Artists, arts workers and arts organizations are being asked to complete a survey about the impact of COVID-19 by Nov. 23. Thirty national and provincial arts service organizations representing various artistic disciplines are commissioning the survey, which asks about work, finances and future plans. It's aimed at helping to develop long-term policies to assist the arts sector.
The National Gallery of Canada Foundation has appointed Barbara Stead-Coyle as its chief executive officer. Stead-Coyle has 15 years of executive experience in the non-profit healthcare sector, most recently as CEO of Muscular Dystrophy Canada. The foundation is a registered charity that raises funds and manages an endowment for the National Gallery of Canada.
Doug Levis, owner of Levis Fine Art Auctions in Calgary, will retire at the end of June, leaving his business partners, Cheryl Sonley and Andrea Lowe, in charge of auctions, art storage and appraisals. Levis started the business in 1992.
One of North America’s most influential experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Rumman Chowdhury, will give a free virtual lecture at 7 p.m. CST on Nov. 19 via the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Canada’s privacy commissioner recently issued recommendations to regulate AI to protect privacy and human rights as Internet data increasingly drives the global technology economy. Chowdhury is a Bengali-American data scientist and social scientist.
The Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto is launching a new catalogue, Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios. The catalogue, for an exhibition that opened at the museum last December, tells the story of a group of Inuit artists and print makers who produced bold graphic textiles in Kinngait, Nunavut, in the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition is slated to tour the country in 2021.
Indigenous artists say a Saskatoon businesswoman, Heather Abbey, who recently won $21,500 on Wheel of Fortune, should repay them thousands of dollars owed from a failed trade mission to Tokyo last year, CBC News reports. That would be on top of the $62,000 of public money she is slowly repaying Creative Saskatchewan, a provincial arts agency
Sources: National Gallery of Canada Foundation, Levis Fine Art Auctions, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Textile Museum of Canada, CBC News