the notable awards presented for art, some for a specific form or genre, some for artists from one country or region, some more general. The lists are organized by the region of the body issuing the award, although the awards may not be restricted to artists in that region.
Walter Seymour Allward CMG RCA (18 November 1874 [1] – 24 April 1955) was a Canadian monumental sculptor best known for the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.Featuring expressive classical figures within modern compositions, Allward's monuments evoke themes of memory, sacrifice, and redemption. [1]
Bertram Richard Brooker (March 31, 1888 – March 21, 1955) [1] was a Canadian abstract painter. [2] A self-taught polymath (the first in Canadian art), [3] in addition to being a visual artist, Brooker was a Governor General's Award-winning novelist, as well as a poet, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, copywriter, graphic designer, and advertising executive. [4]
Larry Towell (born 1953) is a Canadian photographer, poet, and oral historian.Towell is known for his photographs of sites of political conflict in Ukraine, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Standing Rock and Afghanistan, among others.