2022 St. Catharines Arts Award Winners

From the website:

The City of St. Catharines recognizes and celebrates the arts through our annual arts awards. The awards seek to increase the visibility of St. Catharines' artists and cultural industries, honour cultural leaders and their achievements, and cultivate financial and volunteer support for the arts sector.

2022 Arts Awards

We are very pleased to announce the 2022 City of St. Catharines Arts Awards recipients: 

• Arts in Education Award: Dr. Rachel Rensink-Hoff (Professor of Music at Brock)
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of MIWSFPA
  
  
• Emerging Artist Award: Kathryn Sinopoli (Musician)
  
  
  
  Links: More Kathryn Sinopoli Stories, Video above courtesy of Kathryn Sinopoli
  
  
• Established Artist Award: Amy Friend (multi-media artist)
• Jury's Pick Award: Monica Dufault (Essential Collective Theatre)
• Making a Difference Award: Emily Oriold (Foster Festival)
• Patron of the Arts Award: Frank Goldspink (TAG Art Gallery)

Other music related nominees included: Jonathan Moore, Sarah Jerrom, Joe Lavoie

Congratulations to all the nominees and recipients.

Performance

This year’s event was held on November 29, 2022 at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, hosted by Deanna Jones. A past Arts Awards recipient, Deanna is co-founder and Artistic Director of Suitcase in Point with whom she has created and performed in over 15 original plays. She directed Niagara Artists Centre’s STRUTT Wearable Art Runway Show (2011-2014) and is Artistic Director of In the Soil Arts Festival.

Performers included:

• Strong Water Singers
• Musician and Emerging Artist Nominee Jonathan Moore.
• Carousel Players, showcasing an excerpt of their new work, "What's So Funny?" Co-Created and Co-Directed by Jury's Pick Award Recipient  Monica Dufault .
• Musicians from the Willow Arts Community, which was nominated in the categories of Arts in Education and Making a Difference.

More St. Catharines Arts Awards Stories

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GOOD LUCK! 2021 St. Catharines Arts Awards Nominations

From the City of St. Catharines newsletter:

City announces nominees for the 2021St. Catharines Arts Awards

A diverse group of nominees — shining a light on just how vibrant the city’s arts scene is — are being recognized as part of this fall’s 2021 St. Catharines Arts Awards celebration.

The jury for the event, which annually celebrates the arts community and those who champion it, has made its selection for this year’s nominees. The 17 nominees chosen as finalists range from visual artists to film makers to musicians, and more.

Nominees for the Arts in Education Award, celebrating individuals and groups committed to engaging residents through arts education, include:

• Steven Azzopardi, visual arts education
• Jean Paul Dupont, music education
• Curtis Tye, performing arts education

Artists in their first 10 years of a creative career will be recognized with the Emerging Artist Award. 

Nominees include:

• Jason Mikhow, film and photography
• Elise Naccarato, music and conducting
• Kathryn Sinopoli, music

Nominees for the Established Artist Award, presented to a professional St. Catharines artist in any discipline who has received critical recognition for excellence in their art practice in St. Catharines and beyond, include:

• Floyd Elzinga, visual artist: sculpture
• Geoff Farnsworth, visual artist: painting
• Sarah Jerrom, music
• Joe Lavoie, music
• Peter Shea, music

Nominees for the Making a Difference Award — celebrating entrepreneurs, administrators, organizations and volunteers contributing to the growth of arts and culture — include:

• Jean Bridge, volunteerism
• Bart Gazzola, art critic and writer
• Thomas Inglis, music direction
• Diana McAdorey, music administration
• OPIRG Brock, arts advocacy and social justice
• Barbara Worthy, volunteerism

The Patron of the Arts Award, presented to a well-deserving recipient that has made a meaningful contribution to the arts through innovative, transformative, and entrepreneurial partnerships or philanthropic investments, will be announced at a later date.

The 2021 St. Catharines Arts Awards will be presented as a free live-stream event on Sunday, Nov. 21.

Links: St. Catharines Culture, More St. Catharines Arts Awards Stories

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