Olivia Whetung awarded 2020 OAC’s Emerging Artist Laureate Award

Olivia Whetung is the recipient of the 2020 Ontario Arts Council’s Emerging Artist Laureate Award. OAC’s Aboriginal Arts Awards recognize the achievements of rising Indigenous artists and artistic leaders who have contributed to the arts in Ontario, with the Emerging Artist Laureate honoring emerging arts leadership. Click here for the full press release from the Ontario Arts Council.

Whetung’s work Strata, 2018 is included in ICI’s traveling exhibition Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts is a traveling exhibition curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, and organized by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Canada and Independent Curators International (ICI). The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with the generous support from ICIs International Forum and the ICI Board of Trustees. Additional support has been provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts New Chapter Program, the Isabel and Alfred Bader Fund of Bader Philanthropies, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Kingston Arts Fund through the Kingston Arts Council, and the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund at Queens University.

July 1, 2020- - July 1, 2020 @ Ontario Arts Council

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