WKP Kennedy Gallery up for OAAG Award

Ontario Association of Art Galleries
News Release

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Toronto - The Ontario Association of Art Galleries announces the 33rd Legendary OAAG Awards live on stage Friday, September 24, 2010 at 4 p.m. at the Great Hall, Hart House, Toronto.

Access all backstage areas for the countdown to Ontario's biggest night in the visual arts. Sit in, turn on, and tune in with our special guest artists RM Vaughan, Cry School Yearbook, and rising pop-indie-rock band She King who will perform live in person.

"The OAAG Awards celebrate the visual arts in Ontario," says Nataley Nagy, president of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) board of directors. "They are the only annual juried awards to recognize excellence and significant achievement in the public art gallery sector across Ontario."

This year, 27 OAAG member public art galleries in 20 cities across Ontario are nominated for 21 awards in 10 categories - Exhibition of the Year, Exhibition Design and Installation Award, Writing Awards, Public Program Awards, Education Awards, Art Publication of the Year, Design Awards, Partner Award, Volunteer Award and Colleague Award. Only OAAG members can nominate.

The Legendary OAAG Awards is a free 40th anniversary OAAG event and is open to the public. A reception follows the awards show at 6 p.m.

The OAAG Awards annually draws a cross-generational audience of nationally-known visual art professionals. Last year, the venue was filled with nearly 200 guests.

OAAG is a registered charitable organization that serves and represents Ontario's dynamic public art galleries as valued and essential centres of art and learning. Over 200 organizations and individuals are members.

For awards coverage, updates and breaking news, please visit OAAG's social networks on Facebook and Twitter.

Nominated Galleries

Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston)

Art Gallery of Peel (Brampton)

Art Gallery of Sudbury / Galerie d'art Sudbury (Sudbury)

Art Gallery of York University (Toronto)

Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge)

Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa)

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Toronto)

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House (Toronto)

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (Kitchener)

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Guelph)

MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie)

McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton)

Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Visual Art (Toronto)

Museum London (London)

Oakville Galleries (Oakville)

Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto)

Robert Langen Art Gallery, Wilfred Laurier University (Waterloo)

Rodman Hall Arts Centre / Brock University (St. Catharines)

Station Gallery (Whitby)

Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto)

The Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga)

The Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa (Ottawa)

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre (Toronto)

The Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery (Oshawa)

Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound)

Varley Art Gallery (Markham)

WKP Kennedy Gallery (North Bay)

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