BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211102T1631Z-1635870698.9156-EO-23035-37@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260607T133918Z CREATED:20170216T233513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210529T091648Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20161003T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20161003T210000 SUMMARY: 2016 Mayor’s Arts Award – Dana Claxton and Carlos Colín DESCRIPTION: For having made significant contributions to creative life in the city of Vancouver Congratulations to AHVA Faculty member Dana Claxton w ho has been awarded the 2016 Mayor’s Arts Award for Visual Arts and to AHVA MFA graduate Carlos Colín who was named by Dana as an emerging artist who demonstrates the promise of the next […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

For having made significant contributions to creative life in the city of Vancouver

Congratulations to AHVA Faculty member Dana Claxton who has been awarded the 2016 Mayor’s Arts Awa rd for Visual Arts and to AHVA MFA graduate Carlos Colín who was named by D ana as an emerging artist who demonstrates the promise of the next generati on in the Visual Arts.
Twenty-four individuals\, one a rtist collective and one business are the recipients of the 2016 Mayor’s Ar ts Awards for having made significant contributions to creative life in the city of Vancouver.
The Awards will be presented in a public ceremony on Monday\, October 3\, 2016 at the Roundhouse Community Ar ts and Recreation Centre. Tickets are free but currently all booked. You ca n put your name on the waitlist for a ticket by visiting https://www.eventb rite.ca/e/the-2016-mayors-arts-awards-ceremony-tickets-27415587761.
Arts category Honourees represent a wide variety of disciplin es\, from performing and visual arts to literary and culinary arts. Honours are also awarded in the Support of the Arts categories of Volunteerism\, B usiness Support\, Philanthropy\, and Arts Board Member of the Year. A speci al Award is also issued for Lifetime Achievement.
Each Honouree in the studio and performing arts categories is invited to select an Emerging Artist in their discipline who demonstrates the promise of the next generation.
Dana Claxton works in fil m\, video\, photography\, single and multi-channel video installation and p erformance art. Her practice investigates beauty\, the body\, the socio-pol itical and the spiritual. Her work has been shown internationally at the Mu seum of Modern Art (NYC)\, Walker Art Centre\, Sundance Film Festival\, Eit eljorg Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney\, AU) and held in public collections including the Vancouver Art Gallery\, National Gallery o f Canada\, Art Bank of Canada and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. She has receive d numerous awards including the VIVA Award and the Eiteljorg Fellowship.
Carlos Colín’s research consists in investiga ting how contemporary art\, artists\, and art institutions are involved in current social movements and\, by extension\, how art contributes to social change and social activism in Latin American. As a Latin American artist\, Carlos Colín brings perspectives on the discourse of how art evolves insid e societies\, how it finds expressions\, and how art changes over time\, as well as the implications this has for Latin America.
Please follow the links below for details on the award:
https://www.allianceforarts.com/blog/2016/9/26/2016-mayors-arts-awards-re cipients-announced
https://www.straight.com/arts/79483 6/city-announces-mayors-arts-awards-giving-nod-everyone-gordon-smith-emily- molnar-georgia
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