Canadian Art won gold last night at the Digital Publishing Awards.
At an event for the Digital Publishing Awards last night in Toronto, Canadian Art was awarded a gold medal for General Excellence in Digital Publishing: Small Publications.
“The originality and the creativity of the article subjects is striking,” said the Digital Publishing Award jury. “Making a magazine that’s both dense and approachable is what every editor hopes to achieve, and Canadian Art has succeeded where a lot of us fall short.”
Canadian Art was first nominated for the prize on April 25, alongside publications Hakai Magazine, LiisBeth, National Observer, Toronto Life and YMC: Motherhood Unfiltered.
Canadian Art was also nominated at the Digital Publishing Awards in the Best Blog or Online-Only Column category. This nomination honoured the work of Richard William Hill, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, and his series of online columns about Indigenous art of the 1980s and 1990s. Hill’s columns are compiled here. Other nominees in this category include CBC News, VICE Canada, the Huffington Post and Policy Options, among others.
Produced by the National Media Awards Foundation, the Digital Publishing Awards promote and reward the achievements of those who create digital publishing content in Canada—writers and editors, designers and developers, video and podcast producers, photographers and illustrators and many others. The DPA program recognizes, celebrates and promotes to a national audience the innovative publishing teams that produce digital content in Canadian media. The program is guided by a steering committee composed of industry leaders.
