CONGRATS! 2018 Hamilton Arts Award Winners

This year's Hamilton Arts Awards featured a number of musical winners. The hardware was handed out on Wednesday, June 6th at Theatre Aquarius.

Here's complete list of winners:

• Music (Established): Harrison Kennedy
  
  
  
  Links: Harrison Kennedy, More Harrison Kennedy Stories: Video above courtesy of Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts
  
  
• Music (Emerging): Jason Hachey (Hachey the MouthPEACE)
  
  
  
  Links: Hachey, More Hachey Stories, Video above courtesy of Eddie Max
  
  
• Lifetime Achievement: Kosha Braun (Vioinist)
• Arts Innovation Award: Astrid Hepner (Sax, Educator)
• Arts Education and Community Arts (Established): Becky Katz (Musician, Visual Artist)
• Arts Education and Community Arts (Emerging): Christina Tarsitano
• Writing Award (Established) : Jamie Tennant (Journalist, CFMU Program Director, Author)
• Writing Award (Emerging): Benjamin Robinson
• Fine Craft (Established): Hitoko Okada
• Fine Craft (Emerging): Amina Z. Suhrwardy
• Shirley Elford Emerging Artist Prizet : Jeff “Fuzzy” Mall (textile art)
• Arts Management (Established): Becca Dowden
• Arts Management: (Emerging): Christina Tarsitano
• Media Arts (Established): Vanessa Crosbie Ramsay
• Media Arts (Emerging): Dima Matar
• Theatre (Established): Marilo Nuñez
• Theatre (Emerging): Jenny Vasquez 
• Visual Arts (Established): Sylvia Nickerson
• Visual Arts (Emerging): Benita Whyte

Each established winner got $2,500 and a bronze medallion. Emerging winners received $1,000. The Shirley Elford Emerging Artist Prize was worth $2,000.

Click here for the Hamilton Spectator article

Blast from the Past: Last Year's Winners

Links: Hamilton Arts Awards, More Hamilton Arts Awards Stories

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