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Shelley Niro Wins $30,000 Career Achievement Award
The Mohawk artist receives the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award, bestowed annually by the Ontario Arts Foundation
News Roundup: Vancouver Art Gallery Receives $1.5 Million Gift for New Building
Plus: Canadians sign on to Artists4Bernie, there’s conflict over public art in Calgary, a new Inuit art resource launches, and more
More Than 240 Films on Art from 39 Countries to Screen at Quebec Festival
The International Festival of Films on Art includes a focus on Iranian artists this year
News Roundup: Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize Results Announced
The prize offers BC artists early-career recognition. Also: a lawyer advocates for a national Black arts policy, two prominent dealers partner up and the AGO collaborates with the Biennale of Sydney
Eight Artists Win Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts
Each receives $25,000 and will have their works go on view this summer at the Art Gallery of Alberta
Canadian Artist Fee Standards Include 2% Annual Increases to 2023
The new CARFAC-RAAV Minimum Recommended Fee Schedule came into effect January 1, 2020. It’s the first major overhaul of artist-fee guidelines since 2007
Indigenous Artists Make 68 Cents for Every Dollar Non-Indigenous Artists Make: Report
A new report called Demographic Diversity of Artists in Canada in 2016 is based on census data—and it shows substantial inequities in the national arts field
26 Artists Announced for Next Contemporary Native Art Biennial
Curated by David Garneau with the assistance of Rudi Aker and Faye Mullen, the preliminary list includes Judy Anderson, Jon Corbett and Wally Dion, among others
Former Remai Modern CEO Removed from Human Rights Investigation
Saskatchewan judge rules that inordinate delay in process, and prejudice suffered by former CEO as a result, is sufficient to grant a stay of proceedings against him
Ken Lum Wins $50,000 Gershon Iskowitz Prize
Lum also to have a related exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2021