Sarah Quinton, the curatorial director emeritus of the Textile Museum of Canada, has won a Distinguished Career Award from the Ontario Museum Association.
Quinton, who started work at the Toronto museum in 1994, has curated more than 30 exhibitions, often challenging the divisions placed between art, design and craft.
As well, the Canadian Clay and Glass Museum in Waterloo won an honourable mention in the Exhibition category for its exhibition, Disruption, which featured four BIPOC female ceramics artists who disrupt dominant art historical narratives. The top award in that category went to the Oil Museum of Canada in Oil Springs, a village near Sarnia, for its exhibition and building renewal project.
The Awards of Excellence were handed out Monday at the Art Gallery of Hamilton as part of the association's 50th annual conference. The winners will be featured in a social media campaign starting today.
A Promising Leadership award went to Nahed Mansour, senior manager of gallery engagement at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and an honourable mention was given to Madeline Smolarz, the office, operations and financial manager at Oakville Galleries.
The Volunteer Service award went to John Caldwell, who has helped out at the Lang Pioneer Village Museum near Peterborough. The Publications award was given to the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum for Making Her Mark: The Women of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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Source: Ontario Museum Association