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Longtime Winnipeg artists up for awards

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 05/28/2011 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

Stubbs: Making a Mark nomination

Two senior Winnipeg artists who had recent career-retrospective shows at the Winnipeg Art Gallery are up for 2011 Winnipeg Arts Council Awards.

Sculptor Eva Stubbs, who is in her mid-80s and still creating, is nominated for the Making a Mark award. Prolific painter Wanda Koop, who founded the Art City community art centre, is nominated as an Arts Champion.

The awards will be presented at the fifth annual Mayor's Luncheon for the Arts, Thursday at the Fairmont Winnipeg.

Besides Stubbs, the contenders for the $2,500 Making a Mark award, which goes to an established artist, are theatre/opera director Ann Hodges, filmmaker Danishka Esterhazy, jazz bandleader/historian Owen Clark, 5468796 Architecture, Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers' artistic director Brent Lott, media artist Clint Enns and musician/concert programmer John Racaru.

Nominees for the $2,500 Making a Difference award, celebrating the contribution of an artist or administrator to the growth and development of the arts locally, are longtime Manitoba Theatre Centre general manager Zaz Bajon, performance-art duo Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art founder Diane Whitehouse, francophone writer J. Roger Léveillé, poet/editor Maurice Mierau and WAG staff photographer Ernest Mayer.

Besides Koop, the nominees for Arts Champion, which honours an individual or business for sustained support of the arts, are Great-West Life and Investors Group (nominated as sister companies), Robert and Angela Ross and Bonnie and John Buhler.

Nominees for the $2,500 On the Rise award recognizing an emerging professional artist are visual artist Kristin Nelson, filmmaker Adam Smoluk, fashion designer Andrew Lennard Taylor Bickford, jazz vocalist Amber Epp, dance/performance artist Ming Hon, multimedia artist Caroline Monnet, visual artist Benjamin Clarkson, performance artist Michael Dudeck, dancer Arlo Baskier-Nabess, multimedia artist Andrew Milne, cellist Caroline Nicolas, singer/visual artist Demetra Penner and painter/printmaker Miriam Rudolph.

Jean Giguère, former president and longtime member of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet board, will receive a special Making a Difference award for outstanding volunteer. In future years, nominations will be accepted for this award.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 28, 2011 G7

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