Yukon visual artists can apply for a new privately funded $20,000 prize.
The Yukon Prize for Visual Arts will recognize excellence by Yukon visual artists and help promote their art across Canada.
The prize is open to artists working in any medium who have lived in the Yukon for at least two years.
The prize's co-founders and sponsors are Whitehorse residents Julie Jai and David Trick. They are establishing the prize in partnership with the Yukon Arts Foundation and the Yukon Arts Centre.
The jury is composed of Candice Hopkins, an Ottawa-based independent curator and member of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation; Ryan Doherty, chief curator of Contemporary Calgary; and Gaëtane Verna, director of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto.
The jury will choose six finalists in June and announce a winner the following September.
Finalists will be included in a group exhibition at the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery in Whitehorse from September to November 2021.
Applications open Jan. 1 and close March 31.
For more information go to www.yukonprize.ca.
Source: Yukon Prize