AGO Wins Two OAAG Awards

Congratulations to AGO staff who brought home two Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) Awards from the Gala this month.

Here are the winners of the First Exhibition in a Public Art Gallery Award for their work on the exhibition Free Black North:

  • Julie Crooks, Assistant Curator, Photography
  • Flavio Trevisan, Exhibition Designer
  • Valentine Moreno, Project Manager, Exhibitions
  • Laura Comerford, Project Manager, Exhibitions
  • Nadia Abraham, Assistant Interpretive Planner
  • Evelina Petrauskas, Graphic Designer
  • Jessie Snow, Curatorial Administrative Assistant, Photography

Here are the winners of the Art Publication Award for their work on Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum exhibition catalogue:

  • Jim Shedden, Manager, Publishing
  • Kitty Scott, Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art
  • Amy Lam, Assistant Editor, Publications & Exhibitions

The OAAG Awards Gala celebrates and recognizes the exhibitions, publications, and programming of Ontario’s public art galleries over the past year.