Posts tagged “Ontario Volunteer Service Awards”
Ontario Volunteer Service Award Winner Profile: Betty Chen
Seven exceptional AGO volunteers received awards last month for their service. This week we learn a bit more about Betty Chen, Gallery Guide (5 year award). How did you get started at the AGO? About six years ago I came to the AGO with my boyfriend and I started to talk to him about some […]
Ontario Volunteer Service Award Winner Profile: Maria Vidal
Seven exceptional AGO volunteers received awards last month for their service. This week we learn a bit more about Maria Vidal, Youth (2 year award). Maria found her volunteer position when she was researching university programs. She was thrilled to find an opportunity that combined her two favorite interests – the arts and […]
Ontario Volunteer Service Award Winner Profile: Tamara Villagomez
Seven exceptional AGO volunteers received awards last month for their service. This week we learn a bit more about Tamara Villagomez, Info Guide (20 year award). How did you get started at the AGO? I got started at the AGO with The Barnes exhibit, in 1994. I was there to see the exhibit, and as […]
Ontario Volunteer Service Award Winner Profile: Laura Tam
Seven exceptional AGO volunteers received awards last month for their service. This week we learn a bit more about Laura Tam, Hands-On Centre (5-year award). Congratulations to Laura Tam, another AGO volunteer recipient of the Ontario Service Award this year. It was in April 2013, after her retirement, that Laura was looking for a way […]
Ontario Volunteer Service Award Winner Profile: Lourdes Betancourt
Seven exceptional AGO volunteers received awards last month for their service. This week we learn a bit more about Lourdes Betancourt, Evening / Weekend GG (5 years). How did you get started at the AGO? I was visiting the gallery and saw a sign announcing Frida and Diego next exhibit and said to myself: “The […]
Ontario Volunteer Service Award Winner Profile: Mary Kirby
Seven exceptional AGO volunteers received awards last month for their service. This week we learn a bit more about Mary Kirby, Prints and Drawings (20 year award). Mary’s involvement at the AGO has spanned 23 years, always as a volunteer in Prints and Drawings, which she insists it is the “best placement in the gallery.” […]
Ontario Volunteer Service Award Winner Profile: Jeanette Pikul
Seven exceptional AGO volunteers received awards last month for their service. This week we learn a bit more about Jeanette Pikul, Library & Archives (20 year award). How did you get started at the AGO? Soon after I retired, my sister-in-law gave me the AGO advert for volunteers for the 1998 Courtauld Exhibit from the […]
Congratulations to our 2018 Ontario Volunteer Service Award Winners!
Each year the Ontario government honours hundreds of volunteers from across the province, including several from the AGO. While the awards are loosely based on years of service (minimum 5 years for adults, 2 years for youth), each institution selects a handful who have gone above and beyond. The nominated AGO volunteers represent both new […]
2017 Ontario Service Award Winner Profiles: Pat Munson, Prints & Drawings
We asked this year’s award winners a bit about themselves. This week Cara-Lynn Nisenbaum interviews winner Pat Munson, both of Prints & Drawings I personally have had the pleasure of working with Pat in the Print and Drawing Center and can say first hand he definitely deserved to be a recipient of the OSA award […]
2017 Ontario Service Award Winner Profiles: Phyllis Couzin, Prints & Drawings
We asked this year’s award winners a bit about themselves. This week: Phyllis Couzin, Prints & Drawings How did you get started at the AGO? I started at the AGO after returning to Toronto from living abroad for 4 years. I was a bit a loose ends, had developed a personal interest in old master […]