We here at the Hamilton Blues Lovers are proud to announce that our very own marketing queen, Linda Fraser is on the 2025 Hamilton Arts Awards Short List. We'll be rooting for her to win at the June 12th ceremony.
Arts Champion Awards
- Linda Fraser (Hamilton Blues Lovers, Ensemble!, Escarpment Blues Society)
- Dayna Gedney (founder and operator of Hamilton Craft Studios)
- Karen Logan (visual artist)
- Lisa La Rocca (Chair of the Hamilton Music Advisory Team and Co-chair of the new Women in Music Hamilton/Halton chapter)
- MaryAnn Demsar and Sandi Richardson (fundraising council members at the St Thomas Aquinas Centre for the Arts)
- Nancy Cabral-Leverton (curating and volunteering)
- Rachel Conduit (runs art gallery, music venue, two bars, a restaurant, and two artist studio spaces)
- Smokestack (limited-edition prints)
- Steven Hilliard (curator and organizer)
Creator Award
- Alfie Smith (musician)
- Emma Rush (musician)
- Luckystickz (musician)
- Priyanka Tope (dancer, choreographer, vocalist, and educator)
- Rollie Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon (musician, author)
- Adrien Crossman (artist, educator, and curator)
- Ardyn Gibbs (digital new media artist, designer)
- Casa Studio (small-batch ceramics studio)
- Clarence A. Porter (artist)
- Danielle Hitchcock (multidisciplinary graphic designer)
- David Hudson (choreographer, educator, and Executive Director of Hamilton Arts Council)
- David Trautrimas (multi-media artist)
- Deborah Sloboda (Professor and reproductive biologist at McMaster University)
- Delio E. Delgado (artist)
- Eli Nolet (artist)
- Hexe Noire (drag artist)
- Kaime Sherman (arts educator, founder of the Academy of Imagination & Dramatic Arts)
- Kamaldeep Kaur (artist and art instructor)
- Kiera Boult (interdisciplinary artist and performer)
- Lester Coloma (artist)
- Marta Hewson (photographer)
- Myke Hutchings (clown, storyteller)
- Radha S. Menon (multi-disciplinary artist)
- Same Boat Theatre
- Sonali Menezes (artist, writer)
- Tania LaCaria (artist)
- Tanis Sydney Macarthur (costumer, dance artist, choreographer, aerialist, stilt walker, prop maker and creature designer)
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Lyla Miklos (broadcast journalist, community organizer, education worker, publicist, vocalist and writer)
- Tom Beckett (musician, Beckett art galleries and studios)
- Ardyth Brott (Brott Music Festival, National Academy Orchestra of Canada and BrottOpera)
- Gary Smith (director, choreographer, critic, author, teacher, dramaturge)
- John Terpstra (Writer, poet, publisher)
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