Arts council winners walk the walk
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A 96-year-old retired radiologist whose walkathon in 2020 raised $123,000 for the city’s performing arts groups was one of five winners of Winnipeg Arts Council awards announced Thursday.
The council has given its Arts Champion Award to Douglas MacEwan, whose 96-day walk led to an anonymous sponsor offering $500 to a charity for every kilometre he walked until his 96th birthday on Nov. 11, 2020, plus $500 for every day he found folks to walk with him.
Author Tasha Spillett-Sumner, whose 2019 graphic novel Surviving the City, vol. 1 tells the story of two Indigenous teens and the challenges they face growing up in the city, won the council’s RBC On the Rise Award.
Divya Mehra, a multimedia artist whose first solo exhibition, The funny things You do, opened at the Night Gallery in Los Angeles in February, won the council’s Making a Mark Award.
The Making a Difference Award went to television producer Lisa Meeches, who owns the company Eagle Vision, which has been part of major film and television projects in Manitoba.
Landscape architect Heather Cram won the Outstanding Volunteer Award; in addition to her many projects in Winnipeg and Manitoba, she also chaired the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Mayor’s Task Force for Public Art, the Manitoba/Winnipeg Fort Rouge Community Revitalization program and has served as a member of boards such as the Women’s Enterprise Centre, FortWhyte Alive and the Winnipeg Arts Council.
