“Radical Stitch,” 2022, installation view at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina (photo by Don Hall, courtesy MAG)
The Canadian Museums Association has announced the winners of the 2024 CMA Awards. This year’s list includes:
Museum Volunteer Awards – Individual Category: Doug Berrigan – Lahave Islands Marine Museum
Museum Volunteer Awards – Group Category: Aging Artfully Advisory Group, Art Gallery of Alberta
Outstanding Achievement – Audience Outreach: Standing In the Doorway: Lived Histories and Experiences of the Chinese Community, Markham Museum and York Region District School Board Museum & Archives
Outstanding Achievement – Social Impact: Wampum : perles de diplomatie, Musée McCord Stewart, developed and co-produced with the musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac in Paris.
Outstanding Achievement – Stewardship of Collections: Kinngait Archive, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Outstanding Achievement – Research (three winners)
- Making Her Mark, Art Gallery of Ontario
- Early Days: Indigenous Art from the McMichael, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
- Points of View: A Guide on Saskatchewan Projectile Points with Indigenous Perspectives, Saskatchewan Archaeological Society
Outstanding Achievement – Exhibitions (three winners)
- Misko-Aki: Confluences of Cultures exhibition, Muskoka Discovery Centre
- To Honour and Respect, Peterborough Museum and Archives
- Radical Stitch, MacKenzie Art Gallery
Award of Distinguished Service (two winners)
- Jisgang Nika Collison
- Stephane Le Tirant
Source: Canadian Museums Association
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