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Here are the nominees for the Critical Eye Award category of our 9th Annual EVA Awards! The Emerging Artist Award is sponsored by Emma Butler Gallery.
Mireille Eagan
Mireille Eagan is a curator, art historian, and art critic whose work focuses on the Atlantic Provinces. As Curator at The Rooms in St. John’s, NL, Eagan developed the Elbow Room Residency Program, which promotes and mentors emerging artists in NL. She is also co-curator of the nationally touring retrospective Mary Pratt, and wrote an essay for the accompanying catalogue. From 2008-2010, Eagan was curator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, PEI, where she was a founding member of Prince Edward Island’s artist-run collective This Town Is Small, Inc. Eagan has worked with a variety of Atlantic arts organizations over the past decade, including the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Gallery Connexion and Struts Artist-Run Centre. She was the arts columnist for The Daily Gleaner in Fredericton, NB, and has published extensively in catalogues for private and public galleries, as well as numerous reviews for national magazines and periodicals such as C Magazine, Visual Arts News, Riddle Fence, and the Telegraph Journal. Recent projects include co-curation of the Terra Nova Art Foundation’s collateral project at the 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled About Turn: Newfoundland in Venice, Will Gill and Peter Wilkins. The accompanying curatorial essay was published in the official Biennale publication. Eagan has a Masters in Art History from Concordia University.
Darren Hynes
Darren Hynes was born in St. John’s and grew up in Labrador. He earned his BA and MA at Memorial and his PhD at Western University. As well as teaching with both the History and Philosophy departments at Memorial, he helped found the union for contractual workers at the university, volunteered with the food bank on campus and at the Bascilica, where he presented the children’s liturgy, and also worked at Georgetown Bakery, a particular pleasure for him as it allowed him to practice his French.
Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore has written two collections of short stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open, and three novels, Alligator, February and Caught. She has edited The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Short Fiction by Women, and co-edited (along with Dede Crane) Great Expectations: 24 True Stories about Birth by Canadian Authors. She has recently adapted February for the stage.
Lisa has written for Chatelaine, Elle Magazine, The Walrus and the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Guardian, Azure Magazine, the National Post and Canadian Art.
She has taught at the University of British Columbia’s online Master Program in Creative Writing, and at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Lisa lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Here are the nominees for the Kippy Goins Award category of our 9th Annual EVA Awards! The Emerging Artist Award is sponsored by Perfect Day
Eastern Edge Gallery
Eastern Edge Gallery is a non-profit artist-run centre overlooking the harbour in the heart of St. John’s. The centre was created in 1984 by a movement of Canadian artists who decided to take charge of the way their art was presented. From installation to performance-based works, this gallery is the place to see something new, experimental and different. Eastern Edge does not sell art rather present art experiences that challenge, re-imagine, and celebrate contemporary art today. Eastern Edge is also a place where artists meet, support one another, and develop new skills. strengthening our artistic community on a social level. Each year the centre presents 7 main gallery exhibitions from local, national, and international artists, over 40 educational and social events, local artists in the Rogue Gallery, and the city’s only art festival, the annual Art Marathon (this year number fifteen!). Eastern Edge also host Destination Library, the only free public library to find art magazines in the city and a brand new hangout space called The Lookout. In 2014 Eastern Edge is celebrating its 30th Anniversary.
Christina Parker
Christina Parker began working with visual artists as a private dealer in 1981. In 1984 she established her first gallery in a small space on Queen’s Road called Contemporary Graphics that specialized in work on paper but later grew to include work in all media. The gallery soon outgrew its modest location and in June of 1989 the Christina Parker Gallery opened its doors in an industrial 1930’s warehouse space at 7 Plank Road. The expansive gallery space at Plank Road provided the opportunity for the gallery to expand the exhibition programming and its interest to reflect the growing contemporary art practice by gallery artists.
In July of 2011 the gallery moved to a new and most exciting space in the heart of the downtown. The new location at 50 Water Street has been an active and engaging space to exhibit contemporary art and to mount larger exhibitions that celebrate the accomplishments of the gallery artists.
The gallery philosophy has been to look outward in representing the gallery artists and to this effort has participated in the Toronto International Art Fair, the most significant annual event for contemporary art in Canada, since 2001.
This year the gallery celebrates 30 years of activity in presenting and promoting significant work by many important artists of the province and beyond and remains one of the longest established contemporary art galleries in Eastern Canada
Community Youth Arts Program
Administered by The Murphy Centre and funded by Service Canada, The Community Youth Arts Program is a visual art based, career development project for youth between the ages of 16 and 30. It is dedicated to life-long learning and employment training in the visual arts through community service as well as group and individual skills training. Participants in this program are creative individuals who need to develop or improve upon professional practices and employability skills while simultaneously exploring new career and life goals. CYAP helps participants apply for career and educational opportunities and assists in connecting them with professionals in the community that match their life goals or personal challenges. Providing a forum for community networking and support is an integral part of CYAP. We carry out various projects and work placements that benefit community organizations and events. As a result, CYAP participants become acquainted with local professionals and develop a stronger understanding of their cultural community and associated cultural careers.
CYAP adheres to a team-based workplace model and each participant in the program is paid minimum wage for 30 hours of work per week for the duration of the program. Administered by The Murphy Centre, CYAP has been operating since 1999 and is presently located at the HarbourSide Studio, 72 Harbour Drive St. John’s, NL.
