Filmmaker Caroline Monnet is among the recipients of the REVEAL Indigneous Art Awards. Photo: Éric Cinq-Mars.
It’s a set of awards quite unlike any seen before in Canada, both in scale and scope.
The winners of the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards have been announced, with 150 artists each receiving $10,000—for a total of $1.5 million in cash awards disbursed. The aim of this one-time-only REVEAL prize? To “fuel Indigenous arts practice for the next 150 years,” says the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Practitioners in a wide range of art forms are being honoured, including visual artists, media artists, craftspeople, musicians, writers, storytellers, dancers and actors.
Of the 150 artists selected to receive an award, 11 are from the North, 40 are from BC, 26 are from the Prairies, 50 are from Ontario, 18 are from Quebec and five are from the Atlantic region.
Among the visual artists who are receiving the prize are Shuvinai Ashoona, Meryl McMaster, Shelley Niro, Ruth Cuthand, Kent Monkman and Christi Belcourt. Writers include Tomson Highway, Eden Robinson and Drew Hayden Taylor. Musicians include Tanya Tagaq and Bear Witness. Filmmaker Caroline Monnet and theatre practitioner Tara Beagan are also among those being honoured, as is Canadian Art Indigenous editor-at-large Lindsay Nixon.
The laureates have been invited to receive their awards on May 22 during a ceremony in Winnipeg that includes National Chief Perry Bellegarde, Mayor of Winnipeg Brian Bowman and Canada Council CEO Simon Brault as speakers.
Laureates were selected by a national jury of peers led by Victoria Henry, chair of the Hnatyshyn Foundation.
Here, in alphabetical order, is the complete list of REVEAL Indigenous Art Award winners:
Nathan Adler
Susan Aglukark
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
cherrish alexander
Eugene Alfred
Donald Amero
Judy Anderson
Dallas Arcand
Joanne Arnott
Shuvinai Ashoona
Joe Jaw Ashoona
Morgan Asoyuf
Sonny Assu
Kristen Auger
Kenny Alvin Baird
Mary Anne Barkhouse
Tara Beagan
Christi Belcourt
Michael Belmore
Jordan Bennett
Lori Blondeau
Sid Bobb
Ludovic Boney
Rita Bouvier
Raes Calvert
Nicole Camphaug
Celeigh Cardinal
Cliff Cardinal
Liz Carter
Christian Chapman
David Charette
Christa Couture
Francine Cunningham
Thirza Cuthand
Ruth Cuthand
Beatrice Deer
Treffrey Deerfoot
Cris Derksen
Todd DeVries
Cherie Dimaline
Wally Dion
Jaime Drew(Black)
Jason Eaglespeaker
Jaalen Edenshaw
Deantha Edmunds-Ramsay
Melissa General
Tara Gereaux
Dorothy Grant
Phil Gray
Margaret Grenier
Shannon Gustafson
Louise Bernice Halfe
David Hannan
Ya’Ya Heit
Tomson Highway
Jack Horne
Tasha Hubbard
Shawn Hunt
Jason Hunt
Mark Igloliorte
Geronimo Inutiq
Ursula Johnson
Alanis King
Helen Knott
Frances Koncan
Cheyanna Kootenhayoo
Taran Kootenhayoo
Jeanette Kotowich
Michael Kusugak
George Littlechild
Mary Longman
Kevin Loring
Ernie Louttit
Amy Malbeuf
Jeremiah Manitopyes
Doreen Manuel
Rebecca Maracle
Candace Maracle
Tishna Marlowe
Jean Marshall
Gail Maurice
Lindsay McIntyre
Melody McKiver
Jessica McMann
Meryl McMaster
Mary McPherson
Meghan Meisters
Monique Mojica
Kent Monkman
Caroline Monnet
Courtney Montour
Calvin Morberg
Starr Muranko
Nadia Myre
Darlene Naponse
David Neel
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Shelley Niro
Lindsay Nixon
Mike Patten
Bertha Paull
Grant Pauls
Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui
Raven Kanatakta Polson-Lahache
Louise Profeit-LeBlanc
PJ Prudat
Andrew Qappik
Skeena Reece
Amanda Rheaume
Eden Robinson
Kathia Rock
Robin Rorick
Isabella Rose Rowan-Weetaluktuk
Amanda Roy
Armand Garnet Ruffo
john sabourin
Nicotye Samayualie
Troy Sebastian
Frank Shebageget
Kristi Sinclair
Yves Sioui Durand
doug smarch jr
Santee Smith
brian solomon
Debra Sparrow
Kali Spitzer
Adrian Stimson
Amanda Strong
Leonard Sumner
Alan Syliboy
Tanya Tagaq
Drew Hayden Taylor
Jeff Thomas
ehren thomas
Joseph Tisiga
Janice Toulouse
Richard Van Camp
Lavinia Van Heuvelen
Katherena Vermette
Niki (Nicole) Watts
Karen Lee White
Roxann Karonhiarokwas Whitebean
Keith Whiteduck
Joshua Williams
Stan Williams
Jennifer Williams
Tara Williamson
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
Keith Wolfe-Smarch
This article was corrected on April 17, 2017. The original copy referred to five of the winning artists as being from “the Maritimes”—a term that does not include Newfoundland and Labrador. This has been corrected to “the Atlantic region,” a term which does include Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI.
