Alberta names finalists for $50,000 arts awards
25.08.2008 21:01
Arts
- Source: cbc.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts has created a new award for visual artists and boosted prize money for its annual awards for literature and the performing arts. The Visual Arts Award, Grant MacEwan Literary Award and Tommy Banks Performing Arts Awards each have a top prize of $50,000. Nominees for the awards were announced last week in Edmonton. Nominated for the visual arts award are: - Sandra Vida of Calgary, a visual and installation artist, filmmaker and arts administrator.
- Ron Moppet of Calgary, an artist, teacher and curator who is director of the art gallery at Alberta College of Art and Design.
- Alex Janvier, of Cold Lake, Alta., a Dene painter and educator known for his modern abstract take on aboriginal imagery. He won the Governor General's Award earlier this year.
Nominated for the Tommy Banks Performing Arts Award are: - Vicki Adams-Willis of Calgary, a dancer, choreographer, and educator who founded Decided Jazz Danceworks.
- Stewart Lemoine of Edmonton, a playwright, director and producer for Teatro la Quindicina, who wrote plays such as The Glittering Heart and The Zenith of Empire.
- Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Nominated for the Grant MacEwan Literary Arts Award are: - Christopher Wiseman of Calgary, a poet and educator, whose poetry collections include The Upper Hand and Crossing the Salt Flats. He has twice won the Alberta poetry prize.
- Sid Marty of Lundbreck, Alta., a poet and literary non-fiction writer who writes about cowboys, ranchers and rangers in books such as Leaning on the Wind and Sky Humour.
- Laurie Greenwood of Edmonton, who shares her love of reading on CBC Radio and is former owner of Volume II bookstore.
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