Recipient to be announced in May 2009
Jump to full article: Canada Newswire (CNW) (ca), 2009-04-23
Author: IMPERIAL TOBACCO CANADA FOUNDATION
Intro: The Imperial Tobacco Canada Foundation
today announced the six nominees for its inaugural Arts Achievement Award, an
honour established by the Foundation in November 2008 to recognize sustained
artistic excellence and innovative achievement. The winner of the award will
receive a $75,000 prize.
"We are very impressed and extremely pleased with the high calibre of the
nominations for our first Arts Achievement Award, as they provide an
outstanding array of the vital organizations that play such an important role
in the artistic fabric of our country," said Benjamin Kemball, president and
CEO of Imperial Tobacco Canada and chair of the Foundation's Board of
Directors. "These associations have already contributed significantly both in
Canada and abroad, and are in the vanguard of the visual arts and media world.
We salute our nominators who did an exemplary job on our behalf."
The 2009 nominated organizations in the areas of visual arts, new media
arts and architecture are:
Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal . . .
Centre for Aboriginal Media and imagineNATIVE Annual Film +Media Arts
Festival, Toronto . . .
Images Festival, Toronto . . .
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg
. . .
Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG), Lethbridge, Alberta . . .
Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
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